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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ECMO3" data-source="post: 8896236" data-attributes="member: 7030563">I actually think their biggest concern is the branding.  I think they are most concerned about 3rd party content tarnishing the D&D brand.  Some rogue company produces something racist or otherwise bad for their image and they get labeled for it.Think about the biggotted game and comments from nu TSR or whatever they are called.  While WOTC is engaged in disputes over use of the TSR logo and other IP, when you get down to it the game itself is A-OK under OGL 1.0.  If something like that becomes major news it will tarnish the entire D&D brand.  The non-gaming public is not going to understand the difference between WOTC D&D and 3rd party D&D and the press likely is not going to articulate it (or worse deceptively use the D&D brand to make it a bigger story).</blockquote>