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<blockquote data-quote="DEFCON 1" data-source="post: 9574790" data-attributes="member: 7006">I imagine there is a very wide gap beings the executives at Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, and the designers that were working directly on the D&amp;D product (and someone like Mike, who had been directly on the product for a while although wasn't currently at the time.)&nbsp; In fact, I have to imagine that people like Mike, Jeremy, Chris et. al. are probably closer conceptually to all of us and the 3rd party users of the OGL than they are to the executives of the corp.&nbsp; So anything any of them say on the matter is probably more like what all of us regular folk on the outside believe things to be than any sort of parroting of corporate speak (with perhaps just a tinge of extra knowledge merely from hearsay through the halls.)So Mike's thoughts on the matter are slightly more informed than a lot of us... but he doesn't seem to have any real knowledge of the behind-closed-doors talk that the money people at WotC/Hasbro were going over and what they thought would get taken with their ideas.&nbsp; So I don't think any claim can be made that Mike's trying to shine the shoes of the WotC/Hasbro executives when he says what he says... he just doesn't know the true story of what they were thinking (just like we don't.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="DEFCON 1, post: 9574790, member: 7006"] I imagine there is a very wide gap beings the executives at Hasbro and Wizards of the Coast, and the designers that were working directly on the D&D product (and someone like Mike, who had been directly on the product for a while although wasn't currently at the time.) In fact, I have to imagine that people like Mike, Jeremy, Chris et. al. are probably closer conceptually to all of us and the 3rd party users of the OGL than they are to the executives of the corp. So anything any of them say on the matter is probably more like what all of us regular folk on the outside believe things to be than any sort of parroting of corporate speak (with perhaps just a tinge of extra knowledge merely from hearsay through the halls.) So Mike's thoughts on the matter are slightly more informed than a lot of us... but he doesn't seem to have any real knowledge of the behind-closed-doors talk that the money people at WotC/Hasbro were going over and what they [I]thought[/I] would get taken with their ideas. So I don't think any claim can be made that Mike's trying to shine the shoes of the WotC/Hasbro executives when he says what he says... he just doesn't know the true story of what they were thinking (just like we don't.) [/QUOTE]

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