Oh, one important thing.
WOTC has done some t
remendously valuable work for improving the larger 5e hobby. First, is well known. They put the
5.1 SRD into the Creative Commons. This was
huge. It gave much of the core concepts of D&D out into the world, meaning that not only can people write 5e compatible materials, but they can write D&D-style games with all the nomenclature and not worry about getting sued.
Less well known – they
released the 5.1 SRD into four other languages beyond English:
French,
Spanish,
Italian, and
German. That is a lot of time and energy to help 5th edition creators all over the world build games in languages other than English.
This was fantastic. It's a huge deal and a far greater benefit than any of the issues of D&D Beyond I've been talking about.
Seriously, go download all those documents and save them on your hard drive.