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<blockquote data-quote="d4" data-source="post: 1139204" data-attributes="member: 12699">it gives the appearance of hypocrisy because it seems as if WOTC is saying, &quot;We don't want D&amp;D associated with this stuff PERIOD.&quot; however, D&amp;D is already associated with some of the things that go against their &quot;community standards&quot; via the BoVD.i admit that your interpretation of the license is probably far closer to WOTC's line of thinking than what i just listed above. however, i can also see that many, many people are going to interpret the new license in the above manner, thus WOTC's appearance of hypocrisy in their eyes.[edit]here's a question. suppose WOTC releases another &quot;mature audiences&quot; book which violates the community standards they have set for 3rd party publishers. they are free to do so, as you said, because it is their risk to damage their own brand image. however, what if the book sells well, does not raise any controversy, and does not hurt the brand image? are they then going to modify the license to allow 3rd party publishers to also publish things that go as far as WOTC's new book, since it has been proven that to do so will not hurt WOTC's bottom line? somehow, i doubt it. this is another way in which WOTC can appear to be hypocritical.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="d4, post: 1139204, member: 12699"] it gives the appearance of hypocrisy because it seems as if WOTC is saying, "We don't want D&D associated with this stuff PERIOD." however, D&D is already associated with some of the things that go against their "community standards" via the BoVD. i admit that your interpretation of the license is probably far closer to WOTC's line of thinking than what i just listed above. however, i can also see that many, many people [i]are[/i] going to interpret the new license in the above manner, thus WOTC's appearance of hypocrisy in their eyes. [edit] here's a question. suppose WOTC releases another "mature audiences" book which violates the community standards they have set for 3rd party publishers. they are free to do so, as you said, because it is their risk to damage their own brand image. however, what if the book sells well, does not raise any controversy, and does not hurt the brand image? are they then going to modify the license to allow 3rd party publishers to also publish things that go as far as WOTC's new book, since it has been proven that to do so will not hurt WOTC's bottom line? somehow, i doubt it. this is another way in which WOTC can appear to be hypocritical. [/QUOTE]

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