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Biggest concern for me is:
1.) Can the $5.99/month and Content (PHB, etc) can be donated/gifted or group paid? Seems the main financial burden is on the DM here given the content sharing that is with Master Tier.Can a party pool towards a $6/month + $20-30 per book license rental?
2.) What is the ownership for the content you buy? If DNDB goes down like 4E's D&D Insider, is there an agreement that I get an offline version of what I purchased content-wise or is this actually a rental / license for content?
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Hey what's good, there's a lot of pages in this thread so apologies if I've missed this but:
Wrt your private homebrew & a master subscription, are you able to share that with your players like book content or do you need to publish it first? :0
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I'm so excited for launch!
"What you saw belongs to you. A story doesn't live until it is imagined in someone's mind."
― Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
I hope overseas players will have the purchase ,6,9, 12 months in advance.
The bank fees for an international transaction is amost the same as the montly fee so I would give a month by month payment a miss.
Possibly missed this; but would the subscription be an opt in and out option? So if I DM a game for say 5 months then stop due to reasons then DM another game 7 months later can I just cancel after 5 months and then take it back out when needed if required?
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― Oscar Wilde.
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Apologies in advance, I have not been following development closely, and I'm not going to wade through 40 pages of forum posts.
Pricing seems to be very high, or I have fundamentally misunderstood how D&DB is intended to work. Needing to buy both the sourcebooks and pay a subscription is way over the top. I hope I have misunderstood. I have Spotify and Netflix subscriptions - I'm not expected to buy the music or movies before I can stream them through the service. Alternatively, if I go to Amazon and buy an album or DVD, I can listen to or watch it on any device I own. I would expect the same here. If I'm paying a subscription, I would expect that all the content for that subscription be easily accessible.
I have no problem paying for content if the price is reasonable and the service is useful. I am not expecting free digital copies of the 5 sourcebooks I've already purchased, though it amazes me that they were published starting in 2014 with no thought whatsoever in advance of a digital version.
With that said, I would like some clarifications:
1) If I pay a subscription, but do not buy the sourcebooks, what can I do on my own (without a DM adding me to a campaign)? Can I fully create and manage characters? What race, class, subclass, background options would be available?
2) If I only have a subscription, and am added to a DM's campaign, and create a character using some of the DM's shared official (not homebrew) content, and later leave the group, what happens to my character? Is it unusable? Are only those features unusable?
3) Are there any kind of export features or an API? I play on a Discord server with a bot that can automatically pull character info from online tools, roll dice and do automated checks and attacks and such - if I create a character here, will that bot be able to get access (assuming the developer of the bot updates it)?
4) If I do buy the sourcebooks, and for some reason D&DB is later shut down, what happens? This is not an unwarranted question, there have been multiple online content management systems that have been shuttered resulting in customers losing access to content they purchased with little or no recourse.
Great so far. Looking forward to seeing new features as they roll out. I'll buy the books for sure and the Hero tier sounds appealing to me.
I'll be more critical about the source books. (I regret my purchase of the Monster Manual in Roll20, for instance.)
Anyway, this is a great idea and your implementation of it is (so-far) very impressive.
Sadly not everyone has the funds to spend on a second pair of books. It would be wise for dnd beyond to take a look at some of the complaints of its followers. this is an online tool set after all and there are ways of creating an income other than subs or outright large piles of cash being handed over. I love dnd and i love to support projects such as this but i must learn to live within my means. So dnd should have a mode for us poor college folks that depend on ad revenue that way we can enjoy the game and still support the devs.