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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Matt Thomason" data-source="post: 8908657" data-attributes="member: 6777331">I personally agree with everything you said in this post.  My worry since all this began was that any attempt to resist any change to 1.0a would gradually turn into a bargaining game between "us" and "them" with it eventually reaching a point where the number of "us" thrown under the bus would be an impact that doesn't really affect the vast majority of "us".  As someone who supports collective bargaining and solidarity against larger opponents trying to throw their weight around, it saddens me to see people decide that the current offer is anywhere near acceptable when it continues to impact 3PPs so harshly.However, I also find it hard to blame a player for caring mostly about what will directly affect their table.I find it does help to put the overall thing into context though.  I notice on Twitter that by far the overwhelming number of comments are negative towards WotC's 1.2 draft, pointing at all of the glaring problems it has for 3PPs, and for VTT/other software tool manufacturers, and understand that this is not really about negotiation, it's about WotC's belief they can change the terms of a 20-year-old deal and telling them "no" until they understand that deal either supports everything we could do before, or we simply just walk away.  If we're all using Project Black Flag, that takes away all their control, therefore it is better for them to accept that many changes in 1.2 will have to go or they'll have no control over us whatsoever, and will begin to see ORC-licensed works claiming compatibility with Dungeons and Dragons under fair use of that Trademark at an uncomfortable rate.Therefore, their 1.2 "deal" needs to offer us enough to make it actually worth taking, where the things we get out of it over and above the ORC license outweigh the extra trouble it causes us (e.g. figuring out the abomination of a license appendix we're going to need when combining SRD content with 3PP OGC).  I also do not want to lose track of the rights they are effectively stripping from VTTs and other media in all of this.</blockquote>

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