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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DMZ2112" data-source="post: 8904621" data-attributes="member: 78752">It means they're paying someone at the law firm to make some charts and write a blog post, at least.  The thing about data is that a good analyst can make it say whatever they want.For my part, I strongly dislike how this individual throws the playtest under the bus to build momentum for their primary argument.It's not even the "Lead Designers" writing the OGL, so I'm not sure why their position on surveys should have any bearing at all on this topic.  Part of ensuring the new rules are well received is assessing negative feedback to those rules before they are finalized.  Taking these quotes out of context is meaningless.I've run a lot of internal meetings that sounded like those quotes from the "Lead Designer;" they sound terrible, but it doesn't follow that they or I don't have our clients' best interests in mind.Consider how demoralizing it must be to the creative team, who have game design CVs and are paid to design D&D, to feel like 'community feedback' is more important than their ideas.  How do you counter that but with strong, intentional speech?  Nevermind that I doubt the employee was live recording the meeting word for word, or cares whether their quotes are accurate.  There's obviously a ton of anger at Wizards right now.  That's reason enough to take any e-mail from a disgruntled creative with a full shaker of salt and not immediately turn around and produce YouTube content from it.  None of that matters; it's sturm und drang.  A distraction.I agree that folks shouldn't respond to the OGL survey, think, "Job well done," and move on, but... well, duh. That's not an insight.  It barely qualifies as thought.</blockquote>

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