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<blockquote data-quote="ColonelHardisson" data-source="post: 81867" data-attributes="member: 363"><p>I'm not nitpicking your use of words, in all seriousness, except in this case your use of the word "weary" seems somewhat unclear. By the context of what you're saying, you could either be "wary" - on guard or suspiciously watchful of the situation - or "weary" - tired of hearing about it. What makes the words even more easy to confuse is that "leery" - suspcious or distrustful - sounds like both of them.</p><p></p><p>If you're tired of hearing about how great WotC is for making the OGL and d20 licenses, then I can understand - we do hear about it a lot (although I haven't grown sick of hearing it myself, since it's a move few, if any, RPG companies would make).</p><p></p><p>If you're wary of the situation, I'm not sure why. WotC will likely not want to garner a reputation like TSR's by suddenly pulling some Machiavellian scheme and pulling the rug out from under the d20 publishers. I doubt other game companies think that will happen. For example, here is a thread on the HackMaster boards where David Kenzer agrees with my position to an extent (no one being more surprised than me at that! Scroll down to the 8th and 9th posts - and now I notice that David Kenzer said a couple other interesting things about WotC which may be interesting to read):</p><p></p><p><a href="http://pub18.ezboard.com/fhmpafrm4.showMessageRange?topicID=218.topic&start=21&stop=40" target="_blank">http://pub18.ezboard.com/fhmpafrm4.showMessageRange?topicID=218.topic&start=21&stop=40</a></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="ColonelHardisson, post: 81867, member: 363"] I'm not nitpicking your use of words, in all seriousness, except in this case your use of the word "weary" seems somewhat unclear. By the context of what you're saying, you could either be "wary" - on guard or suspiciously watchful of the situation - or "weary" - tired of hearing about it. What makes the words even more easy to confuse is that "leery" - suspcious or distrustful - sounds like both of them. If you're tired of hearing about how great WotC is for making the OGL and d20 licenses, then I can understand - we do hear about it a lot (although I haven't grown sick of hearing it myself, since it's a move few, if any, RPG companies would make). If you're wary of the situation, I'm not sure why. WotC will likely not want to garner a reputation like TSR's by suddenly pulling some Machiavellian scheme and pulling the rug out from under the d20 publishers. I doubt other game companies think that will happen. For example, here is a thread on the HackMaster boards where David Kenzer agrees with my position to an extent (no one being more surprised than me at that! Scroll down to the 8th and 9th posts - and now I notice that David Kenzer said a couple other interesting things about WotC which may be interesting to read): [url]http://pub18.ezboard.com/fhmpafrm4.showMessageRange?topicID=218.topic&start=21&stop=40[/url] [/QUOTE]
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