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<blockquote data-quote="Hellcow" data-source="post: 1603047" data-attributes="member: 15800">This is great!First, I'm *RICHARD* Baker. Now I'm Dr. BARKER. What will folks think of next?First off, I have never read any Tekumel material whatsoever. So For all I know there are similarities between the worlds. Could someone give me a specific example as opposed to a vague &quot;it's overpowered&quot; (or for that matter, just say which part *is* overpowered and discuss that)? What's with the &quot;alien languages&quot;? And how do kalashtar, shifters, and warforged qualify as &quot;xenophobic&quot;? But for the record, this is not only untrue, it's just plain silly. So, what this theory says is:* WotC decided to hold a setting search. * They received 11,000 ideas and spent untold hours (using salaried employees) sorting these down to one idea. * They paid the finalists a total of $160,000 for these ideas.* Then they threw them out, paid someone else for his idea, pretended they hadn't done it (thus losing any value of purchasing a licensed property), didn't make him sign an NDA, and on top of it, allowed him to sell his idea to Guardians of Order. I like a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone,&nbsp; but the emphasis is on &quot;good&quot;! <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=":)" />&nbsp; -Keith Baker</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Hellcow, post: 1603047, member: 15800"] This is great! First, I'm *RICHARD* Baker. Now I'm Dr. BARKER. What will folks think of next? First off, I have never read any Tekumel material whatsoever. So For all I know there [i]are[/i] similarities between the worlds. Could someone give me a specific example as opposed to a vague "it's overpowered" (or for that matter, just say which part *is* overpowered and discuss that)? What's with the "alien languages"? And how do kalashtar, shifters, and warforged qualify as "xenophobic"? But for the record, this is not only untrue, it's just plain silly. So, what this theory says is: * WotC decided to hold a setting search. * They received 11,000 ideas and spent untold hours (using salaried employees) sorting these down to one idea. * They paid the finalists a total of $160,000 for these ideas. * Then they threw them out, paid someone else for his idea, pretended they hadn't done it (thus losing any value of purchasing a licensed property), didn't make him sign an NDA, and on top of it, allowed him to sell his idea to Guardians of Order. I like a good conspiracy theory as much as anyone, but the emphasis is on "good"! :) -Keith Baker [/QUOTE]

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