Current rumors are that Hasbro is shopping D&D around to potential buyers, and one of those is Tencent. I speculated this in an earlier article.
The Creative Commons SRD release may be the last we see of the D&D IP as a freely shareable resource. This was likely not a goodwill gesture but a life preserver tossed to the gaming community.
You are on your own now.
It is still possible to get involved with other communities if you are not on board with Open 5E by now. Open 5E may be the only way the 5E system survives. At this point, pick a game and buy-in. Support those communities earlier rather than later.
It is time to pick a side, choose, or walk away.
Even if this is just a fake story, D&D will be bought and sold by Wall Street to worse and worse companies, disappearing like your favorite movie gets sold to another streaming service as the parent company gets absorbed into the blob of 'content.' Or the entire game gets locked behind a 'lifestyle brand' paywall and micro-transactioned to hell.
Honestly, it is only a matter of time.
I have zero confidence in things owned by Wall Street.
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