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shadowsword87 posted...

While working for them, sure, but, forgotten realms was actually produced before D&D existed, it was just a guy who liked worldbuilding.
I don't know what the exact details are on their agreement, or if it transferred after D&D was taken over from TSR to WotC. You're looking at decades old legalese for a company that doesn't exist anymore, it's not super straightforward.

I'm really not sure where you're going with this, but most of D&D's iconic characters appeared *after* D&D was a thing, many of them appeared well after TSR was commissioning people to write them, and some appeared after WotC bought the company. However, for the Forgotten Realms setting, that seems unambiguous -- TSR must have bought that around the time they hired its creator to work for them and much of Forgotten Realms was specifically written when Ed Green worked for the company.

And I was reading an article about Lord Soth (because I've read the stuff set in Ravenloft, but I can't remember that much of the before or after... and, honestly, it's been so long that even some of the between is a little foggy-- or misty, if you'd prefer a pun >_>) and it seemed to partially address the question where it discussed that the creators didn't approve of him appearing in Ravenloft but in the next sentence noted that they hadn't been working at the company at that point, etc, and suggested that their approval didn't matter anyway (and the fact that he appeared there and nobody was sued suggested where the rights lie in that case).

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