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Message: <blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9428375" data-attributes="member: 54840">As one of the youtubers who got shut down, let me come to their defense.Here are some big things they've done since the OGL debacle:<ul> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Release the 5.1 SRD into the CC.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Release the 5.1 SRD into four languages.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Build a whole suite of free after-school resources including downloadable PDF adventures for kids.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Continue support for outside digital tools like Roll20 and Fantasy Grounds even while building their own platform.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Add D&D support and pledged D&D 2024 support to Foundry – a downloadable and self-hostable VTT.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Released the 2024 D&D core books in print.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Offered an non-exclusive license to third-party publishers on D&D Beyond instead of the draconian DMs Guild license.</li> <li data-xf-list-type="ul">Committed to releasing the 2024 D&D rules in the 5.2 SRD in February 2025.</li> </ul>That's a lot of things they've done.They're not perfect, obviously, speaking as one of the guys who got hosed trying to preview their book for them.And no, really, we can never rebuild trust and nor should we. They're a 4 billion dollar company with a fiduciary responsibility to their shareholders. For many of the executives in Hasbro we aren't customers. We are, as Cory Doctory likes to say, inconvenient gut flora.But there are good folks working at WOTC who love the game and manage to get into positions of authority enough to make Ulysses Pacts they cannot take away later.</blockquote>

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