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<blockquote data-quote="Ranger REG" data-source="post: 1114203" data-attributes="member: 533">Sorry, I don't buy it.&nbsp;As for violating the spirit of the law, I never considered D&amp;D a &quot;clean&quot; game for children, especially when Wizards' key target demographic are college-age group, and earlier editions of AD&amp;D have questionable artwork, like a topless mermaid. The idea for d20/OGL is for publishers to make whatever niche products that Wizards can't publish to fill in the gap in the d20 gaming community.&nbsp;I may consider Disney as a label that is too clean to be on any PG-13 rated films or worse, but D&amp;D or in this case, d20 logo?&nbsp;As for the letter of the law and exploiting loopholes, up until version 5.0, there is nothing there with regards to the acceptable quality of the content, just the rules mechanics and game defined terms. Wizards should have just stick with that.Would it have been different if it wasn't Valterrra and the BoEF? It could have been just another publisher using the d20 ruleset to make an adult-themed RPG with a d20 logo attached to it. Even I myself predicted that someday, someone is going to make such an RPG.&nbsp;Not becoming like Microsoft, they're becoming like Sony who limits videogames that can be played on their Playstation, such as BMX-XXX.If what you're saying that you do not agree with Wizards' action in alleged response to the Valterra/BoEF incident, then I concur.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ranger REG, post: 1114203, member: 533"] Sorry, I don't buy it. As for violating the spirit of the law, I never considered [i]D&D[/i] a "clean" game for children, especially when Wizards' key target demographic are college-age group, and earlier editions of [i]AD&D[/i] have questionable artwork, like a topless mermaid. The idea for d20/OGL is for publishers to make whatever niche products that Wizards can't publish to fill in the gap in the d20 gaming community. I may consider [i]Disney[/i] as a label that is too clean to be on any PG-13 rated films or worse, but [i]D&D[/i] or in this case, [i]d20[/i] logo? As for the letter of the law and exploiting loopholes, up until version 5.0, there is nothing there with regards to the acceptable quality of the content, just the rules mechanics and game defined terms. Wizards should have just stick with that. Would it have been different if it wasn't Valterrra and the [i]BoEF[/i]? It could have been just another publisher using the d20 ruleset to make an adult-themed RPG with a [i]d20[/i] logo attached to it. Even I myself predicted that someday, someone is going to make such an RPG. Not becoming like Microsoft, they're becoming like Sony who limits videogames that can be played on their Playstation, such as [i]BMX-XXX.[/i] If what you're saying that you do not agree with Wizards' action in alleged response to the Valterra/[i]BoEF[/i] incident, then I concur. [/QUOTE]

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