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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1314922" data-attributes="member: 812">JasonT, you seem to have two concerns:One, that D&D is becoming a miniatures game.Two, that the deceny standards of the d20 trademark license (which has nothing to do with the SRD, as far as I know) will hurt the gaming industry.I think you have the first one backwards. WotC is trying to make more money. They seem to think that selling miniatures will do this, and apparently they're hoping to take advantage of D&D's popularity to do so. They're not making changes to the game in order to make it more "miniaturey" (at least, none of the rule changes look like that to me), but they are promoting miniatures as the "best" way to play the game -- presumably in the hopes that D&D players will buy miniatures.This means nothing to the future or direction of D&D. If miniatures become exceptionally profitable for WotC, expect to see them expand their miniature offerings. But unless and until they start thinking that they can sell more copies of the Player's Handbook if it were a miniature game, your mini-free D&D is safe.The second one I think you are overstating. The Book of Erotic Fantasy was not crushed, it was released as planned -- just without the d20 trademark logo. I would be surprised to find that this has hurt their sales. Keep in mind that the decency clause is to do with the d20 trademark and NOT the SRD. People can continue to put out any sort of twisted or sensual or whatever sort of d20 game they like -- they just can't put the d20 logo on it unless WotC approves.Now I think the decency clause is a bad business idea because it exposes WotC to lawsuits should somebody be offended by a d20 logo publication. They have now positioned themselves as responsible for the content of all d20 logo products, which were I their lawyer I would be very, very nervous about. But presumably they had their reasons.What the fallout on the industry of the clause will be I'm not certain. It doesn't LOOK like everybody's just shut down production because of it, and I'm not seeing a sudden drop in quality of product as a result, so....I think you're kind of panicking here.</blockquote>

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