So i love the idea of the Advent Calendar! But there are four days now which of two days people outside the US can not participate in already.
The T-Shirt club and the board-game offers are both US only shipping. I get that DNDBeyond/WOTC is an American company but it is an international community!
I am looking forward to the other days! (honestly!)
Solidarity with our overseas players. I also find that so far 3 of the 4 days just being coupons is pretty disappointing.
Last year, there were more maps, encounters or even goofy coloring sheets, and while I understand the desire to covert engagement into sales, with the primary focus being coupons so far, to me it misses the mark and is just feeding into the holiday consumerism, especially when there was just an epic sale anyways. These coupons could have other content associated with them too, like bits, or interviews or even other recordings etc.
Still fingers crossed for more monsters or maps or puzzles, or something that I can bring to my players.
The idea of an Advent Calendar is great, the execution of this Advent Calendar is poor! Other than the Monster Compendium it's been extremely poor. Two US-Only Discounts? Both of which are for products that aren't actually related to the game, just some D&D Branded Merch! One of those discounts for a WHOPPING $1.80 in savings (and that one also happens to rope you into a monthly subscription)!!
Where are the digital dice? Where are the character frames and backdrops? Things that DND Beyond Users can actually use!
I was hopeful after Day 1, but the last three days of non-gifts make me think that the best is behind us, and that the rest of the Advent Calendar will be more discounts for merch that is unusable in the actual game of D&D!
Oh good, I'm glad I'm not the only one who boarded the advent calendar train at disappointment station.
Absolutely love the idea of the calendar on principle but despise the crass consumerism that the past 3 days have offered. After the compendium I was hopeful for more of the same. Hopeful for maps, maybe a mini one shot adventure, digital dice, frames, etc. Discounts on branded merch or books that a large percentage of us likely already own seems like a half-assed cop out. Here's hoping that things improve over the next several days
As I said on another thread: "The idea of this is awesome; even the first day was cool... but the coupon code for random tat seems sort of... cheap: like I'm being given the "gift" of giving WOTC/Hasbro more money."
Today's one is.....interesting! It's a decent discount percentage, and monetary-wise it's a hefty amount off, but that's only because the products are so very expensive to begin with! Like, who would buy those? They feel like they'd be investment items, never to be actually opened / used, and only really worth the investment of you were to get them all, but that's a significant outlay.
I dunno, this whole thing seems weird, and today's feels like the weirdest of all, because, while yes, it is a savings, it still requires you to pay $150+...
2023's D&D Advent(ure) Calander sounds like it's going over like the "Drink More Ovaltine" bit in the movie A Christmas Story.
I feel if they just doubled down on the Monstrous Compendium Vol 2 and gave the DDB user base 28 monsters, one for each day of Advent (and sure, each day throw some sort of coupon if you must), there'd have been less guff, though maybe distributing the monsters as 28 separately claimable monsters might've been a technical problem, dunno.
I'm just trying to say, sometimes it's the thought that counts.
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I am so relieved to find I'm not alone feeling utterly disappointed in the Advent Calendar. I feel like it has been misnamed. A clever use of the word Advent to make it fit the theme of D&D, but soo poorly executed. It is not a Advent (ure) Calendar but more like a Ad(s) venture Calendar. Where are the gifts? really? Coupons for price drop on product that didn't sell enough this year? And that right after the big sales of Cyber Monday. I know there are still some days left into it but so far it is bad, very bad. Imagine giving to your kid an advent Calendar, get him all excited and everyday the kid open one of the little "door". First of all they get no chocolates, toys or anything but coupons to buy Toilet Paper, Deodorant, Perfume and other things for sales in stores ! What the **** ! Guess we where all on the naughty list this year and got a lump of coal.
Imagine if they'd just paired their coupons with a free monster, set of dice, colouring page, or whatever each day? This wouldn't feel like such a letdown and they'd still get their coupons out.
Definitely could, but still tastes bitter. TheMaths idea is an excellent idea. Imagine getting some of those Subscriber Rewards from 2021 or something. Not the whole kit and caboodle, but one character page background randomly generated by a dice roll, one of the 12 subscriber dice you don't have. Nothing that would tell subscribers "Oh, just wait until next year you can get it all in our Adventure Calendar." At least my Lindt Advent Calendar gives me solid chocolate balls on the "wish I didn't open this thing" days.
Still gonna open each and every day and hope the team rolled a twenty on a gift instead of all these ones.
As someone who plays Neverwinter, today's one is a little better, but only very slightly, marginally better. It's still not a "gift", it's a chance to enter a draw to possibly, maybe, potentially, win a free mount in yet another "D&D Branded but not actually related to the game of D&D" thing. For those who don't play Neverwinter, this just outright sucks. For those that do, they're not actually getting anything, unless they're one of the lucky 25 winners.
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So i love the idea of the Advent Calendar! But there are four days now which of two days people outside the US can not participate in already.
The T-Shirt club and the board-game offers are both US only shipping. I get that DNDBeyond/WOTC is an American company but it is an international community!
I am looking forward to the other days! (honestly!)
Solidarity with our overseas players. I also find that so far 3 of the 4 days just being coupons is pretty disappointing.
Last year, there were more maps, encounters or even goofy coloring sheets, and while I understand the desire to covert engagement into sales, with the primary focus being coupons so far, to me it misses the mark and is just feeding into the holiday consumerism, especially when there was just an epic sale anyways. These coupons could have other content associated with them too, like bits, or interviews or even other recordings etc.
Still fingers crossed for more monsters or maps or puzzles, or something that I can bring to my players.
The idea of an Advent Calendar is great, the execution of this Advent Calendar is poor! Other than the Monster Compendium it's been extremely poor. Two US-Only Discounts? Both of which are for products that aren't actually related to the game, just some D&D Branded Merch! One of those discounts for a WHOPPING $1.80 in savings (and that one also happens to rope you into a monthly subscription)!!
Where are the digital dice? Where are the character frames and backdrops? Things that DND Beyond Users can actually use!
I was hopeful after Day 1, but the last three days of non-gifts make me think that the best is behind us, and that the rest of the Advent Calendar will be more discounts for merch that is unusable in the actual game of D&D!
Oh good, I'm glad I'm not the only one who boarded the advent calendar train at disappointment station.
Absolutely love the idea of the calendar on principle but despise the crass consumerism that the past 3 days have offered. After the compendium I was hopeful for more of the same. Hopeful for maps, maybe a mini one shot adventure, digital dice, frames, etc. Discounts on branded merch or books that a large percentage of us likely already own seems like a half-assed cop out. Here's hoping that things improve over the next several days
It was pretty woeful last year as well.
Discount coupons are not gifts.
So far we have had five "gifts," FOUR of which were coupons. The first one was great, everything else has been pointless.
Yeah. I really liked the advent calendar last year. Sure some of the days were goofy things like coloring sheets, but they were at least funny to see.
Glad I'm not the only one not feeling the 'holiday cheer' they mention. Five days of coupons does not bring me any cheer right now.
Today's gift* ain't bad - it's 20%, which is a decent value, and it is actually related to the game of D&D, not just branded merch!
*discount coupon
As I said on another thread: "The idea of this is awesome; even the first day was cool... but the coupon code for random tat seems sort of... cheap: like I'm being given the "gift" of giving WOTC/Hasbro more money."
Today's another one. That makes six days in a row.
Today's one is.....interesting! It's a decent discount percentage, and monetary-wise it's a hefty amount off, but that's only because the products are so very expensive to begin with! Like, who would buy those? They feel like they'd be investment items, never to be actually opened / used, and only really worth the investment of you were to get them all, but that's a significant outlay.
I dunno, this whole thing seems weird, and today's feels like the weirdest of all, because, while yes, it is a savings, it still requires you to pay $150+...
Today, the 12th, isn't even a "gift".
It's the opportunity to enter a draw to win a mount for the Neverwinter MMORPG.
Really? A contest entry as a gift?
2023's D&D Advent(ure) Calander sounds like it's going over like the "Drink More Ovaltine" bit in the movie A Christmas Story.
I feel if they just doubled down on the Monstrous Compendium Vol 2 and gave the DDB user base 28 monsters, one for each day of Advent (and sure, each day throw some sort of coupon if you must), there'd have been less guff, though maybe distributing the monsters as 28 separately claimable monsters might've been a technical problem, dunno.
I'm just trying to say, sometimes it's the thought that counts.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
I am so relieved to find I'm not alone feeling utterly disappointed in the Advent Calendar. I feel like it has been misnamed. A clever use of the word Advent to make it fit the theme of D&D, but soo poorly executed. It is not a Advent (ure) Calendar but more like a Ad(s) venture Calendar. Where are the gifts? really? Coupons for price drop on product that didn't sell enough this year? And that right after the big sales of Cyber Monday. I know there are still some days left into it but so far it is bad, very bad. Imagine giving to your kid an advent Calendar, get him all excited and everyday the kid open one of the little "door". First of all they get no chocolates, toys or anything but coupons to buy Toilet Paper, Deodorant, Perfume and other things for sales in stores ! What the **** ! Guess we where all on the naughty list this year and got a lump of coal.
Imagine if they'd just paired their coupons with a free monster, set of dice, colouring page, or whatever each day? This wouldn't feel like such a letdown and they'd still get their coupons out.
I mean I'm not going to totally gloom and doom the calendar at the somewhere around third to half way point, cool stuff could happen!
But I also really like my Ovaltine joke.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Definitely could, but still tastes bitter. TheMaths idea is an excellent idea. Imagine getting some of those Subscriber Rewards from 2021 or something. Not the whole kit and caboodle, but one character page background randomly generated by a dice roll, one of the 12 subscriber dice you don't have. Nothing that would tell subscribers "Oh, just wait until next year you can get it all in our Adventure Calendar."
At least my Lindt Advent Calendar gives me solid chocolate balls on the "wish I didn't open this thing" days.
Still gonna open each and every day and hope the team rolled a twenty on a gift instead of all these ones.
As someone who plays Neverwinter, today's one is a little better, but only very slightly, marginally better. It's still not a "gift", it's a chance to enter a draw to possibly, maybe, potentially, win a free mount in yet another "D&D Branded but not actually related to the game of D&D" thing. For those who don't play Neverwinter, this just outright sucks. For those that do, they're not actually getting anything, unless they're one of the lucky 25 winners.