It’s so weird that years of having people champion other game systems never made me interested enough to branch out myself, but a single change in ownership and leadership decisions made me drop the game. Just goes to show how important customer good will is. I was actively being advertised to by friends and people in the hobby space, but what did them in was their own decisions. I’m sure some people never cared or noticed, but I’m happy to see I made the right choice. Sad to see a beloved part of my hobby be destroyed, but from the ashes etc etc. Sorry to now be the person in a DnD space suggesting trying other games, but there really is just so many others out there. These people are using your money to commit financial crimes to enrich themselves.

It was the OGL fuckery a few years ago for me, but the huge drop in quality of released material didn’t help. Spelljammer 5e was a joke.

At this point the only reason to stay with the system is nostalgia or stubbornness. There are better systems for any use case.

The OGL was what got me and my other forever DM buddy to drop D&D. He picked up PF2e and I went SWADE. It’s a double-edged sword to be proven right regularly with their actions. We started on 5th edition, which I regularly told people was basically what everyone wanted 4th edition to be, and then it just like fell apart. It was a system that could have been fixed, really it just needed some balance changes. But they decided to make it a corporate problem .

Yeah I considered PF2 but ultimately went GURPS 4e cuz I like things c r u n c h y, and I like playing different settings.