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<blockquote data-quote="Harlock" data-source="post: 1113788" data-attributes="member: 4545">Well, I don't have tangible proof and never claimed to.&nbsp; What I do have is a brain that functions (admittedly sometimes over-actively which you can judge for yourself from my line of logic.)&nbsp; I do know Valterra is not a lawyer.&nbsp; I know he was a <a href="http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&amp;creatorid=38" target="_blank">big cheese</a> at WotC and that he would be in a position to know exactly how far he could push the d20STL without getting into legal trouble since he was pretty darn <a href="http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/br/br20010720a" target="_blank"> familiar</a> with it.&nbsp; And, he did it.&nbsp; Yes, it is a public license, but AV was in a unique position to exploit it having and intimate inside knowledge of WotC and its operations, and I feel that's what he did.&nbsp; Again, no proof, just an instinct based on what I have seen, his reaction to the hype and his consistency in pushing the envelope for what appears to me, very little other than to &quot;thumb his nose at WotC&quot; to borrow the common phrase being bandied about in this thread.&nbsp; Also, as mentioned before he is really daring WotC to take action by claiming things like press releases are not advertising and making the Dungeons and Dragons name so prominent on his book.&nbsp; How would you expect WotC to react?&nbsp; They own D&amp;D.&nbsp; They have every right to protect that IP.&nbsp; They own the d20STL and did a quick fix on it that I have said already is short-sighted and just wrong.&nbsp; There are, surely, muh better solutions to this but I have a feeling this isn't even close to being over.&nbsp; Egos are now involved on both sides.&nbsp; And, again, what sucks is that people are being dragged into it by way of using the d20STL rather than being mere spectators.&nbsp; WotC should stick to the high road and just come out and retract some of the more vague and ominous parts of version 5.0.&nbsp; Whether they do or not, remains to be seen.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Harlock, post: 1113788, member: 4545"] Well, I don't have tangible proof and never claimed to. What I do have is a brain that functions (admittedly sometimes over-actively which you can judge for yourself from my line of logic.) I do know Valterra is not a lawyer. I know he was a [url=http://www.pen-paper.net/rpgdb.php?op=showcreator&creatorid=38]big cheese[/url] at WotC and that he would be in a position to know exactly how far he could push the d20STL without getting into legal trouble since he was pretty darn [url=http://www.wizards.com/dnd/article.asp?x=dnd/br/br20010720a] familiar[/url] with it. And, he did it. Yes, it is a public license, but AV was in a unique position to exploit it having and intimate inside knowledge of WotC and its operations, and I feel that's what he did. Again, no proof, just an instinct based on what I have seen, his reaction to the hype and his consistency in pushing the envelope for what appears to me, very little other than to "thumb his nose at WotC" to borrow the common phrase being bandied about in this thread. Also, as mentioned before he is really daring WotC to take action by claiming things like press releases are not advertising and making the Dungeons and Dragons name so prominent on his book. How would you expect WotC to react? They own D&D. They have every right to protect that IP. They own the d20STL and did a quick fix on it that I have said already is short-sighted and just wrong. There are, surely, muh better solutions to this but I have a feeling this isn't even close to being over. Egos are now involved on both sides. And, again, what sucks is that people are being dragged into it by way of using the d20STL rather than being mere spectators. WotC [i]should[/i] stick to the high road and just come out and retract some of the more vague and ominous parts of version 5.0. Whether they do or not, remains to be seen. [/QUOTE]

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