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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 5910750" data-attributes="member: 8461">You keep stating declaratively that WotC won't do this, and then stating why they won't do it. Unless you work at WotC and have the authority to decide if they use the OGL in Fifth Edition, you need to stop doing that. You don't know what their decision will be, nor how they'll reach it. Moreover, as I've stated previously, the answer to your asking "so what?" is post hoc ergo propter hoc. WotC is smart enough to realize that just posting the OGL was not the cause of Paizo becoming a major competitor to them.Your analogy is fundamentally flawed, because it misunderstands the nature of the difference between allowing for the possibility that something could happen, and the actual cause of something happening. This misunderstanding has been a recurring theme in all of the analogies you've made on this topic to date.This "serie<s> of circumstances" that you note include, among other things, the actual cause(s) of Paizo's becoming WotC's major competitor among RPGs, which is the point of talking about the "after it, therefore because of it" fallacy.</s><s></s><s></s><s></s><s>Again, that's not relevant to the discussion we're having. Simply allowing for the possibility that something can lead to something else does not mean that it's what causes that something else to occur. Saying that releasing the OGL is what made Paizo become WotC's major competitor is a fallacious statement.</s><s></s><s></s><s></s><s>It is. See above.</s><s></s><s></s><s></s><s>There is a difference between meeting a prerequisite and actually making something happen. Meeting all of the prerequisites to taking levels in a prestige class is different from then actually taking levels in that prestige class.</s></blockquote>

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