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Re: Wizards Of The Coast Changes The D20 System Trademark License(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Sep 09, 2003 - 12:52 PM
More so than merely complaining about 1st amendment right etc., this is a blatant attempt to legislate morality. WoTC is trying to implement their moral code over my hobby, which does not recognize their moral code.
I like to play gritty games about ordinary people doing extraordinary things. They are dirty, disgusting stories about the underbelly of the world and rising above it. Sexual situations, violence, lying, cheating and hurting people are all a huge part of the theme of the game. Now is WoTC telling me that I have to play D&D; their way? That I must dispatch foes face to face valiantly swinging my vorpal blade, instead of hanging out with them getting them drunk and putting a knife in their eye?
Role-playing is a cathartic release. We do things in role-playing games that we hope no one will do in real life. You are playing VIOLENT characters. Killing living creatures is normally your stock and trade (I have played games where we killed nothing and had a blast, but this usually isn't D&D;). Is this now morally reprehensible? Why do I have to bend to WoTC's moral code? In the Open Gaming License they had plausible deniability. That is enough for any lawyer. Now they have taken a stand against creativity that *might* cause a minority of people to be upset. Role-playing is an adult hobby now. Why can we not act like it?
I hate to say it, but White Wolf has had sexual situations and partial nudity in their books for over ten years now. Have they suffered? Have people stopped buying their books because of "morally reprehensible material"? No, in fact it's probably one of their selling points. Why, with such a volume of support for having adult games and possibly competing for players of adult games, does WoTC instead throw in with the prohibitionists? Look at White Wolf’s Exalted game line. Partial nudity in pictures, rules for buying sex slaves, magical charms that can change your sex, or seduce someone into your bed automatically. No one is making a big fuss about it, it’s not a problem. Why is WoTC making it a problem in their game?
I prefer D20 to white wolf because of my ablilty to create my own world. Why can I not include things with in it that WoTC finds offensive?
There are no good answers to these questions I have. It is always amusing to me that in this country killing people, something that we hope no one will do, is ok for kids, but sex, one thing we hope EVERYONE will do, is somehow bad. I guess that just comes from a country started by a group of people who left Europe because they weren’t strict enough.
Bravo Anthony Valterra and all others who are pushing the envelope of gaming, I hope you efforts are not squashed by this fascist attempt to control creativity.
I leave you with a quote from one of my favorite writers and thinkers.
"The Prohibitionist must always be a person of no moral character; for he cannot even conceive of the possibility of a man capable of resisting temptation."-Aleister Crowely


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Re: Wizards Of The Coast Changes The D20 System Trademark License(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Sep 09, 2003 - 09:53 PM
Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Citizen Games go out of business?


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If not, what were all the witch trials about?(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Jul 31, 2004 - 05:12 AM
Het begint op een vendetta te lijken, dat geeft niet hoor maar Dr. Phil zou zeggen http://www.thispot.com/time-management-skills.html


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This was closely associated with the rebirth of(Score: 0)
by An Anonymous Reader on Sep 12, 2004 - 06:07 AM
die Reet is anders een gemene man... http://www.phind.net/ecommerce/e-commerce-statistics.html


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