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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Clint_L" data-source="post: 9430095" data-attributes="member: 7035894">For almost all my players, the answer is "whatever PHB the DM is using." As in, literally the exact same PHB. A lot of groups, though very underrepresented on this forum, are playing through DnDBeyond, as mine do. Only the most hardcore of my players own their own D&D books; they just use mine through DDB's content sharing. So whatever I have toggled on or off is what they use. In my school campaigns this year, exactly one student owned their own physical PHB (also the only player that brought dice to games, other than me).I raise this point because I think the discussion of the transition to the updated rules is largely driven, on this forum, by grognards who naturally think in terms of their own paradigm. Which is derived from a model of everyone physically owning books, and lending out a book being kind of a big deal. Pencils, papers, and dice, and all that jazz.But that's not how D&D is played by a whole lot of players these days, especially younger ones. In their millions, DDB players are freely sharing digital copies of the books, as is supported, nay encouraged, by the subscription system. My players have access not just to the PHB but every other book that I have toggled on for them (which is almost all of them), for free, anywhere they go.So, yeah. I get my new digital PHB on September 3rd, and so does every single one of my players. And that's what we'll be using, though I might leave the old one toggled on as well. It depends on how easy it is to just toggle on certain features, such as classes.</blockquote>

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