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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corjay" data-source="post: 4437954" data-attributes="member: 52839">Thank you for the clear responses. Yeah, I get it. <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=":)" /> By the way, I consider you more reasonable for things like this and for actually making an honest effort [read: pure motive] to provide the evidence I ask for.As for my view of what a personal attack is, it is when a discussion stops focusing on the subject and starts focusing on the speaker. To question a speaker's motives (doing so should only be done when the goal of the discussion is clearly not the resolution of the discussion), to accuse the speaker in the least way, to misrepresent the speaker's argument (After reflection over the post editing, I realized I did this with you by exaggerating your view of WOTC's motives, as exaggeration is still a form of misrepresentation), and making offensive jabs at the speaker (e.g. misrepresenting the speaker's name) are all personal attacks. Arrogance and rhetorical questions are not personal attacks except in the context of focusing on the speaker.So there's too much of a difference between a D&D "goblin" and a "goblin gnome"? They're two different things, but retain the same concept. I would easily call Spielberg Gremlin a "goblin gnome" and there's no way that WOTC can site anyone for violation, because they're two different names. WOTC can't make the claim that the name uses "goblin" because someone could call it a "poggoblinder", but as you can see, it would be meaningless to make the accusation. In other words, you don't have to use a name that doesn't express that it's a goblin. You just can't give it the pure -goblin- name. Sure, it may not seem to be the fairest, but as you brought out, they want people coming back to the game still familiar with the game. They want to create a D&D community where other companies are contributing to it.To use the floating analogy, which is going to make them float higher? A quart of water in a tall glass, or a quart of water in a stew pot? By giving clear definition to the D&D game mechanics, they're pulling in the walls of the container, making the water level rise.</blockquote>

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