Hello I feel there should be an easy way to unlock content you want, I would like to buy all races and subclasses, but picking them out takes time and also cost a lot. I usually buy just what I need from each book, but there should be a cheaper deal if you get all races at once, etc. Buying every book is way too expensive and I will not use most of what follows with a book purchase.
Sadly, that's the point of a la carte sales, which DDB offers.
They know what we want and charge the most for it. If you bought everything a la carte, it would cost more than just buying the books. The point there is to sell it to you in bits and pieces so you don't invest as much at any given time.
While it would be great to just buy everything we want for cheaper, it wouldn't be a good business practice.
...If you bought everything a la carte, it would cost more than just buying the books. The point there is to sell it to you in bits and pieces so you don't invest as much at any given time.
I don't think this is true. For example, I bought monsters from the Monster manual one at a time as I needed them; but when I got to the point that the Monster bundle would be less than the price of two a-la-carte monsters, I still had a lot more than 2 monsters left to buy, and was able to get all of them for just the remaining cost of the Monster Bundle. This was still less than the cost of the Monster Manual as a whole. Remember that the cost of the race/spell/subclass bundles, of the book as a whole, and of the multi-book bundles is reduced by what you spend on a la carte purchases from those bundles/books.
...If you bought everything a la carte, it would cost more than just buying the books. The point there is to sell it to you in bits and pieces so you don't invest as much at any given time.
I don't think this is true.
You're saying the same thing, really.
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...If you bought everything a la carte, it would cost more than just buying the books. The point there is to sell it to you in bits and pieces so you don't invest as much at any given time.
I don't think this is true.
You're saying the same thing, really.
If you buy just the "a la carte" bundles (all subclasses for one book, all spells, etc), looking at a couple of books including the PHB, you do save a few bucks going that route instead of buying the book. Now with the PHB (savings like 3-4 dollars) you may be missing some rules explainers that aren't in the basic rules, but I don't know what those would be or if they exist.
If you bought everything a la carte, it would cost more than just buying the books. The point there is to sell it to you in bits and pieces so you don't invest as much at any given time.
It should be noted that it is possible to spend more than the value of the book buying things individually, you aren't forced to do that.
Say a book has 100 options priced individually at $1.99 (this is the minimum transaction size on D&D Beyond for various reasons), while the book is normally $29.99. You buy 14 of those options for a total of $27.86 spent so far. Now, you could continue to buy individual options, going past the $29.99 of the book. Or you could spend $2.13 to unlock the full book ($29.99 minus the $27.86 you've spent on individual options), unlocking the remaining 86 options, plus the compendium.
It should be noted that due to the $1.99 minimum heuristic charge, if you were to purchase 15 items for a total expenditure of $29.85, you would still have to pay $1.99 to unlock the full book, bringing your total spend to $31.84. This is a quirk of the minimum charge limitation.
However, as long as you avoid purchasing more than 14 options from a single book, you'll never be in a situation where you spend more than the price of the book on individual purchases.
If you bought everything a la carte, it would cost more than just buying the books. The point there is to sell it to you in bits and pieces so you don't invest as much at any given time.
It should be noted that it is possible to spend more than the value of the book buying things individually, you aren't forced to do that.
Say a book has 100 options priced individually at $1.99 (this is the minimum transaction size on D&D Beyond for various reasons), while the book is normally $29.99. You buy 14 of those options for a total of $27.86 spent so far. Now, you could continue to buy individual options, going past the $29.99 of the book. Or you could spend $2.13 to unlock the full book ($29.99 minus the $27.86 you've spent on individual options), unlocking the remaining 86 options, plus the compendium.
It should be noted that due to the $1.99 minimum heuristic charge, if you were to purchase 15 items for a total expenditure of $29.85, you would still have to pay $1.99 to unlock the full book, bringing your total spend to $31.84. This is a quirk of the minimum charge limitation.
However, as long as you avoid purchasing more than 14 options from a single book, you'll never be in a situation where you spend more than the price of the book on individual purchases.
When I experienced this, I was stoked. I think it was with Volo's, because I had bought the races and not the monsters, or something... I also ran into a weird situation where the Legendary bundle was cheaper than the Adventure bundle, so I wound up getting that.
I like the idea of being able to add a la carte stuff to the basket based on type, but it might be a bit too easy to miss out on extra lore and extra character/creature building stuff that doesn't get included in a la carte. It might be worth exploring the idea anyway.
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I feel there should be an easy way to unlock content you want, I would like to buy all races and subclasses, but picking them out takes time and also cost a lot.
I usually buy just what I need from each book, but there should be a cheaper deal if you get all races at once, etc.
Buying every book is way too expensive and I will not use most of what follows with a book purchase.
Sadly, that's the point of a la carte sales, which DDB offers.
They know what we want and charge the most for it. If you bought everything a la carte, it would cost more than just buying the books. The point there is to sell it to you in bits and pieces so you don't invest as much at any given time.
While it would be great to just buy everything we want for cheaper, it wouldn't be a good business practice.
I don't think this is true. For example, I bought monsters from the Monster manual one at a time as I needed them; but when I got to the point that the Monster bundle would be less than the price of two a-la-carte monsters, I still had a lot more than 2 monsters left to buy, and was able to get all of them for just the remaining cost of the Monster Bundle. This was still less than the cost of the Monster Manual as a whole. Remember that the cost of the race/spell/subclass bundles, of the book as a whole, and of the multi-book bundles is reduced by what you spend on a la carte purchases from those bundles/books.
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You're saying the same thing, really.
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If you buy just the "a la carte" bundles (all subclasses for one book, all spells, etc), looking at a couple of books including the PHB, you do save a few bucks going that route instead of buying the book. Now with the PHB (savings like 3-4 dollars) you may be missing some rules explainers that aren't in the basic rules, but I don't know what those would be or if they exist.
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It should be noted that it is possible to spend more than the value of the book buying things individually, you aren't forced to do that.
Say a book has 100 options priced individually at $1.99 (this is the minimum transaction size on D&D Beyond for various reasons), while the book is normally $29.99. You buy 14 of those options for a total of $27.86 spent so far. Now, you could continue to buy individual options, going past the $29.99 of the book. Or you could spend $2.13 to unlock the full book ($29.99 minus the $27.86 you've spent on individual options), unlocking the remaining 86 options, plus the compendium.
It should be noted that due to the $1.99 minimum heuristic charge, if you were to purchase 15 items for a total expenditure of $29.85, you would still have to pay $1.99 to unlock the full book, bringing your total spend to $31.84. This is a quirk of the minimum charge limitation.
However, as long as you avoid purchasing more than 14 options from a single book, you'll never be in a situation where you spend more than the price of the book on individual purchases.
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When I experienced this, I was stoked. I think it was with Volo's, because I had bought the races and not the monsters, or something... I also ran into a weird situation where the Legendary bundle was cheaper than the Adventure bundle, so I wound up getting that.
All in all, DDB is more than fair.
I like the idea of being able to add a la carte stuff to the basket based on type, but it might be a bit too easy to miss out on extra lore and extra character/creature building stuff that doesn't get included in a la carte. It might be worth exploring the idea anyway.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.