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Hussar said:

The Griffon's Saddlebag stuff is absolutely top notch. Just some really great stuff there.

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I agree. It is interesting to me that they are putting up stuff that is geared toward the 2014 rules. Or, do we think that they will be updating it to 2024?

Thraic Ogmund said:

I agree. It is interesting to me that they are putting up stuff that is geared toward the 2014 rules. Or, do we think that they will be updating it to 2024?

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The announcement has (2024) next to the product names, so presumably yes.

How open or not DDB should be is a tricky conversation because the metaphors quickly drift off target. Is being selective "picking winners", or is it offering an "official seal of approval" that indicates a curated list of high quality items? Because in this era of slop and shovelware, there's a lot of lower engagement customers who aren't well informed as to what is or isn't good, and they'll totally welcome having someone else do the work of decided what the cream of the crop is. Digging into reviews and forum threads is a lot of effort, especially if you don't already have a good baseline of whose opinion you can trust.

There are different models to go by. Partly because of different environments, partly because of different business plans. A company owned marketplace is different if it's selling third party mods and addons for their own product, unaffiliated competing products, or unconnected products that exist in parallel.

Twiggly the Gnome said:

The announcement has (2024) next to the product names, so presumably yes.

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I doubt the 3pp will update their books just for DDB. Remember, 2024 is “backwards compatible.”

Belen said:

I doubt the 3pp will update their books just for DDB. Remember, 2024 is “backwards compatible.”

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Keith and team already announced that Exploring Eberron is being fitted to 2024

Belen said:

I doubt the 3pp will update their books just for DDB. Remember, 2024 is “backwards compatible.”

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would not be the first time a DDB release was updated for 2024 when the PDF was for 2014

mamba said:

would not be the first time a DDB release was updated for 2024 when the PDF was for 2014

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I just do not see a massive book like Griffon’s Saddlebag updated to 2024. I could see it for smaller products.

Belen said:

I have never used FG but own it and most of the 2e content. Do you know how it handles the old stuff?

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Sorry, never tried. Have no idea. To be fair FG does handle 3e and 5e perfectly well 90% of the time.

Belen said:

I just do not see a massive book like Griffon’s Saddlebag updated to 2024. I could see it for smaller products.

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To be fair, most of the Saddlebag stuff is pretty agnostic as far as 2014 or 24 goes. I mean, I use this stuff all the time, and, other than things like wands that specifically use spells that have been changed, there's very little there that needs any sort of update.

Hussar said:

To be fair, most of the Saddlebag stuff is pretty agnostic as far as 2014 or 24 goes. I mean, I use this stuff all the time, and, other than things like wands that specifically use spells that have been changed, there's very little there that needs any sort of update.

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I assume it is mostly the 12 subclasses that need updating