I'm not sure i'm in the correct section of the forum, but i have a question for the support. It is possible to include manual of D&D 3.5 edition in this app or only D&D 5 manual are supported?
For 3.5, your best bet for an online resource is probably the d20srd -- it won't help you make/maintain character sheets, but it contains all of the SRD rules for easy reference. Beyond that, you can pick up PDFs of many 3.5 books over at DMs Guild.
Why not? There still seems to be plenty of people who play 3.5 due to various reasons, and to just have one edition seems very restrictive and honestly a bad business choice.
The really easy answer to this is - there is more than enough development available to keep the team busy for years, developing top tier digital tools for 5th edition - the current version of the game.
Who knows what the future brings though. Maybe if the dev team feel that the site is complete and there are no more value/tools that can be added, they might create a site for 3e/3.5e
I consider it unlikely though and likely a very poor business decision to develop a website to support a game system that is no longer supported by the company who created it.
I may be a little late to the party, as someone that plays and DMs both 3.5 and 5e (depending on which play groups I'm with) it seems to me that it really shouldn't matter what the creator supports as much as what people are playing. Now I don't know the actual numbers maybe the people playing near me are not an accurate sample size but if they are then over 70% of D&D players are playing 3.5 over 5e, now if that is the case it seems a little foolish to isolate that section of the community (potential customers) just because that edition is "done". If the decision is based on wanting to focus on making dndbeyond reach its potential and they believe trying to build a 3.5 version would distract from that, then I can respect that, otherwise it seems like wasted potential customer base.
it's almost like D&D Beyond is a business, and they probably crunched the numbers and realized that the amount of players who might pay D&D Beyond for 3.5E isn't high enough to be worth the business.
I am sure D&D Beyond calculated the ROI. Even assuming the number of 3.5E players is high enough to be a worthwhile market, there are other factors, like how likely they're to use D&D Beyond, how likely they'll pay, how much will they pay, and how much effort/cost is it to develop a toolset for it. It's not simply, "Based on my anecdotal experience, the market is huge, so it's a no brainer and we should do it."
Long story short, 3.5e is barely alive and not even remotely big enough of a market. Friend groups do not represent anything. Also, as shown there, why play 3.5 when there's Pathfinder 1 and 2.
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I'm not sure i'm in the correct section of the forum, but i have a question for the support. It is possible to include manual of D&D 3.5 edition in this app or only D&D 5 manual are supported?
Ps: sorry for my bad english but i'm italian :D
Dont' know WotC plan, but I wouldn't bet on it.
Hi Puccio,
your English is just fine! :)
The D&D Beyond digital toolset is for Fifth edition only - there won't be any development for 3.5, sorry!
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Thanks for your reply :)
For 3.5, your best bet for an online resource is probably the d20srd -- it won't help you make/maintain character sheets, but it contains all of the SRD rules for easy reference. Beyond that, you can pick up PDFs of many 3.5 books over at DMs Guild.
Why not? There still seems to be plenty of people who play 3.5 due to various reasons, and to just have one edition seems very restrictive and honestly a bad business choice.
The really easy answer to this is - there is more than enough development available to keep the team busy for years, developing top tier digital tools for 5th edition - the current version of the game.
Who knows what the future brings though. Maybe if the dev team feel that the site is complete and there are no more value/tools that can be added, they might create a site for 3e/3.5e
I consider it unlikely though and likely a very poor business decision to develop a website to support a game system that is no longer supported by the company who created it.
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If you need help with homebrew, please post on the homebrew forums, where multiple staff and moderators can read your post and help you!
"We got this, no problem! I'll take the twenty on the left - you guys handle the one on the right!"🔊
…and just like that, you lose a new potential customer. Everyone I know plays 3.5 and loves it. Cy@.
I may be a little late to the party, as someone that plays and DMs both 3.5 and 5e (depending on which play groups I'm with) it seems to me that it really shouldn't matter what the creator supports as much as what people are playing. Now I don't know the actual numbers maybe the people playing near me are not an accurate sample size but if they are then over 70% of D&D players are playing 3.5 over 5e, now if that is the case it seems a little foolish to isolate that section of the community (potential customers) just because that edition is "done". If the decision is based on wanting to focus on making dndbeyond reach its potential and they believe trying to build a 3.5 version would distract from that, then I can respect that, otherwise it seems like wasted potential customer base.
it's almost like D&D Beyond is a business, and they probably crunched the numbers and realized that the amount of players who might pay D&D Beyond for 3.5E isn't high enough to be worth the business.
I am sure D&D Beyond calculated the ROI. Even assuming the number of 3.5E players is high enough to be a worthwhile market, there are other factors, like how likely they're to use D&D Beyond, how likely they'll pay, how much will they pay, and how much effort/cost is it to develop a toolset for it. It's not simply, "Based on my anecdotal experience, the market is huge, so it's a no brainer and we should do it."
i would happily change to a paid account to get access to 3.5.
I'll never pay for easy mode DND. or table top wow 4e.
This could help, as Roll20 has the biggest sample size:
https://blog.roll20.net/post/190665086865/the-orr-group-industry-report-q4-2019-a
Long story short, 3.5e is barely alive and not even remotely big enough of a market. Friend groups do not represent anything. Also, as shown there, why play 3.5 when there's Pathfinder 1 and 2.