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<blockquote data-quote="The Sigil" data-source="post: 1113254" data-attributes="member: 2013">Herein lies precisely the problem.&nbsp; Valar, by virtue of trying to exploit every possible loophole in both the d20STL and Open Gaming License - from the very first press release the company made, mind you - to play by the letter of the law while intentionally and grossly violating the spirt of the law as much as possible, has created the problem.&nbsp; And now every other third-party publisher has to suffer for it.&nbsp; Assume there are 30 d20 releases this month.&nbsp; Because that one book has been used to poleaxe the licenses, all thirty books will suffer repercussions.I'm not pro-censorship outside of the realm of me as a parent censoring what my underage children see, hear, and read (and of course, personal &quot;censorship&quot; in deciding what I see, hear, read, and write).&nbsp; But this has not been about censorship.&nbsp; This appears from the outside to be a peeing contest, started by Valar in general and AV in particular.&nbsp; Now, I hope those appearances are deceiving.&nbsp; But even if I agree on some of the points Valar has raised, I can't back them because of the offensive way in which they've raised them (not in terms of the BoEF, but in the way they've carefully and deliberately orchestrated an attack on the spirit of the licenses).&nbsp; The problem for me is not the BoEF itself - the problem for me personally is that Valar has urinated in the pool that all the other d20 publishers are swimming in and has caused a lot of collateral damage for them by doing so.&nbsp; This isn't about me trying to censor Valar.&nbsp; The BoEF itself will of course have no direct impact on my works - it has no direct impact on me, so I am completely uninterested.&nbsp; BUT Valar's actions in using the BoEF as a tool in their attack of the licenses *have* directly impacted me as a third party publisher, and believe me, I'm NOT happy about that.--The Sigil</blockquote>

[QUOTE="The Sigil, post: 1113254, member: 2013"] Herein lies precisely the problem. Valar, by virtue of trying to exploit every possible loophole in both the d20STL and Open Gaming License - [i]from the very first press release the company made[/i], mind you - to play by the letter of the law while intentionally and grossly violating the spirt of the law as much as possible, has created the problem. And now every other third-party publisher has to suffer for it. Assume there are 30 d20 releases this month. Because that [i]one book[/i] has been used to poleaxe the licenses, [i]all thirty books[/i] will suffer repercussions. I'm not pro-censorship outside of the realm of me as a parent censoring what my underage children see, hear, and read (and of course, personal "censorship" in deciding what [b]I[/b] see, hear, read, and write). But this has not been about censorship. This appears from the outside to be a peeing contest, started by Valar in general and AV in particular. Now, I hope those appearances are deceiving. But even if I agree on some of the points Valar has raised, I can't back them because of the offensive way in which they've raised them (not in terms of the BoEF, but in the way they've carefully and deliberately orchestrated an attack on the spirit of the licenses). The problem for me is not the BoEF itself - the problem for me personally is that Valar has urinated in the pool that all the other d20 publishers are swimming in and has caused a lot of collateral damage for them by doing so. This isn't about me trying to censor Valar. The BoEF itself will of course have no direct impact on my works - it has no direct impact on me, so I am completely uninterested. BUT Valar's [b]actions[/b] in using the BoEF as a tool in their attack of the licenses *have* directly impacted me as a third party publisher, and believe me, I'm NOT happy about that. --The Sigil [/QUOTE]

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