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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FormerLurker" data-source="post: 8884170" data-attributes="member: 7031660">How does it matter? D&D is making hundreds of millions. They paid $146 million for dndbeyond.comWhy would they care about upsetting a 3rd Party Publisher that needed Kickstarter to raise <a href="https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/deepmagic/tome-of-heroes-5th-edition-character-options-for-your-game" target="_blank"><$400k</a>?I think the content bringing gamers into D&D is Critical Role and Stranger Things. The vast, vast majority of D&D fans probably never even look at a 3rd Party product. The closest they might get is the shared homebrew on dndbeyond.Creators might want to support other games... but options there are limited. There's no OGL for Warhammer or World of Darkness. Making 3rd Party Products for Fate likely won't pay the bills. Creators are making 5e products because that edition makes them money.I think it helped 3.0 and helped 5e at its start. But D&D has become a massive phenomena in the last five years, and that has very little to do with 3PP. No one on Twitch is using the OGL. The advertising gained from 3PP has become redundant.</blockquote>