D&D (2024) Digital Only Edition

[tetrasodium]

Let me show you how cool my zune is.... Oh wait.... Maybe hmm. No not that either.

No definitely not. I'm already state where I'm skeptical if 5.5 will go for perfect compatability with 5e first & foremost or choose to exceed third party stuff already. This would just make it a no choice if online only

 

[Horwath]

Subscription? No!

I like pen and paper.
However I would be interested in buying online content similar to D&D beyond.

You can buy it for a price similar to a book(without printing cost, shipment, retail) or you can buy with with a "book key" that would be in every book at a large discount.

I.E.
Book: $50
E-tool: $40
both: $60

 

[aco175]

I do not have the patience to teach my father to use an iPad, he still bounces dice out of the tray we bought him. I would likely wait until a 3pp came out with the rules on paper.

 

[Warpiglet-7]

I have a character generator on my phone. I enjoy how portable it is. DM says “level up” and I am typically done before I leave. But that is a character sheet!

I buy books—physical books.

I don’t trust any company too far. Perhaps they make changes to the books I don’t like? I am stuck with the new version.

Problems with the internet? Out of luck. Subscription rates go up? Out of luck.

And what about cost? I bought my players in 2014. How much would 8 years of access tot that cost?

I had a crappy crappy pandemic year and did not use the books much. But I would have still been paying for them?

Forget it.

 

[GMforPowergamers]

Hypothetical: the perfect edition of D&D for you comes out, but is only available in a subscription based, digital only format (you can't print out PDFs and you even use a digital device for your character sheet). Assuming again that it is otherwise everything you want in an edition of D&D, and assuming the price isn't prohibitive for you, would you be in?

if it was perfect I would sub... at least for a while. I would also start taking a lot of notes...

 

[DEFCON 1]

Subscription doesn't bother me. Paying a subscription is no different than paying a Patreon as far as I'm concerned... so I can do both without issue.

That being said... a fully-digital and online RPG is not something I really prefer. I do it when I need to-- COVID put that requirement in perspective-- but the way I play RPGs it is much more fun to do it in person. The fact the question states it gives me my "perfect D&D game" doesn't even really help the situation because as we all know game rules never really matter or bother me that much. So I don't think my "perfect D&D" is really that much of a selling point.

But then again... my "perfect D&D" if it had to be online and digital would certainly be built FOR online digital play, which means that the program would be the easiest and best online game experience I could have. And in that regard I'd certainly want to use that D&D above all others for any online roleplaying.

So if I HAD to play online, I'd certainly want that D&D game to do it with-- subscription or no.

 

[Yaarel]

Hypothetical: the perfect edition of D&D for you comes out, but is only available in a subscription based, digital only format (you can't print out PDFs and you even use a digital device for your character sheet). Assuming again that it is otherwise everything you want in an edition of D&D, and assuming the price isn't prohibitive for you, would you be in?

Digital, maybe. Subscription, never. I need to be able to use it offline and have some kind of ownership over content.

 

[Jer]

No. Because the question presents a paradox:

• the perfect edition of D&D for you comes out
• [it] is only available in a ... digital only format

For me, these two things contradict each other. The perfect edition of any RPG that I'm going to use at a table for me is going to be a physical book of some kind. Or at least paper notes organized into a binder.

 

[R_J_K75]

F&%K NO!! Just the thought of it makes me cringe. I think back to the days when I was a kid and the biggest computer, I had was the Atari 2600. Sounds like in this scenario Im forced to buy a subscription, thats not cool, I dont like when I have no other options, the day D&D gives me no other options then Im done, I'll pick my favorite edition and just play that.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Guys, but what if the subscription was tied to an NFT?