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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Remathilis" data-source="post: 7724662" data-attributes="member: 7635">So interviews and pictures in Polygon and Mashable don't count as an announcement? Are they using a crystal ball or NSA wiretapping to know about this project? "If, for example, you'll only ever care about rolling a bard, you can just buy that. Prices for individual sections are $3 or $5 (depending on what you buy) and the three full rulebooks — Player's Handbook, Monster Manual, and Dungeon Master's Guide — are $30 apiece for everything."Sounds pretty announced. Different Strokes for Different folks. I'm not saying Rd20/FG/D&DB are for everyone, but my point is they offer a LOT more VALUE for the same cost as this e-reader. And even if you don't want that value, D&DB can offer you similar content for $10 less. If all you bought were the major rulebooks (PHB, DMG, MM, SCAG, VGtM, XGtE) you're saving $60 dollars getting compendium only versions on D&DB. We're talking $180 for D&D Reader vs. $120 for D&D Beyond for the SAME CONTENT. I sure hope that page-flip transition and bookmarking is worth it!  So far, its looking like its own a reference tool for looking at the hardback books online. They may surprise, but at this stage the articles seem to paint this as a kindle with a very specific set of books. My point isn't that D&D Beyond should be the be-all, end-all of D&D online tools. My point is that this product is bringing nothing new to the table and charging too much for its limits compared to the same content as Rd20 or D&DB. My suggestions (which you have utterly ignored) are to make this product unique compared to D&D Beyond. Make it the budget alternative to D&D Beyond for people who just want a copy of the PHB on their phone but don't want extra bells and whistles. $20 for the PHB is on the edge of impulse buy. Or, if WotC won't let them sell it for less than $30, add something more than "the PHB in an e-reader" to make it stand out; a subscription service to "stream" the books like Spotify or Hulu, or the ability to add purchases from DM's Guild in so I can have my AL adventures or fan stuff accessible next to my PHB. Or make some cross compatible promotion pricing so that If I DO buy it for $30 here, I might get it on R20 for only $20 dollars when I share my login or get a unique access code on purchase. If they can't stick codes in the back of the physical PHB, they easily could make randomized unique codes in tied to a specific email address in the digital version. I get the feeling none of that will happen. This will be the text of the books, formatted like D+ articles, for the same price as products with additional value. And if it is, it will fail and they will be handing out codes for people who purchased books on this platform to buy them on D&D Beyond when it goes belly up. I'm sorry, but if I was in the market for an online D&D solution, this would be several steps below dead last as written.</blockquote>

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