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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Steel_Wind" data-source="post: 8915017" data-attributes="member: 20741">Please understand, I don't think you are wrong. I absolutely agree with you.At the same time, I don't think WotC is meaningfully persuadable at this point. This isn't a negotiation, this is just a PR performance now. There's a BIG difference between the two.So WotC isn't persuadable on the key issues of de-authorization and s. 1(b) "works covered". As it so happens, I'm not persuadable on my reaction to that, either. I'm out.I will continue paying my DDB subscription which powers my 2 current Foundry 5e campaigns until one of the following happens:1- DDB takes steps to break Foundry's use of that data;2- Black Flag or another clone in suitable form is released AND support for same exists on Foundry VTT; or3- Both my current 5e campaigns come to a natural end.One of those campaigns (RotFM) will likely come to a close by very late spring or early summer 2023. The other (SotDQ) will likely stretch into mid 2024 as we have just started.  The replacement for RotFM will be a conversion of the DL 1-14 classic DragonLance campaign. I had thought to roll with 5e on that and do some cool campaign crossover with the two at some point (which I have never done), but ... likely not now. I'm certainly not starting another 5e campaign now. So I have already made the choice to convert DL 1-14 instead, to PF2. It's okay -- Frightful Presence is a persistent issue in the Classic DL campaign's design and the PF2 rules work much better with that and require no changes. It's fussy work, but it's not that hard.Yes, I will share those conversion notes and PF2 Statblocks when complete.So really, at this point? That's it for me. In my estimation, WotC and I are at the fork in the road where we exchange Mutual Screw Yous. It's not new to me -- it's happened twice before during my time as a gamer. Indeed, I have spent much more of the past 43+ years NOT playing D&D (and playing some other FRPG game system) than I have playing a D&D branded product. (Roughly only 1/3rd of that time actively playing some form of D&D branded game). I'm good, thanks. Fight the Good Fight, by all means, but I will leave Dungeon$ and Drama to Mr. Cao and Co. to bilk for what he can manage to squeeze out of it with subscription fees and microtransactions. I'm preparing to take my wallet and go play something else and I am at peace with it.I hope at some point that you - and the rest of the similarly disposed gamers on ENWorld each find their slice of Zen in all of this, too.  WotC doesn't own this game; they just own a trademark. It'll be fine.</blockquote>

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