Forgotten Realms Books to Have Several Digital DLCs, Including One Featuring Asterion

Wizards of the Coast plans to release several "digital DLCs" alongside the upcoming Forgotten Realms rulebooks. This week, Game Informer released a pair of articles about the upcoming Forgotten Realms rulebooks. Tucked away in the article is the announcement that the upcoming releases will include several "digital DLCs" that expand on the new setting. One example was Asterion's Book of Hungers, which focuses on urban vampire adventures featuring the character from Baldur's Gate 3.

No other details were made available about the upcoming releases, such as whether the new supplements will be paid DLC or free to D&D Beyond subscribers. Wizards has released several digital-only supplements alongside their various books, ranging from mini-bestiaries to supplementary adventures, but all were free to D&D Beyond subscribers or available as pre-order bonuses.

Since the Forgotten Realms books aren't currently available for pre-order, it's hard to say whether this is a new strategy or simply a continuation of current works. The fact that Wizards commissioned art specifically for Asterion's Book of Hungers and the usage of the phrase "digital DLC" suggests that this might be a new monetization scheme for the company, albeit one that makes sense given the growing use of D&D Beyond's marketplace.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

One example was Asterion's Book of Hungers, which focuses on urban vampire adventures.

Sounds like a masquerade to me.

 

[sevenbastard]

Guys I found a whole website that has DLC content for D&D. Its called.

Drivethrurpg.com

Just an FYI they call thier DLC by the name PDF for some reason.

( same joke new thread)

 

[Remathilis]

Guys I found a whole website that has DLC content for D&D. Its called.

Drivethrurpg.com

Just an FYI they call thier DLC by the name PDF for some reason.

( same joke new thread)

Drive Thru (well, DMs Guild) feels more like Nexus Mods than dlc, but your point stands.

This is going to be a few online supplements (a la the Mortuary) that assumes you have the FR books in addition to the PHB.

 

[TravDoc42]

I hope they do a Monstrous Compendium for FR, expanding on the bestiary to add more cool critters!

 

[Weiley31]

Privateer Press started doing this for Iron Kingdoms Requiem 5E. It was pretty neat and I purchased a good number of them to add additional subclasses and what not.

Unfortunately, they are a bit of a pain to "somewhat" get now as Steamforged Games has been REALLY slow on the draw with bringing them back ever since Warmachine was handed off to them.

Im interested to see how these play out.

 

[Baron Opal II]

Well, there's a voice role that's paying dividends. Cheers to the actor!

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Privateer Press started doing this for Iron Kingdoms Requiem 5E. It was pretty neat and I purchased a good number of them to add additional subclasses and what not.

Unfortunately, they are a bit of a pain to "somewhat" get now as Steamforged Games has been REALLY slow on the draw with bringing them back ever since Warmachine was handed off to them.

Im interested to see how these play out.

Yeah, that's the challenge with these digital-only exclusives. Digital content can and does vanish, sometimes forever, often for obscure corporate reasons.

Most of the 3E-era web stuff is gone from the D&D site and the Dragon+ material -- the stuff that preceded it being all advertorial material -- is gone now as well.

 

[Professor Murder]

Well, there's a voice role that's paying dividends. Cheers to the actor!

I somehow doubt he gets a cut.

 

[Baron Opal II]

I somehow doubt he gets a cut.

Probably not.
But, it's net him a number of live appearances of which I'm sure he's compensated for.