Let me but in here, you are seriously misinterpreting what Larian has said or what they have marketed. They have not falsely advertised anything, so there are no legal implications. They used the term "BASED ON", that term does not mean a literal translation. "Based on" means that they are using what they know from DnD 5e as a foundation for their game. When you mentioned the word "incorporating", they were talking about the 5e rules of combat not the whole game itself. They use the BG trademark because the story revolves around Baldur's Gate. They mention DnD 5e because they have incorporated 5e rules, maybe not every single one that you would like but they have implemented some.
Ofc they haven't broken any laws, they have lawyers and pr managers making sure of that. But you can still give the impression of doing something while also following the law. And that can still be considered deceitful. Larians staff is not naive, they know exactly what they can do. And neither I or GM4him has asked for a literal translation (I really can't see why that always comes up?!) We simply, based on the impression that they want to create a DnD 5e game, ask that they follow the rules more closely. That is all. Because several of their homebrew rules isn't there because its impossible to be transitioned otherwise into the game, but because Larian decided they didn't see it as fun. And we disagree with them on that. That, is our feedback.
And this was your first response to OT:
Originally Posted by Lady Avyna
Well, if you want a strictly hamburger and don’t want to taste anything else. Then you have no choice then to stick with the hamburger that exists since the chef has made it clear they are making something based on a hamburger but not necessarily a hamburger.
Isn't that the exact kind of response you dislike in your thread about food?
And no, they do not use the BG trademark because the story revolves around Baldur's Gate. It's the other way around. They could have easily kept their whole story and named it something else. Or they could had made an entirely different story. But they didn't want to simply do what Tactical Adventures did, they coveted the BG trademark and the revenue that name would bring by itself. WoTC didn't ask Larian to do this game. Larian asked WoTC, several times, for permission to use the trademark and had to come up with a good pitch for that to happen.
