Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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D&D Beyond Basic Rules
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I'm going to speak plainly here. Players at my tables may only ever have access to the options that every player has access to. That means if one player has a source book but won't lend it to other players, or if the sources cannot be shared through D&D Beyond it is disallowed at my tables.
This is not an uncommon sentiment. No-one player gets to buy their way to cool content that other players don't have access to.
As a result D&D Beyond Drops with their inability to be shared via content management and the Master Tier subscription are banned without discussion at my tables. I know many other DMs who are intending the same.
Either allow these drops to be purchasable separately, or allow them to be shared via a Master Tier subscription. Failing to do either of these makes the drops entirely pointless. I will not recommend every player goes out and subscribes just to get access to these options. That's simply not fair on some of my players. I get that this is a decision by the higher ups to try and 'more effectively monetise' D&D, but it's a step too far. Personally, if this is the forward plan for D&D it'll result in leaving D&D Beyond and encouraging all the players I have (over 50) to do the same. I know in the GM group that I'm a member of the sentiment last night was universal - this is a bad move by D&D Beyond.
Please reconsider!
DM session planning template - My version of maps for 'Lost Mine of Phandelver' - Send your party to The Circus - Other DM Resources - Maps, Tokens, Quests - 'Better' Player Character Injury Tables?
Actor, Writer, Director & Teacher by day - GM/DM in my off hours.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/240257-is-d-d-beyond-requiring-subscriptions?page=2
Page 2, post 43.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Oh, I'm aware of this and frankly Parry's words carry zero weight. Any reasonably competent person would have known before this rolled out it would be unpopular. Like so very much else in our modern world it's an example of poor project management to push out an unfinished thought and call it a feature.
DM session planning template - My version of maps for 'Lost Mine of Phandelver' - Send your party to The Circus - Other DM Resources - Maps, Tokens, Quests - 'Better' Player Character Injury Tables?
Actor, Writer, Director & Teacher by day - GM/DM in my off hours.
The head of DND Beyond's words carrying zero weight.
The MAN IN CHARGE' OF BEYOND'S words carrying ZERO weight.
Who do you need to hear it from for it to be weighty enough?
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
It's weird that you're choosing to arbitrarily punish your players when you have the ability to just copy the content as homebrew and share it with them.
By all means encourage WotC to make the Drops content available for purchase. Personally, I'd love to get physical copies. But punishing your players seems misguided.