D&D General Hold Back the Dead - Free Digital D&D Adventure Coming 4th Feb

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D&D Beyond's marketplace features a page for an upcoming digital adventure called Hold Back The Dead. The adventure will be free for registered users of DDB, and will be available from February 4th

Deep in the Western Heartlands, an evil Red Wizard conspires to overtake the land. Face hordes of deadly monsters and defend a mighty fortress from ruin in this challenging, single-session adventure.

Hold Back the Dead is a FREE digital adventure that is compatible with the 2024 Core Rulebooks. It contains a fortress map for Dungeon Masters and unlocks player-friendly maps, character tokens, and creature tokens for the D&D BEYOND Maps tool.

Registered users can claim their FREE copy of this digital adventure soon!


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I can appreciate that...but even that required giving WotC certain qccoint information.
Providing account information isn't the issue for me. It's the number of steps. Previously I just had to click a button. That was it. Now I've got to go through the whole process of "buying" the product, which means filling out a form (including verifying my address and credit card details - even though its a free digital product!) and so on. It's a bother.
 

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Providing account information isn't the issue for me. It's the number of steps. Previously I just had to click a button. That was it. Now I've got to go through the whole process of "buying" the product, which means filling out a form (including verifying my address and credit card details - even though its a free digital product!) and so on. It's a bother.
Good websites -- and especially ecommerce sites -- spend a ton of time making all of this as easy as possible. Apparently Google has a huge team that's devoted to shaving off fractions of a second when it comes to displaying search results.

WotC adding extra steps to get free stuff is a short-sighted decision. ("Yes, but now we have their info for our mailing list!")
 


I can appreciate that...but even that required giving WotC certain qccoint information.
True. Basically amounting to providing 'an email address' to them. Why does WotC quote/unquote 'need' my physical address, phone number, and 'payment' info to provide me a free product ? Yes, like I said before, I get why they do it (spoiler alert: more ways of advertising/selling their products to you, and building detailed 'customer profiles'). But I'm not a DND Beyond subscriber, have no desire to become one, and basically only created an account to get access to UA playtest information (and as it turned out to be the occasionally 'free' product).
 

That was actually a huge pain in the butt to unlock and I almost couldn't be arsed.

That said, it's fun! I'm going to very loosely adapt it into my new campaign.
 
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Good websites -- and especially ecommerce sites -- spend a ton of time making all of this as easy as possible. Apparently Google has a huge team that's devoted to shaving off fractions of a second when it comes to displaying search results.

WotC adding extra steps to get free stuff is a short-sighted decision. ("Yes, but now we have their info for our mailing list!")
Doesn't kobold press so this too for free stuff? What d does drive thru do?
 

True. Basically amounting to providing 'an email address' to them. Why does WotC quote/unquote 'need' my physical address, phone number, and 'payment' info to provide me a free product ? Yes, like I said before, I get why they do it (spoiler alert: more ways of advertising/selling their products to you, and building detailed 'customer profiles'). But I'm not a DND Beyond subscriber, have no desire to become one, and basically only created an account to get access to UA playtest information (and as it turned out to be the occasionally 'free' product).
Yeah, and to acclimate people to buying (people who ise a storefront even for a free item are astronomically more likely to do so again), it's clearly all that. I still get free stuff out of it, no plans to actually pay them myself.
 


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