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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Wincenworks" data-source="post: 9491557" data-attributes="member: 7038835">Indeed, part of what made the whole "The disclaimer on Oriental Adventures is slander and we will fight to remove it." is that Zeb, the primary author, was around the whole time and (wisely) not commenting - almost as though he felt his work from 30+ years ago didn't reflect on who he was and what he did today. (And he's working for a "woke" video game studio that just added a non-binary elf, so he has a vest financial interest in not milkshake ducking).[ATTACH=full]384010[/ATTACH]Somehow I don't think any affidavit he supplied would be in support of their nonsense.This is pretty common with literally every industry in that the people who are great performers but who haven't built a cult of personality around them tend to gravitate to the whichever area is the most lucrative at the time.  I remember having a conversation with a taxi driver in the late 2000s who was a semi-professional chess player, and his big observation was that pretty much all the non-celebrity, top chess players of the era had transitioned over to poker because it was where the money was if you were very good at doing at doing logic puzzles in your head in a competitive environment.They still played chess with their friends, would do the occasional tournament if it was convenient etc, but the financial necessity drove them to where the reliable money was.  People got bills to pay.Someone way more academically inclined than me may someday to a paper on how this impacts the hobby scene with brain drain, etc.I would think that the bigger two items are:1) His current volume of work was heavily panned, and thus there is an expectation that anything he puts out will be garbage even amongst the people who were going to be his supporters on principle; and2) Assuming he has a non-disparagement clause as [USER=7023840]@Snarf Zagyg[/USER]  proposes (and I agree is almost certain), he's not even useful to those people as a figurehead since he can basically not comment on anything Wizards of the Coast is doing.His legacy in the RPG space is now going to be pretty much exclusively negative reviews and the documenting of the worst campaign against Wizards of the Coast, one so bad that even during the OGL Fiasco and other various acts of overt evil by Hasbro - everyone was cheering for him to lose.  This is also why he's rebranded the Dungeon Hobby Shop Museum to RPGs Anonymous - for that and the appeal against Tenkar is the closest he will ever come to a win on this.That and support from a X nee Twitter account with more blocks than its 9 (hate) followers.Cinis ut cinarem;Pulvis ut pulvarem;</blockquote>

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