
The latter kept mind flayers and beholders out of the Open Games License, forcing Pathfinder and others to find substitutes as for the former, some fans have speculated that one motivation behind the Age of Sigmar shift was their seeing a chance to rebrand ogres as “Ogryn” and orcs as “Orruk”, and thus have names they were in full control of. It’s more that both Games Workshop and Wizards of the Coast have always been extremely protective of their intellectual property. The issue isn’t a tonal shift – some iterations of Warhammer have, essentially, my complaints about Phyrexia’s edginess turned up a notch.



Here’s something I thought I’d literally never see.
