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This thread reminds me of my perennial complaint about my bookshelves; the top shelf has an overhang that's just low enough to make it difficult to remove any books there, which is where my old copies of Warlords of the Accordlands are.

To be fair, this kind of condescension is entirely in keeping with Edwards. Does anyone else remember his infamous comment about how "bad" games cause brain damage? He later doubled down on this idea: There are plenty of games that I don't care for, but I'd stop well before I'd compare...

I disagree that it's not the same. But I'd be fine with any non-pejorative, single-word term for "pointing out that something doesn't make sense." There's every possibility that WotC's stated reason for why it's taking so long isn't the actual reason. But as you yourself said, that would just...

That's no more insulting than mischaracterizing what I'm doing as "complaining." I'll stop when you do. We can, however, look at their stated reason about being concerned that they might accidentally release closed content, and evaluate that. And any such evaluation can only confirm that said...

Once again, I'll upload the entirety of the 3.5 SRD here. Take a look at any of its component documents, save only for the "Legal" one, and notice the very first sentence at the top of the first page. There's no "maybe" about it.

Their statement about "we need to take a long time carefully reviewing the older SRDs, since if we don't we might release closed content in them" is nonsense, since there is no closed content in those old SRDs. Hence, that reason deserves to be called out for the nonsense that it is, as does...

I don't know what you mean by "an issue," but when someone (i.e. WotC) puts forward a ridiculous reason as though it was something sensible, and then other people echo that sentiment ("it just takes time to review it all. They want to make sure they don't put something in there that they...

I'd bet on bureaucracy too, since bureaucracy does nonsensical things all the time; I never said that WotC's reason was "nefarious" or that there was any sort of malicious intent on their part. I just said that it wasn't based on anything rational, as is so adroitly stated two posts above yours.

It's more correct to say that it doesn't make sense to any rational scrutiny. Or do you think that those 100% Open Game Content documents have WotC IP that's in danger of being made into open content if it's released into the Creative Commons? Pointing out that WotC's saying that they need so...

I just picked up something like seventy PDFs from Bards and Sages (affiliate link), after they recently announced that they're closing their doors, and so marked everything that wasn't already free down to $0.99 before they close up shop. I feel kind of bad for not supporting them more over the...

It makes sense to you that documents which are 100% open content might have closed-content IP in them, which everyone in the gaming community has overlooked for more than twenty years? I suppose if it's buried that deep, it would take two years of reviewing to find! :p

I believe it was "residuum." https://forgottenrealms.fandom.com/wiki/Residuum

It's more correct to say that I'm pointing out that their reason doesn't make sense, and other people are complaining because they don't like that.

I don't understand what you mean.

Have you read Slaying the Dragon? ;)

I honestly don't expect them to release anything for 4E at all. I'd be pleasantly surprised to be wrong, but I expect them to release the 3.5 SRD, maybe the Modern SRD, and maybe-but-probably-not the 3.0 SRD. My guess is that 4E will be overlooked entirely. As for all of that being a low...

The 4E SRDs don't need to be reviewed, they need to be rewritten from the ground up, since they're nothing but formatting templates and lists of abilities/feats/spells/monsters with no explanations, stats, or anything else that's useful. Of course, I was asking specifically with regard to the...

Leaving aside that WotC's release of the 5.1 SRD into the CC consisted of them swapping out the OGL section of it for the CC license attribution, I'll direct you to what @kenmarable said about this very subject in a recent thread: The CC-BY license would literally just require putting the text...

So what names/IP, specifically, are in the 3.5 SRD documents that WotC needs two years of time to make sure they don't accidentally release them under the CC license? You don't have to name them all, just cite a few examples and what 3.5 SRD document they're from.