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Message: <blockquote data-quote="KingOfChaos" data-source="post: 1113267" data-attributes="member: 2375">"One rule for you, another for the peasants" is how this is looking to be.  I am pretty sure that WoTC will continue to put out material like the BoVD when they feel the need to shock the market for money, yet they're trying to keep us from publishing similar works.  Don't get me wrong, I don't want to publish 'poon d20' but I don't like the idea that someone at WoTC or Hasbro can just decide arbitrarily that they don't like my book and pull the plug on it saying 'this doesn't meet MY standards'.  If you notice, the system guide is very vague, basically giving WoTC complete control over content and artwork of EVERY company still willing to use the D20 license.  As a writer myself, I don't like this because not everyone is of the same opinion.  I don't like Steven King's books, but does that mean he shouldn't be able to continue writing them if he wants to?  Sorry if I feel like I have a choke leash around my neck, slowly being tightened by an unseen and unknown master.  As a writer, I feel I have the right to spin what stories come to me without the fear of having someone I don't even know saying "This isn't right" and pissing on my work and creativity.  I am sure those of you who do not write could care less, but think of this:  WoTC is deciding what you can and cannot buy, just like they're telling us what we can and cannot write/draw.  I am pretty sure you guys don't need a chaperone telling you how to spend your money, just like I don't need a morality editor looking over my shoulder as I type.As for Valar, let us not be a mob and create a scapegoat.  WoTC had nothing to do with the printing of the BoEF so they had no responsibility when it came to its content.  Someone at WotC got annoyed that Valar used their trademark to create a book about sex and wanted these rules enforced.  If there had been a lawsuit against WoTC over the content of BoEF, don't you think we would have heard about it on EN World?  There wasn't and most likely won't be, so while Valar maybe the catalyst for this change, its not entirely their fault.  They were dealing with their own creativity and artistic outlook for their book and WotC just didn't like it.</blockquote>

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