On Tue, 31 Oct 2000, lizard wrote:
> By the same token, there are DOOM and Quake mods produced by sick-minded
> racists (isn't that redundant?) where you shoot African-Americans, Jews,
> etc. No one has tried to blame such things on Id. It would be like
> blaming Microsoft if someone wrote a racist tract using Microsoft Word.
>
The difference here is that you're not downloading a mod from
nazi.org, you're buying a book in a store that has the D20 logo on it. A
company making a pro-Nazi product could probably have the cover look like
a standard WWII book cover, and people might not know what they're getting
into. They might think, "Oh, a D20 WWII book" and get something other
than what they expected, then be upset that WotC allowed the book. We on
this list know that the way the license works means that WotC does not
approve D20 books, but your average consumer might not.
> The inclusion of any content-based restriction in the D20 STL would be
> folly.
>
I agree. I'm not actually worried about he Nazi scenario. I'm
more worried about a scenario where someone decides to write something
they feel is innocuous but that WotC doesn't like for some reason and they
react to it.
"We're a society of couch potatoes reduced to watching a houseful of other
couch potatoes in search of something human." - Bill Wyman on Big Brother
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