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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9410402" data-attributes="member: 18">I don't think any books need a subscription to access on Beyond if you actually own them. They need a subscription to share though.I do think a real and valid concern would be if WotC started publishing actual game material to only Beyond and/or the 3D VTT - i.e. classes, species, adventures, and so on. Especially as such material isn't available in PDF format (unless they changed course on that at the same time, in which case not a big deal). But that hasn't happened yet. The fact that it might does make me more cautious about overinvesting in 5E as times goes on. I was a lot less cautious, say, 5 years ago.I also think when Beyond gets taken down, if WotC doesn't revoke its attitude to PDFs or a similar format, and doesn't let people permanently download what they bought (no app is ever permanent, because you can't really back them up or guarantee they'll ever work again), then that'll cause absolute havoc - but that's probably at least 10 years from now and D&D will probably be more niche again by the time it happens.Re: PF, yeah and that's part of why preserving the OGL was so important, and extending it to 2024 D&D, because that way, WotC has to live under the shadow of the blade - as all non-essential companies should have to under capitalism, frankly. If they're not under that shadow, the ghost of Adam Smith will be VERY ANGRY lol. Because people could effectively make their own D&D relatively easily, WotC have to think about whether they're going to piss off too many people by doing greedy and stupid things. Now, with the 3D VTT (but not with Beyond), they're trying to do an end-run around that by creating something that couldn't easily be replicated (or so they believe) and get people invested in it, but I'm very doubtful it's going to do the kind of numbers they expect it to.</blockquote>

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