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<blockquote data-quote="SlyFlourish" data-source="post: 9207597" data-attributes="member: 54840">I didn't say enshittification...But I'll ask you this, how's all that material you had in the 4th edition character builder holding up?WOTC is notorious for abandoning former projects. D&amp;D Beyond is huge now, and hugely expensive, so it's probably the safest place to buy your 5e material that isn't in a downloadable format. But they can change stuff all the time. They are already lagging in what I consider to be critical features (like filtering out content we're not using for a campaign).They could absolutely make decisions or abandon parts of the platform and we'd have to suffer with it the more dependent on that platform we are.TTRPGs are wonderful because they're different than video games. When I played Everquest and World of Warcraft, we had to live with any changes the development team ever made. If they tuned a spell or changed the drop rate on a piece of gear – we had to suffer with that.TTRPGs don't have to be like that but now I hear DMs lamenting how their players always use spells like Silvery Barbs even though it's in an optional MtG sourcebook because everyone assumes &quot;if it's on D&amp;D Beyond, it's golden. If it's not, it doesn't exist.&quot;That's not hypothetical. That's happening right now.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="SlyFlourish, post: 9207597, member: 54840"] [I]I [/I]didn't say enshittification... But I'll ask you this, how's all that material you had in the 4th edition character builder holding up? WOTC is notorious for abandoning former projects. D&D Beyond is huge now, and hugely expensive, so it's probably the safest place to buy your 5e material that [I]isn't [/I]in a downloadable format. But they can change stuff all the time. They are already lagging in what I consider to be critical features (like filtering out content we're not using for a campaign). They could absolutely make decisions or abandon parts of the platform and we'd have to suffer with it the more dependent on that platform we are. TTRPGs are wonderful [I]because[/I] they're different than video games. When I played Everquest and World of Warcraft, we had to live with any changes the development team ever made. If they tuned a spell or changed the drop rate on a piece of gear – we had to suffer with that. TTRPGs don't have to be like that but now I hear DMs lamenting how their players always use spells like Silvery Barbs even though it's in an optional MtG sourcebook because everyone assumes "if it's on D&D Beyond, it's golden. If it's not, it doesn't exist." That's not hypothetical. That's happening [I]right now[/I]. [/QUOTE]

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