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When did WotC D&D "Jump the Shark"?
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<blockquote data-quote="TheYeti1775" data-source="post: 5534157" data-attributes="member: 20914"><p>I doubt seriousily they wanted to throw the baby out with the bath water. I think they bit their own behinds via the actions that lead up to the announcement of 4E than some failed promises afterwards.</p><p>Their own NDA's prevented a lot of smoothing over against the various actions that led up to it all. While it's cool to take your site down to prep the big announcement changeover, doing the site take down for several days during one of the biggiest RPG conventions to make it a suprise that most of us suspected anyways. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f615.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":confused:" title="Confused :confused:" data-smilie="5"data-shortname=":confused:" /></p><p>I think the PR blunders more than anything lead to the biggiest portion of the split.</p><p></p><p></p><p>If I remember right the OGL didn't grant digital rights. Wasn't there a stink about that also or am I think the GSL. Could have sworn there was an issue with PCGen about that. Pazio probably didn't want to deal with the nest.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="TheYeti1775, post: 5534157, member: 20914"] I doubt seriousily they wanted to throw the baby out with the bath water. I think they bit their own behinds via the actions that lead up to the announcement of 4E than some failed promises afterwards. Their own NDA's prevented a lot of smoothing over against the various actions that led up to it all. While it's cool to take your site down to prep the big announcement changeover, doing the site take down for several days during one of the biggiest RPG conventions to make it a suprise that most of us suspected anyways. :confused: I think the PR blunders more than anything lead to the biggiest portion of the split. If I remember right the OGL didn't grant digital rights. Wasn't there a stink about that also or am I think the GSL. Could have sworn there was an issue with PCGen about that. Pazio probably didn't want to deal with the nest. [/QUOTE]
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