5th Ed enjoys a lots of 3PPs creating new ideas, but here there is a challenge, after the crowdfunding, their new IPs fall into the oblivion if they don't get enough promotion.
Then I have thought about D&D Beyond publishing things by these 3PPs in exchange for a commission. Would it be worth it? Really if the goal isn't making money within D&D Beyond but as a not-too-expensive path to promote their IPs. It could be a new PC race or a monster. Then the players after buying the product, would search the rest of titles by those 3PPs.
5th Ed enjoys a lots of 3PPs creating new ideas, but here there is a challenge, after the crowdfunding, their new IPs fall into the oblivion if they don't get enough promotion.
Then I have thought about D&D Beyond publishing things by these 3PPs in exchange for a commission. Would it be worth it? Really if the goal isn't making money within D&D Beyond but as a not-too-expensive path to promote their IPs. It could be a new PC race or a monster. Then the players after buying the product, would search the rest of titles by those 3PPs.
It's been suggested to death and been informed to death. It's definitely not gonna happen now that D&D Beyond is owned by Wizards of the Coast and wants to only promote their stuff. Wizards has been notoriously strict about allowing 3rd party stuff into their official works, be it games or media.
That said, Nexus over on Demiplane is shaping up more for this. They're developing web tools for multiple systems at once. It definitely looks like the flexibility of the toolsets is going to allow for third party content to be much more easily implemented from a homebrew standpoint.
5th Ed enjoys a lots of 3PPs creating new ideas, but here there is a challenge, after the crowdfunding, their new IPs fall into the oblivion if they don't get enough promotion.
Then I have thought about D&D Beyond publishing things by these 3PPs in exchange for a commission. Would it be worth it?
Pretty much no.There's no reason sales on DDB would be any better than sales on something like DMs Guild, and because the products likely aren't laid out for DDB, it would be a lot more effort to set up.
Nothing's changed other than DDB now being wholly owned by WotC. Even if WotC were inclined to become an enhanced DriveThruRPG (which you know with Roll20 merging with OneBookshelf, that is sort of a gamechanger) that would require a not insubstantial infusion of at minimum QA type personnel to make sure once being proposed for the DDB marketplace meets WotC's standards (a lot of bad product gets put out just as much if not more often than good in the Kickstarterverse) before a 3rd party developer is allowed to introduce content, then there's troubleshooting bugs of toolset integration, which DDB already has its hands full with WotC products already. What it comes down to is making DDB some sort of utopian clearing house for 3rd party presses longevity would require a substantial resource investment beyond what's already in it, and I don't think anyone knows what's in the cards other than common sense says DDB will be used to advance WotC's D&D first and foremost.
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5th Ed enjoys a lots of 3PPs creating new ideas, but here there is a challenge, after the crowdfunding, their new IPs fall into the oblivion if they don't get enough promotion.
Then I have thought about D&D Beyond publishing things by these 3PPs in exchange for a commission. Would it be worth it? Really if the goal isn't making money within D&D Beyond but as a not-too-expensive path to promote their IPs. It could be a new PC race or a monster. Then the players after buying the product, would search the rest of titles by those 3PPs.
It's been suggested to death and been informed to death. It's definitely not gonna happen now that D&D Beyond is owned by Wizards of the Coast and wants to only promote their stuff. Wizards has been notoriously strict about allowing 3rd party stuff into their official works, be it games or media.
That said, Nexus over on Demiplane is shaping up more for this. They're developing web tools for multiple systems at once. It definitely looks like the flexibility of the toolsets is going to allow for third party content to be much more easily implemented from a homebrew standpoint.
Pretty much no.There's no reason sales on DDB would be any better than sales on something like DMs Guild, and because the products likely aren't laid out for DDB, it would be a lot more effort to set up.
Recall this thread?
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/59311-kobold-press-or-any-3rd-party-content-in-dnd?page=3
Nothing's changed other than DDB now being wholly owned by WotC. Even if WotC were inclined to become an enhanced DriveThruRPG (which you know with Roll20 merging with OneBookshelf, that is sort of a gamechanger) that would require a not insubstantial infusion of at minimum QA type personnel to make sure once being proposed for the DDB marketplace meets WotC's standards (a lot of bad product gets put out just as much if not more often than good in the Kickstarterverse) before a 3rd party developer is allowed to introduce content, then there's troubleshooting bugs of toolset integration, which DDB already has its hands full with WotC products already. What it comes down to is making DDB some sort of utopian clearing house for 3rd party presses longevity would require a substantial resource investment beyond what's already in it, and I don't think anyone knows what's in the cards other than common sense says DDB will be used to advance WotC's D&D first and foremost.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.