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<blockquote data-quote="JeffB" data-source="post: 1114650" data-attributes="member: 518">But that is NOT what is happening. Nobody is telling anyone what they can and can’t use in your games or what you can or cannot read. WOTC is telling D20 publishers who use THEIR license, you can’t put our “seal of approval” on it. My 2 cents in general…It amazes me to see how many people are b%$#$ing and moaning about WOTC doing what it wants/needs to do with their own license/Logo/whatever. AND people still don’t get the fact you can publish &quot;looking up arwen’s skivvies&quot; under the OGL. So they are STILL allowing you to use one of THEIR licenses to publish whatever you want AS LONG AS it doesn’t have any tie-in to D20/D&amp;D Logos.It is WOTC's RIGHT to do whatever they will with THEIR license (for good or ill) . Doesn’t have a thing to do w/ Free Speech or other such nonsense. If it wasn’t for WOTC ever bringing out the license in the first place, it’s likely none of the writers/publishers complaining on this thread about what WOTC has done with the license, would ever even been in this situation. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f644.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":rolleyes:" title="Roll eyes&nbsp; &nbsp; :rolleyes:"&nbsp; data-smilie="11"data-shortname=":rolleyes:" /> As far as Hypocrisy goes, it matters not in the core of this whole scenario. IF WOTC feels it's OK to publish something like BoEF in the future then they can go right ahead. It's their rep/logo/brand on the line and they will be fully responsible for the consequences. What they don't want is to be linked to/reponsible for someone else's &quot;stepping over the line&quot;material where they have no way to protect themselves from it. Common sense if you ask me...This is not about &quot;the man&quot; bringing any one down. This is about a business doing darn well whatever they please with their own property.Edited to take into account AV's comments about time of the decision to change the license.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="JeffB, post: 1114650, member: 518"] But that is NOT what is happening. Nobody is telling anyone what they can and can’t use in your games or what you can or cannot read. WOTC is telling D20 publishers who use THEIR license, you can’t put our “seal of approval” on it. My 2 cents in general… It amazes me to see how many people are b%$#$ing and moaning about WOTC doing what it wants/needs to do with their own license/Logo/whatever. AND people still don’t get the fact you can publish "looking up arwen’s skivvies" under the OGL. So they are STILL allowing you to use one of THEIR licenses to publish whatever you want AS LONG AS it doesn’t have any tie-in to D20/D&D Logos. It is WOTC's RIGHT to do whatever they will with THEIR license (for good or ill) . Doesn’t have a thing to do w/ Free Speech or other such nonsense. If it wasn’t for WOTC ever bringing out the license in the first place, it’s likely none of the writers/publishers complaining on this thread about what WOTC has done with the license, would ever even been in this situation. :rolleyes: As far as Hypocrisy goes, it matters not in the core of this whole scenario. IF WOTC feels it's OK to publish something like BoEF in the future then they can go right ahead. It's their rep/logo/brand on the line and they will be fully responsible for the consequences. What they don't want is to be linked to/reponsible for someone else's "stepping over the line"material where they have no way to protect themselves from it. Common sense if you ask me...This is not about "the man" bringing any one down. This is about a business doing darn well whatever they please with their own property. Edited to take into account AV's comments about time of the decision to change the license. [/QUOTE]

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