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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Corjay" data-source="post: 4473941" data-attributes="member: 52839">Very nice analysis, Najo. My following statement may appear to contradict my stand as many have assumed of me, but my stand is only to give people the benefit of the doubt, making me appear to be an apologist at times, but in actuality only want to keep all avenues open instead of letting the crowd jump on a train and ride it to nowhere. Because your view is open to possibilities, I have no need to provide a counter, so now there's room to look at things from an objective standpoint which is further bolstered by your well-stated open-minded analysis. For an extention of the first view, readers may review my previous posts.According to the facts derived from the formatting of the GSL, the second scenario does appear most likely (appearance isn't proof of that view, but sets up a series of hard to ignore commonalities), and due to the failure to attract interest in the GSL because of those very things, it forces them to have to concede to more rights to the licensee. So they will likely find a way to create or exploit a legal loophole that appears innocent on the surface but in practice sets up similiar, but less threatening scenarios. In this case, the intent would be to balance the threat (variation of cost) vs. benefit to the 3pp. If the revised GSL proves to display this sort of tactic, then it would give greater credence to your second theory and would establish strong circumstantial proof. Public opinion would then be justified in distrust toward WOTC and a backlash may result in public boycott of all 4e material, and a lesser boycott on WOTC RPG's and maybe even other products. If the second theory is indeed WOTC's tactic, then we may see the end of WOTC as a power within the community and 3pp that have signed on may suffer as a result. Any 3pp that has signed all of their material over to 4e will not likely survive.Now, if WOTC has no such ill-will, then the revised GSL that is produced will be above board, or show a very clear intent to be such, in all areas to counter the backlash from the first GSL. But at the same time, it could also mean that WOTC has abandoned its attempts at world domination for the time being to rebuild trust. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> In which case, we could all take solace in the fact that world domination has once again been thwarted for the time being. <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=":)" /></blockquote>

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