Hi all, new player to DnD. Recently picked up the Players Handbook and found a group to play with. Started building my character and found DnD Beyond. Seems great to me because it's on the computer, iPad, and iPhone so between one of them I'll always have my character/s. Started using it and see it's limited so I purchased a month of the heroes subscription to check it out. Trying to build my character again it doesn't seem to have unlocked anything.
What does the subscription do? It seems to just have opened up a place where I can re/buy the books. Kind of annoying to have to buy the PHB again, but whatever, I'll get over it.
If I buy the PHB again will I be able to do everything I want to do with c 10.0.0.0.1haracter creation?
Would it be worth just buying the specific things I need for my half-ling rogue?
I notice in some of the other books it says it unlocks heaps of spells or this or that. Can I not use those if I were to build a wizard without buying all those books?
Thanks very much to anyone who takes the time to read this and answer. Hugely appreciated.
Subscription service gives you more character slots at the first level and lets you share the tools you bought at the higher level.
You will have access to all the character options in the players handbook but not options in other books.
If you aren't playing multiple games and are still exploring dnd it would be fine to buy just what you need. Its usually only a few dollars for individual options. Also any money you spend subtracts from the total price of the whole book later and the cost of the bundles as well.
Unless you are book sharing with someone else that owns an option you don't have you can't use those options. Some of these options you might be able to homebrew
Hi all, new player to DnD. Recently picked up the Players Handbook and found a group to play with.
If you are completely new to D&D, I personally do not recommend getting the PHB at all, or spend any money. The Basic Rules/SRD and EEPC are available completely for free, so I would try that out first before shelling out $30 on a book. I am not sure about the group you are in, but I do not think most people mind letting a new player borrow their PHB.
What does the subscription do? It seems to just have opened up a place where I can re/buy the books. Kind of annoying to have to buy the PHB again, but whatever, I'll get over it.
In my opinion, the primary benefit to subscriptions is basically just unlimited character slots. If you are only a player, I am not sure Hero Tier Subscription is worth it, since you can always print out characters to save space, and the character builder is easy enough to use that you can just recreate any character digitally that you printed out relatively quickly. For GMs, the Master Tier subscription is good for sharing content and books, and if the GM got Legendary Bundle, they can essentially save a group of 55 people up to $44,000 (55 people * $800 Legendary Bundle ~ $44,000), and the GM can store any extra characters for the players so the players do not need subscriptions at all.
Digital and physical products are separate and distinct, and it is not common to bundle them together. I am not sure why D&D is the only hobby where this is an issue since no one really complains about physical books not coming with ebooks/audiobooks, videogames not being playable across multiple platforms/consoles, or movie tickets not coming with DVDs to take home.
If I buy the PHB again will I be able to do everything I want to do with character creation?
Yes and no.
No in that buying the PHB will only unlock the options within the PHB. If you want options in XGTE or TCOE for example, you will need to buy those separately.
Yes in that you can use the private homebrew tools to recreate everything from the physical books you own, so you can use D&D Beyond completely free if you want to. If you are trying to recreate everything though, this will take a long time and this is not practical. But if you only need to create a few classes and spells, this does not take very long to do and it is generally pretty easy, so if you do not mind spending a little bit of time, I think it is a good idea to save a few bucks and to get more familiar with the homebrew tools. Some classes/subclasses are more difficult to recreate than others though, and you will need to figure out and learn the workarounds, and in these cases, buying the class/subclass options make more sense than trying to figure it out in my opinion.
Would it be worth just buying the specific things I need for my half-ling rogue?
As mentioned above, depending on the complexity of the character, you can just recreate it completely for free using the homebrew tools.
If it is something complex though, then yeah, just buy the specific subclass and whatever else you need. It is one thing to spend an evening learning the homebrew tools and save yourself $5 or $10, but if you still cannot figure it out after an evening of trial and error, I would just spend the $5 or $10.
I notice in some of the other books it says it unlocks heaps of spells or this or that. Can I not use those if I were to build a wizard without buying all those books?
You cannot use spells in unpurchased books if you have not purchased those digital books or those spells.
Honestly for spells, as a fellow hobbyist, I would just homebrew them as you acquire them. Most of them are pretty easy to recreate. As a Beyond customer though, while Beyond is far from perfect, they are a pretty cool business filled with nice people, so I think it would be good to make purchases on this site to help support them.
Hi all, new player to DnD. Recently picked up the Players Handbook and found a group to play with. Started building my character and found DnD Beyond. Seems great to me because it's on the computer, iPad, and iPhone so between one of them I'll always have my character/s. Started using it and see it's limited so I purchased a month of the heroes subscription to check it out. Trying to build my character again it doesn't seem to have unlocked anything.
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What does the subscription do? It seems to just have opened up a place where I can re/buy the books. Kind of annoying to have to buy the PHB again, but whatever, I'll get over it.
If I buy the PHB again will I be able to do everything I want to do with c 10.0.0.0.1 haracter creation?
Would it be worth just buying the specific things I need for my half-ling rogue?
I notice in some of the other books it says it unlocks heaps of spells or this or that. Can I not use those if I were to build a wizard without buying all those books?
Thanks very much to anyone who takes the time to read this and answer. Hugely appreciated.
Subscription service gives you more character slots at the first level and lets you share the tools you bought at the higher level.
You will have access to all the character options in the players handbook but not options in other books.
If you aren't playing multiple games and are still exploring dnd it would be fine to buy just what you need. Its usually only a few dollars for individual options. Also any money you spend subtracts from the total price of the whole book later and the cost of the bundles as well.
Unless you are book sharing with someone else that owns an option you don't have you can't use those options. Some of these options you might be able to homebrew
If you are completely new to D&D, I personally do not recommend getting the PHB at all, or spend any money. The Basic Rules/SRD and EEPC are available completely for free, so I would try that out first before shelling out $30 on a book. I am not sure about the group you are in, but I do not think most people mind letting a new player borrow their PHB.
In my opinion, the primary benefit to subscriptions is basically just unlimited character slots. If you are only a player, I am not sure Hero Tier Subscription is worth it, since you can always print out characters to save space, and the character builder is easy enough to use that you can just recreate any character digitally that you printed out relatively quickly. For GMs, the Master Tier subscription is good for sharing content and books, and if the GM got Legendary Bundle, they can essentially save a group of 55 people up to $44,000 (55 people * $800 Legendary Bundle ~ $44,000), and the GM can store any extra characters for the players so the players do not need subscriptions at all.
Digital and physical products are separate and distinct, and it is not common to bundle them together. I am not sure why D&D is the only hobby where this is an issue since no one really complains about physical books not coming with ebooks/audiobooks, videogames not being playable across multiple platforms/consoles, or movie tickets not coming with DVDs to take home.
Yes and no.
No in that buying the PHB will only unlock the options within the PHB. If you want options in XGTE or TCOE for example, you will need to buy those separately.
Yes in that you can use the private homebrew tools to recreate everything from the physical books you own, so you can use D&D Beyond completely free if you want to. If you are trying to recreate everything though, this will take a long time and this is not practical. But if you only need to create a few classes and spells, this does not take very long to do and it is generally pretty easy, so if you do not mind spending a little bit of time, I think it is a good idea to save a few bucks and to get more familiar with the homebrew tools. Some classes/subclasses are more difficult to recreate than others though, and you will need to figure out and learn the workarounds, and in these cases, buying the class/subclass options make more sense than trying to figure it out in my opinion.
As mentioned above, depending on the complexity of the character, you can just recreate it completely for free using the homebrew tools.
If it is something complex though, then yeah, just buy the specific subclass and whatever else you need. It is one thing to spend an evening learning the homebrew tools and save yourself $5 or $10, but if you still cannot figure it out after an evening of trial and error, I would just spend the $5 or $10.
You cannot use spells in unpurchased books if you have not purchased those digital books or those spells.
Honestly for spells, as a fellow hobbyist, I would just homebrew them as you acquire them. Most of them are pretty easy to recreate. As a Beyond customer though, while Beyond is far from perfect, they are a pretty cool business filled with nice people, so I think it would be good to make purchases on this site to help support them.
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