[CelticMutt]

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Originally Posted by OriginalFire

Hasbro owns D&D. So would they not own the whole thing? I don't know anything about D&D but I did look it up a few days ago. Perhaps, Wikipedia is wrong.

Hasbro owns Wizards of the Coast, who have owned D&D since 1997. That would include anything made by TSR (the original owners/creators of D&D), so, yes. Forgotten Realms, Dragonlance, Greyhawk, Ravenloft, Dark Suns, Spelljammer, Mystara, Planescape, Birthright, Al-Qadim (which is technically still Forgotten Realms) ... I'm sure I'm missing a few. But all are owned by WotC, so owned by Hasbro by proxy.

As to why NECA is doing this ... Hasbro licenses out Transformers to other toy and figure makers all the time (as long as they don't transform), so this could be a similar deal.