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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Voadam" data-source="post: 9450783" data-attributes="member: 2209">I love D&D but TSR and WotC/Hasbro have been actively interfering with my enjoyment again and again.I loved Mayfair Games 1e Role Aids line, TSR lawsuit got them shut down and their line shelved entirely, no legal PDFs to this day.I enjoyed the rise of fan materials in the beginning of the internet, TSR carpet bombing cease and desist actions against everyone got stuff I was enjoying taken down.I really liked the OGL and SRD plans and was onboard from the draft SRD, but then there was the delay in the actual SRD and the removal of random stuff from the actual SRD (Carrion crawlers? Really?). Then later d20 STL shenanigans. Then no 4e OGL and active attempts to poison pill OGL material in the original versions of the 4e GSL.I was huge into OGL material and these kept hitting my enjoyment.I was big in PDFs and regularly buying old D&D PDFs and WotC/Hasbro pulled all old edition PDFs from sale to attempt to get D&D players like me to not have access to stuff we wanted to incentivize us to get their new 4e stuff. And claiming it was to prevent piracy too. Also yanking PDFs of 4e so that even if interested, buying the physical books would be the only legal option.When I joined a group playing 4e and got into it myself and enjoyed it I bought an online subscription for a year which gave me the online tools for everything published and monthly updates and all dragon and dungeon PDFs up to that point. Then one month later they changed it to no updates for online tools that I owned, just rented temporary access to stuff during my subscription, right at the time my group ditched 4e.Then came 5e and I was decently big in 5e and OGL stuff and then there was the whole OGL fiasco threatening to cripple the whole OGL market I was using to support my 5e games.I like a lot of D&D, but the company keeps doing stuff to directly negatively impact my enjoyment of the game.I put down a 2 because I have continuously enjoyed D&D since I started, I have enough stuff that I could enjoy D&D for the rest of my life and have for decades regardless of the actions of the company or even if the whole industry shut down and I could never get another RPG product. I just hate that the company actively works against my enjoyment of D&D again and again.</blockquote>

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