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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Scribble" data-source="post: 4326245" data-attributes="member: 23977">Ok, you can make that argument. But in the eyes of WoTC, it fractured their audience. and notI see that as saying exactly that.  Remember, this conversation is completely in the context of the quite restrictive GSL.</blockquote>I'm either not making myself clear, or you're putting words in my mouth. I'll assume the former. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />WoTC says you cannot redefine the rules of 4e that they have defined.You cannot say a feat is now these rules.Nowhere in the GSL does it say you cannot come up with an entirely new term, and define that term.So you could say:Here is a new creation called Strengths. Here is how they work. Try using them in place of feats.You're changing the game, but still giving people an incentive to buy / play D&D, which ultimately gives WoTC an incentive to offer up it's brand for others to use.You're also in WoTC's eyes not confusing the idea of D&D by keeping everyone on the same page. Feats remain feats, but here are optional rules to change them, is a lot easier for someone who isn't an "advanced gamer" to udnerstahnd then "how come feats are this in one book but this other one that also says it's D&D compatible says they're somethign else???"Guess we'll have to dissagree on this one? I see it as a good thing. If WoTC continues to have an incentive to let people use the brand for D&D, it helps gaming as a whole, because of what D&D is and what D&D means to the gaming market in general.[/QUOTE]

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