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<blockquote data-quote="guildofblades" data-source="post: 3947664" data-attributes="member: 27324">The FFE books...As I understand it, they had violated the D20 license. WOTC had notified them of the violation and said that they could no longer sell or distribute books that were under violation of the license (or, I presume, they could have been sued). There was no recall. But books that you legally can't sell or distribute, including free distribution; well, not much left that can be done to those but be destroyed.However...I know that was not the fate of most of those books. They were sold to a company that buys game product liquidations. Some number of pallet loads of books were bought be said liquidator. Those books remain on the market today, sold by that company online, through conventions, and to other retailers.That liquidation was likely not something WOTC approved us. There was no reason, even after destroying or liquidating product, that FFE shouldn't have been able to continue operations by simply then publishing and releasing products that were legal under the D20 license, or even just publishing under the OGL. Why didn't they? Idle speculation, but maybe it was easier to shut down that business rather than leave it exposed to potential lawsuit, should WOTC have found out about the liquidation (a sale of those goods after WOTC had notified them that they couldn't sell those goods) and chosen to do something about it.Ryan S. JohnsonGuild of Blades Publishing Group<a href="http://www.guildofblades.com" target="_blank">http://www.guildofblades.com</a><a href="http://www.1483online.com" target="_blank">http://www.1483online.com</a><a href="http://www.thermopylae-online.com" target="_blank">http://www.thermopylae-online.com</a></blockquote>

[QUOTE="guildofblades, post: 3947664, member: 27324"] The FFE books... As I understand it, they had violated the D20 license. WOTC had notified them of the violation and said that they could no longer sell or distribute books that were under violation of the license (or, I presume, they could have been sued). There was no recall. But books that you legally can't sell or distribute, including free distribution; well, not much left that can be done to those but be destroyed. However...I know that was not the fate of most of those books. They were sold to a company that buys game product liquidations. Some number of pallet loads of books were bought be said liquidator. Those books remain on the market today, sold by that company online, through conventions, and to other retailers. That liquidation was likely not something WOTC approved us. There was no reason, even after destroying or liquidating product, that FFE shouldn't have been able to continue operations by simply then publishing and releasing products that were legal under the D20 license, or even just publishing under the OGL. Why didn't they? Idle speculation, but maybe it was easier to shut down that business rather than leave it exposed to potential lawsuit, should WOTC have found out about the liquidation (a sale of those goods after WOTC had notified them that they couldn't sell those goods) and chosen to do something about it. Ryan S. Johnson Guild of Blades Publishing Group [url]http://www.guildofblades.com[/url] [url]http://www.1483online.com[/url] [url]http://www.thermopylae-online.com[/url] [/QUOTE]

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