Exactly. It's nice to have but not essential. It wouldn't take very much work to download a character sheet as a PDF and then alter it to have everything I wanted. I'd estimate about 5 minutes work,if that. Plus there are other character creation tools out there.
A la carte was how I did most of my purchasing on DnDBeyond in the past, and is the reason I eventually purchased some full books. It also made it possible for me to purchase an ancestry or class option for one of my players as a gift and send it to them without them needed to buy a whole book either just to use one feature. Not to mention the problem of already owning a physical copy and not wanting to pay full price again for digital content you mostly won't touch. For the prices of books in the Marketplace, especially when it comes to the new inclusion of third party content (which I do love) I find myself more likely to purchase elsewhere where I am guaranteed a PDF and physical copy for the same price. A la carte provided so many solutions and was a lovely option for me, it's just so disappointing now because I don't see myself or any of my friends making marketplace purchases without it.
Just reminding everyone I still want the a la carte back
You and me both, buddy.
Seriously, I think literally everyone who uses the site is in agreement about that... it's just a matter of getting through to whoever actually runs the place. Hopefully a massive drop off in sales will send the message loud and clear.
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Unhappy that the market got rid of individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
I have not purchased a single item from DnD Beyond since discovering this, and most likely will not be ever again. There are plenty of books that I will NEVER be running the adventures from, but it's convenient to pay a bit for all the spells, magic items, and races. That's it, that's the ONLY reason I invested in the site to begin with. Goodbye Wizards, and good riddance.
Really sad to see it still ticking over with little WotC response. I cancelled my subscription a month ago and don't intend on coming back once it expires at the end of my current game and sub. DDB is great and very handy to use, especially for new players, but it isn't required for local play and especially not for online play. I think maybe Hasbro forgot that it's a 'nice to have' and not 'an essential'.
Their business model is clearly having all GM's and all players subscribe and pay for each whole book, but that is just not going to work for them.
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DM subscriber since I joined this website. Ended my subscription June 2024 due to the removal of individual purchases. Was the only reason I ever bothered with this website. I use it for character building for my players and occasional referencing. I don't want digital books that can be removed whenever the company sees fit.
January 2025: seems it was a correct move. They're removing 2014 content that we paid for in lieu of their new version of the game. You only rent content on here, never own.
Really sad to see it still ticking over with little WotC response. I cancelled my subscription a month ago and don't intend on coming back once it expires at the end of my current game and sub. DDB is great and very handy to use, especially for new players, but it isn't required for local play and especially not for online play. I think maybe Hasbro forgot that it's a 'nice to have' and not 'an essential'.
Their business model is clearly having all GM's and all players subscribe and pay for each whole book, but that is just not going to work for them.
They are responding, you just have to look for how they are going about it. Before they got rid of piecemeal, I rarely used it, now that it is gone I will rarely use wizbro, it is almost like they know whole books won't sell very well if people had the option to only buy the parts they wanted and found useful. I hope it works out for them as for me 3rd party pencil and paper is going to make a comeback, I just wish I could sell my ddb account to someone that wanted it guess I will just sit on it.
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CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
What about people like me that bought 90% of a book's features except for a single race, and now you want that race from the book after all...
$30 for a single race? You've got to be joking right?
What do I do? What can I do?
Either I can never experience said race on DnDBeyond or I pay $30 on it despite having paid 90% of that $30 before?
At the very least... the very least... they should have previous á la carte purchases their prices be subtracted from the book's full price... this is outrageous!
What about people like me that bought 90% of a book's features except for a single race, and now you want that race from the book after all...
$30 for a single race? You've got to be joking right?
What do I do? What can I do?
Either I can never experience said race on DnDBeyond or I pay $30 on it despite having paid 90% of that $30 before?
At the very least... the very least... they should have previous á la carte purchases their prices be subtracted from the book's full price... this is outrageous!
They've said you can contact support to get the credit for the stuff you already bought. (Support are generally not quick on this.)
What about people like me that bought 90% of a book's features except for a single race, and now you want that race from the book after all...
$30 for a single race? You've got to be joking right?
What do I do? What can I do?
Either I can never experience said race on DnDBeyond or I pay $30 on it despite having paid 90% of that $30 before?
At the very least... the very least... they should have previous á la carte purchases their prices be subtracted from the book's full price... this is outrageous!
I have highlighted the answer in red in the very first post.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1709-d-d-beyond-marketplace-redesign-see-whats-new-here Can I still purchase subclasses, feats, and other game listings à la carte? À la carte purchases are no longer supported. However, any individual items you've previously purchased will continue to be available for use on D&D Beyond. If you've purchased à la carte items and would like to buy the digital book, your discounts are available to you at any time by contacting customer service.
What about people like me that bought 90% of a book's features except for a single race, and now you want that race from the book after all...
$30 for a single race? You've got to be joking right?
What do I do? What can I do?
Either I can never experience said race on DnDBeyond or I pay $30 on it despite having paid 90% of that $30 before?
At the very least... the very least... they should have previous á la carte purchases their prices be subtracted from the book's full price... this is outrageous!
I have highlighted the answer in red in the very first post.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1709-d-d-beyond-marketplace-redesign-see-whats-new-here Can I still purchase subclasses, feats, and other game listings à la carte? À la carte purchases are no longer supported. However, any individual items you've previously purchased will continue to be available for use on D&D Beyond. If you've purchased à la carte items and would like to buy the digital book, your discounts are available to you at any time by contacting customer service.
It still seems really scummy to require customers to jump through that extra hoop to avoid paying a second time for content they already own. Why isn't that applied automatically?
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Unhappy that the market got rid of individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
It still seems really scummy to require customers to jump through that extra hoop to avoid paying a second time for content they already own. Why isn't that applied automatically?
It would be nice if they made it automatic like before, but they did not and nobody really knows why. They still have not given us an answer on why they got rid of individual purchases in the first place.
If you want answers, do not expect any to be given, because the higher ups who made that decision are refusing to communicate.
I got response from Support... They say that apparently I didn't make any á la carte purchases from the book in question: Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, so no discount.
But this confuses me very much as I do have access already to the Spores druid and Order Domain cleric subclasses... I also, albeit the MoM versions (which made a lot of older versions of races legacy I believe?), have access to Minotaur, Centaur and Goblins, just not Loxodons and Veldaken.
So ok, maybe I haven't made á la carte purchases for this book specifically, but I do own 5/7 of the arguably 'main' features of this book... 71%, yet I am asked to pay 100%....
$30 for two races (Loxodons I wouldn't likely use anyways).
I got response from Support... They say that apparently I didn't make any á la carte purchases from the book in question: Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, so no discount.
But this confuses me very much as I do have access already to the Spores druid and Order Domain cleric subclasses... I also, albeit the MoM versions (which made a lot of older versions of races legacy I believe?), have access to Minotaur, Centaur and Goblins, just not Loxodons and Veldaken.
The subclasses are in Tasha's
So ok, maybe I haven't made á la carte purchases for this book specifically, but I do own 5/7 of the arguably 'main' features of this book... 71%, yet I am asked to pay 100%....
The main feature of the book is the setting. If that doesn't interest you, then yeah, it's not worth it, and you shouldn't buy it. If you really want the species, you'll have to homebrew them.
I got response from Support... They say that apparently I didn't make any á la carte purchases from the book in question: Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, so no discount.
But this confuses me very much as I do have access already to the Spores druid and Order Domain cleric subclasses... I also, albeit the MoM versions (which made a lot of older versions of races legacy I believe?), have access to Minotaur, Centaur and Goblins, just not Loxodons and Veldaken.
The subclasses are in Tasha's
That's quite frankly bad practice too imo, selling the same exact features in different full price books...
Well that is, without having an á la carte option to pick and choose...
I got response from Support... They say that apparently I didn't make any á la carte purchases from the book in question: Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, so no discount.
But this confuses me very much as I do have access already to the Spores druid and Order Domain cleric subclasses... I also, albeit the MoM versions (which made a lot of older versions of races legacy I believe?), have access to Minotaur, Centaur and Goblins, just not Loxodons and Veldaken.
The subclasses are in Tasha's
That's quite frankly bad practice too imo, selling the same exact features in different full price books...
Well that is, without having an á la carte option to pick and choose...
It makes a lot of sense if you consider that their business is built around selling books. Very few people are going to buy Ravinica for $50 just because they want a tiny handful of player options. The expectation is that people buy it because they want Ravinica. So it makes sense to publish a setting-neutral book every once in a while that includes the good player options from setting books, along with plenty of new stuff. Because almost nobody wants all those setting books.
Piecemeal buying was a DDB-only exception, not the norm. And, while handy, it does seem to have created an expectation in some people's minds that they need to have all the character options. And they don't. Most people will never use any given option. They go into setting books because they are thematic for that setting, which increases the chances that players in that setting will want to use it. Why own Loxodons when they probably don't exist in any given game world?
Let's keep this going!
Exactly. It's nice to have but not essential. It wouldn't take very much work to download a character sheet as a PDF and then alter it to have everything I wanted. I'd estimate about 5 minutes work,if that. Plus there are other character creation tools out there.
A la carte was how I did most of my purchasing on DnDBeyond in the past, and is the reason I eventually purchased some full books. It also made it possible for me to purchase an ancestry or class option for one of my players as a gift and send it to them without them needed to buy a whole book either just to use one feature. Not to mention the problem of already owning a physical copy and not wanting to pay full price again for digital content you mostly won't touch. For the prices of books in the Marketplace, especially when it comes to the new inclusion of third party content (which I do love) I find myself more likely to purchase elsewhere where I am guaranteed a PDF and physical copy for the same price. A la carte provided so many solutions and was a lovely option for me, it's just so disappointing now because I don't see myself or any of my friends making marketplace purchases without it.
Just reminding everyone I still want the a la carte back
Trying to DM | Lost my party due to removal of A la Carte options | Party no longer wants to use Beyond
You and me both, buddy.
Seriously, I think literally everyone who uses the site is in agreement about that... it's just a matter of getting through to whoever actually runs the place. Hopefully a massive drop off in sales will send the message loud and clear.
Unhappy that the market got rid of individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
Provide feedback!
Without la carte, I won't be able to get the parts of the 2024 books I do want without getting the parts I do not want.
Please bring back la carte.
I have not purchased a single item from DnD Beyond since discovering this, and most likely will not be ever again. There are plenty of books that I will NEVER be running the adventures from, but it's convenient to pay a bit for all the spells, magic items, and races. That's it, that's the ONLY reason I invested in the site to begin with. Goodbye Wizards, and good riddance.
Still not happy about this change...
Really sad to see it still ticking over with little WotC response. I cancelled my subscription a month ago and don't intend on coming back once it expires at the end of my current game and sub. DDB is great and very handy to use, especially for new players, but it isn't required for local play and especially not for online play. I think maybe Hasbro forgot that it's a 'nice to have' and not 'an essential'.
Their business model is clearly having all GM's and all players subscribe and pay for each whole book, but that is just not going to work for them.
DM subscriber since I joined this website. Ended my subscription June 2024 due to the removal of individual purchases. Was the only reason I ever bothered with this website. I use it for character building for my players and occasional referencing. I don't want digital books that can be removed whenever the company sees fit.
January 2025: seems it was a correct move. They're removing 2014 content that we paid for in lieu of their new version of the game. You only rent content on here, never own.
They are responding, you just have to look for how they are going about it. Before they got rid of piecemeal, I rarely used it, now that it is gone I will rarely use wizbro, it is almost like they know whole books won't sell very well if people had the option to only buy the parts they wanted and found useful. I hope it works out for them as for me 3rd party pencil and paper is going to make a comeback, I just wish I could sell my ddb account to someone that wanted it guess I will just sit on it.
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
What about people like me that bought 90% of a book's features except for a single race, and now you want that race from the book after all...
$30 for a single race? You've got to be joking right?
What do I do? What can I do?
Either I can never experience said race on DnDBeyond or I pay $30 on it despite having paid 90% of that $30 before?
At the very least... the very least... they should have previous á la carte purchases their prices be subtracted from the book's full price... this is outrageous!
They've said you can contact support to get the credit for the stuff you already bought. (Support are generally not quick on this.)
(Or you could homebrew it.)
I have highlighted the answer in red in the very first post.
Check Licenses and Resync Entitlements: < https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/licenses >
Running the Game by Matt Colville; Introduction: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-YZvLUXcR8 >
D&D with High School Students by Bill Allen; Season 1 Episode 1: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52NJTUDokyk&t >
It still seems really scummy to require customers to jump through that extra hoop to avoid paying a second time for content they already own. Why isn't that applied automatically?
Unhappy that the market got rid of individual purchases for one-off subclasses, magic items, and monsters?
Provide feedback!
It would be nice if they made it automatic like before, but they did not and nobody really knows why. They still have not given us an answer on why they got rid of individual purchases in the first place.
If you want answers, do not expect any to be given, because the higher ups who made that decision are refusing to communicate.
Check Licenses and Resync Entitlements: < https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/licenses >
Running the Game by Matt Colville; Introduction: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e-YZvLUXcR8 >
D&D with High School Students by Bill Allen; Season 1 Episode 1: < https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=52NJTUDokyk&t >
I got response from Support... They say that apparently I didn't make any á la carte purchases from the book in question: Guildmaster's Guide to Ravnica, so no discount.
But this confuses me very much as I do have access already to the Spores druid and Order Domain cleric subclasses... I also, albeit the MoM versions (which made a lot of older versions of races legacy I believe?), have access to Minotaur, Centaur and Goblins, just not Loxodons and Veldaken.
So ok, maybe I haven't made á la carte purchases for this book specifically, but I do own 5/7 of the arguably 'main' features of this book... 71%, yet I am asked to pay 100%....
$30 for two races (Loxodons I wouldn't likely use anyways).
The subclasses are in Tasha's
The main feature of the book is the setting. If that doesn't interest you, then yeah, it's not worth it, and you shouldn't buy it. If you really want the species, you'll have to homebrew them.
That's quite frankly bad practice too imo, selling the same exact features in different full price books...
Well that is, without having an á la carte option to pick and choose...
It makes a lot of sense if you consider that their business is built around selling books. Very few people are going to buy Ravinica for $50 just because they want a tiny handful of player options. The expectation is that people buy it because they want Ravinica. So it makes sense to publish a setting-neutral book every once in a while that includes the good player options from setting books, along with plenty of new stuff. Because almost nobody wants all those setting books.
Piecemeal buying was a DDB-only exception, not the norm. And, while handy, it does seem to have created an expectation in some people's minds that they need to have all the character options. And they don't. Most people will never use any given option. They go into setting books because they are thematic for that setting, which increases the chances that players in that setting will want to use it. Why own Loxodons when they probably don't exist in any given game world?
I can see nothing has changed. I was half hoping they would reverse this frankly idiotic decision.
It's just going to cause people to find alternative methods in finding what they want.