The one who's responsible for this, should be made gone without a golden parachute.

I don't play d&d, whether I ever have played. But I know, if you have a community - NEVER EVER do something, that will split or outrage the comm members. You will lose.

If you lose a few core members, you lose engagement and word spreaders. This will put a crack into the community and this crack will grow bigger.

With d&d become more mainstream - there is a movie now? Paramount+ plans a series.. what about Amazon and the men of steel? They, too, announced something with d&d.. More and more mainstream will enter. The creators will feel betrayed because of that and may be stop playing at all. The point being a creator for a game is, among lots of others, having a certain social position. The ones playing the stuff created by you, will appreciate and look up and give back a feeling being important and having higher admire and like this.

With more and more commercializing, it will be destroyed. Take transformers as example. The first series "YEAH!"... The plastic stuff you can buy.. "yeah".. then the revival with the transformers movies started good, but lose more and more traction. 2023 there will be a new transformers movie out to the cinemas.. now with transforming beasts.. they killed the franchise with "to much".

D&D is the new hobbits dream that is simulated within the matrix on the 13th floor by the emptiness.

>> Shortly after publication of this piece, D&D Beyond posted a statement saying: “It was never out intention to impact the vast majority of the community.” The company is reversing its position on the OGL to protect “educational and charitable campaigns, livestreams, cosplay” and other content created by community members. It has also announced that the redrafted agreement will not include “any royalty structure” or the “license-back provision that some people were afraid was a means for us to steal work”. In the statement the company attempted to deny this was a blunder, saying: “You’re going to hear people say that they won, and we lost because making your voices heard forced us to change our plans. Those people will only be half right. They won – and so did we.”