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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Anubis the Doomseer" data-source="post: 1113284" data-attributes="member: 12455">No.  The problem pre-existed the press release from Valar - they merely exploited it.  Responsibility for that problem's existance is Hasbro's, not Valar's.And now every other third-party publisher has to suffer for it.Only to the extent Hasbro wishes to punish them.  Remember - claiming content control was, and is, only one option among many to handle this problem.  Valar is not to blame if Hasbro chooses to use the wrong tool for the job.  Assume there are 30 d20 releases this month.  Because that one book has been used to poleaxe the licenses, all thirty books will suffer repercussions.Again, only if Hasbro continues down this road instead of backing up and making the proper changes to protect it's trademark.  A simple addition of a "we do not condone the content of this product" mandatory statement or changes to the logo and compatibility placement would help in this regard.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 I see, hear, read, and write).  But this has not been about censorship.It is.  If the book were about car racing or yet another book about prestige classes Hasbro would have had ZERO problem with a larger than normal statment of compatibility and logo.  It is the sexual theme of the book that has everyone in a tizzy.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.  I see a lot of people have urination fetishes (or traumatic childhood memories), judging from the frequency of this image.  <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Valar has done nothing that hasn't already been done by others - sexual content book, I have a very similar "Encyclopaedia Arcane" done by a major 3rd party company on the exact same topic.  Nudie art and compatibility information?  Again, another company has been using Playboy softcore art on their products for years, no comment.  The urine, to return to the image of our youth, is already in the pool - the outrage is focusing on the only person ot pointout their own urine. A certain amount of the outrage, I believe, is mock anger hiding their own underwater emissions that went unreported and unnoticed by the lifeguard.- Ma'at</blockquote>

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