Peter Adkison

This was, um...

I'm, I'm going to just say Peter Adkison, who owned Wizards of the Coast at the time, was really instrumental, um, in, uh, Wizards of the Coast eventually bought Dungeons & Dragons from TSR Hobbies.

Um, and Peter Adkison, um, was I think president of that company or the owner.

Um, and, um, a lot of the-- one thing that got innovated in this space was, along with some lawyers, uh, working for the company, um, they were able to publish, um, a, a kind of format called the OGL or Open Game License, um, that allowed fans to publish their own works within the system of Dungeons & Dragons using the mechanics of Dungeons & Dragons.

So it was a really kind of prescient moment on the part of the company, and this created a lot of fan excitement.

But then historically, if you brought in that conversation beyond the moment of Dungeons & Dragons in the '70s and '80s and things that were, um, became game mechanics, you also get this sort of interesting history within Dungeons & Dragons within the aughts, where you, um, have the fans, uh, kind of being given a license, um, to publish, uh, the works of Dungeons & Dragons.

This was, um, I'm, I'm going to just say Peter Adkison, who owned Wizards of the Coast at the time, was really instrumental, um, in, uh...

Wizards of the Coast eventually bought Dungeons & Dragons from TSR Hobbies.

Um, and Peter Adkison, um, was I think president of that company or the owner.

Um, and, um, a lot of the-- One thing that got innovated in this space was, along with some lawyers, uh, working for the company, um, they were able to publish, um, a, a kind of format called the OGL or Open Game License, um, that allowed fans to publish their own works within the system of Dungeons & Dragons using the mechanics of Dungeons & Dragons.

So it was a really kind of prescient moment on the part of the company, and this created a lot of fan excitement.