LordEntrails
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How about you send them your book with a money order for$25 to cover processing and shipping and they give you a $10 discount on the matching D&D Beyond product?
It's both completely lame and perfectly understandable why you have to pay for D&DBeyond even if you already own the books.
What if Wizards let you mail them your books in order to unlock appropriate paywall content. Would you?
They could even stamp the title page and mail it back, so you can't use the same book twice.
I'm actually OK with having to purchase each book on Beyond. What I don't like is having to pay a subscription on the top of that to have more than 6 characters.
Highly unlikely they'd go for it unless enough people stop subscribing. Most folks that I know that are ok with subs simply don't worry about them - they have the cash, it's not even the price of a beer/month.
Personally I don't like subscriptions, even tho I can spare the change. I have paid them but I simply don't like things tick tick ticking away. I'd much rather single payments, even if they're higher.
Still, subs can work great for the folks you're paying, especially when you account for the spending and discipline of the paying public en masse. And as a revenue model, especially with a niche audience like D&D, its more attractive to repeatedly tap a number of folks rather than have to try and attract new folks.
Subscriptions can bring other things such as joining campaigns. I'm not sure what campaign tools DnD beyond has other than being able to share the DMs content but if they have decent campaign tools then it could provide an incentive for people to sub beyond the unlimited character creation the subs currently provide.
I also know that you need a sub to add custom content created by others to your homebrew collection. They could probably have both subscription and paid for character slots as part of their model.
I'm a little upset, that the Critical Role people are now using D&D Beyond, we can pretty much be sure that none of them are paying for a subscription and are probably getting everything free, since they are getting sponsored by it, and do an add placement for it at the beginning of every show now.
I'm a little upset, that the Critical Role people are now using D&D Beyond, we can pretty much be sure that none of them are paying for a subscription and are probably getting everything free, since they are getting sponsored by it, and do an add placement for it at the beginning of every show now.