D&D Beyond brings back a la carte purchases in the form of Starter Packs

Each Starter Pack costs $4.99.
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D&D Beyond is returning to piecemeal purchases in the form of new Starter Packs that allow for access to class rules, as well as a limited number of subclasses and species rules. The new Starter Packs, available for all 12 core classes, and now available for sale on D&D Beyond. Each Starter Pack comes with character rules for a specific core class, three subclasses (the three from the Player's Handbook that are not available via the Basic Rules), and two species from Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse. Also included are seven feats, including several general feats.

D&D Beyond originally had a la carte purchases in which users could individually purchase subclasses, spells, or even monsters for a modest fee. Wizards of the Coast removed this site feature in 2024, meaning that a user needed to purchase an entire rulebook if they wanted to access to any single bit of content from that rulebook. While these Starter Packs aren't quite the same as true a la carte purchases, this does mark the first time in years where individual chunks of content have been available at a lower price point for users.
 

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Christian Hoffer

Christian Hoffer

It's now spread kind all over the place on the DnDBeyond website. For example:

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Thanks for the images.
That is not DNDBeyond but is DungeonsandDragons.com
The page does not load properly without crashing to have taken a picture such as your second one to show the books of old and new that were what "that guy" showed live in his video the day after the website updated.
 

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I am not really a player but a collector and I would rather to buy physical books. I don't like to pay for online content but in the past I used paysafecard to buy packs of the videogames Fornite: (Save the World) and Shop Titans (a fantasy shop-keeper simulation).

If I paid of a pack of PC species I would rather my own languange.

If I defend digital content is because I hope the risk to be lower then they will be more willing to offer experimental ideas like classes with special game mechanics, for example an update of martial adepts.

I bought a lot of 3e sourcebooks and now I am not interested into new subclasses and other player options or crunch. My intention is to buy monsters, PC species and classes (those with 20 levels, like artificer or mystic/psion, not only subclasses).
 

Its worth noting that the only two species not available via these packs are aasimar (PHB) and genasi (MotM). Both are exclusive to just their appropriate book.
They may have plans to give genasi a makeover, because of their popularity, and their connection to revamped Calimshan. The other MotM species are less popular, and therefore there are no plans for a makeover in the foreseeable future. Ergo the MotM versions remain official current rules.
 

Why they are so protective of assimar, especially since its in the 3e SRD, is a question I can't figure out.
I don't think it's protection, I think it's neglect. Aasimar aren't very popular, and WotC flirted with replacing them with a different anti-tiefling in the 5.5 rules before it was rejected. Obviously they aren't in these packs because they were in the PHB so MotM is not current for them.
 
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Aasimars can be more popular if you design the right characters. For example you create an autognome like an ersatz of Diana from Pragmata videogame. After showing the right picture everybody will want to play with a Diana-clone autognome.

I like aasimars because in the cover they are like Disney princes&princesses but in the core they are like the smartest student in the high school suffering the syndrome of tall poppies.

I would rather to buy the PC species in a compilation like "Moderkainen: Monsters of the Multiverse". "Volo's Guide of Monsters" wasn't so good but I didn't need to read again the fluff I knew.
 

They may have plans to give genasi a makeover, because of their popularity, and their connection to revamped Calimshan. The other MotM species are less popular, and therefore there are no plans for a makeover in the foreseeable future. Ergo the MotM versions remain official current rules.
They missed the window for that when doing the Forgotten Realms book with Calimshan in it. My Occam's razor is that they count as four species and they would either have to fill four different packages with a genasi OR overload a pack with just the four genasi. The former removes four other choices and the latter makes one pack an exceptional value.

Of course they could just make a "Child of the Planes" pack with the four genasi and the aasimar. That would be sweet.
 

It's now spread kind all over the place on the DnDBeyond and the DungeonsAndDragons.com websites. For example:

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I still don't understand why you're in denial about this one. What does it really matter that they're calling it 5.5e?
In every case the context and purpose is the same.

It isnt a new edition and that matters because people who think it is keep getting confused about books printed before 2024.
 

I don't think it's protection, I think it's neglect. Aasimar aren't very popular, and WotC flirted with replacing them with a different anti-tiefling in the 5.5 rules before it was rejected. Obviously they aren't in these packs because they were in the PHB so MotM is not current for them.

Aasimar, tieflings and genasi are my favorite species concepts, both baked in fluff and mechanics potential. But I keep running into the same situation, where I'd rather play that idea with another species' mechanics.

With the 2014 rules, the genasi species was my go-to for both aasimar and tiefling ideas. Though one PC was an aasimar/tiefling of Tiamat that was a dragonborn.

In 2024, it's the goliath. My next PC I'm working on is one, in fact. Aasimar skin over a goliath chassis.
 

Aasimar, tieflings and genasi are my favorite species concepts, both baked in fluff and mechanics potential. But I keep running into the same situation, where I'd rather play that idea with another species' mechanics.

With the 2014 rules, the genasi species was my go-to for both aasimar and tiefling ideas. Though one PC was an aasimar/tiefling of Tiamat that was a dragonborn.

In 2024, it's the goliath. My next PC I'm working on is one, in fact. Aasimar skin over a goliath chassis.
I love genasi, but make i wish that they would go back to the 4e idea of them being planetouched rather than descended from genies.
 

It's now spread kind all over the place on the DnDBeyond and the DungeonsAndDragons.com websites. For example:

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I still don't understand why you're in denial about this one. What does it really matter that they're calling it 5.5e?
"clarified design language"

"A creature that eats but consumes less than half the required food for a day"
 

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