Admitting the OGL fiasco was a 'rug pull', D&D head says 'bluntly, we're recovering from a lot of missteps—very loud, very public missteps'

Dungeons & Dragons has had a rough handful of years. A new version of the Open Game Licence (OGL) leaked in 2023, portending doom for independent creators and giving Wizards of the Coast a licence to rug-pull any third-party creator it didn't like (among other such horrors). This began the long and arduous process of mending burned bridges and un-pissing everybody off, starting with an immediate walk-back.

Since then, there have been upsets, ones I've been plenty critical of myself. But in late 2025, D&D got a new head in Dan Ayoub, who is now in charge of the D&D franchise at Wizards of the Coast. And his words last August Read Entire Article