Sorry if this is a rant, but I have been thinking about this for a few days. Mods -- if it isn't appropriate, feel free to delete.

I, like many of you, was livid when WoTC said that they would be overwriting spells and items. I was trying to figure out how I could rectify that decision with my continued use of dndbeyond, and I couldn't. I cancelled my subscription, though it still active for a few months, and I was just stewing in my anger about the path forward. I considered switching to pathfinder, I considered just buying all the pyhsical books and going back to paper. I'm in a few games and run one, and as such I've made a substantial investment in the dndbeyond platform.

After thinking about it, and seeing the announcement this morning about the fact that Wizards heard our feedback and listened -- I realized that now is not the time to accept their concession and move on. The real problem here is the concept of ownership. I purchased digital copies of this media on dndbeyond, and I was angry that they would change something that I paid money for without my consent. Sure, the occasional typo correction or update is expected, but this was different. I think now is the time that WoTC customers need to be vocal. I think that we should be demanding the ability to extract digital copies of our books from dndbeyond in order to have a static copy of content that we paid for without constraints. I like dndbeyond, but WoTC has proven that they can't be trusted. I don't think I will feel comfortable renewing my subscription if they can change whatever they want whenever they want. They have proven that they cannot be trusted, and they will likely attempt something like this again as soon as enough time passes that they think we will not speak up. Or worse, if they do this enough, then we will always assume that eveyone else will speak up and the wave of backlash won't be as powerful. I think that's already starting to happen.

The OGL fiasco was a nightmare, but content creators spoke up about it left and right for MONTHS. It's been a while since the rollout announcement was made and I haven't seen any of the big DnD Youtubers make a video about this. No DnD Shorts, Bob World Builder, Ginny D, Dungeon Dudes, or XP to level 3. We are all screaming into the void, and we arent as loud as before. Sure this change wasn't as impactful as the OGL decision, but that's what WoTC is banking on.

I love this game and I love this community. But I think we should demand the ability to extract our media to PDF from Wizards. Watermark it, do whatever you want, but don't prevent me from being able to access content that I paid for. The way you keep us as a dndbeyond custoemr is not to lock us in, it is to build a better platform that we WANT to use.

Free our content.

Also, maybe make a steering committee of users/players that represent our community and run this bull shit past them before WoTC make BS announcements erode the credibility that you have left.

Edit/TLDR: It seems that there is some confusion, so here's a short summary. I'm aware of the fact that we don't own digital purchases in dndbeyond, but I am saying that rather than go quiet because Wizards rolled back their policy on content updates, we make it known by voting with our wallets and sending feedback to WoTC that we want the ability to access and use our digital purchases outside the dndbeyond application.