I legally own all the pdfs and materials. I used online fan wikias for quick and easy linking between classes spells abilities feats.
Now this page has dropped in with a garbage character build system, premium pay wall to access material I already have in what I have to assume is a terrible way considering the lay out of the rest of the tools. You should be fraking ashamed of yourselves for having shut down the hard work that so many people have put together for clear access.
Having such a terrible product at an unreasonable costing is just salt in the wound.
D&D Beyond has nothing to do with this, just as DDB has had nothing to do with any other similar situations. If content is being posted on a wiki illegally, then it has to be removed. Wizards of the Coast has a right to protect their copyrighted material.
As RatDM mentions above, it is not possible to legally purchase PDFs of Dungeons & Dragons books, other than the few that are released through DMs Guild.
At the end of the day, regardless of how useful you find an illegal website to be, it is still an illegal website. The only thing that I think is any surprise here is that this particular wiki was operating with that content for so long.
As for criticism of the D&D Beyond website - please help us make it better.
Can you explain why you believe the character build system to be "garbage"?
Can you explain why you feel it is terrible for D&D Beyond and Wizards of the Coast to charge money for the work they have undertaken?
Why do you feel that Wizards of the Coast should be ashamed for stopping theft of their business?
Also, D&D Beyond doesn't have the legal authority to shut down a site. That would be Wizards of the Coast, which they would only do if the site was illegally distributing licenced content.
The compendium content on D&D Beyond is at least as good as the physical books, but cheaper, easier to access, and updates with new errata automatically. They can't sell it any cheaper because of WotC.
Everything that isn't licenced is free to use. Paid subscriptions only unlock content sharing, allow usage of public homebrew, and remove character limits.
I legally own all the pdfs and materials. I used online fan wikias for quick and easy linking between classes spells abilities feats.
Now this page has dropped in with a garbage character build system, premium pay wall to access material I already have in what I have to assume is a terrible way considering the lay out of the rest of the tools. You should be fraking ashamed of yourselves for having shut down the hard work that so many people have put together for clear access.
Having such a terrible product at an unreasonable costing is just salt in the wound.
Um. How do you "legally own all the pdfs" when there aren't any legal PDFs of the WotC D&D 5e books beyond the Basic Rules?
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As RatDM mentions above, it is not possible to legally purchase PDFs of Dungeons & Dragons books, other than the few that are released through DMs Guild.
At the end of the day, regardless of how useful you find an illegal website to be, it is still an illegal website. The only thing that I think is any surprise here is that this particular wiki was operating with that content for so long.
As for criticism of the D&D Beyond website - please help us make it better.
Can you explain why you believe the character build system to be "garbage"?
Can you explain why you feel it is terrible for D&D Beyond and Wizards of the Coast to charge money for the work they have undertaken?
Why do you feel that Wizards of the Coast should be ashamed for stopping theft of their business?
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Also, D&D Beyond doesn't have the legal authority to shut down a site. That would be Wizards of the Coast, which they would only do if the site was illegally distributing licenced content.
The compendium content on D&D Beyond is at least as good as the physical books, but cheaper, easier to access, and updates with new errata automatically. They can't sell it any cheaper because of WotC.
Everything that isn't licenced is free to use. Paid subscriptions only unlock content sharing, allow usage of public homebrew, and remove character limits.
See, now this, this is an illegitimate complaint with no basis in fact. Unlike my criticisms which are always well thought out and argued.
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