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I am recently coming back to D&D after an almost two decade hiatus. I have noticed that there seem to be a lot of sour grapes towards Hasbro and WotC. I know that there was the whole issue with the Open Game License, and that there has always been a portion of the community that think that the new edition has killed the game. But it seems a little extreme for these items (or at least my understanding).

Is there another reason for the sour grapes or is there something that I am missing? It is hyped up for ratings/likes?

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[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

I'd like to add the OGL they were pushing would have effectively allowed them to steal homebrew and 3rd party content. They'd reserve the right to resell this content as their own or make it disappear altogether.

This would include supplements and adventures, of course, but the way it was worded, it would even include blogs and YouTube videos, etc.

Of course this isn't a unique situation (Meta has done this forever, for example)