Hello world!
Last month, we launched D&D Beyond Drops: a new way for Hero Tier and Master Tier subscribers to get play-ready content on D&D Beyond every single week.
Since launch, we’ve been reading your comments, questions, forum posts, Reddit threads, Discord conversations, survey responses, and support tickets. First, thank you for the depth and richness of your feedback.
It’s become clear from your feedback that there were two main things we got wrong with D&D Beyond Drops: content sharing and non-subscriber access.
We are working to have a solution to both of these in the next few weeks.
Content Sharing
We made the business decision to not make Drops content eligible for Master Tier content sharing. It’s clear that was not the right decision and we need to find a way to give Master Tier subscribers the ability to content share Drops. We have been taking another look and expect to have an update on the feasibility of content sharing in the next few weeks.
Availability for Non-Subscribers
We didn’t tell players about any way in which they could get DDB Drops content without having a subscription. While this was a possibility we had discussed internally, we made the wrong choice at rollout not to commit to anything yet. I’m here to correct that today. We will commit to releasing at least yearly D&D Beyond Drops bundles on the D&D Beyond marketplace every year (in May), covering the previous year’s content and purchasable for all players. We have ways to further augment this with player feedback. For now, I wanted to make that baseline commitment clear.
Stay Tuned For Updates
Please keep telling us what you want to see. Tell us what you’re using. Tell us what you’re not using. Tell us what would make Drops more valuable at your table. We’re continuing to read and listen.
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Posted Jun 3, 2026Thanks for considering all the aspects of this. I'd still like to see the specific player content be sharable as it becomes available.
I assume if we buy the packs down the road, they be sharable through that mechanism?
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Posted Jun 3, 2026Yes!
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Posted Jun 3, 2026On this episode of "Bully the Big Corporation" XD
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Posted Jun 3, 2026Glad to hear that content will become shareable
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Posted Jun 3, 2026Do you have an estimate of what the price will be for the Drop bundles?
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Posted Jun 3, 2026Good to see that the D&D Beyond Drops won't be locked to non-subscribers. Would it be possible to eventually publish them physically on the long run?
I say this because a portion of the population (myself included) would consider a physical recollection of these backgrounds, feats and spells, even if they're locked behind time-limited releases. It'd be akin to the Dragon Compendium (anyone remember that?), but with official content.
The Class Starter Packs have proven to be a good move, it seems.
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Posted Jun 3, 2026Great choice!
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Posted Jun 3, 2026Alright, sweet! I'm looking forward to those bundles!
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Posted Jun 3, 2026W
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Posted Jun 3, 2026Thank you for course correcting here.
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Posted Jun 3, 2026Thank you for listening and for doing the smart thing on both counts. I can't speak for everyone who uses DDB, but at least I appreciate it. :)
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Posted Jun 4, 2026A beloved global past time with a long and proud history! xD
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Posted Jun 4, 2026Some people won't listen until Chris Cocks says subscription-based DND is off the shareholder's table.
& given the recent transphobia from elsewhere at WotC...it's hard to trust a company that doesn't doxx & force deadnames.
So get Cocks to say "No subscription-based DND is happening" to shareholders while he also cancels the Harry Potter contract, lower prices based on book thickness & critical reception, clean up transphobia & all other internal bigotry, all while recognizing & heeding the union, and a good chunk of the fresh heat will partially thaw.
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Posted Jun 4, 2026One concern WoTC\DND Beyond should consider are the fact when you "buy" it online you can lose access in the event of the company shutting down the servers. People like me will spend thousands on books but aren't really inclined to buy something that's actually being leased with no real means of ensuring ownership of what I paid for. If you dedicate to providing a PDF of paid for digital content in the event of the sever\services being shut down, or allow people to buy annual or quarterly printed versions even if it's a soft back I'd buy it. As it stands I don't do subscriptions for access, and if I bought it digital only I'd need guarantees about not losing access because of bankruptcy, corporation businesses decisions to shut down services, or other legal trickery.
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Posted Jun 4, 2026I will absolutely buy it physically AND digitally if they release a physical copy, but I will not, cannot, shall not buy it or lease it without a physical form or some guarantee of access in the event of a business closure, shift, services shutdown\change. You know like the "Stop Killing Games" initiative in California and prior to that the EU. I hope they include stuff like this, it's a video game; not primarily online, and it's not "Free content" so in theory it should be included. If you live in either place call your officials, I don't or I would!
Also I wasn't into D&D during Dragon Magazine which I think is the same thing as the Compendium you're talking about. I was sad to find out I missed it as I was a late 3.5e player. (I think it was technically 4e by then by my DM hated the lore changes, and now so do I lol)
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Posted Jun 4, 2026Some people are never going to buy stuff no matter what. Chasing a market that will never buy your products is not a great business model.
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Posted Jun 4, 2026I mean, I guess I should be complaining that they should have known. There are too many real problems to worry about though. All's well that ends well...
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Posted Jun 4, 2026I would hope if DDB were to end in the future people could get some sort of digital copy of the content they purchased. Unfortunately when it comes to electronic anything future availability is a risk. For example I own a series of PC games that I cannot play on newer versions of windows. To play them I would have to have a setup of an old windows version or something to play those games again. So even in those situations my ownership wasn't a guarantee forever in the respect of not having to go through a bunch of trouble to retain said ownership.
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Posted Jun 4, 2026If you could just fix the dragon hide belt to work in DnD beyond, I would be soooo happy.
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Posted Jun 4, 2026It's worse than that which is why I brought up stop killing games, company's disable their activation\DRM servers\services and suddenly a disc you bought and paid for stops working. Which is why like you I'd HOPE they'd do the right thing, but I'd also need them to make an affirmative declaration of such or make a physical medium available. I'm not going to try and get an AI to pirate my purchased content like we've seen so many AI firms pirate literally all known literature, movies, shows, etc. I want to buy, and I want to own. Not spending a cent of those two conditions can't be met.