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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.
Is there any possibility that extra poster maps might be made available for purchase a la carte in the marketplace?
I wish to purchase extra prints of the POSTER MAP: EASTERN OERIK which is included in the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. My need is a result of the inevitable wear incurred on the print version, after having detached it from the book and after repeated folding & unfolding. My family has already gone through two of these (both taken from purchased 2024 DM Guide books) and would prefer to purchase just the poster map at a reasonable price.
The digital copy is of a much lower resolution and is not suitable for printing with the intent to replace the physical poster map. I understand the reasoning for this is likely to limit or hinder unlicensed print reproductions.
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--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
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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.
Is there any possibility that extra poster maps might be made available for purchase a la carte in the marketplace?
I wish to purchase extra prints of the POSTER MAP: EASTERN OERIK which is included in the 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide. My need is a result of the inevitable wear incurred on the print version, after having detached it from the book and after repeated folding & unfolding. My family has already gone through two of these (both taken from purchased 2024 DM Guide books) and would prefer to purchase just the poster map at a reasonable price.
The digital copy is of a much lower resolution and is not suitable for printing with the intent to replace the physical poster map. I understand the reasoning for this is likely to limit or hinder unlicensed print reproductions.
--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