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<blockquote data-quote="Charlaquin" data-source="post: 9233869" data-attributes="member: 6779196">Looks like he just made a community post apologizing for the confusion. For whatever reason YouTube doesn’t have an option to share a direct link to a community post (or if it does I can’t find it), but here’s the text of the post:[excerpt]Most people got the joke/satirical nature of yesterday's video, and some didn't. (I had put onscreen giveaways including the fact that my &quot;sources&quot; were all cited to old-school D&amp;D sources, and of course there was my pinned comment). I do NOT have &quot;leaks&quot; from Hasbro! The video was a humorous way to contrast the weakness of old-school D&amp;D spellcasters to modern ones, by pretending that WOTC was &quot;revising&quot; the game back in time! Talking about the history of D&amp;D and Pathfinder interests me greatly. I apparently underestimated some people's awareness of tropes of old-school D&amp;D (&quot;magic users,&quot; d4 hit dice, dying at 0 hit points, etc.) and was surprised some thought this was real! Or thought that a gaming company representative would ever say &quot;sense of pride and accomplishment&quot; ever again! (EDIT: I also should have anticipated how much people would believe WOTC/Hasbro doing ANOTHER shocking thing! lol)Be assured that, if I ever do report on genuine leaks, there will be no ambiguity. I put out a video in Jan. 2023, before Gizmodo made the OGL scandal mainstream, about the leaked language of WOTC's draft OGL that Roll for Combat had leaked earlier that day. For that I did my due diligence and source-checking, and I cited and named my sources and why I relied on them.Meanwhile, my apologies to anyone who didn't get the joke, and I hope you enjoy the humor on the second go-around. Meanwhile, have a Happy New Year!-TRL[/excerpt]</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Charlaquin, post: 9233869, member: 6779196"] Looks like he just made a community post apologizing for the confusion. For whatever reason YouTube doesn’t have an option to share a direct link to a community post (or if it does I can’t find it), but here’s the text of the post: [excerpt] Most people got the joke/satirical nature of yesterday's video, and some didn't. (I had put onscreen giveaways including the fact that my "sources" were all cited to old-school D&D sources, and of course there was my pinned comment). I do NOT have "leaks" from Hasbro! The video was a humorous way to contrast the weakness of old-school D&D spellcasters to modern ones, by pretending that WOTC was "revising" the game back in time! Talking about the history of D&D and Pathfinder interests me greatly. I apparently underestimated some people's awareness of tropes of old-school D&D ("magic users," d4 hit dice, dying at 0 hit points, etc.) and was surprised some thought this was real! Or thought that a gaming company representative would ever say "sense of pride and accomplishment" ever again! (EDIT: I also should have anticipated how much people would believe WOTC/Hasbro doing ANOTHER shocking thing! lol)Be assured that, if I ever do report on genuine leaks, there will be no ambiguity. I put out a video in Jan. 2023, before Gizmodo made the OGL scandal mainstream, about the leaked language of WOTC's draft OGL that Roll for Combat had leaked earlier that day. For that I did my due diligence and source-checking, and I cited and named my sources and why I relied on them.Meanwhile, my apologies to anyone who didn't get the joke, and I hope you enjoy the humor on the second go-around. Meanwhile, have a Happy New Year! -TRL[/excerpt] [/QUOTE]

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