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<blockquote data-quote="Marandahir" data-source="post: 8632238" data-attributes="member: 6803643"><p>Maybe it's been said already in the 10 pages since - want to put in my word now before I finish backlog reading - but the 4E digital tools and D&D Beyond are fundamentally different animals.</p><p></p><p>5e's D&D Beyond is free on a baseline, with optional purchases of books or other ancillary material, and an optional, tiered subscription model that mainly serves to share your purchased and homebrew content with other players as well as allow you to expand your number of built player characters saved in the system.</p><p></p><p>4e's Digital Tools Suite was entirely subscription based. Everything included from all books and magazine articles, with no additional prices save the subscription price (which went up as they added additional tools like the character builder and the encounter builder and EVENTUALLY a digital tabletop after everyone else had done it better). </p><p></p><p>4e's Digital Tool Suite was retired but they also retired their billing of your wallet. If you ever unsubscribed, you didn't have access to the content in the digital tools. Simple as that.</p><p></p><p>5e's D&D Beyond doesn't require a subscription, and in order to have content available for use on it, you need to purchase it as you would a physical book or an e-book (such as on DM's Guild). Therefore, it is HIGHLY unlikely that they'd "take your books away from you." It's not remotely the same situation, since a subscription model is essentially "renting" the material while D&D Beyond is a digital purchase of the books in a streamlined form that's hard to turn into an easily-distributed PDF. </p><p></p><p>It's WotC's way around people "distributing the tapes" - a fundamental flaw they discovered with early 4e PDF sales (and why they stopped selling PDFs of their current edition books). They legally mind if you "distribute the tapes" but if it's an old edition, they don't mind nearly as much because it's not their current bestselling hot items. So those books go to DM's Guild as old edition content.</p><p></p><p>When we get to a true 6e, if they for some reason retire the 5e D&D Beyond books entirely, I'm 99% certain there will be a way to legally download your 5e purchased content from D&D Beyond for archival purposes.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Marandahir, post: 8632238, member: 6803643"] Maybe it's been said already in the 10 pages since - want to put in my word now before I finish backlog reading - but the 4E digital tools and D&D Beyond are fundamentally different animals. 5e's D&D Beyond is free on a baseline, with optional purchases of books or other ancillary material, and an optional, tiered subscription model that mainly serves to share your purchased and homebrew content with other players as well as allow you to expand your number of built player characters saved in the system. 4e's Digital Tools Suite was entirely subscription based. Everything included from all books and magazine articles, with no additional prices save the subscription price (which went up as they added additional tools like the character builder and the encounter builder and EVENTUALLY a digital tabletop after everyone else had done it better). 4e's Digital Tool Suite was retired but they also retired their billing of your wallet. If you ever unsubscribed, you didn't have access to the content in the digital tools. Simple as that. 5e's D&D Beyond doesn't require a subscription, and in order to have content available for use on it, you need to purchase it as you would a physical book or an e-book (such as on DM's Guild). Therefore, it is HIGHLY unlikely that they'd "take your books away from you." It's not remotely the same situation, since a subscription model is essentially "renting" the material while D&D Beyond is a digital purchase of the books in a streamlined form that's hard to turn into an easily-distributed PDF. It's WotC's way around people "distributing the tapes" - a fundamental flaw they discovered with early 4e PDF sales (and why they stopped selling PDFs of their current edition books). They legally mind if you "distribute the tapes" but if it's an old edition, they don't mind nearly as much because it's not their current bestselling hot items. So those books go to DM's Guild as old edition content. When we get to a true 6e, if they for some reason retire the 5e D&D Beyond books entirely, I'm 99% certain there will be a way to legally download your 5e purchased content from D&D Beyond for archival purposes. [/QUOTE]
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