#alchemy seems like a good alternative if you’re committed to a 5e game right now

[rosesrambling]

Anyway because I haven’t seen posts about it yet WotC officially “apologized” for the “misunderstanding” and walked back their “draft” of OGL 1.1 and promised a new, updated draft that lacked the many of the more controversial elements (revoking 1.0a, giving WotC rights to OGL content, requiring royalties, etc.). It also clarified that a lot of fan content people were concerned about (actual play podcasts and streams, minis/dice/apparel/prints/etc.) aren’t covered by the OGL at all. WotC is officially committed to releasing a new draft on 20 January, and have promised to do an Unearthed Arcana-style survey feedback for it*

*it’s been pretty widely known for a long time that the Unearthed Arcana surveys primarily look at the numeric survey responses, not the text portions. People are looking at it partially as a PR measure from WotC—they would way rather you write your essay response on why their OGL draft sucks to their email inbox than put it up on social media for the entire community to see, mull over, and create a PR fiasco for them about, kinda like what just happened for OGL 1.1

but also,

It’s been leaked that Hasbro was considering a range of changes to DnDBeyond, including $30/month subscription fees, banning homebrew content for non-subscribed users, and adding an AI DM to run their officially published adventure paths. The first two are just blatant cash grabs but the last one is… a concerning lack of understanding for the core of the game. It makes D&D into a multiplayer CRPG, not a TTRPG, and if I wanted that, I’d play Baldur’s Gate 3 for a whole lot less than $30/month from a company I dislike a whole lot less than Hasbro. I dunno. I’m particularly angry about this cash grab because I love DMing and I love designing. I don’t like the idea that I’m interchangeable with an AI tool. I’m supposed to be a player, too—hell, the DM is classically their primary customer because it’s handy to have all of the books of stat blocks and printed APs.