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Message: <blockquote data-quote="wingsandsword" data-source="post: 8884636" data-attributes="member: 14159">On a related note, I'd like to say that this entire "OGL 1.1" crisis has been the most divisive, bitter, hateful, angry, thing I've ever seen in D&D fandom in my life.Worse than the 3e/4e edition wars.  Much worse.I'm not talking about on ENWorld, which is well moderated, but away from here.  On Facebook, on Twitter, on Reddit.I'm seeing insults, condescension, mocking, and general hostility thrown around casually and constantly.I think the last straw for me was seeing someone (who claims they're an IP lawyer, but ) go off on Reddit about how WotC blatantly and obviously has complete power to do this, how anyone who says otherwise is clearly not a lawyer or if they are they're incompetent, how any court that would find against WotC on this is wrong and it would be overturned on appeal, and that virtually any lawsuit on this would be won on summary judgement. . .and anyone who would even argue that WotC is wrong here should get an "F- in Contract Law" because supposedly there's no valid good-faith argument that WotC is even possibly wrong here. . .I'm at my wits end.That was the worst, but there's a lot of it around anywhere on the internet where D&D is discussed  I seriously have never seen this much anger and hatred wrapped up in the gaming hobby. . .ever.  The level of rage, insults, hatred, anger, and just plain lack of basic civility being shown here (especially by the people defending WotC on this) is so extreme that it makes the old edition wars look like a schoolyard scuffle by comparison.</blockquote>

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