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Thread : The Hackmaster license
Started at 02-06-07 04:23 PM by RobertFisher
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[Post 1]
Author : RobertFisher
Date : 02-06-07 04:23 PM
Thread Title : The Hackmaster license

From the petition:
But didn't they sell the 1st edition rules to the guys that do knights of the dinner table to make hackmaster?

All the details of the agreement are unknown. (Except to Kenzer & Wizards.) It is believed Kenzer leveraged the fact that Knights of the Dinner Table strips were "reprinted" in the Dragon magazine CD-ROM without permission to secure this agreement. The agreement requires that a certain degree of parody be present in any Kenzer products that use the licensed (A)D&D material.

Perhaps others who know more about Kenzer/Hackmaster can correct/add to that.

We don't know if anything in the agreement prevents Wizards from opening/reprinting the out-of-print material that Kenzer has licensed. (Beyond the PDFs that are available.) I'm not sure if its public knowledge when the agreement will end/need to be renegotiated.

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