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<blockquote data-quote="Anubis the Doomseer" data-source="post: 1113217" data-attributes="member: 12455">Everyone repeat after me - it's one book.How many d20 compatible releases are coming out this month?&nbsp; Take a minute to look at the context here.&nbsp; One book about bringing issues of sexuality into the game - a completely OPTIONAL book, remember.&nbsp; I seriously doubt all material from now on will be sexually explicit in nature.&nbsp; Please show some rationality. IMO before this happened a certain sector of the D&amp;D corpus was heading in the direction of soft core porn.&nbsp; And I feel like it is certainly within their legal right to dictate what images are associated with the game.Such books are still allowed to be published and in fact will likely to continue to be published.&nbsp; The cover information may change but the offending image will still be there, they will still be sold in the same section as other d20 materials, etc.&nbsp; If you are seriously in a pro-censorship mood Hasbro's changes don't help you at all. The envelope would just get pushed more and more.&nbsp; What is unfortunate, is that Wizards themselves started this whole mess with publication of the BOVD.Miore correctly this began with making the d20 system open content.&nbsp; Books of this nature are naturally forseeable exploitations.&nbsp; Before TSR fell there was a net book on this very topic.&nbsp; The world did not end.Likewise, fans of the game also apprear to be miffed about this whole thing and I see a schism on the horizon.This is a problem.&nbsp; But only when mixed in with other schisms over things like the 3.5 revision.&nbsp; Wizards used the network model of marketing to their advantage, but they are also the primary offenders when it comes to fragmenting that network.&nbsp; Again, the responsibility lies with Wizards.&nbsp; This could be fixed this afternoon by releasing a new version of the licence, removing the content control claims and amending the section on proper logo and compatibility information.&nbsp; BoEF will simply remove the logo and the book will see increased exposure due to all the scandal talk.&nbsp; Wizards took a non-issue, something that would have been quickly lost in the sea of d20 releases and singled it out.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Anubis the Doomseer, post: 1113217, member: 12455"] Everyone repeat after me - it's one book. How many d20 compatible releases are coming out this month? Take a minute to look at the context here. One book about bringing issues of sexuality into the game - a completely OPTIONAL book, remember. I seriously doubt all material from now on will be sexually explicit in nature. Please show some rationality. [b] IMO before this happened a certain sector of the D&D corpus was heading in the direction of soft core porn. And I feel like it is certainly within their legal right to dictate what images are associated with the game.[/b] Such books are still allowed to be published and in fact will likely to continue to be published. The cover information may change but the offending image will still be there, they will still be sold in the same section as other d20 materials, etc. If you are seriously in a pro-censorship mood Hasbro's changes don't help you at all. [b] The envelope would just get pushed more and more. What is unfortunate, is that Wizards themselves started this whole mess with publication of the BOVD.[/b] Miore correctly this began with making the d20 system open content. Books of this nature are naturally forseeable exploitations. Before TSR fell there was a net book on this very topic. The world did not end. [b]Likewise, fans of the game also apprear to be miffed about this whole thing and I see a schism on the horizon.[/b] This is a problem. But only when mixed in with other schisms over things like the 3.5 revision. Wizards used the network model of marketing to their advantage, but they are also the primary offenders when it comes to fragmenting that network. Again, the responsibility lies with Wizards. This could be fixed this afternoon by releasing a new version of the licence, removing the content control claims and amending the section on proper logo and compatibility information. BoEF will simply remove the logo and the book will see increased exposure due to all the scandal talk. Wizards took a non-issue, something that would have been quickly lost in the sea of d20 releases and singled it out. [/QUOTE]

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