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One thing to keep in mind is that the PHB is on sale for the first week at $20 instead of usual $30. Might still be worth it for you to buy the pieces now and PHB later (what you spend lowers to price like iTunes "complete my album" style), but just wanted to make sure you were aware of that...

A lot of those features sound like a virtual table top, but DDB is an online rules reference and character generator, not a VTT. The "sharing" is content sharing, like sharing your books at the table. So if the DM buys the DMG and MM, a player buys PHB, and another player buys SCAG, and a...

I'm hoping they can improve the adventure interface to be something more robust than the standard compendium one. It's still better than PDFs to me, but still a ways from what it could be. As for the maps, unfortunately, they can only include what WotC has provided to them. Apparently these are...

To touch on a few of those points: 1) Microtransactions - These are really an annoying problem for games that use this as an ongoing and primary means of revenue. That is not true here. They are not making you pay $1.99 anytime you want a magic item. It was an option offered after people...

I’ve been really excited about this. I have been wanting a good online resource like this for a while (I tend to sneak in some game prep at work and that’s easier with a good online reference than physical books). ;) What really sold me on it, however, is that my son and his friends just started...

Dang, that lawsuit is something special! Someone needs to take away that guy's formatting buttons: "Steal my sales" It's like he randomly highlighted text and clicked blindly in the formatting bar. But even without that, I'm surprised there isn't rage spittle stains all over this: This...

Awesome news! I'm not sure if I'm more excited to see Oathbound in Pathfinder or 5e? In different ways, each ruleset could do some great stuff with the setting.

All adventures are going to be $24.99. The word "This" in the post is a link to a comment about how the adventure interface would work, so I presume it is about that online functionality for adventures for $24.99. I know I find it pretty sweet as well, but opinions will of course vary...

For something online like this, I prefer the opposite actually. When I'm reading over an adventure, I don't want all those stats in the way. But when I come to running combat, I just want the stats (and ALL the stats) and not all that narrative/descriptive text. For a printed adventure...

Thank you for making me think about it! It prompted me to drop a note on their forum requesting it. What I'm really interested in seeing is what an adventure would look like in there. So I also asked about SKT: Great Upheaval since that's a free adventure, so it might be possible for them to add...

I'm interested in seeing what the full experience of the books will be like, but they have offered a glimpse. They will be incoporated into the Compendium section, and here's a screenshot they shared for Curse of Strahd. So I guess looking at the current Compendium and thinking of that as how...

I thought you claimed that with this statement: Even if we want to get into splitting hairs and argue about whether “same book again” is different than “same product twice” it’s just arguing in circles. But whichever. DDB will be what it will be and will cost what it will cost. Some will find...

When did I do either of those?

No it is not a difficult distinction. Getting new books and getting the same content in different usable forms are, of course, not the same thing. But a physical book on my shelf and the data in an online tool are also, of course, not the same thing. Defcon 1's point (I think it was them) was...

It is currently available even in the Beta if you want to try it out. But you first have two options: Use an existing monster as a template Create from scratch It looks like it functions the same either way (I haven't used it heavily yet, but played around a little), just using an existing...

Rather than a bunch of prose text on a page, I have all the information contained in that text parsed into usable data in a set of online tools. As anyone who tried to do that knows, that is a massive, time consuming task that adds a lot of value to it. It might not be useful to everyone, but to...

It's not the same product being released twice. The extra functionality and usefulness might not be of interest to everyone, but they are in no way the same product twice.

But it is NOT just purchasing digital access to the same content. Your book is a bunch of prose text. D&D Beyond takes that text and turns it into DATA. It is parsing the information IN the text into something much more useful. It is not seeing a class chart on my computer screen rather than...

From a comment by Mearls, I don't know the original spawning of the zombies, but it sounds like it spreads like classic zombie infection - if you are killed by a zombie, then you come back as a zombie. Specifically he mentioned a zombie t-rex and that "since a t-rex likes to swallow what it...

Although I keep hoping for them to keep expanding into other settings, I've always been a fan of Chult. So if they are doing more FR, Chult, dinosaurs, and exploration sounds exciting to me! Oh, and as for another meaning of "Dust", Chris Perkins has titled his gaming session "Biting the Dust." :)