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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Justice and Rule" data-source="post: 8935425" data-attributes="member: 6778210">Sure, but should we really believe that? The idea of Meta suddenly making a D&D VTT clone when they can barely make office call software comes off more as a deflection against a company nobody likes, just like them also being worried about Disney suddenly eating their lunch. Perhaps there is some truth to it, but it comes off as extremely weird given their response.Nah, I think they should absolutely say that sort of stuff. Sometimes a confrontational-style of interview is necessary, especially when guys are out there trying to spin a story. Their question on Brink regarding minorities at Wizards were also good and his answers were decidedly not great, honestly.To be honest, I'm not sure Brink should be going out there given that I think people are looking at this as the time to ask hard questions, but far be it for me to stop him from doing it.And to comment on something that I've seen bandied about: I think the idea that 1.1 was just a draft to be weird and likely false given their own announcement of it as well as them sending out contracts and such. That Kickstarter basically admitted that they had negotiated their own smaller royalties cut tells me that it was way further along than just "draft", and that we've heard talk from multiple sources that larger 3PPs were offered a "sweetheart" version tells me that 1.1. OGL was meant to be the thing.Now is Brink right that you can't just write stuff up in a week? Yeah, sure, that makes sense. But that doesn't mean that 1.1 wasn't meant to be Plan A: it just means that they had a Plan B prepared and ready to go.Think about it: let's say that 1.1 just doesn't go over well. Obviously you want to have something ready just in case, with terms that are at least better looking if not necessarily better for everyone. You can take away more controversial stuff, reap the good will of "changing direction", and use this to put out your VTT policy as well. And honestly, that probably wasn't a bad idea: you can just look at these boards to see that 1.2 changed the minds of at least some people, and got others to prematurely declare defeat because it showed that Wizards seemed dedicated to destroying the OGL. But I don't see any real indication save from Wizards themselves that it was</blockquote>

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