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Message: <blockquote data-quote="J.Quondam" data-source="post: 8898989" data-attributes="member: 7030100">As long as Hasbro/WotC's threat remains to neuter existing OGL1.0 content and thereby kill off future OGL1.0 content, I'm done with the company.As for "D&D" itself, it's not an "under-monetized lifestyle brand" to me. It's a game, and a favorite hobby. For me, "D&D" is like "kleenex": it is a generic term I use for a genre of level/class based fantasy RPGs. I love D&D, and will keep playing it... on my own terms, whether that means using my existing 5e material, or PF1e, or AiME, or Old School Essentials, or my Rules Cyclopedia, or a Micro20 hack, or whatever. That experience is D&D; not the movie or DDB or the "Ampersand" logo.As far as I'm concerned, Hasbro/WotC has got nothing to do with D&D. If and only if they completely and verifiably drop their threat to OGL'ed content and the people who create it, will I consider coming back."But," some say, "other companies are so much worse! Why not them?"Easy. Because I can cut Hasbro/WotC out of my life entirely and also manage to send a message to them along with this loud chorus of gamers and creators. It's a relatively low-hanging fruit, so why not grasp at it? The odds of this sort of action to influence Hasbro are quite a bit greater than, say, influencing Big Oil or whatever, and I can join it with pretty much zero negative impact on my life. In this battle, I have all the leverage, because the company doesn't provide anything I truly need; it's literally just a game, and it's a game that I do entirely on my own terms. So I won't make excuses not to hike this particular WotC hill just because I can't climb a mountain like Google or Exxon.</blockquote>

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