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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SteveC" data-source="post: 9615751" data-attributes="member: 9053">The draw with third party publishers was to get into that walled garden of D&D Beyond and have it able to run with Sigil. If you have a VTT that's fully integrated with D&D Beyond, so you have all your game in one spot, that's fantastic for third party companies. That's WotC building the brand. Back when the OGL crisis happened, I thought "why don't you just integrate them to your own product so there's a value to the producer (being inside the garden) and you get a share of the profit." I believe that was the goal once they started heading in this direction with Sigil. But that's really messed up because, although it's not a bad free product, Maps is in no way ready to be the focus of your online presence. That's obviously just my opinion, and I'm not trying to say anything about people who like it, it's just not the way to grow the brand to the levels WotC has been talking about.I'm not trying to be Mr Doom and Gloom here, but I can't see how this is anything but a huge setback to the way forward for 5.5E, and I would suggest that not having this option really scales down the potential. But with that said, will WotC offer something up to pivot? Don't know. I hope so because even though I can be a curmudgeon, I'm still on team D&D.</blockquote>