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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Oofta" data-source="post: 8894233" data-attributes="member: 6801845">You aren't the only one.  I'll continue to play, I'll continue to pay for DDB because I enjoy the game and DDB makes my life as a DM easier.  If they come out with products that interest me I'll buy them.  I only have a few 3rd party supplements anyway and most are from DmsGuild which is under a different license.I think the OGL has likely been bad for D&D and the industry as a whole and was always unnecessary.  You can't patent game rules, WOTC can't copyright rolling a dice and adding some numbers to determine success even if the die that they roll is a D20.  I accept that WOTC is not my friend, nor do they care about me as an individual.  They are a corporation and the main difference between most corporations is how good their PR department is.  On a scale of 1 to 10 where 1 is unintentional harm and 10 is jacking up the price for a medicine that people need to survive by 600% or knowing full well that your product could disrupt life as we know it and spreading disinformation and lies to counter what you know is true for decades?  What WOTC is doing doesn't even rank a 5.I have absolutely no issue with WOTC getting money back from companies making a millions of dollars a year riding on their coattails.  I have no problem with them taking other people's ideas when everyone else is relying on theirs*.  I do disagree with the timeframe and retroactive nature of the change (which is likely not enforceable legally) and I think the approach is a mistake. At the very least they should have given a much longer timeframe for compliance with the new OGL and grandfathered in existing products.  But if I stopped spending money on companies that did things I disagree with or was actually a for-profit company trying to make a buck, I'd have a lot of money because I couldn't spend it anywhere.  If I had any money to spend of course because I've spent a lifetime working for soulless corporations.We also have to remember that this policy still hasn't officially been released.  It's likely to be challenged in court if released as outlined in the leaks.  Even if the new OGL goes into effect, you still can't copyright basic game rules so alternative rules that are effectively the same will still be published.In the meantime I enjoy the game too much to stop playing.  I've investigated or dabbled in a few other systems over the years, but none of them work for me as well as D&D does.  *In most cases WOTC could take your ideas already and the odds of them directly copying anything approaches 0 anyway.</blockquote>

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