I was today years old when I found out the DnD Beyond subscription. Now, I can easily imagine and produce tons of critique for it, and I am not really interested in more. But can somebody here "sell" it to me? Why it can be good and desirable? How I, as a player, not DM, can benefit from it? And I would love to hear some positive experience from it.
To clarify – https://vlc****/ it is not a trolling post, not a joke. I am genuinely interested in a positive experience from that subscription. And I am really not interested in negative thoughts about it and critique, I have plenty of that myself already.
If you are new and just a player, I would recommend that you do not subscribe actually. Once you get some games under your belt though and have attachments to multiple characters, that 6 character limit is going to be very restrictive.
I'm not going to sell it. The main thing that makes it worth getting is content sharing. Let's say you're in a party of 5+DM. You decide you want the PHB, TCoE and XGtE for everyone to use.
Normally, that would cost 4x$30=$120 per player, $120x6=$720 total. You don't necessarily have to spend all that to play, but for simplicity's sake we'll roll with that.
For $5.99 a month Master Tier sub, so $72 a year, you could share those books with all of your campaign. So it would cost $192 total for everyone to have those books for a year, $72 a year thereafter. It would take you 7 years for that to break even...in which time, you're likely to buy more books, extending the break even point by about two years each time. You can also share homebrew.
If you're in a campaign with close friends and everyone uses DDB, then it can easily be worth the subscription.
Otherwise, meh? The rest of the stuff is pretty much "jingly sparkly stuff". I haven't even redeemed my free trial yet, and I'm not sure I ever will.
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I was today years old when I found out the DnD Beyond subscription. Now, I can easily imagine and produce tons of critique for it, and I am not really interested in more. But can somebody here "sell" it to me? Why it can be good and desirable? How I, as a player, not DM, can benefit from it? And I would love to hear some positive experience from it.
To clarify – it is not a trolling post, not a joke. I am genuinely interested in a positive experience from that subscription. And I am really not interested in negative thoughts about it and critique, I have plenty of that myself already.
There really is no benefit as a player to have a subscription with the hero tier. Other than unlimited characters. Which I have far exceeded then basic number.
Master Tier is the real benefit. I share all my content with my players and it helps them a lot as many of my player have a hard time affording things.
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I was today years old when I found out the DnD Beyond subscription. Now, I can easily imagine and produce tons of critique for it, and I am not really interested in more. But can somebody here "sell" it to me? Why it can be good and desirable? How I, as a player, not DM, can benefit from it? And I would love to hear some positive experience from it.
To clarify – https://vlc****/ it is not a trolling post, not a joke. I am genuinely interested in a positive experience from that subscription. And I am really not interested in negative thoughts about it and critique, I have plenty of that myself already.
If you are new and just a player, I would recommend that you do not subscribe actually. Once you get some games under your belt though and have attachments to multiple characters, that 6 character limit is going to be very restrictive.
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I'm not going to sell it. The main thing that makes it worth getting is content sharing. Let's say you're in a party of 5+DM. You decide you want the PHB, TCoE and XGtE for everyone to use.
Normally, that would cost 4x$30=$120 per player, $120x6=$720 total. You don't necessarily have to spend all that to play, but for simplicity's sake we'll roll with that.
For $5.99 a month Master Tier sub, so $72 a year, you could share those books with all of your campaign. So it would cost $192 total for everyone to have those books for a year, $72 a year thereafter. It would take you 7 years for that to break even...in which time, you're likely to buy more books, extending the break even point by about two years each time. You can also share homebrew.
If you're in a campaign with close friends and everyone uses DDB, then it can easily be worth the subscription.
Otherwise, meh? The rest of the stuff is pretty much "jingly sparkly stuff". I haven't even redeemed my free trial yet, and I'm not sure I ever will.
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.
There really is no benefit as a player to have a subscription with the hero tier. Other than unlimited characters. Which I have far exceeded then basic number.
Master Tier is the real benefit. I share all my content with my players and it helps them a lot as many of my player have a hard time affording things.