Haha yeah that was exactly my reasoning for switching too. First bought the book December 2022 amidst rumours of the upcoming OGL changes and after they’d already taken the action of ripping out pages upon pages of content from digital content I had bought with no way of getting that stuff I paid for back… Then it just took until around August '23 to actually start playing.
The fact that my players and I can get access to the full content completely free on AoN and in tools like Pathbuilder is also a pretty huge advantage compared to needing to buy physical and digital copies of each individual book completely separately and then additionally pay a subscription fee if you want to use the D&D digital tooling.
We’re only a couple weeks in, but I think its good so far. I think the bigger pro to the switch is futurr proofing against dnd enshitification
Haha yeah that was exactly my reasoning for switching too. First bought the book December 2022 amidst rumours of the upcoming OGL changes and after they’d already taken the action of ripping out pages upon pages of content from digital content I had bought with no way of getting that stuff I paid for back… Then it just took until around August '23 to actually start playing.
The fact that my players and I can get access to the full content completely free on AoN and in tools like Pathbuilder is also a pretty huge advantage compared to needing to buy physical and digital copies of each individual book completely separately and then additionally pay a subscription fee if you want to use the D&D digital tooling.