Wizards of the Coast

Wizards of the Coast (WotC) is a publisher of roleplaying games and collectible card games, most notably Dungeons & Dragons and Magic: The Gathering, respectively. Wizards purchased TSR, Inc. (the original publisher of Dungeons & Dragons) in 1997, and was in turn purchased by Hasbro in 1999.

Wizards has had several deals with White Wolf to publish games using their intellectual properties. In 1994, Wizards developed Jyhad (later Vampire: The Eternal Struggle), a collectible card game based on Vampire: The Masquerade. The game ceased publication in 1996, and ownership reverted to White Wolf, who resumed production of new sets for the game in 2000.

Wizards also bought the roleplaying game Ars Magica from White Wolf in 1994, and began work on a fourth edition of the game. Although Wizards published three supplements for the game (Faeries: Revised Edition, Houses of Hermes, and Lion of the North: The Loch Leglan Tribunal), they sold the rights to Ars Magica to Atlas Games before the new edition was finished. Atlas completed and published Ars Magica Fourth Edition, and continues to publish new books for Ars Magica (now into its Fifth Edition) to this day.

From 2004 to 2006, White Wolf published a number of books using the d20 System (based on the third edition of Dungeons & Dragons) under the Sword & Sorcery Studios imprint. In addition to original content made by White Wolf or published on behalf of other developers (such as Monte Cook's Malhavoc Press), this imprint published licensed mateial based on Wizards' Ravenloft and Gamma World settings.