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 You know I have put a lot of time & money into D&D beyond (I literately own almost all content from every book) & to be honest I do not like nor agree with the terms and conditions of WOTC and their potential ability to use content I create for their own profit without my consent as the T&C would suggest.

SO I WILL BE CANCELING MY ACCOUNT & DELETING EVY THING I CAN.

I WANT MY $100s BACK that I paid for content I will never be able to access gain. although I know I won't get it. Now I regret not buying psychical copies of all the books.

It just makes me mad and sad that you sold out a great resource that was great because it was a fan & community focused project now It will just be another shallow WOTC cash grab companion app like the crappy Games Workshop ones. THANKS A LOT FOR SELLING OUT D&D BEYOND! and good bye. It was fun while it lasted and hope you made enough money to easy your conscience when WOTC ruins the best resource the D&D community ever had.

And you know they will.

 
You already agreed to this set of terms under Fandom… and these terms are necessary for the site to function. Without them, Wizards would not have a license to beam your content to you over the internet, because they’d be distributing your IP without license to do so.  

You are welcome to cancel your account, but you’re doing so because you are overreacting to something that is necessary and which you were perfectly happy to agree to previously. 

 
I don't see anything as broad and far-reaching in the fandom terms of use.
https://www.fandom.com/terms-of-use

(and yes, legalese is complicated and we may very well be freaking out for no reason. That is why *official* clarification on this would be apprecciated)

I have a Wizard account. Will this be the same as for D&D Beyound? Will the D&D Beyound account automaticly transfer to that from Wizard? Thank you.

Will this effect any function of the site as it is now?

I don't think they will ban homebrew. They allow it with the DMsGuild and give a cut to the author. I see it similar to homebrew here on dndbeyond and is "free", barring the subscrition aspect of it

Ok, If Matt Mercer, who is probably one of the largest curators of terrific homebrew content, is ok with his stuff being "Owned" by WOTC, you should be fine too. He constantly uses DnD Beyond, and all of CR have their own classes on there too, including Matts Homebrew stuff. 

All it means is it has license to use it and reproduce it. They employ literally dozens of people who design and meticulously craft content consistently. Do you really think they are going to dig through some of the Homebrew content and use that? By publishing it you allow hundreds if not thousands of other DMs to use it. 

Don't hold your homebrew in such high regard. 

will there still be a free-option of the website, and if not will those who have been using the website for free be grandfathered in?

How will it affect South African accounts??

This is kinda unrelated to the topic but can we maybe get the option to create homebrew classes rather than just subclasses?

Its inappropriate and uninspiring what you changed about the Spelljammer setting - its not wildspace, its Astral Sea pirates.

i have 2 questions primarily, 1st what happens to the countless homebrew items, spells, and such i have created, will i still have them after the transfer or will i have to create them again after the transfer. 2nd the account that i have now i log into it wia my twitch account will that still be a viable option or what happens there.

No, they don't "own your characters" any more than the paper company owns your short stories or Kodak owns your pictures.  Nobody can own your characters. You're using a medium to manage your intellectual property.  Unless you voluntarily and explicitly specify the willful transference of that intellectual property to another entity, it will always remain your property.  In the first place, why the hell would they WANT that many mish-moshed characters of varying stages of development?!? I sure as hell wouldn't! The logistics of managing such a database would be nightmarish.

@Torgranael Agreed! I usually go with this rule of thumb, any site that allows users to create content on THEIR website, using THEIR tools, will typically do what they want with said content, and you can't take legal action to stop them. In fact... it's VERY... VERY... rare that a company would say: "Hey do what you want on MY website and I wont use your neat stuff." :D

Now that Wizards is acquiring, the classy thing to do would be to include codes to access digital copies/d&dbeyond materials for that source when you make a physical purchase.  To any naysayer who's like "people would just steal the codes!" Why do you think they put that protective film over the codes on giftcards...  There are simple ways to minimize theft. 

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I did.

 you are still compenting, so obviously you didnt

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 You know I have put a lot of time & money into D&D beyond (I literately own almost all content from every book) & to be honest I do not like nor agree with the terms and conditions of WOTC and their potential ability to use content I create for their own profit without my consent as the T&C would suggest.

SO I WILL BE CANCELING MY ACCOUNT & DELETING EVY THING I CAN.

I WANT MY $100s BACK that I paid for content I will never be able to access gain. although I know I won't get it. Now I regret not buying psychical copies of all the books.

It just makes me mad and sad that you sold out a great resource that was great because it was a fan & community focused project now It will just be another shallow WOTC cash grab companion app like the crappy Games Workshop ones. THANKS A LOT FOR SELLING OUT D&D BEYOND! and good bye. It was fun while it lasted and hope you made enough money to easy your conscience when WOTC ruins the best resource the D&D community ever had.

And you know they will.

 
You already agreed to this set of terms under Fandom… and these terms are necessary for the site to function. Without them, Wizards would not have a license to beam your content to you over the internet, because they’d be distributing your IP without license to do so.  

You are welcome to cancel your account, but you’re doing so because you are overreacting to something that is necessary and which you were perfectly happy to agree to previously. 

 
I don't see anything as broad and far-reaching in the fandom terms of use.
https://www.fandom.com/terms-of-use

(and yes, legalese is complicated and we may very well be freaking out for no reason. That is why *official* clarification on this would be apprecciated)

 By submitting content (including comments) to our discussion or chat forums or creating or responding to quizzes or similar games, you grant us a royalty-free, perpetual, irrevocable, non-exclusive, unrestricted, worldwide license to reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies, perform, or publicly display such submitted content (including comments and quizzes) in any medium and for any purpose, including commercial purposes, and to authorize others to do so (this license right includes the name, identity, likeness and voice you submit with such content)

this is Fandoms version. essentially says the exact same thing

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Does this mean that the subscription prices will go up? I don't see anything written or seen about this.

 probably not, slight chance tho