D&D General Tools for PCs?

[Charlaquin]

Tools for PCs and WotC's relationship with JK Rowling are, well, different subjects.

Both of which are explicitly discussed in the opening post.

Well, paper is made of dead trees. Trees are our last line of defense against, well, everything humans do. Cutting them down for character sheets sounds a bit criminal . . . See where this is going?

And you’re claiming smart glass is better for the environment? Pull the other one.

 

[Charlaquin]

dead trees I suppose. Deforestation and chemical treatment are major issues in woodpulp paper, especially as sustainable alternatives exist (bamboo, hemp, cotton fibre) and then you have alternatives like calcium carbonate (stone paper)

Sure, fine, but compared to smart glass?

and digital E-paper devices or as suggested Meta-glasses

Absolutely not. The environmental cost of extracting and processing those minerals is significantly worse.

Everything not made from animals or plants was mined from the ground. All production and all consumption carries environmental costs. If one wishes to engage in harm reduction through their consumption habits, one would do well to understand the environmental costs of the products one chooses to consume relative to those one chooses not to.

 

[Charlaquin]

Also, why exactly are we sealioning in JK Rowling’s defense here…?

 

[djotaku]

For the OP (and others):

I love Foundry and I like pushing it whenever possible. For this use case it's not ideal if they aren't actually playing in Foundry. I was going to recommend Nexus Demiplane, but I just realized something: Both VTTs I have experience with - dndbeyond and Foundry - gate your character options to books you've purchased. I imagine Nexus, FantasyGrounds, etc all have to do this as well for SRD reasons.

So I think your best bet would be to use either the official fillable PDF from WoTC OR one of the thousands of user-created fillable PDFs.

As for the OP's reason for leaving dndbeyond - it's been a while since I dropped my dndbeyond account - not for any principled reason - it just didn't make financial sense for me. I like playing different systems so it's better to buy my books on a neutral VTT instead of D&D's VTT. However, did they give you a field for saying why you left? Otherwise it's a very indirect protest that doesn't necessarily tell WoTC they shouldn't make deals with Rowling. In other words, if WotC made a Rowling D&D module and no one bought it - that would tell them people don't like the Rowling deal. If, all of a sudden, people stop buying the Artificer module because of the Rowling deal, they might just think people don't like Eberron. This isn't me telling you how to protest, just that it's not really doing anything if Hasbro/WotC doesn't understand why you left.

(edit for punctuation)

 

[Reynard]

Demiplane does D&D too, but you would have to re-buy everything.

 

[SkidAce]

I chose the phrase foreseeable future intentionally. It still could happen some day, but it isn’t currently on the horizon.

Nor am I, but I would boycott M:tG or D&D if WotC did a Harry Potter tie-in for either product.

I would boycott NEW WotC products, and continue to use my books to play 5.14.

 

[Charlaquin]

I would boycott NEW WotC products, and continue to use my books to play 5.14.

Well yeah. The point of a boycott is “stop giving them money,” not “your possessions are tainted.”

 

[Zaukrie]

For the OP (and others):

I love Foundry and I like pushing it whenever possible. For this use case it's not ideal if they aren't actually playing in Foundry. I was going to recommend Nexus Demiplane, but I just realized something: Both VTTs I have experience with - dndbeyond and Foundry - gate your character options to books you've purchased. I imagine Nexus, FantasyGrounds, etc all have to do this as well for SRD reasons.

So I think your best bet would be to use either the official fillable PDF from WoTC OR one of the thousands of user-created fillable PDFs.

As for the OP's reason for leaving dndbeyond - it's been a while since I dropped my dndbeyond account - not for any principled reason - it just didn't make financial sense for me. I like playing different systems so it's better to buy my books on a neutral VTT instead of D&D's VTT. However, did they give you a field for saying why you left? Otherwise it's a very indirect protest that doesn't necessarily tell WoTC they shouldn't make deals with Rowling. In other words, if WotC made a Rowling D&D module and no one bought it - that would tell them people don't like the Rowling deal. If, all of a sudden, people stop buying the Artificer module because of the Rowling deal, they might just think people don't like Eberron. This isn't me telling you how to protest, just that it's not really doing anything if Hasbro/WotC doesn't understand why you left.

(edit for punctuation)

I will be sending them an email, yes.

 

[Zaukrie]

Demiplane does D&D too, but you would have to re-buy everything.

Ya. That's the issue for sure.

I think we'll move to paper. Of course, my players need to learn the obscure rules that add little to play then.... Which I get some of you like. I have no interest in knowing how AC is calculated, just tell me what it is!*

* Creates new tangent.....

 

[TheSword]

As long as D&D dollars aren’t going to Rowling I’m not going to boycott what is a great, and diverse brand. It feels counterproductive. If the team weren’t diverse and open that might be a different kettle of fish. Particularly given the recent hires. A boycott only targets the wrong people as far as I’m concerned. I’d expect it to be different if they release a D&D Potter starter set of course, and JK gets her cut but I’ll cross that bridge if I come to it.