[1] When the publisher of Dungeons & Dragons was facing bankruptcy, Dancey helped negotiate sale of the property to Wizards of the Coast.
Dancey promoted the D&D's open gaming license (OGL), which reversed the policy from opposing third-party publications to supporting them.
[2]: 263 The principals behind the game created the new company Five Rings Publishing Group in 1996 with better funding from Robert Abramowitz as its President; Alderac Entertainment Group (AEG) and Isomedia gave over their rights to Legend of the Five Rings, with Dancey becoming Vice President of Product Development and John Zinser of AEG becoming VP of Sales.
[2]: 263 At the end of the next year the Five Rings Publishing Group was dissolved, and Dancey took over as business head of the Wizards of the Coast role-playing department, where he became involved in the development of Dungeons & Dragons third edition.
[1] The OGL was published by WOTC in 2000 to license the System Reference Document (SRD) for D&D in a move spearheaded by Dancey.