Six is plenty sufficient. Unless you find yourself in more than four campaigns at the same time. That would leave you with two slots to experiment with.

If you are so lucky as to be in more than four campaigns at the same time, then you are lucky lucky.

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Six is plenty sufficient. Unless you find yourself in more than four campaigns at the same time. That would leave you with two slots to experiment with.

If you are so lucky as to be in more than four campaigns at the same time, then you are lucky lucky.

 It does get restrictive for DMs, as we need NPCs and many of us build them as PCs.

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Six is plenty sufficient. Unless you find yourself in more than four campaigns at the same time. That would leave you with two slots to experiment with.

If you are so lucky as to be in more than four campaigns at the same time, then you are lucky lucky.

For me - six isn't nearly sufficient. I'm not in any campaigns at the moment so the only D&D I can get is making characters. I'm up to 46. I know I'll never play them all - or even most of them - but I can't help myself.

Also nowhere does it say that you're limited to 6 character slots when you purchase content. Do you folks really not hold onto your old characters? It's nothing but a greedy cash-grab, there's no reason to charge for extra character slots unless we're talking thousands of characters.

> What is there to regret?

I now have to begin deleting my older characters. I don't burn my old character sheets, why should I have to delete my old characters?

(Before anyone bothers responding, it's because they want that $$$)

> Master tier annual sub costs les than an X-Bog Gold account.

Using Discord and Pen&Paper has no subscription fee. Going to recommend against D&D Beyond for all my groups.

> If they also have hard copies and make a lot of characters, then it is not necessarily the best value

This. I own all the hardcover books. I pre-ordered Tasha's from my LGS. After purchasing PH and Xanathar's on here and then realizing this, I'm done with Beyond.

Even if every D&D Beyond member made only 1 single character each, that's over 5 million characters this site has to host. Several thousand members are active on the site at any given time, each one consuming bandwidth and data from the servers' resources.

The "greedy cashgrab" as you have called it is half the reason this site still exists.

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Even if every D&D Beyond member made only 1 single character each, that's over 5 million characters this site has to host. Several thousand members are active on the site at any given time, each one consuming bandwidth and data from the servers' resources.

The "greedy cashgrab" as you have called it is half the reason this site still exists.

 

And if it was limited to one extra per book purchased or something? Or purchased direct? I don't think the majority here are insisting there should be more for free.... 

 
I was responding to Squeakyclean whose posts suggests the Subscription is a scam and everyone should get unlimited slots for free.

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I now have to begin deleting my older characters. I don't burn my old character sheets, why should I have to delete my old characters? 

 

 Just save the old characters as PDFs and then delete them from the slot on DDB

Why would you assume the purchasing content would do anything but offer you the content you purchased digitally? It’s nonsensical to think that because it *doesn’t* say that purchasing content doesn’t change limits that it would provide more slots. It’s absurd that you think they should have to itemize the countless things purchasing content won’t do.

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I now have to begin deleting my older characters. I don't burn my old character sheets, why should I have to delete my old characters? 

 

 Just save the old characters as PDFs and then delete them from the slot on DDB

 Good sir, how does one do this? Is it possible with a single click?

For context, I'm involved in a lot of Adventurer's League campaigns, and I just ran out of slots for my 6th campaign

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I now have to begin deleting my older characters. I don't burn my old character sheets, why should I have to delete my old characters? 

 

 Just save the old characters as PDFs and then delete them from the slot on DDB

 Good sir, how does one do this? Is it possible with a single click?

For context, I'm involved in a lot of Adventurer's League campaigns, and I just ran out of slots for my 6th campaign

 When you’re done creating the character, instead of skipping to the interactive character sheet, if you click “what’s next” you can export it to a PDF.

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I now have to begin deleting my older characters. I don't burn my old character sheets, why should I have to delete my old characters? 

 

 Just save the old characters as PDFs and then delete them from the slot on DDB

 Good sir, how does one do this? Is it possible with a single click?

For context, I'm involved in a lot of Adventurer's League campaigns, and I just ran out of slots for my 6th campaign

 When you’re done creating the character, instead of skipping to the interactive character sheet, if you click “what’s next” you can export it to a PDF.

 and go back into the edit menu if you have already made the character

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I now have to begin deleting my older characters. I don't burn my old character sheets, why should I have to delete my old characters? 

 

 Just save the old characters as PDFs and then delete them from the slot on DDB

 Good sir, how does one do this? Is it possible with a single click?

For context, I'm involved in a lot of Adventurer's League campaigns, and I just ran out of slots for my 6th campaign

 When you’re done creating the character, instead of skipping to the interactive character sheet, if you click “what’s next” you can export it to a PDF.

 Noice

Happy to help.

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 that's over 5 million characters this site has to host.

 lol, 50GB is pretty cheap you know.

It is exactly that, a cash grab.  I think if a customer bought these virtual books, DnDBeyond should offer more character slots with each book purchase because more books means a customer is going to make more characters.   I am really sad this 6 character limit has been carried over from their "on line only"  character generator in 4th edition, instead of the excellent and far more functional offline 4e character generator of prior computer ambitions.   This whole push for subscriptions from everywhere I am burnt out on.

If you play D&D in a different campaign every night Mon-Sat (taking Sunday off), you will have enough slots at 6 to have a different character in each campaign. How much more would one need unless they are a DM?!?

Well the subscriptions are great, but 6 are a bit too small. Maybe eight? Players have enough slots, but for dms like me like to track their PCs, but once I make five characters in my campaign there's only one slot left for me too use. Usual campaign PC number(5)+Usual campaign joining number(3)

I feel like this is a reasonable request, not like those "unlimited character slots!" shouters

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Well the subscriptions are great, but 6 are a bit too small. Maybe eight? Players have enough slots, but for dms like me like to track their PCs, but once I make five characters in my campaign there's only one slot left for me too use. Usual campaign PC number(5)+Usual campaign joining number(3)

I feel like this is a reasonable request, not like those "unlimited character slots!" shouters

 If one is a DM and uses this website to run their games, then the subscription is pretty much an auto-include for more reasons than that.

It is very easy for a person to use more than six slots.  Hence why the subscription to get more money out of people.  Do not get me wrong, I understand it is to pay off WotC/Hasbro, hosting costs, and most importantly, paying programmers (of which they should definitely be paid for, which are usually underpaid and not properly credited ) but from an end user of it, the lack of character slots does not feel good.  And the tier subs kind of rub me the wrong way as well.  It is all a slippery slope that I am not keen on walking on.

Nobody is forcing you to pay. There are easy options to use. If you NEED more than 6 characters, then dang, you're lucky. Seriously, being able to play 6 characters? That's 6 days a week of play. Holy Moly I wish I was that fortunate.

If you just want to generate NPCs or something, they don't need a full character sheet. If you need something like that, print or save the PDF =)