How come stuff that is in the basic player's guide does not show up on creating a character? I own the Player's handbook, the dungeon masters guide, and a few others. Do I have to buy them here to get stuff to show up?
How come stuff that is in the basic player's guide does not show up on creating a character? I own the Player's handbook, the dungeon masters guide, and a few others. Do I have to buy them here to get stuff to show up?
If you do not have any of your books purchased on D&D Beyond, then you do not have access to them on this website. The "basic rules" (rules, each class, some PHB subclasses, the PHB races, etc.) are for free, and you can buy individual subclasses and races for a few dollars if you need them for a character. But if you want a book on DDB, then you have to buy it there, regardless of whether or not you own the phisycal copy.
Nowhere does it say in the subscription or terms of service that you have to buy additional books that you already own in order to use the paid subscription.
As per the first of the two links in my signature. Thread is still mostly up to date, and explains why DDB is not obligated to allow you to use their service entirely 100% for total freebies just because you have dead tree edition books.
actually when I signed up. the supporting advertisement says you can use your own books. and share those with up to 12 people. nowhere does it say in the advertisement that you must buy the books from this site!
actually when I signed up. the supporting advertisement says you can use your own books. and share those with up to 12 people. nowhere does it say in the advertisement that you must buy the books from this site!
Do you mean this line of text:
“Share Purchased Books With Your Friends
You can share your books and compendium content across five campaigns with up to 12 players each! It’s like bringing a backpack full of books for your friends to use, minus the heavy backpack.”
If so, that is talking about what you can do with a Master tier subscription, as evidenced by it being listed under the ‘Master’ perks. It does not state that you can buy physical copies of books and have access to that content on DDB and in fact, suggests that you can save your players some money by buying the content yourself and subbing at the Master level.
Until very recently, WotC, the publishers of D&D and DDB were two separate entities. You don't automatically get content from one by buying from the other. If you want content on DDB, you have to buy it from DDB.
The subscription doesn't do an awful lot for a single player. Unless you plan running a campaign and want to pool everyone's books in the party, it's probably not worth it. It only includes content that you've purchased from DDB, though.
If you feel that you've purchased things in error, send customer service a ticket, they might be willing to help you out (ie, give you a refund).
With the sole exception of the Essentials Kit, buying physical products is irrelevant to what you can access on DDB, and the subscription doesn't change that situation at all.
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How come stuff that is in the basic player's guide does not show up on creating a character? I own the Player's handbook, the dungeon masters guide, and a few others. Do I have to buy them here to get stuff to show up?
If you do not have any of your books purchased on D&D Beyond, then you do not have access to them on this website. The "basic rules" (rules, each class, some PHB subclasses, the PHB races, etc.) are for free, and you can buy individual subclasses and races for a few dollars if you need them for a character. But if you want a book on DDB, then you have to buy it there, regardless of whether or not you own the phisycal copy.
If you want to know why, look at a thread such as this: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/139228-physical-vs-digital-rant
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HERE.Nowhere does it say in the subscription or terms of service that you have to buy additional books that you already own in order to use the paid subscription.
As per the first of the two links in my signature. Thread is still mostly up to date, and explains why DDB is not obligated to allow you to use their service entirely 100% for total freebies just because you have dead tree edition books.
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actually when I signed up. the supporting advertisement says you can use your own books. and share those with up to 12 people. nowhere does it say in the advertisement that you must buy the books from this site!
Do you mean this line of text:
“Share Purchased Books With Your Friends
You can share your books and compendium content across five campaigns with up to 12 players each! It’s like bringing a backpack full of books for your friends to use, minus the heavy backpack.”
If so, that is talking about what you can do with a Master tier subscription, as evidenced by it being listed under the ‘Master’ perks. It does not state that you can buy physical copies of books and have access to that content on DDB and in fact, suggests that you can save your players some money by buying the content yourself and subbing at the Master level.
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Until very recently, WotC, the publishers of D&D and DDB were two separate entities. You don't automatically get content from one by buying from the other. If you want content on DDB, you have to buy it from DDB.
The subscription doesn't do an awful lot for a single player. Unless you plan running a campaign and want to pool everyone's books in the party, it's probably not worth it. It only includes content that you've purchased from DDB, though.
If you feel that you've purchased things in error, send customer service a ticket, they might be willing to help you out (ie, give you a refund).
With the sole exception of the Essentials Kit, buying physical products is irrelevant to what you can access on DDB, and the subscription doesn't change that situation at all.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
You are also allowed to create homebrew subclasses, feats, races, magic items etc by copying the features from your paper copies of the books.
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ModeratorYep. Just don't try to publish them as public homebrew. It's totally fine to recreate content you own elsewhere as private homebrew.