D&D 5E Casual player responses to DMs planning to avoid WotC 5e/1DnD rules

[Tales and Chronicles]

Bought Fabula Ultima today and presented it to my more invested-yet-change-reticent players. I think they could be interested, but I'd need time to convince them.

We'll probably keep with D&D for the time being, probably 5e using the huge library of stuff we already have. Depending on the actions of WotC we might stop buying stuff from them. If the rule changes presented in 1D&D are interesting, I'll steal them from the playtest and bolt them on my 5e rules without paying them a dime.

My more casual players will play anything anyway.

 

[Ibrandul]

My casual players learned about it today. From mainstream sources, not gamer media. Their responses can’t be repeated on this forum.

 

[schneeland]

I mostly play with non-casual players these days, but the two who I would rank as casual players have almost certainly not heard anything about the controversy. Nor I am sure that they would even know about the OGL. But they also don't make Wizards at lot of money since, without my intervention, they might still not even know that 5e exists (they certainly didn't when I bought two extra copies of the PHB in 2016 because I wanted to play) or that it approaches the end of its life-cycle.

 

[Lichbeard]

All of my D&D students were talking about this on the first day back at school yesterday. My son had an opinion, and he only plays occasionally because it's mostly Dad's cringey thing. Every single kid seemed to share the opinion that Hasbro/WotC are corporate villains. My Grade 12s are switching to Pathfinder.

I am really hoping that Hasbro/WotC turn this situation around before it kills D&D Club.

Just make it Pathfinder Club? or RPG Club?

 

[overgeeked]

Bought Fabula Ultima today and presented it to my more invested-yet-change-reticent players. I think they could be interested, but I'd need time to convince them.

It’s a really cool and fun game. I hope they get physical book English distribution soon.

 

[DarkCrisis]

My players wouldn’t care. They only buy/bought official stuff anyways. I’d care because I’m more into the hobby as a whole.

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

It’s a really cool and fun game. I hope they get physical book English distribution soon.

Know that it was all your fault!

I remembered that game when you posted about it the other day. Thanks for that.

 

[DND_Reborn]

I had three players briefly mention the "OGL-thing" in our session last night. Frankly, I told them it doesn't make any difference to me since I never use 3PP stuff--just official TSR/WotC material and the rest is all house-rule / homebrew.

Honestly, unless you have a 3PP business or such 3PP material matters to you, I really don't see what the big deal is. 99% of gamers I know this won't make a difference at all.

 

[jgsugden]

I still find it odd that people are trying to find a path when the fog of what we're dealing with is far from lifted. There are a lot of cards left to be revealed before we need to make any decisions.

 

[Clint_L]

Just make it Pathfinder Club? or RPG Club?

D&D is way more accessible and well known. And I don't want to have to run all those campaigns without DnDBeyond. A lot of my students don't even bring dice.