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5e has been saved, WotC scraps OGL changes
🕑 Added 2023-01-27 21:43:23 +0000 UTCAn announcement was just made on D&D Beyond where the whole System Reference Document 5.1 has been published under a Creative Commons license.
If you don't know what this all means, then please read this Gizmodo article.
This is a truly momentous occasion, where the community's outrage has changed the decisions of a company. I did not expect Wizards of the Coast to see the light and to not only walk back their intended changes, but to use an even more generous license. Now I again have hope that the next edition of D&D will be equally accessible to third-party publishers.
Thank you to everyone who made their voices heard and for standing strong against the tide. One could say the D&D community has won this with a couple of natural 20s on their Insight and Intimidation checks. I expect WotC realised that having their core audience not only search for TTRPG alternatives, but also boycot the D&D movie would be pretty bad.
Also, welcome to everybody who has started using my sheets in the last couple of weeks in search for a D&D Beyond alternative.
Many people have applauded the idea of me making character sheets for Pathfinder 2nd edition. I'm sorry to say that this is now even more unlikely. I acknowledge that PF2e is probably a more mechanically sound system that is very close in feel to D&D and that it would be a lot of fun to play. However, after playing D&D 3.5e for about 14 years I can't see my group going back to a Vancian magic system or giving up bounded accuracy (although I won't say never).
More news will come when I have new content to share with you.
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Why can I no longer download an integrated record sheet?
From what I've heard and read, you can not copyright or trademark rules (which is why you see clones of so many games). So it might be part of a non-issue anyways. Then again, who wants to go against Hasbro: it will cost you money, time,...
