Stormonu
Legend
I’ve been feeling a bit bummed lately too. I just bought Shadow of the Dragon Queen and the whole affair of the last few days has crushed my desire to use it.
In many ways I feel like I did back around 4E - the company had taken a sharp left turn away from me, and I abandoned D&D completely for a time. It felt good to come ”back into the fold” in 5E and watch it become scarily popular (though I’ve felt like I’m drifting apart again with OneD&D).
It really seems, like with so many things that all the good will that gets build up while a company is struggling to make something popular goes out the window the moment it “makes it”. Companies go from cheerfully doing all sorts of things and giving out all sorts of freebies to bring people onboard or gain exposure to wanting the whole pie to themselves and angrily pitching everyone else off the roof - sometimes even their own fans.
I am trying to not jump to conclusions about what the OGL 1.1 will do, but all the doom and gloom surrounding it is hard to ignore. It’s so easy to believe what’s being said as I’ve seen the same sort of actions by so many other companies in the past.
I fear that the advocates of the openness of the OGL within Hasbro are finally dying out and there’s no one remaining or willing to stick their neck out to keep it alive. They have shown that they wanted to do this in the past with 4E, but the backlash pushed them away from it. I hope the current reactions will temper Hasbro/WotC from killing the openness of the OGL, but today’s corporate mentality just doesn’t give me confidence.
In many ways I feel like I did back around 4E - the company had taken a sharp left turn away from me, and I abandoned D&D completely for a time. It felt good to come ”back into the fold” in 5E and watch it become scarily popular (though I’ve felt like I’m drifting apart again with OneD&D).
It really seems, like with so many things that all the good will that gets build up while a company is struggling to make something popular goes out the window the moment it “makes it”. Companies go from cheerfully doing all sorts of things and giving out all sorts of freebies to bring people onboard or gain exposure to wanting the whole pie to themselves and angrily pitching everyone else off the roof - sometimes even their own fans.
I am trying to not jump to conclusions about what the OGL 1.1 will do, but all the doom and gloom surrounding it is hard to ignore. It’s so easy to believe what’s being said as I’ve seen the same sort of actions by so many other companies in the past.
I fear that the advocates of the openness of the OGL within Hasbro are finally dying out and there’s no one remaining or willing to stick their neck out to keep it alive. They have shown that they wanted to do this in the past with 4E, but the backlash pushed them away from it. I hope the current reactions will temper Hasbro/WotC from killing the openness of the OGL, but today’s corporate mentality just doesn’t give me confidence.
