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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9408761" data-attributes="member: 7035894">The people making deals to sell their product on DDB aren't idiots, and they aren't being coerced. They will put their product where they can reach customers, whether that is DDB, Demiplane, Roll20, the FLGS, Amazon, etc.So they will look at the terms of each deal and decide if it makes sense for them. As will the platform provider. That's business. And if it stops making financial sense, they'll stop using it. When asked, on this forum, whether Level Up would put products on DDB if the option arose, [USER=1]@Morrus[/USER] replied, "Of course."This is not really like the OGL situation. That was, in effect, WotC trying to claim ownership over game rules to charge a licensing fee for something that had previously been free.Whether it is good for the 5e sector of the TTRPG community, specifically, to have this much control in the hands of one company is an open debate and kind of depends on your context. WotC has the inside track because they created the 5e system, own by far the dominant game using it, and have the financial resources of a large corporation. But I don't think there's anything nefarious going on, beyond the normal nefariousness of capitalism, if that's how you see it.</blockquote>