Incorrect. #1 there have already been digital codes. #2 DNDBeyond just added a ton of digital stuff with Forgotten Realms plus all the third party stuff they're pulling in recently. The DNDBeyond developers are interacting with the DNDBeyond licensing system on a recent and regular basis. It's not some forgotten arcane knowledge.
It's funny - I was looking up an old 2014 book to see whether WizBro had bothered releasing a physical / digital bundle and I've just seen that Xanathar's Guide to Everything does indeed have such a bundle. Without checking EVERY book mind, it looks as if WizBro did indeed go through their old catalogue and give the option of buying bundles on everything, not just the newer books.
Point still stands though - a lot of the points from 5 years ago are still relevant. There is a whole gamut of problems for people that just want to have one thing free because they paid for the other version of it. Could WizBro make changes to it? Potentially. However, the points have been talked about to death and this is the current offering we're getting. Digital / Physical Bundles were one of the most requested features, and WizBro (surprisingly) delivered.
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#Open D&D
Have the Physical Books? Confused as to why you're not allowed to redeem them for free on D&D Beyond? Questions answered here at the Hardcover Books, D&D Beyond and You FAQ
Looking to add mouse-over triggered tooltips to such things like magic items, monsters or combat actions? Then dash over to the How to Add Tooltips thread.
Please allow me to share my feedback regarding this topic. I read the FAQ, but I have not read all the comments in this thread.
I wish that D&D Beyond offered a jubilee day where existing customers of Hardcover and Digital editions could complete their collections at a reasonable discount. To that end, I was really hoping there would be a Black Friday/ Cyber Monday discount on digital editions of the Core Rule Books and even the Expanded Rulebooks.
After recently migrating from AD&D to 5.24e, I had already accumulated a library of Hardcover books before I discovered this website. If I could go back in time, I'd have ignored my local game store and shopped exclusively for digital + hardcover bundles here on the marketplace. In just the past few months I have purchased many Hardcover/Digital bundles — mostly expanded rule books, but also of the Players Handbook (of which I now own multiple physical copies), and other digital items. I purchased the Digital Dungeon Masters guide separately at full price.
I am not wealthy. Some would shake their heads at how high the percentage of my meager income is being applied to Wizards of the Coast products. Anyway, I am sad that there have been no opportunities to complete my digital collection at a reasonable discount. I will inevitably be purchasing the Digital Monster Manual at full price as my efforts to learn and implement VTT campaigns appear to be stalled without it. I will be making this purchase, just not today. Sigh.
--Nimglin & Kurrelguyre were my main AD&D characters from the late 1970's/early '80's --I resumed playing AD&D in 2015 (and continue to do so) --I began playing D&D 5e in 2025
I think it's curious that people are like "WotC already considered all the options and coupons are just impossible" when it's clear that WotC benefits twice from the digital / physical bundles. They get to completely bypass the distributor and local game store / book store and sell the book at full MSRP directly to the customer plus $10 for the digital license vs the probably $15-20 they would have made on the book otherwise. $60 vs. $20 is massive.
If you want me to believe that this isn't about profits but about technology and that WotC has their best people on it, I have one question. Why can we still not gift subscriptions and books? Given the age of many D&D players, being able to gift a sub or digital content is a Must Have and yet, it doesn't exist. Also why is it still a somewhat clunky 2 step process to login to a WotC account? And when you report a showstopper issue about the DNDBeyond VTT, the response is "well it's a beta, just go back to books and dice". The reality is, there's hundreds of millions of dollars at play here and Hasbro is holding the purse strings tight. This isn't about "can't". It's about "won't".
I think it's curious that people are like "WotC already considered all the options and coupons are just impossible" when it's clear that WotC benefits twice from the digital / physical bundles. They get to completely bypass the distributor and local game store / book store and sell the book at full MSRP directly to the customer plus $10 for the digital license vs the probably $15-20 they would have made on the book otherwise. $60 vs. $20 is massive.
If you want me to believe that this isn't about profits but about technology and that WotC has their best people on it, I have one question. Why can we still not gift subscriptions and books? Given the age of many D&D players, being able to gift a sub or digital content is a Must Have and yet, it doesn't exist. Also why is it still a somewhat clunky 2 step process to login to a WotC account? And when you report a showstopper issue about the DNDBeyond VTT, the response is "well it's a beta, just go back to books and dice". The reality is, there's hundreds of millions of dollars at play here and Hasbro is holding the purse strings tight. This isn't about "can't". It's about "won't".
Apparently I never gifted a friend that copy of Lost Laboratory of Kwalish. Must have been a monetary hallucination last Christmas.
You don't have to lie about small details to say that Hasbro should allocate funds to WotC to revamp Beyond out of the coding they inherited from Fandom.
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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.
Apparently I never gifted a friend that copy of Lost Laboratory of Kwalish. Must have been a monetary hallucination last Christmas.
You don't have to lie about small details to say that Hasbro should allocate funds to WotC to revamp Beyond out of the coding they inherited from Fandom.
So you can gift books but not subscriptions? That's... weird.
It's funny - I was looking up an old 2014 book to see whether WizBro had bothered releasing a physical / digital bundle and I've just seen that Xanathar's Guide to Everything does indeed have such a bundle. Without checking EVERY book mind, it looks as if WizBro did indeed go through their old catalogue and give the option of buying bundles on everything, not just the newer books.
Point still stands though - a lot of the points from 5 years ago are still relevant. There is a whole gamut of problems for people that just want to have one thing free because they paid for the other version of it. Could WizBro make changes to it? Potentially. However, the points have been talked about to death and this is the current offering we're getting. Digital / Physical Bundles were one of the most requested features, and WizBro (surprisingly) delivered.
#Open D&D
Have the Physical Books? Confused as to why you're not allowed to redeem them for free on D&D Beyond? Questions answered here at the Hardcover Books, D&D Beyond and You FAQ
Looking to add mouse-over triggered tooltips to such things like magic items, monsters or combat actions? Then dash over to the How to Add Tooltips thread.
Please allow me to share my feedback regarding this topic. I read the FAQ, but I have not read all the comments in this thread.
I wish that D&D Beyond offered a jubilee day where existing customers of Hardcover and Digital editions could complete their collections at a reasonable discount. To that end, I was really hoping there would be a Black Friday/ Cyber Monday discount on digital editions of the Core Rule Books and even the Expanded Rulebooks.
After recently migrating from AD&D to 5.24e, I had already accumulated a library of Hardcover books before I discovered this website. If I could go back in time, I'd have ignored my local game store and shopped exclusively for digital + hardcover bundles here on the marketplace. In just the past few months I have purchased many Hardcover/Digital bundles — mostly expanded rule books, but also of the Players Handbook (of which I now own multiple physical copies), and other digital items. I purchased the Digital Dungeon Masters guide separately at full price.
I am not wealthy. Some would shake their heads at how high the percentage of my meager income is being applied to Wizards of the Coast products. Anyway, I am sad that there have been no opportunities to complete my digital collection at a reasonable discount. I will inevitably be purchasing the Digital Monster Manual at full price as my efforts to learn and implement VTT campaigns appear to be stalled without it. I will be making this purchase, just not today. Sigh.
--Nimglin & Kurrelguyre were my main AD&D characters from the late 1970's/early '80's
--I resumed playing AD&D in 2015 (and continue to do so)
--I began playing D&D 5e in 2025
I think it's curious that people are like "WotC already considered all the options and coupons are just impossible" when it's clear that WotC benefits twice from the digital / physical bundles. They get to completely bypass the distributor and local game store / book store and sell the book at full MSRP directly to the customer plus $10 for the digital license vs the probably $15-20 they would have made on the book otherwise. $60 vs. $20 is massive.
If you want me to believe that this isn't about profits but about technology and that WotC has their best people on it, I have one question. Why can we still not gift subscriptions
and books? Given the age of many D&D players, being able to gift a sub or digital content is a Must Have and yet, it doesn't exist. Also why is it still a somewhat clunky 2 step process to login to a WotC account? And when you report a showstopper issue about the DNDBeyond VTT, the response is "well it's a beta, just go back to books and dice". The reality is, there's hundreds of millions of dollars at play here and Hasbro is holding the purse strings tight. This isn't about "can't". It's about "won't".Apparently I never gifted a friend that copy of Lost Laboratory of Kwalish. Must have been a monetary hallucination last Christmas.
You don't have to lie about small details to say that Hasbro should allocate funds to WotC to revamp Beyond out of the coding they inherited from Fandom.
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.
So you can gift books but not subscriptions? That's... weird.