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<blockquote data-quote="justanobody" data-source="post: 4694819" data-attributes="member: 70778">Silly question. Is HASBRO or WotC legally responsible if you bludgeon someone to death with a 4th edition PHB since it was their product? Why would they be responsible for something someone else writes or decides to misuse any of their products, be it physical or intellectual?Without some connection between the two WotC could claim deniability. Without the SOA, WotC is not directly connected to the 3PP materials. With the SOA, is where they open themselves up because they are bound to a 3PP. So just like they could claim a portion of the 3PP product, they must also take the bad with the good they want.Likewise a 3PP cannot be held responsible for WotCs debts just because they are using their IP.The GSL could simply contain, and should, that any 3PP is the sole responsibility of its creator, and WotC is only liable for its material in its published products, and not the misuse thereof in any 3PP product.So if a BoEF came out of 4h, WotC would have it known in the license that it isn't their fault. Likewise someone could write the &quot;Book of Goblin Porn&quot; and have it compatible with 4th edition, without using the GSL. So they really didn't solve anything.Kingdoms of Kalamir still says compatible with 4th edition without using the GSL. So no reason the &quot;Book of Goblin Porn&quot; can't turn up and say the same thing, and without the GSL, WotC has nothing really they could do to stop the book without going to court and try to fight over it.So that clause has really done nothing except waste a lot of lawyers and Scott's time probably. You cannot control the minds of other people. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown&nbsp; &nbsp; :("&nbsp; data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /></blockquote>

[QUOTE="justanobody, post: 4694819, member: 70778"] Silly question. Is HASBRO or WotC legally responsible if you bludgeon someone to death with a 4th edition PHB since it was their product? Why would they be responsible for something someone else writes or decides to misuse any of their products, be it physical or intellectual? Without some connection between the two WotC could claim deniability. Without the SOA, WotC is not directly connected to the 3PP materials. With the SOA, is where they open themselves up because they are bound to a 3PP. So just like they could claim a portion of the 3PP product, they must also take the bad with the good they want. Likewise a 3PP cannot be held responsible for WotCs debts just because they are using their IP. The GSL could simply contain, and should, that any 3PP is the sole responsibility of its creator, and WotC is only liable for its material in its published products, and not the misuse thereof in any 3PP product. So if a BoEF came out of 4h, WotC would have it known in the license that it isn't their fault. Likewise someone could write the "Book of Goblin Porn" and have it compatible with 4th edition, without using the GSL. So they really didn't solve anything. Kingdoms of Kalamir still says compatible with 4th edition without using the GSL. So no reason the "Book of Goblin Porn" can't turn up and say the same thing, and without the GSL, WotC has nothing really they could do to stop the book without going to court and try to fight over it. So that clause has really done nothing except waste a lot of lawyers and Scott's time probably. You cannot control the minds of other people. :( [/QUOTE]

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