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<blockquote data-quote="TheFindus" data-source="post: 5446084" data-attributes="member: 75791"><p>I do not want there to be a misunderstanding. "Looting" in my post referred to what I am doing as a DM with products I buy. I will not use the entire piece, but use what I need. I consider this an easy way to find the stuff to play and prepare for sessions. I do not think that there are many DMs that don't do this.</p><p></p><p>I used the word "scavenge" to emphazise that in my opinion it was a bad business decision by WotC to have the OGL in the form it is today when they published 4E. And that is entirely WotC's fault. Although I like 4E much much better than 3E - which is a matter of taste - the way WotC handled many things did just not go well. They screwed up a lot of times. And that is the reason we see a lot of threads in all different kinds of forums about the "death spiral", the "end" of WotC. Well, lots of death there anyway.</p><p>And I thought it fitting to picture the carcass of WotC failed business decisions lying somewhere in the RPG savanna, being fed on by, well, scavenger birds. It is not the birds fault. And these birds will stay alive and healthy. Which is a good thing. I did not intend to use the word in an offensive way. And it well within anybodies right to find my description lacking of aptitude.</p><p>Just wanted to make that clear.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheFindus, post: 5446084, member: 75791"] I do not want there to be a misunderstanding. "Looting" in my post referred to what I am doing as a DM with products I buy. I will not use the entire piece, but use what I need. I consider this an easy way to find the stuff to play and prepare for sessions. I do not think that there are many DMs that don't do this. I used the word "scavenge" to emphazise that in my opinion it was a bad business decision by WotC to have the OGL in the form it is today when they published 4E. And that is entirely WotC's fault. Although I like 4E much much better than 3E - which is a matter of taste - the way WotC handled many things did just not go well. They screwed up a lot of times. And that is the reason we see a lot of threads in all different kinds of forums about the "death spiral", the "end" of WotC. Well, lots of death there anyway. And I thought it fitting to picture the carcass of WotC failed business decisions lying somewhere in the RPG savanna, being fed on by, well, scavenger birds. It is not the birds fault. And these birds will stay alive and healthy. Which is a good thing. I did not intend to use the word in an offensive way. And it well within anybodies right to find my description lacking of aptitude. Just wanted to make that clear. [/QUOTE]
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