Beware Dragon gifts or Possible D&D copyright change

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I'm pretty sure, at least as much as I can be without actual paid legal advice, that any material already published under the 1.0a version would legally remain under the same agreement, so while they might try to claim proceeds from, say, Mongoose Publishing's Encyclopedia Arcane series for D&D 3e & 3.5e counts toward the $750,000 limit before owing them money a ruling otherwise would be an open and shut case in contract court and might just get thrown out without even going to trial. It would certainly have put the kibosh on a new editions revised for 6e, though, and since playing around with some of the alternate takes on magic they offer (Star Magic and Elementalists, mostly, or the one expanding Divination into something a player might actually find viable for specializing in, and/or Constructs) is one of the very few things that still hold any interest to me in the D&D space, it should be immediately obvious even to the HasBros why that's bad for their dreams of selling me another copy of slightly tweaked core rulebooks. But no, HasBros gonna bro with all they has, I guess. Gotta haul that muchkin loot, Monty.

If you've never checked out the Star Magic book, by the way, it has a really interesting alternate take on magic, with all first level effects being channeled from a particular star (and subject to variation in power depending on season and that star's position in the sky, abstracted to simply listing when it's ascendant, normal, or descendant) while all higher level effects are "constellations" of 2-5 Stars which the caster must already have access to in order to learn and cast. From the designers' notes it was the only magic system in the original campaign setting they pulled it from, but the divine-only effects (healing etc.) got scrubbed out along with genericizing the references to gods and so on in the process of making it into a relatively setting-agnostic source book. I ended up writing a bunch of additional stars and constellations to put that back into it and eventually posted a copy on their forums some years ago, but would probably have considerable difficulty finding it now.