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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Dr. Harry" data-source="post: 1127645" data-attributes="member: 5468">Your post is the 478th on this topic, on this thread.  A number of people have already reported and transcribed the response that you received.  This response is a *form letter*.  Many, many people have emailed WotC with questions about their new policy; their choices were to have the legal department (which might just have more pressing duties than answering email) respond, an employee whose job it is to answer email respond (in which case the employee would not have been privy to the details and rationale of the decision), or, what the heck, the president of WotC - or maybe the president of Hasbro, heck, respond.Why do think you merit a special response when nobody else was able to receive one?  Let's (briefly) examine the letter:->  You identify yourself as not a game designer, therefore you are not in the group that would be professionally concerned with the change in policy.  Note that people involved with active d20 publishing have received individual responses.->  WotC is repeatedly accused of trying to "censor" others.  Overreacting will not improve your chances to trigger the response of, "Hey everyone!  Let's quit working for a while and answer this email!"  Nobody is being censored.  Anyone can publish whatever they want within the laws of their locale, but there is no inherent "right" that is being violated to use someone else's IP in their effort (i.e., Wotc's d20).  Let's take a look at part of your letter:Where, pray tell, does any of this happen?  Does this not seem just a wee bit over the top?  Oh yes, and calling the WotC reader a "communist pig" is going to strongly demonstrate that you are a mature, rational indiviual who should be taken seriously.->  What you allow your children to do/see is immaterial, unless you are making the position that you, not WotC, should control what WotC's intellectual property should be linked to.->  Your letter fails to differentiate between what could be called "positionally inferior" (a quadripeligiac cannot lift as much as I can), and *intrinisically inferior*, which would be something like, "Quadripeligiacs are worth less as human beings because the cannot lift as much as I can".  The difference is quite large.  That your letter shows such a fundamental misunderstanding about such a central point will also not improve the chances of this letter generating an individual response.->  Why would WotC care that you don't like Disney, or that you feel that seeing Sailor Moon's naked, animated body improves the viewing experience?  I may digress, but much of the letter I am responding to consists of digressions In short,No.  Why would you think you did?</blockquote>

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