Hello, I've just been invited to a campaign that limits content to some of the earlier books that were around when the campaign was designed and released. I would really appreciate the convenience of seeing and ability to use that content to create characters and explore the past designs. I understand that DND is moving beyond the cultural and lore of some of these books and going in a new direction to come, but currently we still live in the world of 5e and I would really appreciate having access to all of 5e content, even if you would post a disclaimer that this is legacy content.
I really appreciate that you've probably got very good reasons for starting to lock down old books. For instance some design decisions in the books and some cultural elements of the race design seem antiquated to the designers.
This is feedback I know you've probably heard, but I feel the necessity to repeat it so that it adjusts your expectations of what the community might need the old content for.
Content can be shared within a campaign using a Master level subscription and activating content sharing - this will allow anyone in the campaign to use content owned by others in the campaign.
If no one owns that content on DDB, only in physical books, that becomes rather difficult to do. I agree with everyone else, these books should still be available for purchase, just like they are in physical stores. At the very least, make the subclasses, racial variants, and whatever stuff available for purchase individually.
I have previously brought this up as well. However my standpoint is that of a DM rather than a player, I dont like the idea of being forced to buy one version over the other. It's like trying to force a version of the lore onto people and trying to burn the other. If someone knows of a way to get in touch with WotC or Hasbro directly about this, I would love to join in on that debate.
People had known about this coming change for months. As a player, there is nothing you need the legacy books for aside from the races and if your DM is referring to them but doesn't share them on DDB, homebrew them.
If no one owns that content on DDB, only in physical books, that becomes rather difficult to do. I agree with everyone else, these books should still be available for purchase, just like they are in physical stores. At the very least, make the subclasses, racial variants, and whatever stuff available for purchase individually.
The books are out of print now. They won't be available in stores for much longer.
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Leaving OGL 1.0(a) untouched and making SRD 5.1 CC-BY-4.0 is a great first step. The next is a promise to do the same for future editions. Here's a discussion thread on that.
I hadn't really gotten all the books physically since I was mostly playing online with the pandemic, but WoTC got two book purchases out of me with the discontinuation. As the remaining inventory of these sells out, the books will become priced on the collectors market. While I dont expect them to double in price or anything, it is going to be hard for new players to (legally) find this content. I don't expect to see WoTC putting it up as legacy content on DMSGuild until 5e is long behind them.
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Hello, I've just been invited to a campaign that limits content to some of the earlier books that were around when the campaign was designed and released. I would really appreciate the convenience of seeing and ability to use that content to create characters and explore the past designs. I understand that DND is moving beyond the cultural and lore of some of these books and going in a new direction to come, but currently we still live in the world of 5e and I would really appreciate having access to all of 5e content, even if you would post a disclaimer that this is legacy content.
I really appreciate that you've probably got very good reasons for starting to lock down old books. For instance some design decisions in the books and some cultural elements of the race design seem antiquated to the designers.
This is feedback I know you've probably heard, but I feel the necessity to repeat it so that it adjusts your expectations of what the community might need the old content for.
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If no one owns that content on DDB, only in physical books, that becomes rather difficult to do. I agree with everyone else, these books should still be available for purchase, just like they are in physical stores. At the very least, make the subclasses, racial variants, and whatever stuff available for purchase individually.
I have previously brought this up as well. However my standpoint is that of a DM rather than a player, I dont like the idea of being forced to buy one version over the other. It's like trying to force a version of the lore onto people and trying to burn the other. If someone knows of a way to get in touch with WotC or Hasbro directly about this, I would love to join in on that debate.
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You (WotC) should take a Pokemon approach to sales vs FOMO.
DnD fans want to collect them all, not rush to buy out of fear.
People had known about this coming change for months. As a player, there is nothing you need the legacy books for aside from the races and if your DM is referring to them but doesn't share them on DDB, homebrew them.
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The books are out of print now. They won't be available in stores for much longer.
Leaving OGL 1.0(a) untouched and making SRD 5.1 CC-BY-4.0 is a great first step. The next is a promise to do the same for future editions. Here's a discussion thread on that.
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I hadn't really gotten all the books physically since I was mostly playing online with the pandemic, but WoTC got two book purchases out of me with the discontinuation. As the remaining inventory of these sells out, the books will become priced on the collectors market. While I dont expect them to double in price or anything, it is going to be hard for new players to (legally) find this content. I don't expect to see WoTC putting it up as legacy content on DMSGuild until 5e is long behind them.