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<blockquote data-quote="Lonely Tylenol" data-source="post: 1488250" data-attributes="member: 18549">Thank you for the welcome.Actually, I take it to be an unofficial statement.&nbsp; Mr. Collins is the first name listed on the cover of the book in question (alphabetically, mind you), and until WotC issues an official statement on the subject, I don't think that it's unreasonable to take the opinion of the authors as representative of the general sentiment going around at the company.&nbsp; Especially since Mr. Collins' name is on everything they publish these days, indicating that he is a central figure at the company.If it is practice for game designers to come to these boards and express their personal opinions, which are assumed to be unrelated to the opinions of their respective companies, I'm unfamiliar with that situation.&nbsp; However, if I'm going to address only Mr. Collins and not WotC with my post, I think that it would rest more or less unchanged...If you don't want to deal with the OGL, don't release OGC.&nbsp; If you release OGC, don't be surprised when people treat it like OGC.&nbsp; You've been at this long enough to know how these things work.&nbsp; We appreciate things being released as OGC.&nbsp; It's really handy and it helps to keep this hobby from going under like it almost did under TSR.&nbsp; But if you're going to turn around and then tell us that we're unethical for treating it like OGC, that's not right, and we're likely to be a bit put-off.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lonely Tylenol, post: 1488250, member: 18549"] Thank you for the welcome. Actually, I take it to be an unofficial statement. Mr. Collins is the first name listed on the cover of the book in question (alphabetically, mind you), and until WotC issues an official statement on the subject, I don't think that it's unreasonable to take the opinion of the authors as representative of the general sentiment going around at the company. Especially since Mr. Collins' name is on everything they publish these days, indicating that he is a central figure at the company. If it is practice for game designers to come to these boards and express their personal opinions, which are assumed to be unrelated to the opinions of their respective companies, I'm unfamiliar with that situation. However, if I'm going to address only Mr. Collins and not WotC with my post, I think that it would rest more or less unchanged... If you don't want to deal with the OGL, don't release OGC. If you release OGC, don't be surprised when people treat it like OGC. You've been at this long enough to know how these things work. We appreciate things being released as OGC. It's really handy and it helps to keep this hobby from going under like it almost did under TSR. But if you're going to turn around and then tell us that we're unethical for treating it like OGC, that's not right, and we're likely to be a bit put-off. [/QUOTE]

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