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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ralts Bloodthorne" data-source="post: 1116264" data-attributes="member: 6390">It's a little hard to keep up with this in a lot of ways.  Personally, I think it WAS targeted at BoEF. Sure, it was already in the works, but I think Anthony Valterra forced WotC's hand. The lack of "legalese" in the STL changes, the rushed appearance and vauge statements in it.  While the change may have been in the works, but BoEF may have just caused someone to fly off the handle and rush to block it. "WE HAVE TO STOP THIS SMUT FROM BEING PRINTED."  But, like I said, with all the various threads, it can be difficult to keep up.(First of all, I'm not picking on Psion, before anyone crawls up my nether reasons)  And that right there is the biggest problem with these "Quality Standards" right now. Who decides what is excessive. Who decides what is disgusting.  Is a picture (adapted from a museam piece of an ancient fertility idol) of a pot-bellied woman in a lotus position with 8 bare breasts pornography, or out of context if you are placing/stating/describing the Kobold Goddess of Fertility? Why should it be forbidden? What about doing factual statements on Minoan dress/culture, where bare breasts are common? I'm not talking the "Big Book of Tetten!" but within taste and reason.   Who decides what is excessive blood & gore? What if I use a picture I took during Desert Storm of the "Highway of Death" and convert it to a drawing with photoshop for a book on Modern Warfare. Dead bodies rotting in the sun, burnt out tanks and vehicles. Is it excessive? Who decides?  Finally...  Why wasn't there any warning? By dropping this bomb, making it retroactive, and providing no warning that it was going to happen, I'm out more money than I pay in rent. For some of you, that might not be a big deal, but I'm supporting 6 people off of minimum wage.  Six months ago, I had not commissioned this artwork.  Now, it's all useless.  Wizards knew that this would happen, that some companies would get hit right in the slim pocketbook by losing artwork that they had commissioned and paid for.  Why didn't we get at least some professional courtesy and told: "Hey, guys, in 6 months we're going to be banning icky pornographic female nipples and breasts in an effort to return to Victorian times. Oh, and your orcish war god better get rid of his package. No more looking like he's shoplifting a basketball under his loincloth." so a lot of us didn't end up wasting cold hard cash?  But, that's just my $1.50, since 2 cents won't buy you a punch in the face.</blockquote>

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