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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8932830" data-attributes="member: 18">I think this was the key misunderstanding at WotC, yeah.They didn't seem to realize that the OGL didn't mean jack to anyone, and would have just confused the hell out of the mainstream media if people tried to explain it to them, and they certainly wouldn't have understood a vague, GPL-like licence (the easiest touchstone for them) as an endorsement by WotC. Indeed if anything they'd have got on the &quot;Why are people trying to smear a poor innocent corporation?&quot; side of things.I presume this is partly the entire thing collapsed so profoundly and even inverted into putting the SRD into CC, a more extreme position than the OGL, because finally someone at the Dan Rawson or Cynthia Williams level went &quot;Ohhhhhhhhhh I get it - what the hell are we doing?!&quot; and frowned angrily at whatever team had been creating this misunderstanding (definitely not Kyle's team from his account).Did people really think that? I've never seen that view expressed.But weirdly 5E acquired pretty much the most regressive take on Orcs since 1E/2E - 3E and 4E weren't great, but it was 5E that basically did the &quot;racist textbook from the 1950s&quot; deal to the Orcs and is part of why Volos has been intentionally made OOP even in digital.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8932830, member: 18"] I think this was the key misunderstanding at WotC, yeah. They didn't seem to realize that the OGL didn't mean jack to anyone, and would have just confused the hell out of the mainstream media if people tried to explain it to them, and they certainly wouldn't have understood a vague, GPL-like licence (the easiest touchstone for them) as an endorsement by WotC. Indeed if anything they'd have got on the "Why are people trying to smear a poor innocent corporation?" side of things. I presume this is partly the entire thing collapsed so profoundly and even inverted into putting the SRD into CC, a more extreme position than the OGL, because finally someone at the Dan Rawson or Cynthia Williams level went "Ohhhhhhhhhh I get it - what the hell are we doing?!" and frowned angrily at whatever team had been creating this misunderstanding (definitely not Kyle's team from his account). Did people really think that? I've never seen that view expressed. But weirdly 5E acquired pretty much the most regressive take on Orcs since 1E/2E - 3E and 4E weren't great, but it was 5E that basically did the "racist textbook from the 1950s" deal to the Orcs and is part of why Volos has been intentionally made OOP even in digital. [/QUOTE]

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