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<blockquote data-quote="Orius" data-source="post: 4315295" data-attributes="member: 8863">Legalese is NOT English!&nbsp; It's an English translation of the true language of lawyers, which everyone knows is Infernal.&nbsp; <img src="http://www.enworld.org/forum/images/smilies/devious.png"&nbsp; class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":]" title="Devious&nbsp; &nbsp; :]" data-shortname=":]" />IMO, lawyers should be forced under pain of death by impalement to word stuff in plain speak like this rather than legalese.What's wrong with this?&nbsp; Sounds reasonable to me.&nbsp; A &amp; B are basically a matter of keeping things in good taste; kids do play D&amp;D after all, and WotC doesn't want to rile up parents needlessly.&nbsp; Yes, kicking demons, devils, and assassins out of the game is asinine, but they also have a certain vested interest in keeping things relatively non-offensive.&nbsp; Also, some adult players might not want things graphic, while others prefer graphic.&nbsp; It's simply easier to market to the former group to make things happy, since a DM can easily tailor things to make the second group happy.In particular WRT to b, 4 words come to mind: Book of Erotic Fantasy.&nbsp; I'm sure WotC wants to avoid a 4e version of that.&nbsp; Particularly since the GSL is allowing the stuff to be branded as D&amp;D specifically rather than just d20.&nbsp; Clause c is there to avoid offending various groups over issues like real world racism and the like.&nbsp; Again, they don't want someone publishing something that advocates white supremecy or something similar under the D&amp;D name and harm the entire brand with bad publicity.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Orius, post: 4315295, member: 8863"] Legalese is NOT English! It's an English translation of the true language of lawyers, which everyone knows is Infernal. :] IMO, lawyers should be forced under pain of death by impalement to word stuff in plain speak like this rather than legalese. What's wrong with this? Sounds reasonable to me. A & B are basically a matter of keeping things in good taste; kids do play D&D after all, and WotC doesn't want to rile up parents needlessly. Yes, kicking demons, devils, and assassins out of the game is asinine, but they also have a certain vested interest in keeping things relatively non-offensive. Also, some adult players might not want things graphic, while others prefer graphic. It's simply easier to market to the former group to make things happy, since a DM can easily tailor things to make the second group happy. In particular WRT to b, 4 words come to mind: [i]Book of Erotic Fantasy[/i]. I'm sure WotC wants to avoid a 4e version of that. Particularly since the GSL is allowing the stuff to be branded as D&D specifically rather than just d20. Clause c is there to avoid offending various groups over issues like real world racism and the like. Again, they don't want someone publishing something that advocates white supremecy or something similar under the D&D name and harm the entire brand with bad publicity. [/QUOTE]

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