D&D 5E DnDBeyond huge Cyber Monday Sales growth

[darjr]

Dungeons & Dragons: D&D Beyond Shows Explosive Growth in 2020

The Dungeons & Dragons digital toolset D&D Beyond has experienced a major boom in growth this year. The Fandom-owned system, which allows players to access various Dungeons & Dragons resources like sourcebooks, adventures, and character sheets digitally, is capping off a big 2020 with an...

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Up 82% from last years, apparently on top of a huge 2020 year.

 

[Randomthoughts]

Not surprising right? D&D Beyond is a great tool. And 2020 should be a good year for online tools.
Now, I'm trying to figure out a strategy of whether to buy my sources in the future: dead tree, D&D Beyond or VTT. I only buy adventures on VTT. I don't see the point of getting them on DDB unless I would run them purely TotM (which I don't). But I'm split on sourcebooks.

EDIT: DDB had an even better sale on Cyber Monday, discounting 33% for any $29.99 book. I'm curious to see if the younger crowd is forgoing the hardcover for purely online.

 

[Tom Bagwell]

I picked up the 6 core books for D&D Beyond using that sale and also bought a license for Foundry VTT which was also on sale. Glad to know I contributed...

I believe if you own the books on D&D Beyond, there's a way to access them in Foundry without having to re-purchase them.

 

[Oofta]

Not surprising right? D&D Beyond is a great tool. And 2020 should be a good year for online tools.
Now, I'm trying to figure out a strategy of where to buy my sources in the future: dead tree, D&D Beyond or VTT. I only buy adventures on VTT. I don't see the point of getting them on DDB unless I would run them purely TotM (which I don't). But I'm split on sourcebooks.

EDIT: DDB had an even better sale on Cyber Monday, discounting 33% for any $29.99 book. I'm curious to see if the younger crowd is forgoing the hardcover for purely online.

It's not just the younger crowd, I only buy books sporadically now and that's mostly to support a local game store.

 

[LordEntrails]

DDB had an even better sale on Cyber Monday, discounting 33% for any $29.99 book. I'm curious to see if the younger crowd is forgoing the hardcover for purely online.

Yea, I've been playing since the 70's, so not the younger crowd and I can say every 5th edition book I've bought I bought digital (FG).

 

[MNblockhead]

I picked up the 6 core books for D&D Beyond using that sale and also bought a license for Foundry VTT which was also on sale. Glad to know I contributed...

I believe if you own the books on D&D Beyond, there's a way to access them in Foundry without having to re-purchase them.

There are a couple modules that you can get for Foundry, but both depend on DDB not doing anything to stop it. They are not officially supported by DDB. I use VTT Asset's VTTA-DNDbeyond.

 

[Argyle King]

Do you think Covid and social-distancing is a factor for more digital purchases?