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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Charles Rampant" data-source="post: 7722262" data-attributes="member: 32659">I've gone ahead and bought the PHB, the DMG, the races from VGtM, and the backgrounds, subclasses, and spells from SCAG. That should have me set - it's all the player facing content that I need, with the exception of the Haunted One background from CoS and the bizarro subraces (Duergar, Ghostwise, "Feral" Tieflings) from SCAG. I thought about buying the MM and the rest of VGtM and SCAG on it, but right now there isn't really any point; being able to look up monsters is really nice and cool, but without an encounter builder or combat tracker there isn't a lot of actual in-game value for me in doing so. SCAG is the most likely one for me to buy, if only because I'd only have to pay $14 for the rest of it, and having the ability to refer players to the compendium to find out about the setting would actually be really helpful, since I run games on the Sword Coast. The character builder is really good. I mean, it should be, right? I've also found this to be a good tool to let the players experiment with ideas; for an upcoming campaign, one player has made three separate characters just to see how they'd look, which is certainly easier to do now. Otherwise, with my big spend done - and my wife irate at the sudden deduction in funds - I'm going to wait and see what tools they add, before I revisit the idea of buying more content. I own all the 5e books and run my games five feet away from my D&D shelf, so nothing that I've read online about the dndbeyond implementation of them has made me think that rebuying the adventures has any utility or benefit.</blockquote>

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