DnD homebrewer

I GM TTRPGs for my group of friends and enjoy writing homebrews. Recently I have started working on creating a new TTRPG.

It will be using a d12 system with faster combat and also have fun mechanics and rules for social interaction (my players made me turn my DnD games into half dating sims and they love it).

It will have new playable species, new classes (each with a subclass tree, allowing to multiclass with subclasses).

I have a kickstarter pre-launched if anyone is curious. The money is to hire artists, right now it's all AI art and I would like to replace all of it, as well as hire sensitivity writers and eventually maybe set up a production for physical products and digital assets!

They didn't comp my meal.

While I sympathize with the way D&D bloggers start posting stuff like "teehee don't click this link, it will take you to a PDF of the Player's Handbook, DMG, Monster Manual and Scrimblo Brimblo's Guide To Scrunkly, remember not to click this link because it's illegal!!!" every time WotC does something naughty, because there will never be a circumstance under which I don't consider piracy to be based as fuck, I also think pirating D&D material doesn't really do much to really challenge WotC.

The reason WotC feels like it can get away with so many shitty practices is not only because they make a shitload of money selling D&D products, but also because D&D's monolithic brand recognition has engulfed public perception of the entire hobby and as long as they can keep it that way they know D&D is gonna keep being the product most newcomers to the hobby are gonna initially flock to and very rarely branch out from, and that's not gonna change as long as so many people keep playing exclusively D&D stuff even if it's pirated.