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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Setanta" data-source="post: 1493388" data-attributes="member: 2183">@barsoomcore It's not.  I was thinking of Nikolai when I used the term villified. I must have missed his later post where he said it wasn't personal. However, he had quite a bit to say about Andy. If you want examples, checkout his posts on page 5, toward the top. Bendris also had some stuff to say about Andy's opinion putting him in a bad light- not quite villifaction, so maybe the word was too strong, but Andy did catch some flak.  Oh I know it won't stand up in court. I just don't feel any moral compunction to follow the letter of a law where it doesn't agree with the spirit of the law, or where the law is unjust. In the case of speeding, the spirit of the law is clearly to keep everyone safe on the roads, so while I feel morally obligated to drive a safe speed, I don't feel morally obligated to stay under the speed limit. Oh, and BTW, people have gone before a judge and gotten off on speeding violations because it was broad daylight with light traffic, and they were only speeding "a little" at least here in California.  Well, right now I use rules from WotC and many third party publishers, because they were all written for the same game. Choice is good. If WotC makes 4E closed, then they'll be writing rules for one game, and everyone else will be writing rules for another game (OGL D20 or another system), which will either reduce the choices available to me or increase my work as I would need to convert stuff.  Perhaps I'm off, but this is his idea of taking something like the environemental subraces in UA, like aquatic halflings, and expanding it to include more subraces, like volcanic halflings or something, right? That's perfectly fine. That kind of thing is the intent of the OGL. I don't think anybody here is saying that people shouldn't do that sort of thing. What some of us are saying is that people shouldn't just transcribe 100% of the text so that others don't have to pay for it. That's all. I don't actually believe that it would hurt sales signicantly, unless it was done very quickly and efficiently after the product's release, and even then, I still doubt it would be significant. I'm more concerned about publishers perceiving that it would hurt their sales, and thus releasing less OGC. From Joe B's post, he for one seems to think that this sort of behaviour has the potential to hurt his sales. I'm concerned about that perception.</blockquote>

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