WotC WotC Adds 'Partnered Content' to DnDBeyond--Starting With Critical Role's Tal’dorei Campaign Setting

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One of the promises Wizards of the Coast made in the aftermath of the Open Gaming License 'crisis' back in January was that D&D Beyond would eventually have some kind of third party marketplace. Up until now, only official D&D books from WotC have been available there.

Now, however, there is a section of 'partnered content' -- six titles, including three Critical Role sourcebooks, as well as some older licensed items like the Rick & Morty boxed set and the Minecraft monster tie-in. The latter were already on DDB, but the 'Partnered Content' home for them is new, as is the Tal-'dorei Campaign Setting.

As of now you can pick up Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, Call of the Netherdeep, and the Tal'dorei Campaign Setting Reborn.



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While this 'partnered content' is a long way yet from the third-party marketplace mentioned earlier this year (which is likely a a couple of years away), it is notable that third party content is now appearing on the site.
 
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darjr

I crit!
New heading on the Sources page for Partnered Content: moved Wildemount, Netherdeep, and the Frozen Sick adventure there alongside Tal'dorei Reborn (keeping the Critical Role stuff together), as well as the Rick & Morty Starter Set and Minecraft Monstrous Compendium.
Thanks! I didn’t notice that!
 





Nikosandros

Golden Procrastinator
Interesting. I would have expected a bit of fanfare for this development. I wonder what will be next. Darrington has already a special relationship, since they have produced several books published by WotC. KP maybe isn't too likely, since the are working on a "competing" 5e. Maybe stuff from DM's Guild?
 


Would love to see Exploring/Chornicles of Eberron make it onto Beyond, and while Forgotten Realms has never really been my thing, I know there are some great supplements on DMsGuild that Ed Greenwood has contributed to.

Presumably can't completely open the proverbial floodgates and want to keep some measure of quality control, but I imagine this opens the door for quite a bit.
 




Parmandur

Book-Friend
Interesting. I would have expected a bit of fanfare for this development. I wonder what will be next. Darrington has already a special relationship, since they have produced several books published by WotC. KP maybe isn't too likely, since the are working on a "competing" 5e. Maybe stuff from DM's Guild?
So, it's not 9 AM yet here on the Pacific Coast. Historically, new content gets uploaded to Beyond based on a preset timer, and then the press release goes out later when someone is at qork to do a final review and hit send.
 


Parmandur

Book-Friend
It’s tagged as 3rd party and I do not own a license to access it which means it showed up sometime after the OGL fiasco. I think this is a good sign and I look forward to more from Ghostfire Gaming and Kobold Press and others!

Now how well does it integrate with the character builder? I might try it.


Critical Role on D&D Beyond | Tal'Dori Campaign Setting Reborn Out Now via @YouTube
Gosh, this is one of the most exciting D&D developments in quite a while. The D&D Ops guy said that this (in general) was something theybwere working towards, but I dunno if we took him seriously on thet point when he was saying that on his apology tour.
 
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doctorbadwolf

Heretic of The Seventh Circle
Would love to see Exploring/Chornicles of Eberron make it onto Beyond, and while Forgotten Realms has never really been my thing, I know there are some great supplements on DMsGuild that Ed Greenwood has contributed to.

Presumably can't completely open the proverbial floodgates and want to keep some measure of quality control, but I imagine this opens the door for quite a bit.
Yeah I think they would need a whole new base architecture to open the floodgates, and to have a “vetted content” tier where you can find stuff on the main index vs the page for a publisher or whatever.

Basically, once they rework the system so that users can easily create classes, houserule toggles, character sheet features, etc, then they can set up a system by which 3pps can put their stuff on the site and pay wizards X% of sale of hosted products.

But for now, this is awesome!
 


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