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<blockquote data-quote="SpiralBound" data-source="post: 1647505" data-attributes="member: 8396">Clarifications are GOOD!!<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&nbsp; &nbsp; :-)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":-)" />...Thank you for clarifing you position on this.&nbsp; I had been beginning to get the impression that you weren't as unilaterally against Sigil specifically as I had originally thought after reading more of your posts in this thread.&nbsp; Your last post confirms this growing opinion. I retract any accusations. It's obvious to me now that your comments, while directed at Sigil, were more a commentary on &quot;the current state of affairs&quot; within D20, OGL and the publishing community that is growing up around it.&nbsp; I don't agree with everything that you've said in this thread, but I no longer view you as belligerent.I do however share some of your exasperation with the unfortunate conditions of OGL publishing.&nbsp; However, I feel that the fact of it occuring is less a failing of the OGL and more a symptom of the deplorable condition of the legalities of intellectual property in general. If publishers (of D20 material, software, movie plot lines, or anything else for that matter) weren't so vulnerable to being sued by one another then this wouldn't be an issue.&nbsp; Taking someone to court over something has been perverted from something that you do to protect yourself when you are legitimately and intentionally being victimized, and turned into a &quot;god given right&quot; to sue every and any one whom you can profit from suing.&nbsp; It's even become a form of self-promotion in some cases!&nbsp; <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused&nbsp; &nbsp; :confused:"&nbsp; data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /> While this isn't the only factor at play here as Woodelf has adroitly illustrated, I do feel that it is a significant one and to remove this consideration will require a lot of changes outside of the RPG world entirely before we'll see a trickle down effect here.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SpiralBound, post: 1647505, member: 8396"] [b]Clarifications are GOOD!!:-)[/b] ... Thank you for clarifing you position on this. I had been beginning to get the impression that you weren't as unilaterally against Sigil specifically as I had originally thought after reading more of your posts in this thread. Your last post confirms this growing opinion. I retract any accusations. It's obvious to me now that your comments, while directed at Sigil, were more a commentary on "the current state of affairs" within D20, OGL and the publishing community that is growing up around it. I don't agree with everything that you've said in this thread, but I no longer view you as belligerent. I do however share some of your exasperation with the unfortunate conditions of OGL publishing. However, I feel that the fact of it occuring is less a failing of the OGL and more a symptom of the deplorable condition of the legalities of intellectual property in general. If publishers (of D20 material, software, movie plot lines, or anything else for that matter) weren't so vulnerable to being sued by one another then this wouldn't be an issue. Taking someone to court over something has been perverted from something that you do to protect yourself when you are legitimately and intentionally being victimized, and turned into a "god given right" to sue every and any one whom you can profit from suing. It's even become a form of self-promotion in some cases! :confused: While this isn't the only factor at play here as Woodelf has adroitly illustrated, I do feel that it is a significant one and to remove this consideration will require a lot of changes outside of the RPG world entirely before we'll see a trickle down effect here. [/QUOTE]

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