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<blockquote data-quote="Jer" data-source="post: 8909337" data-attributes="member: 19857"><p>I said elsewhere that I've done this dance before. When I learned what a terrible company TSR was in the 90s I basically stopped buying D&D and started playing other games more heavily. The Wizards purchase and the OGL is what basically brought me back to D&D.</p><p></p><p>So I can leave it again and be fine. Especially these days where there's so many alternatives to play with.</p><p></p><p>Feel bad for the kids who started playing D&D because I introduced it to them though. My own kid has been reading about this stuff and is thinking about Pathfinder for their campaign, but they've invested a lot of effort into their D&D stuff and really do like using D&D Beyond. (Any suggestions for Pathfinder 2e encounter building tools to forward to them are appreciated btw. I found one -maxiride.github.io - on a reference from asking on Mastodon, but if folks know of others I'd appreciate the reference. The more alternatives available, the easier it might be for them to justify jumping off).</p><p></p><p>(So stupid - Wizards basically has a lock-in with the younger gamers with Beyond. They want to use that tool - you don't need to force them to use it by making other tools unattractive. The cache of using the "official" version of anything is still a thing. Or it was until the last few weeks at least.)</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jer, post: 8909337, member: 19857"] I said elsewhere that I've done this dance before. When I learned what a terrible company TSR was in the 90s I basically stopped buying D&D and started playing other games more heavily. The Wizards purchase and the OGL is what basically brought me back to D&D. So I can leave it again and be fine. Especially these days where there's so many alternatives to play with. Feel bad for the kids who started playing D&D because I introduced it to them though. My own kid has been reading about this stuff and is thinking about Pathfinder for their campaign, but they've invested a lot of effort into their D&D stuff and really do like using D&D Beyond. (Any suggestions for Pathfinder 2e encounter building tools to forward to them are appreciated btw. I found one -maxiride.github.io - on a reference from asking on Mastodon, but if folks know of others I'd appreciate the reference. The more alternatives available, the easier it might be for them to justify jumping off). (So stupid - Wizards basically has a lock-in with the younger gamers with Beyond. They want to use that tool - you don't need to force them to use it by making other tools unattractive. The cache of using the "official" version of anything is still a thing. Or it was until the last few weeks at least.) [/QUOTE]
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