The Community Won

Over the past few weeks you, the community, have made your voices heard. And we’ve listened. OGL 1.0a will remain untouched AND the entire SRD 5.1 is now available under a Creative Commons license.🧵 https://t.co/hJTm2Rgruo pic.twitter.com/qiBODaB7oj

— D&D Beyond (@DnDBeyond) January 27, 2023

I am happy about this.

I still believe a healthier gaming hobby is one that is diverse and plays many games.

Pathfinder, GURPS, C&C, OSE, Palladium, Savage Worlds, and every other game under the sun needs to be represented. Diversity includes all games and creators.

Still, I would like an addendum to 1.0a stating irrevocable. This should never happen again. That is a small price and would build that bridge. ORC should still go on. We need a variety of licences for creators to use. This creates a healthy ecosystem and creator community.

The SRD 5.1 as CC is a great step too, thank you.

There is still an open question on OGL 2.0, and I would like to see those terms. They need to be equitable and fair to the creator community, just having 5E is not enough, the creators need certainty going forward.

It is going to take a long time for me to trust them again. They have done a lot of hurt to this community.  Projects, artists, and creators have uncertain futures in these hard times. But these are good first steps on the road back. Wizards is not the company that controls the community, they are a member of one. They should act to grow, help, and nourish our community, and seek to be a valuable participant.

Creating and playing with us.

Not telling us how we should.

How quickly they return to our community depends on them. Also, let this also be a lesson to us, to be able to forgive and invite people back into gaming so we can all play together.

United and together is better than angry and apart.