I was wondering if there was a Family account coming to Dnd Beyond. I own all the books and have a subscription, but recently my wife who has gotten into DMing (just a basic account and no subscription) and We own the books, paper and digital. We don’t want to share the same account. Is there going to be family accounts to share books and access, would be ok with subscription costs going up for the family account. Not sure if this has been brought up or not, if so sorry didn’t see it.
Yes we also own both digital and hard copies as we play with our 4 teens it would be nice to be able to use separate logins and not have to share the same account
I've heard that they were taking family situations into consideration.
Having 1 family account with all the books and a master sub, while each member has their own account and use content sharing to share books is currently the best option.
I've heard that they were taking family situations into consideration.
Having 1 family account with all the books and a master sub, while each member has their own account and use content sharing to share books is currently the best option.
This is exactly what I would want! I hope they do that.
I've heard that they were taking family situations into consideration.
Having 1 family account with all the books and a master sub, while each member has their own account and use content sharing to share books is currently the best option.
This is exactly what I would want! I hope they do that.
If you are talking about paragraph 2, that is my suggested work around that you can curently do. The only problem is if collectively your family plays more than 3 campaigns at a time (in which case a second account will need a master sub).
I miss read. Yes we do. My wife plays in 4 campaigns and I play in 3.... only one overlap.
That would need 2 master tier subs, but is still doable. It can even be handled by 1 sub by turning off content sharing in inactive campaigns. Or maybe the other players have a sub.
I would like my family to all have access to the books, alpha, campaigns with content sharing, and separate profiles. Unlimited characters for each. Not having to mess around with turning on and off campaigns. I don’t mind paying more for the subscription.
I would like my family to all have access to the books, alpha, campaigns with content sharing, and separate profiles. Unlimited characters for each. Not having to mess around with turning on and off campaigns. I don’t mind paying more for the subscription.
If you dont mind paying more for the subscription, then just buy 2 subscriptions. 2 master tier subscriptions gets you everything you listed. And you can just use 1 master tier and a hero tier by dropping the "not having to turn on and off sharing" bit, which most play groups have to deal with anyway.
Will this even be enabled? I really have no interest in paying an ongoing subscription simply to dodge getting ripped off buying content I've already purchased over again for every physical body within my home... especially when I will have already been forced to buy something I already own at least once for dnd beyond features.
Might I humbly suggest a different path.
The real value on dnd beyond isn't the reference books anyway, it is all the integration and automation into the character sheets. Don't make anyone buy the books, offer subscription access to the core reference books via the library for maybe $4.99/mo, the stuff in the source bundle for $12.99/mo, and the legendary for $19.99/mo with any given account allowing up to so many profiles. The actual reference books would be more like any of the subscription for content services like Netflix or whatever, with dnd beyond actually owning enough copies to cover simultaneous accesses of licensed content under the hood. If anybody actually does "buy" their own copy it would be available to their other profiles.
Now if those numbers sound small... the platform would offer a much better experience that translates into a far greater number of paid subscribers providing a solid ongoing stream of revenue. One single purchased legendary set of reference books can likely support at least 20-50 such $19.99/mo accounts the cost of which is recovered 1-2 months of subscription fees while those accounts continue to bring in a revenue stream for as long as they have to be supported and maintained and additional licensing only needed when book updates/new material is released. For WoTC this actually provides them a level of reliability as well because they can be assured of certain numbers of guaranteed sales of new releases. This sort of model works for Netflix, Amazon Prime, and many others.
Will this even be enabled? I really have no interest in paying an ongoing subscription simply to dodge getting ripped off buying content I've already purchased over again for every physical body within my home... especially when I will have already been forced to buy something I already own at least once for dnd beyond features.
Might I humbly suggest a different path.
The real value on dnd beyond isn't the reference books anyway, it is all the integration and automation into the character sheets. Don't make anyone buy the books, offer subscription access to the core reference books via the library for maybe $4.99/mo, the stuff in the source bundle for $12.99/mo, and the legendary for $19.99/mo with any given account allowing up to so many profiles. The actual reference books would be more like any of the subscription for content services like Netflix or whatever, with dnd beyond actually owning enough copies to cover simultaneous accesses of licensed content under the hood. If anybody actually does "buy" their own copy it would be available to their other profiles.
Now if those numbers sound small... the platform would offer a much better experience that translates into a far greater number of paid subscribers providing a solid ongoing stream of revenue. One single purchased legendary set of reference books can likely support at least 20-50 such $19.99/mo accounts the cost of which is recovered 1-2 months of subscription fees while those accounts continue to bring in a revenue stream for as long as they have to be supported and maintained and additional licensing only needed when book updates/new material is released. For WoTC this actually provides them a level of reliability as well because they can be assured of certain numbers of guaranteed sales of new releases. This sort of model works for Netflix, Amazon Prime, and many others.
That won’t work in this case because WotC does not own this website. This website is owned by a company called Fandom Inc., and they have to honor the licensing agreement they signed with WotC by selling books. This is a bookstore after all.
That won’t work in this case because WotC does not own this website. This website is owned by a company called Fandom Inc., and they have to honor the licensing agreement they signed with WotC by selling books. This is a bookstore after all.
Or they can negotiate a new additional licensing agreement if needed to support a new Netflix or Amazon-like subscription model. Maybe needed, maybe not, they would still be selling books, they'd just sell some to themselves.
WotC already tried sub model for character sheet tools for their 4th edition. It was a disaster. It will never happen again.
You can pay for a Master sub to share all purchased content with each other in a campaign.
Or players can purchase the individual options they need.
Or those with the purchased content can create a homebrew copy for others in the campaign. . All homebrew created is automatically shared with everyone else in the campaign - no subs needed.
Or they can negotiate a new additional licensing agreement if needed to support a new Netflix or Amazon-like subscription model. Maybe needed, maybe not, they would still be selling books, they'd just sell some to themselves.
What is a bookstore? Sounds very 90's.
Negotiating a new license agreement is not easy and I honestly doubt it is something worth doing right now. If it was worth doing, Wizards would have done so already.
Bookstores also are not some 90's relic. Amazon started out as an online bookstore and it still is very much a bookstore, it is just that these days they are not only a bookstore as they sell lots of other stuff too. Google is also a bookstore, and so is Apple. Those three companies dominate the ebook market. Stores are not limited to just physical brick-and-mortar stores. Physical book stores also are not super rare either, at least before COVID happened anyways. Corporate chain bookstores are extremely common at airports. My city's downtown still have at least over half a dozen mom-and-pop bookstores, with quite a few more scattered throughout the rest of the city. Whether physical bookstores survive COVID is another matter though, especially the mom-and-pop ones.
Figured I’d resurrect this old thread just to throw in my support. My husband and I both have accounts. I have the legendary bundle/ DM subscription, but after buying many of the books with my account (and already having physical copies) we’d love a way for him to use the books we’ve already purchased for my account while having his own separate characters. Especially with the kids getting into D&D. 3 campaigns just doesn’t allow enough freedom of character creation. If we were allowed to share purchased material with members of our household we’d be more inclined to buy additional titles for sure!
Figured I’d resurrect this old thread just to throw in my support. My husband and I both have accounts. I have the legendary bundle/ DM subscription, but after buying many of the books with my account (and already having physical copies) we’d love a way for him to use the books we’ve already purchased for my account while having his own separate characters. Especially with the kids getting into D&D. 3 campaigns just doesn’t allow enough freedom of character creation. If we were allowed to share purchased material with members of our household we’d be more inclined to buy additional titles for sure!
And why not have one campaign as "sharing".
Each campaign with content sharing enabled supports 12 players. There are no limits to the number of characters. You can make characters, unassign them when not in use (unassigned characters don't count towards any players character limits) and assign back when in use. And voila - infinite characters for everyone with all purchases shared, for up to 12 people. This is more than plenty.
I was wondering if there was a Family account coming to Dnd Beyond. I own all the books and have a subscription, but recently my wife who has gotten into DMing (just a basic account and no subscription) and We own the books, paper and digital. We don’t want to share the same account. Is there going to be family accounts to share books and access, would be ok with subscription costs going up for the family account. Not sure if this has been brought up or not, if so sorry didn’t see it.
Yes we also own both digital and hard copies as we play with our 4 teens it would be nice to be able to use separate logins and not have to share the same account
I've heard that they were taking family situations into consideration.
Having 1 family account with all the books and a master sub, while each member has their own account and use content sharing to share books is currently the best option.
This is exactly what I would want! I hope they do that.
If you are talking about paragraph 2, that is my suggested work around that you can curently do. The only problem is if collectively your family plays more than 3 campaigns at a time (in which case a second account will need a master sub).
I miss read. Yes we do. My wife plays in 4 campaigns and I play in 3.... only one overlap.
That would need 2 master tier subs, but is still doable. It can even be handled by 1 sub by turning off content sharing in inactive campaigns. Or maybe the other players have a sub.
Yes. But i want a family sub.
I get that, but what do you want it to be able to do that my suggestion can't? The lack of worthwhile ideas is why it isnt on the roadmap.
I would like my family to all have access to the books, alpha, campaigns with content sharing, and separate profiles. Unlimited characters for each. Not having to mess around with turning on and off campaigns. I don’t mind paying more for the subscription.
If you dont mind paying more for the subscription, then just buy 2 subscriptions. 2 master tier subscriptions gets you everything you listed. And you can just use 1 master tier and a hero tier by dropping the "not having to turn on and off sharing" bit, which most play groups have to deal with anyway.
Only one account has all the books though.
That's why you use content sharing. That is what it is for.
Will this even be enabled? I really have no interest in paying an ongoing subscription simply to dodge getting ripped off buying content I've already purchased over again for every physical body within my home... especially when I will have already been forced to buy something I already own at least once for dnd beyond features.
Might I humbly suggest a different path.
The real value on dnd beyond isn't the reference books anyway, it is all the integration and automation into the character sheets. Don't make anyone buy the books, offer subscription access to the core reference books via the library for maybe $4.99/mo, the stuff in the source bundle for $12.99/mo, and the legendary for $19.99/mo with any given account allowing up to so many profiles. The actual reference books would be more like any of the subscription for content services like Netflix or whatever, with dnd beyond actually owning enough copies to cover simultaneous accesses of licensed content under the hood. If anybody actually does "buy" their own copy it would be available to their other profiles.
Now if those numbers sound small... the platform would offer a much better experience that translates into a far greater number of paid subscribers providing a solid ongoing stream of revenue. One single purchased legendary set of reference books can likely support at least 20-50 such $19.99/mo accounts the cost of which is recovered 1-2 months of subscription fees while those accounts continue to bring in a revenue stream for as long as they have to be supported and maintained and additional licensing only needed when book updates/new material is released. For WoTC this actually provides them a level of reliability as well because they can be assured of certain numbers of guaranteed sales of new releases. This sort of model works for Netflix, Amazon Prime, and many others.
That won’t work in this case because WotC does not own this website. This website is owned by a company called Fandom Inc., and they have to honor the licensing agreement they signed with WotC by selling books. This is a bookstore after all.
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Or they can negotiate a new additional licensing agreement if needed to support a new Netflix or Amazon-like subscription model. Maybe needed, maybe not, they would still be selling books, they'd just sell some to themselves.
What is a bookstore? Sounds very 90's.
WotC already tried sub model for character sheet tools for their 4th edition. It was a disaster. It will never happen again.
You can pay for a Master sub to share all purchased content with each other in a campaign.
Or players can purchase the individual options they need.
Or those with the purchased content can create a homebrew copy for others in the campaign. . All homebrew created is automatically shared with everyone else in the campaign - no subs needed.
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Negotiating a new license agreement is not easy and I honestly doubt it is something worth doing right now. If it was worth doing, Wizards would have done so already.
Bookstores also are not some 90's relic. Amazon started out as an online bookstore and it still is very much a bookstore, it is just that these days they are not only a bookstore as they sell lots of other stuff too. Google is also a bookstore, and so is Apple. Those three companies dominate the ebook market. Stores are not limited to just physical brick-and-mortar stores. Physical book stores also are not super rare either, at least before COVID happened anyways. Corporate chain bookstores are extremely common at airports. My city's downtown still have at least over half a dozen mom-and-pop bookstores, with quite a few more scattered throughout the rest of the city. Whether physical bookstores survive COVID is another matter though, especially the mom-and-pop ones.
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Figured I’d resurrect this old thread just to throw in my support. My husband and I both have accounts. I have the legendary bundle/ DM subscription, but after buying many of the books with my account (and already having physical copies) we’d love a way for him to use the books we’ve already purchased for my account while having his own separate characters. Especially with the kids getting into D&D. 3 campaigns just doesn’t allow enough freedom of character creation. If we were allowed to share purchased material with members of our household we’d be more inclined to buy additional titles for sure!
And why not have one campaign as "sharing".
Each campaign with content sharing enabled supports 12 players. There are no limits to the number of characters. You can make characters, unassign them when not in use (unassigned characters don't count towards any players character limits) and assign back when in use. And voila - infinite characters for everyone with all purchases shared, for up to 12 people. This is more than plenty.
My Homebrew: Races | Subclasses | Backgrounds | Spells | Magic Items | Feats
Need help with Homebrew? Check out this FAQ/Guide thread by IamSposta
See My Youtube Videos for Tips & Tricks using D&D Beyond