Thanks, I couldn't tell what I was getting extra since I purchased it straight away and looking at the Races and classes it said the source was Basic Rules so I assumed it was all available.
The basic rules only include the four O.G. classes of D&D, fighter, rogue, wizard, and cleric. They also only touch upon a very narrow margin of spells, creatures, and items available, and only include a single archetype per class. Enough to get your feet wet with your first group, but leaving much to be desired when you know of what's actually in the PHB.
That being said, I'm equally as appalled as you are by the pricing of Beyond as a service. $279 and I get all of the books I already bought in real life digitally, huh? And oh, I don't even get future content included, as if a 15% discount would make me feel better about that. Why, when people like the Nerdarchs describe them as such good people, are the WotC's such fiends for royalties?
The concept that Beyond is following has already existed on multiple other sites that are made entirely free and often developed as a hobby. In a handful of examples, the source is even available on github. I somewhat understand further monetizing on roll20 and fantasy grounds given there's often additional assets that need to be created for those resources, but in all honesty in this particular case I just feel extremely cheated having bought my gigantic stack of books and being asked to pay for the same information and artwork doubly just to be able to find game rules from a search bar.
The basic rules only include the four O.G. classes of D&D, fighter, rogue, wizard, and cleric. They also only touch upon a very narrow margin of spells, creatures, and items available, and only include a single archetype per class. Enough to get your feet wet with your first group, but leaving much to be desired when you know of what's actually in the PHB.
That being said, I'm equally as appalled as you are by the pricing of Beyond as a service. $279 and I get all of the books I already bought in real life digitally, huh? And oh, I don't even get future content included, as if a 15% discount would make me feel better about that. Why, when people like the Nerdarchs describe them as such good people, are the WotC's such fiends for royalties?
The concept that Beyond is following has already existed on multiple other sites that are made entirely free and often developed as a hobby. In a handful of examples, the source is even available on github. I somewhat understand further monetizing on roll20 and fantasy grounds given there's often additional assets that need to be created for those resources, but in all honesty in this particular case I just feel extremely cheated having bought my gigantic stack of books and being asked to pay for the same information and artwork doubly just to be able to find game rules from a search bar.
Hey Brojisan, if you have a look in the forum you can see this point has been covered more than extensively in the last month. I understand your frustration in having to repurchase content that you already own however there are a few reasons that this is the case
The first being that Curse is the one building this tool set not WotC so Curse have to licence the content from WotC to be able to use it
Secondly this is more than just the content from the books, you also get listings for all aspects of the content, all of which is tool tipped to other areas of the website, as well as the use of that content in the character builder which Curse have spent months building, as well as the use of the content in any future functionality that Curse provides. So getting this content for free from Curse would negate all the hard work that they have put into the product when you bought the original from a different company
Another reason is there is really no way to prove that you infact actually own the content
So if you don't feel the features of DDB are worth while spending the money on to use then continue playing D&D on pen and paper like it has been in the past and keep checking until you see some features that you do think are worth the investment
I would also like to mention that Curse have provide a lot of content for Free including all the Basic Rules which you can use with the Character builder and the fact that you can recreate a lot of what you can pay for in the Homebrew (more of which is coming) so if you feel so inclined you could enter all the content from your books as homebrew and use it that way without paying a cent
Most of that content that you find out there that is on other sources other than Fantasy Grounds and Roll20 normally only include the Basic Rules, however those that have more are not endorsed by WotC and will probably in the future receive a C&D as they do not have permission
I hope you found this helpful and you now understand more clearly
Also on another note the Basic Rules actually contain all classes but only one archetype of each, just so you are aware
The PHB is a core book but you can freely make characters of all races and classes in the PHB using the Free Basic rules.
Can someone explain why I've been robbed?
They aren't - not all races and subclasses are in the Basic Rules.
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Thanks, I couldn't tell what I was getting extra since I purchased it straight away and looking at the Races and classes it said the source was Basic Rules so I assumed it was all available.
Thanks for the reply
The basic rules only include the four O.G. classes of D&D, fighter, rogue, wizard, and cleric. They also only touch upon a very narrow margin of spells, creatures, and items available, and only include a single archetype per class. Enough to get your feet wet with your first group, but leaving much to be desired when you know of what's actually in the PHB.
That being said, I'm equally as appalled as you are by the pricing of Beyond as a service. $279 and I get all of the books I already bought in real life digitally, huh? And oh, I don't even get future content included, as if a 15% discount would make me feel better about that. Why, when people like the Nerdarchs describe them as such good people, are the WotC's such fiends for royalties?
The concept that Beyond is following has already existed on multiple other sites that are made entirely free and often developed as a hobby. In a handful of examples, the source is even available on github. I somewhat understand further monetizing on roll20 and fantasy grounds given there's often additional assets that need to be created for those resources, but in all honesty in this particular case I just feel extremely cheated having bought my gigantic stack of books and being asked to pay for the same information and artwork doubly just to be able to find game rules from a search bar.
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