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I do think that there is a category difference -- not between the forms, but between folks preferences. i know movie nerds who would NEVER be happy with straming services. Same with music nerds etc. Some RPG nerds feel the same way*. *It'sa me! I'm "some RPG nerds"!

They aren't for everyone. I tend to really enjoy Critical Role as an adjunct to the Vox Machina cartoon -- I will go back and watch table moments of big events in the cartoon. I also enjoy clip shows. But our individual preferences do not define the medium, and we should not look askance at...

So, work aimed at play. That's the point.

Ummm....

Oh, I did not think of the idea that it wasn't live. I thought most streams were live. (I don't watch any of them live, and usually only indulge clip shows and specific moments.)

Someone upthread posted the description and it sounds like a single encounter type situation. I am curious whether that encounter is guaranteed to be in the stream that "advertises" it. Not that it is a big deal -- streaming games aren't like "real" games in certain regards. I am just wondering.

I am curious if the little scenarios they will be selling will specifically be events that happen in game on the stream.

For clarity: I am not. I am talking about the situation right now.

I want to re-state something because there seems to be a little confusion: this is not about things you can buy in other formats. This is about things that are only available in D&D Beyond. Right now, that is relatively small stuff, but we don't know what the future looks like. RIGHT NOW, they...

For anyone who is interested, I made a thread to discuss the Beyond exclusivity issue so we can leave this thread to folks that want to talk about the show. https://www.enworld.org/threads/is-d-d-beyond-exclusivity-bad-for-d-d.718798/

I wanted to move this discussion out of the new AP thread out of respect for folks that want to talk about, you know, that. So here we have a place where we can debate the question of whether WotC's apparent leaning into D&D Beyond exclusivity -- meaning not just not offering their digital...

SO Beyond distribution issues aside, I do find the idea of them offering little tie ins after EACH EPISODE to be an interesting move.

Well, you see, that information is in the DMG -- which no one reads, because they already know how to DM.

Because WotC will not, for unfathomable reasons, produce new products on PDF -- even though they have old products on PDF, they have a whole-ass D&D PDF platform, and every other publisher in the industry does.

You are focusing on the wrong aspect. No one cares where you have to buy it from if you own the thing after purchase. The problem with Beyond is that you DO NOT own it.

If anything, we should think about they way they are used in movies and video games. D&D is very idisyncratic with regards to "small unit tactics" and almost nothing from the real world translates over. Cover Fire does not really work without a sizable squad of folks lighting up the area, nor...

I don't think we should. I think we should consider what would make them fun and balanced in play. We don't worry about reality when it comes to swords or armor in D&D, why place that burden when thinking about guns in 5E?

Again, neither realism nor simulation are the goal. 5E doesn't do either of those things, so guns shouldn't in 5E either.

In its complete garbage format? No thanks. Why doesn't WotC sell PDFs?

Simply put, because when the service closes, your purchases evaporate.