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D&D 5E D&D Beyond: No More À La Carte Purchases But US Customers Can Buy Physical Books

Plus UI changes and more product information in listings.

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WotC has announced some changes to D&D Beyond's marketplace. These include physical products (for US customers), the removal of à la carte purchases, and various navigational changes.

You can no longer buy individual feats, subclasses, etc. -- you'll need to buy the whole book. The full list of changes includes:
  • US shoppers can now buy physical books
  • More info on product listings, including previews
  • UI improvements to makee finding your purchased content and redeeming keys easier
  • No more à la carte purchases (though your previous ones still count)
 
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Mistwell

Mistwell

Crusty Old Meatwad (he/him)
So the primary existing means of making microtransaction purchases has been removed?

Buying physical books, and a discount on Physical with Digital, is interesting.

So two myths/rumors are countered in this announcement - that WOTC is moving more towards microtransactions, and away from physical books.
 


Stormonu

Stormonu

Legend
Pretty glad I recently just bought all the monsters a la carte that I could. There were some books I didn't have an interest in the whole thing and just wanted the monsters out of. There's enough monsters that are just in the adventure books they could release a stand-alone monster book out of it.

Now, before the 2014 stuff completely vanishes, I need to find a way to screen-scrape the monsters so I can put them on index cards to go with my discontinued GF9 cards...
 

mamba

mamba

Legend
J-H said:
Counter-point:
Why would WOTC want to sell me 5 pages of a book instead of the whole book?
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because they are better off selling me 5 pages at a disproportionate price than nothing at all

J-H said:
You can't do that with paper books.
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good thing this is not a paper book then... should we always be limited by the least flexible technology we ever used for something? I do not see you asking for stone tablets instead of books ;)
 


mamba

mamba

Legend
Stormonu said:
Pretty glad I recently just bought all the monsters a la carte that I could. There were some books I didn't have an interest in the whole thing and just wanted the monsters out of.
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I was debating doing this, now I have my answer, I won't be buying any of them
 

Clint_L

Clint_L

Hero
Stormonu said:
Pretty glad I recently just bought all the monsters a la carte that I could. There were some books I didn't have an interest in the whole thing and just wanted the monsters out of. There's enough monsters that are just in the adventure books they could release a stand-alone monster book out of it.

Now, before the 2014 stuff completely vanishes, I need to find a way to screen-scrape the monsters so I can put them on index cards to go with my discontinued GF9 cards...
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Getting rid of microtransactions sucks!

However, if you are worried about your stuff vanishing (I don't think it will, but I guess you never know), just put the DnDBeyond app on your phone and download anything you are worried about. I currently have all of my stuff downloaded, basically. DDB could vanish tomorrow and I wouldn't lose anything.
 

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