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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8342050" data-attributes="member: 20741">That's not what happened. You may recall it that way -- but if so -- your recollection is simply wrong. (I'm inviting you to back-pedal gracefully.)Moreover, there were explicit apologies made over the depiction of Drow. We don't have to have an argument about that, right?WotC requested changes to Dragons of Deceit for "sensitivity reasons" (including the use of a love potion - the rapey but not too rapey (well yes, still very rapey sine qua non of any fantasy witch's shop), the changes were made as requested and WotC approved the manuscript for publishing and payment of their 2nd milestone by Penguin Random House (Del-Rey). Where you got the idea that W&H gave up is wholly nonsense. They didn't. They continued to write and when WotC refused to approve further milestone drafts of Vol 2 -- Weiss and Hickman sued them. During a pandemic.That is about as far from "giving up" that I've seen practicing law for 26 years.I might also add that there aren't many statements of claim I read that persuade me utterly that the case is ripe for summary judgment. This complaint was one of the few that did. WotC had no defense to that claim in contract.  ZERO defense to that claim.  The only defense WotC might have had was as to quantum of damages. Which is why they settled it and those books are coming out.As for Gully Dwarves, well that's one spin. It isn't the one I would ever admit to, either. Nor should W&H or WotC -- or anybody else.That said, my guess is that Gully Dwarves aren't in Dragons of Deceit - and if they were - W&H would have been asked to remove them. Whatever it is that Weiss and Hickman were asked to remove, they did. WotC approved it.You need to go back and read the complaint. It's here:  <a href="https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/7245020-Weis.html" target="_blank">DocumentCloud</a></blockquote>

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