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Message: <blockquote data-quote="triqui" data-source="post: 5911049" data-attributes="member: 57948">Fine. Add "Imho" before the sentence. It's not the cause, but it is a prerrequiste. They (as any other company) don't want major competitors. So if they can *avoid* the rise of competitors not giving them a prerrequisite, they'd do (imho and all that jazz) Your calling of the post hoc ergo propter hoc fallacy is flawed, because you think it needs to be a causal relation. It does not. It is enough with a correlation. The fallacy is when you assume a relation because of the before-after, and the relation is not there. My father used to eat a lot of pork, and read a lot of books. He had a heart attack. Saying "my father read books, and he had a heart attack", is a fallacy. But eating a lot of pork actually *does* relates to heart attacks. If my father, after his heart attack, decides to stop reading, he is a fool. If he decides to stop eating a lot of pork, then he is wise.<s> Completelly irrelevant for WotC point of view. What WotC wants, is to impede competition. Which he could had achieved not releasing OGL.</s><s></s><s>WotC left his kitchen gas open. There was a spark, and the kitchen blew. Was the explosion caused by the gas open? Of course not. It was caused by the spark. Is it wise to keep the gas closed? Sure, because it is a necessary prerrequisite, which makes the explosion possible. Without it, there's no explosion. And without OGL, there's no Pathfinder. Even if all the other circumstances (including sparks, and 4e "mmo-like" system) are the same.</s><s></s> <s>Not allowing the possibility that something happens does mean that something can't occur, however.</s><s></s><s>A is necessary for B. A does not imply B, but No A implies no B.</s><s></s><s></s><s></s><s></s><s>But not having one of the prerrequisites is enough to forbid you to take class levels in the prestige class. WotC does not want other companies take levels in "major competitors for 5e", so denying them ONE of the prerrequisites is enough to keep the other companies in their basic "warrior" class.</s></blockquote>

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