So was it a poison pill?

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I have a hard time looking at OGL 1.1 and seeing a devious master plan, rather than gross incompetence*.

* including a stunning misreading -- or lack of reading -- of the D&D and RPG communities.

This s the baker's son taking over the business and making the bakery into a coffeeshop because he thinks he can be the next Starbucks.