D&D 5E How Much Would You Pay for Digital Access?

[aramis erak]

Honestly the more I think about it I'm leery of any licensed product WotC puts out. A big fear is that they trump up reasons to withdraw the product only to sell it through a different* vendor some time later...


* or is dndclassics the same company as RPGNow/DTRPG/FoolMeThrice? I only bought a few PDFs back then, but I'm already burning up just thinking about it again.

D&D Classics is WotC having DTRPG/RPGnow do a unique interface restricted to just WotC titles. My D&D classics purchases showed up in my DTRPG library.

 

[delericho]

We don't know the licence WotC struck with DriveThruStuff for PDFs, but they could get somewhere between 60-80% of sales.

We also don't know what deal they struck with Trapdoor. At this point, they may not be able to release PDFs (or whatever) outwith the Dungeonscape model.

 

[Blackbrrd]

I would buy digital content equal in amount to the PHB for around 20$. It's about what I payed for the physical PHB without the printing costs. (I payed 30$, printing in WotC-volume probably cost around 5-10$).

There are some books I would probably buy in paper-format (Campaign setting, DMG), while some books would be nice to have in both paper and digital form (PHB, MM), and some book types I would probably just want in digital format (splat books).

Adventures in digital format that aren't just PDF's of a adventure, but a full digital version that ties into a digital tool would be great, but otherwise I would prefer the paper version. On the other hand, shipping is so expensive (or slow), that I would appreciate the pdf-type version as well.

 

[CapnZapp]

I am completely uninterested in any offering that does not give me absolute control over what I am buying.

A dead tree book? Okay.

A PDF file with all security turned off; no watermarks; full search, copy, print? Okay.

Kindle files that Amazon can yank any time they want? Hell no!

Monthly subscriptions just to access what you need? Hell No!

Proprietary sources that dry up the instant the company loses interest or goes belly up? Hell no!

That is why I voted "Only if free".

And I chose that option only because there weren't the option I really would like:

"Not interested in any solution that tries to prevent me from doing whatever I want with the stuff I purchase."

TL;DR: I pay for it, it's mine or GTFO!

 

[Runny]

I liked the annual fee and I get the toys model of DnD 4e. Honestly, I would prolly be willing to pay quite a bit per year... But that is mostly because I subsidize lots of freeloading players in multiple play groups. Prolly $300 a year is my max if it is good stuff. $100 a year otherwise.

 

[Goemoe]

I wouldn't pay for a rulebook pdf because I would have to print it to use it. I need a book. Adventures are different. I do buy pdf adventures, but the rule book have to be physical, always!

 

[Selkirk]

before i got the physical edition of phb i prob would have paid 20-30 bucks for digital. but in my roll20 game i find myself flipping back and forth thru the physical book more than i ever would with a digital version (i played for a bit with the basic rules...and searching for this or that spell was a pain in the ass). of course i wish that wotc had planned this ahead and given a code or something with a purchase of physical book (code could make digital free or at a discount)...but since they didn't do that ^^;...physical book is more than fine and more useful. but if dungeonscape somehow manages to integrate all tools...modules/corebooks etc into a nice package i would pay 10 bucks or so a month.