I started my first campaign a couple of weeks ago. I was about to level up and I found out the limitations with the free account and the marketplace for purchasing the books.
I already bought a physical copy of the player's handbook and Xanathar guide and I don't want to buy the digital version of the same thing.
I also noticed that you can purchase single items for 2 bucks each.
Here is my question: which items should I buy for playing a full campaign of a druid of the circle of the moon without buying the full digital books? Does it even make sense? Also, can I redeem the money spent if I decide to buy the digital books in the end?
For must subclasses it would probably make most sense to just buy the subclass. That would allow you to level all the way to level 20 (if you get that far) unless you decide to multiclass the only other things you are likely to want are feats and magic items and possibly spells, if your DM gives you a magic item or you want to take a feat instead of an ASI you can just purchase those as required. (As you have started the campaign I assume your choice of race and background were from the free options).
Druids are a little different because wildshape allows you to turn into "any creature you have seen" and for a moon druid you are all about wild shape. Luckily for you however nearly al the beasts you might want to turn into are in the free content. Many others you might not have seen depending on the your campaign settign and your backstory for example my druid grew up away from the part of the world where there are dinosaurs so has never seen any and wildmount beasts like Moorbounders do not exist at all. Discuss with your DM what creatures you are able to turn into and then decide if you want access to any of them enough to buy the access. Personnally I think the range of beasts available in the basic rules is enough for any event.
The other option is to not pay for things at all. You can do this using the homebrew feature of D&D beyond. I would not recommend this for the moon druid subclass (it would be very complicated if possible) but it you decide to take something like the resiliant feat it would be quite straight forward to create it as a homebrew feat using your hard copy of the PHB to see what it does.
If you buy the digital book in the end you will get a discount of the amount you had spent up to that point on individual items in that book.
Hi folks,
I started my first campaign a couple of weeks ago. I was about to level up and I found out the limitations with the free account and the marketplace for purchasing the books.
I already bought a physical copy of the player's handbook and Xanathar guide and I don't want to buy the digital version of the same thing.
I also noticed that you can purchase single items for 2 bucks each.
Here is my question: which items should I buy for playing a full campaign of a druid of the circle of the moon without buying the full digital books? Does it even make sense? Also, can I redeem the money spent if I decide to buy the digital books in the end?
For must subclasses it would probably make most sense to just buy the subclass. That would allow you to level all the way to level 20 (if you get that far) unless you decide to multiclass the only other things you are likely to want are feats and magic items and possibly spells, if your DM gives you a magic item or you want to take a feat instead of an ASI you can just purchase those as required. (As you have started the campaign I assume your choice of race and background were from the free options).
Druids are a little different because wildshape allows you to turn into "any creature you have seen" and for a moon druid you are all about wild shape. Luckily for you however nearly al the beasts you might want to turn into are in the free content. Many others you might not have seen depending on the your campaign settign and your backstory for example my druid grew up away from the part of the world where there are dinosaurs so has never seen any and wildmount beasts like Moorbounders do not exist at all. Discuss with your DM what creatures you are able to turn into and then decide if you want access to any of them enough to buy the access. Personnally I think the range of beasts available in the basic rules is enough for any event.
The other option is to not pay for things at all. You can do this using the homebrew feature of D&D beyond. I would not recommend this for the moon druid subclass (it would be very complicated if possible) but it you decide to take something like the resiliant feat it would be quite straight forward to create it as a homebrew feat using your hard copy of the PHB to see what it does.
If you buy the digital book in the end you will get a discount of the amount you had spent up to that point on individual items in that book.
Edit: Wrong Post on my phone. Removed.
Thank you for the detailed answer. Appreciated.