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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8612634" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>I'm afraid this isn't quite right, Beth.</p><p></p><p>You cannot, in fact, buy "sections" of books on D&D Beyond. Even DDB told you you could, I'm afraid they were being vague and effectively misleading.</p><p></p><p>What you can in fact buy is the mechanical content of books for use in DDB, like specific magic items, or all the feats, say, from a book. The closest you can get to buying a "section" is monsters - you can usually buy all the monsters from a book for a fixed price. However, these prices are pretty wild, and always have been. Since before DDB was even release. They're serious gouging price-wise (like $2 for a single magical item), but DDB always said this was fine, because the intention was that if you needed much, you'd buy the whole book (also IIRC, if you do buy the whole book later, your purchases from it count as a discount on it, so there is that - don't quote me though, that may only have been something they proposed but didn't implement).</p><p></p><p>Oddly you cannot buy adventures from non-adventure books which happen to contain them, nor individual adventures from compendiums of them.</p><p></p><p>So for example with Spelljammer, you'll probably be able to buy each monster at $1.99, or all of the monsters for, well it'd usually be $9.99, but it might be $15.99 this time. But you couldn't buy the adventure at all, and buying the stuff from the first book, even bundled together, would likely set you back an awful lot of money.</p><p></p><p>So this would be a novel mechanism, or they'd just sell each book separately. Again though, if they followed DDB precedent, each book individually would probably end up costing like 2x as much as the main package. I mean, it's hard to see how they could justify more than $9.99 for the monsters, for example, given other books have larger monster sections and sell them all for that, but I daresay they'll manage it.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8612634, member: 18"] I'm afraid this isn't quite right, Beth. You cannot, in fact, buy "sections" of books on D&D Beyond. Even DDB told you you could, I'm afraid they were being vague and effectively misleading. What you can in fact buy is the mechanical content of books for use in DDB, like specific magic items, or all the feats, say, from a book. The closest you can get to buying a "section" is monsters - you can usually buy all the monsters from a book for a fixed price. However, these prices are pretty wild, and always have been. Since before DDB was even release. They're serious gouging price-wise (like $2 for a single magical item), but DDB always said this was fine, because the intention was that if you needed much, you'd buy the whole book (also IIRC, if you do buy the whole book later, your purchases from it count as a discount on it, so there is that - don't quote me though, that may only have been something they proposed but didn't implement). Oddly you cannot buy adventures from non-adventure books which happen to contain them, nor individual adventures from compendiums of them. So for example with Spelljammer, you'll probably be able to buy each monster at $1.99, or all of the monsters for, well it'd usually be $9.99, but it might be $15.99 this time. But you couldn't buy the adventure at all, and buying the stuff from the first book, even bundled together, would likely set you back an awful lot of money. So this would be a novel mechanism, or they'd just sell each book separately. Again though, if they followed DDB precedent, each book individually would probably end up costing like 2x as much as the main package. I mean, it's hard to see how they could justify more than $9.99 for the monsters, for example, given other books have larger monster sections and sell them all for that, but I daresay they'll manage it. [/QUOTE]
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