D&D 5E (2024) D&D Beyond Thanks Community

Henadic Theologian · Dec 26, 2024

Thanking Our Community for a Great 2024

During D&D's 50th anniversary, we celebrated the most important part of our history, our fans. We are thankful for all 85 million of you worldwide.

www.dndbeyond.com

Also 85 new monsters confirmed for the MM.

Also apparently D&D direct did not announce everything, because they have some secret announcements for 2025, so expect surprises.

mamba · Dec 26, 2024

Henadic Theologian said:
Also apparently D&D direct did not announce everything, because they have some secret announcements for 2025, so expect surprises.

not sure I read '2025 will also have some surprises that we cannot wait to tell you more about.' as 'we did not announce all books yet', I see it more as a 'we will tell you more about them'

darjr · Dec 26, 2024

@Christian Hoffer
Interesting numbers.
3.6 million 2024 characters made and 1.3 million maps made in the VTT, 71% of those were uploaded.

Parmandur · Dec 26, 2024

Yeah, I doubt there are more books to be announced. New Beyond features, or progress on Sigil? Yes. Maybe Beyond products like Monstrous Compendia, or more adventures.

sevenbastard · Dec 26, 2024

Parmandur said:
Maybe Beyond products like Monstrous Compendia, or more adventures

My biggest fear is the inevitable move to more and more Beyond exclusive products, but then physical product just fade away.

On the flip side I'm not that interested in the direction 5.24 is going with its power creep and ever present magic. So maybe this saves me money....

Mistwell · Dec 26, 2024

sevenbastard said:
My biggest fear is the inevitable move to more and more Beyond exclusive products, but then physical product just fade away.

On the flip side I'm not that interested in the direction 5.24 is going with its power creep and ever present magic. So maybe this saves me money....

Given well more than half of these announcements are in-person play or physical products, what is it about these announcements which trigger your fear that they will stop publishing hardcopy books?

Oofta · Dec 26, 2024

sevenbastard said:
My biggest fear is the inevitable move to more and more Beyond exclusive products, but then physical product just fade away.
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There have always been things that were limited access. We used to have Dragon and Dungeon magazines and of course there have always been non core books. I don't see how the delivery mechanism matters much.

But as long as there is a demand for offline products and they are profitable, they will be sold. The additional cost for printing a book is not that high.

sevenbastard · Dec 26, 2024

Mistwell said:
What is it about the announcements in this thread which trigger your fear that they will stop publishing hardcopy books?

Nothing specific in the post, but when Parmandur suggested Beyod exclusives it got me thinking about how digital exclusive are used to get people on the "app" and then slowly the model changes from physical to digital releases.

Then my mind starts to wander down this path. They are talking about surprises what could that be, well they are playtesting the Artifacer? But they haven't announced a book that it would fit in yet? Wait didn't they just release a beyond exclusive class? Some demon knight with a weird name? What if they are releasing the Artificer as a beyond exclusive class? I don't really like the Artificer ( obviously I can't even spell it correctly), but also I don't want a game I have to play with DLC, I like books.

the it continues with.

Actually I would be OK if each class and subclass was a printable PDF and then you could build your own PHB in a three ring binder with just the class and subclass you wanted?

UnplayedRanger · Dec 26, 2024

sevenbastard said:
Nothing specific in the post, but when Parmandur suggested Beyod exclusives it got me thinking about how digital exclusive are used to get people on the "app" and then slowly the model changes from physical to digital releases.

Then my mind starts to wander down this path. They are talking about surprises what could that be, well they are playtesting the Artifacer? But they haven't announced a book that it would fit in yet? Wait didn't they just release a beyond exclusive class? Some demon knight with a weird name? What if they are releasing the Artificer as a beyond exclusive class? I don't really like the Artificer ( obviously I can't even spell it correctly), but also I don't want a game I have to play with DLC, I like books.

the it continues with.

Actually I would be OK if each class and subclass was a printable PDF and then you could build your own PHB in a three ring binder with just the class and subclass you wanted?

The Illriger is not a dnd beyond exclusive, or even a WOTC product. It’s a third party MCDM product, that is also an available though MCDM’s web store.