This website is not owned by the same company that publishes D&D. That company is WotC, a subsidiary of Hasbro. The company that owns DDB is called Fandom Inc. This website is basically an online bookstore that only sells digital editions of D&D books. And they provide free tools for folks to use with their purchases, and they also graciously included everything that WotC published for free and provided it for free here too. They have to pay WotC for every license they grant to a user.
There is a way for you to use everything from any physical book you own here for free if you want though. You can use the homebrewer to recreate everything from the PHB, DMG, MM, basically all the books for you to use as private homebrew. So if you have the PHB, and the time, you can have it all.
I have the Physical Player's Handbook. Is there any way to assess the stuff on here without paying for the digital copy, because i don't want too.
This website is not owned by the same company that publishes D&D. That company is WotC, a subsidiary of Hasbro. The company that owns DDB is called Fandom Inc. This website is basically an online bookstore that only sells digital editions of D&D books. And they provide free tools for folks to use with their purchases, and they also graciously included everything that WotC published for free and provided it for free here too. They have to pay WotC for every license they grant to a user.
There is a way for you to use everything from any physical book you own here for free if you want though. You can use the homebrewer to recreate everything from the PHB, DMG, MM, basically all the books for you to use as private homebrew. So if you have the PHB, and the time, you can have it all.
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