D&D General Are you jumping ship? What will you be switching to?

[DEFCON 1]

Obviously, everyone is free to make their own decisions but if WotC backtracks that doesn't mean that everyone who screamed "I'm done!" has to backtrack. Some people might decide that even though WotC changed their mind that they don't want to support a company who is obviously willing to consider these kinds of changes.

I haven't played D&D in over a decade, and it wasn't because I didn't want to play D&D anymore. I still wanted to play D&D but I just moved to Pathfinder and then Castles and Crusades. Whether or not the OGL changes the majority of people are likely going to still play D&D over other games for some time to come.

Sure. Some people might. But just like we had people scream "I'm done!" 14 years ago when they felt WotC insulted them with the "skip past the boring town guard to get to the fun fight beyond him" bit at the beginnings of 4E's advertising only for them to return to D&D with 5E later on... people can and will say anything they want because they know they are not beholden to any of it. They can just decide at some later point "Well, that was then, this is now" and do whatever they please.

I just figure it's easier to save my time and energy by not saying anything now and thus not needing to retract it later on.

 

[MockingBird]

I'm gonna stick with 5e unless this gets sorted.

Update, if I didn't stay with 5e I think I'd pick up OSE.

 

[Lazvon]

If we jump, then Rolemaster. Younger players will have to grow up fast.

 

[Redwizard007]

I'm waiting to see if Chicken Little is correct before I jump onto this bandwagon. There are easy fixes to the new OGL that could keep me playing D&D, but if they move forward with the leaked agreement... Well, I've always wanted to try GURPS.

 

[Older Beholder]

I'm waiting to see how things play out, but I did look up videos on other systems like PbtA, Fate and Cypher just to see how they work.

My group had started playing a few sessions of CoC, and were just starting that 'wanting to try other systems/games' phase anyway. I know one of the guys in the group who's not running anything at the moment is interested in doing something sci-fi, either Traveler or Starfinder.

I'm keen to try Cyberpunk (as I really enjoyed 2020 back in the 90's) and Tales from the Loop has had my interest ever since it came out.

 

[Demetrios1453]

I will not be jumping ship.

 

[Horwath]

I'm not jumping ship, will see if I'll use new material, but I'm damn sure I will not pay a single penny for it if OGL stays in this "suggested/leaked" format.

 

[Zardnaar]

I'm not jumping ship, will see if I'll use new material, but I'm damn sure I will not pay a single penny for it if OGL stays in this "suggested/leaked" format.

Might not jump ship but not update might be best way of phrasing it.

Still got plenty of 5E/2E/Clones to use.

 

[guachi]

I haven't purchased any WotC 5e books in several years. Candlekeep Mysteries (March 16, 2021) and Waterdeep: Dungeon of the Mad Mage (November 13, 2018) being the last two. I have, however, purchased a lot of 3rd party 5e stuff and other RPGs in that time.

I'd probably keep with 5e but look to play other games if possible and definitely freeze any WotC purchases going forward. If I can't buy 3rd party and I refuse to buy WotC stuff then D&D will eventually no longer be played.

 

[Gustav Lorentz]

These will be the future for our group: The MYZ-engine (from Free League) for Blade Runner, Dragonbane (also from Free League) for all fantasy games, Cthulhu Dark for most horror gaming, Fate for a few specific games, and PbtA for KULT – Divinity Lost.