I stopped 4th ed right before Essentials was released. At that time WOTC seemed to be plucking aspects of Dragonlance into their "generic" D&D setting. I think WOTC and Hasbro have annoyed both Weiss and Hickmen enough that if the rights returned to them they'd be easily swayed to go third party with Pathfinder.
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Kalamar was an officially licensed product for 3.5, but it is still a Kenzer & Company product, and ot owned by WotC.Ummm...I have a 3.5 Kingdoms of Kalamar book right here. It has Kenzer Company and WOTC seals on it.
As for 4th Ravenloft was touched on with the board game.
I haven't seen anything of Spelljammer since 2nd, and never heard of Al Qadim and Birthright.
I believe Kalamar is being supported by their Hackmaster RPG.
I stopped 4th ed right before Essentials was released. At that time WOTC seemed to be plucking aspects of Dragonlance into their "generic" D&D setting. I think WOTC and Hasbro have annoyed both Weiss and Hickmen enough that if the rights returned to them they'd be easily swayed to go third party with Pathfinder.
Given that Margaret Weis has her own game company nowadays (actually two of them as I'd forgotten Sovereign Press until I just checked), I'd think it more likely Dragonlance would either become it's own d20OGL game or even get ported over to Cortex.
Not exactly sure where the ownership of the d20 Dragonlance stuff by Sovereign Press sits, as the main campaign setting book was done under the WotC label while the supplements were done by Sovereign Press under licence. Assuming Sovereign own the copyright on the text then it'd be incredibly simple to just reprint the lot with its own d20OGL rulebook at the core if the Dragonlance rights were returned.
I think WotC still owns them, but they haven't done anything with it except add Cyan Bloodbane to regular 4th ed. and reprinting another set of the Chronicles and Legends trilogies with badly cropped cover art.
I think WotC still owns them, but they haven't done anything with it except add Cyan Bloodbane to regular 4th ed. and reprinting another set of the Chronicles and Legends trilogies with badly cropped cover art.
Weis and Hickman have never owned the rights to Dragonlance. Tracy has discussed this previously and that all their Dragonlance efforts were work for hire and then never had any rights or ownership in the Dragonlance property. Margaret Weis Productions was paying a license fee to produce the 3rd edition materials. There is no chance of them getting the rights returned to them because they never had them.