D&D 5E Are You Planning on Subscribing to D&D Beyond
Not for me it isn't. With the PHB, DMG, MM, Volos, SCAG & SKT, I can run my campaign from one site, with one interface/noteboook at the table. Eventually when the campaign tools are expanded to include things like the initiative tracker, the only thing I'll need to bring to a game is my notebook. All searchable, clickable, linkable, and I can edit things on the fly, references with hover overs like conditions, spells, etc. in monster entries. As far as I'm concerned, this is close to the holy grail of digital D&D that I've been waiting for, for over twenty years.
It's coming. At the end of the character creation process it even tells you that.
darjr
I crit!
Dude! Read what I wrote.
Grazzt
Demon Lord
You don't get access to those unless you buy them.
akr71
Hero
An initiative tracker would be pretty cool. Even more so if it rolled for everyone. I say "roll initiative" and multiple people shout a number at me and I miss some one cuz it all comes at me at once, or people stare at their character sheet thinking about what they want to do with their turn. I like the idea of semi-random initiative, but putting control into the players' hands slows the game down
I did. Poor phrasing on my part, but it was meant as an example of someone who did buy books, thus proving your point.
darjr
I crit!
Ah. Well then. Carry on.
Me? I'm hopeful but I'm going to wait. I'd throw money at WotC for a PDF.
Same here. I will buy books and use D&D Beyond regularly, but I haven't found a compelling argument yet why to pay for a subscription. I don't need more than 6 characters or other people's homebrew stuff. Why should I subscribe?
Having used D&D Beyond in the beta I also find it fairly ridiculous that there is no search function for the rules compendium. I mean the situation that frequently comes up at a table is a rules question, like how exactly jumping works, or darkvision. Any decent digital product would solve this with a keyword search. D&D Beyond up to now doesn't even have an index, so information ends up harder to find than in the physical books.
Yesterday I realised that I do like the DDB compendium to quickly find spells, magic items and other things with filters. I still probably won't pay, but I might end up using DDB from time to time and then look for an item or spell in the physical book.
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