Seeing that a Grim Hollow book was added it would be wonderful if the Palyers Guide Book and Campaign Guid book could be added as 3rd party content!
My assumption is that now that they have a relationship with Ghostfire Gaming that the rest will likely come "in time" based on results of how the initial collaboration works out for both sides. Again it's just my guess but it would seem the biggest hurdle is the initial collaboration and that the rest is just a matter of success/lack of problems and devoting the resources to convert the older stuff.
They're relatively new and not as flashy as some, but I would love to see something from the fertile minds at TableTopNotch. I think "A Peak Beneath the Veil" and "Brunkhollow" are brilliant.
I also would love to see Griffon’s Saddlebag integrated to DDB. A neat concept for the WoTC VTT would be the Dresdenverse game but that is not a 5e product.
I wholeheartedly support this. Goodman should have been one of the first third party publishers invited to the dance.
Currently I buy all the third party content on Beyond because I want to show support for there inclusion. Did I want Humblewood, nope didn’t appeal to me at all and will most likely have very few things included in my campaigns. I got it because I want those doors open.
Goodman Games is at the top of my want list. But right behind it, how many of you want all the Adventure League stuff on here. All the DMSGUILD stuff. There is a laundry list of money making potential for WotC to capitalize on within Beyond.
Now having said wanting this, I need one more feature on Beyond to truly make all these new entries to my library helpful. Allow me, as a DM to allow specific books and specific homebrew within my individual campaigns. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve clicked on something to add on during a level up (like a feat) and was like that’s cool then realize it’s a book that we aren’t using it just happens to be in my library. Heck this happened in character creation on me one time. My forever DM actually makes pretty decent homebrew, so much so he did a "new” race and I created a character using it. Planescape had just came out and I hadn’t had time to fully read it and I wasn’t like awesome they brought this race back. it wasn’t until later I realized, when he told me, that it was homebrew.
It's great that 3rd party content is coming to Beyond now, though the random unannounced releases do cause a little hesitation when looking at stuff to buy that hasn't been brought over yet.
It's great that 3rd party content is coming to Beyond now, though the random unannounced releases do cause a little hesitation when looking at stuff to buy that hasn't been brought over yet.
Agreed that it would be very nice to have a roadmap to what is planned. Hopefully that will come as adding 3rd party content becomes more mature on DnDBeyond.
I personally love the randomness, keeps things exciting, when it comes to 3rd party that is. As for official content I do like me a road map!, and WotC has been pretty good with the heads up on official 1st party content to date.
For the 50th Anniversary, you should release Goodman Games' Original Adventures Reincarnated.
Unfortunately, I don't know if that's possible given the current state of whatever license Goodman had to produce those adaptation/conversions. The latest book in the Original Adventures Reincarnated is #7, Dark Tower, wasn't a TSR now WotC owned property. And the above books, 1-6 in that series don't seem to be available in their web store (if you look around you can find the hardcopy in FLGS and the usual online game stores, but I'm told the ones stores have were stocked years ago and the PDFs no longer seem to be available in Goodman's PDF store, though it it tedious to navigate their PDF store). Might be wrong, but I remember hearing something that Goodman no longer has the license to produce them, which is entirely possible, a lot of creative licenses last for about 3 years or so, can be subject to renewal, and Goodman seems to have embraced ORC during the whole OGL fiasco and may have doubled down on DCC and other output rather than investing the time in what's probably a pretty time consuming and expensive production process given the general quality of the Original Adventures Reincarnated line (I have Barrier Peaks and ToE, myself), not to mention going through the whole contract discussion to keep the license going.
What I'm curious about is whether we'll see a real game changer 3PP contribution that would have a completely new to DDB class. I'm thinking of Matthew Yaro's Druids: Secrets of the Primeval Circle which gives the Dire Druid class for example, and he's got another book coming out that does something similar with Rangers. I think he works at a much smaller scale, but he's not the only third party producer who's put out a new class. Of course, this would also be how the player base would get class building tools too.
What I'm curious about is whether we'll see a real game changer 3PP contribution that would have a completely new to DDB class. I'm thinking of Matthew Yaro's Druids: Secrets of the Primeval Circle which gives the Dire Druid class for example, and he's got another book coming out that does something similar with Rangers. I think he works at a much smaller scale, but he's not the only third party producer who's put out a new class. Of course, this would also be how the player base would get class building tools too.
The Dungeon Dudes have said (or at least incredibly heavily hinted) on their Discord that their second book Sebastian Crowe's Guide to Drakkenheim is in the works for DDB but the sticking point is their third party class. Whether it's causing more work so is taking more time or if it's just a line DDB doesn't want to cross is anyone's guess
Third party class can be done, we have the Bloodhunter to show for that. I don't know if introducing that class to DBB produced any "lessons learned" or "yeah, let's not do that again" policy going forward. I don't know Dungeon Dudes appeal relative to Critical Role, and it would become a little contentious if some third party publishers get more support than others (though if we go back to the OGL fiasco memo, it did seem DDB may think of the 3PP sector in terms of tiers, so it could be if you bring x amount of followers/customers DDB may work with you on an elevated tier of implementation. That's all speculation though, and I imagine anyone presently or negotiating their 3PP DnD work into DDB is probably NDA'd from talking about how the system works till DDB has enough practice with this to lay out some more defined policies.
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Third party class can be done, we have the Bloodhunter to show for that. I don't know if introducing that class to DBB produced any "lessons learned" or "yeah, let's not do that again" policy going forward. I don't know Dungeon Dudes appeal relative to Critical Role, and it would become a little contentious if some third party publishers get more support than others (though if we go back to the OGL fiasco memo, it did seem DDB may think of the 3PP sector in terms of tiers, so it could be if you bring x amount of followers/customers DDB may work with you on an elevated tier of implementation. That's all speculation though, and I imagine anyone presently or negotiating their 3PP DnD work into DDB is probably NDA'd from talking about how the system works till DDB has enough practice with this to lay out some more defined policies.
With the Blood Hunter there's the old sponsorship deal to consider. Before the WOTC buyout DDB used to heavily sponsor Crit Role and I'm assuming part of that was requiring the cast to use DDB at the table. Doesn't look great if everyone is sat there with iPads and Taliesin is sat at the end of the table with a pencil and paper because he wanted to play a homebrew character. As you say they may have learnt a lesson from how complicated it was to set up or maybe only made an exception because they thought raising their profile was worth the effort
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My assumption is that now that they have a relationship with Ghostfire Gaming that the rest will likely come "in time" based on results of how the initial collaboration works out for both sides. Again it's just my guess but it would seem the biggest hurdle is the initial collaboration and that the rest is just a matter of success/lack of problems and devoting the resources to convert the older stuff.
Give me everything from Eberron...
They're relatively new and not as flashy as some, but I would love to see something from the fertile minds at TableTopNotch. I think "A Peak Beneath the Veil" and "Brunkhollow" are brilliant.
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Characters in active campaigns:
Rowan Wood elf, 10 Circle of Stars Druid
Wyll Forest Gnome, 4 Divination Wizard
I also would love to see Griffon’s Saddlebag integrated to DDB. A neat concept for the WoTC VTT would be the Dresdenverse game but that is not a 5e product.
Minsc and Boo’s Journal of Villainy
Chains of Asmodeus.
Planescape Amonket because I want access to the Naga player race.
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I’m really hoping Sebastian Crowe’s Guide to Drakkenheim and Ryoko’s Guide to the Yokai Realms come out at some point soon.
For the 50th Anniversary, you should release Goodman Games' Original Adventures Reincarnated.
I wholeheartedly support this. Goodman should have been one of the first third party publishers invited to the dance.
Currently I buy all the third party content on Beyond because I want to show support for there inclusion. Did I want Humblewood, nope didn’t appeal to me at all and will most likely have very few things included in my campaigns. I got it because I want those doors open.
Goodman Games is at the top of my want list.
But right behind it, how many of you want all the Adventure League stuff on here. All the DMSGUILD stuff. There is a laundry list of money making potential for WotC to capitalize on within Beyond.
Now having said wanting this, I need one more feature on Beyond to truly make all these new entries to my library helpful. Allow me, as a DM to allow specific books and specific homebrew within my individual campaigns. I can’t tell you how many times I’ve clicked on something to add on during a level up (like a feat) and was like that’s cool then realize it’s a book that we aren’t using it just happens to be in my library. Heck this happened in character creation on me one time. My forever DM actually makes pretty decent homebrew, so much so he did a "new” race and I created a character using it. Planescape had just came out and I hadn’t had time to fully read it and I wasn’t like awesome they brought this race back. it wasn’t until later I realized, when he told me, that it was homebrew.
I would like MCDM stuff. First their custom classes, then Flee Mortals, then maybe their other books.
Having more Kobold Press stuff, the rest of the Beasts and their Magic Spells and Items would be cool.
The rest of the Eberron stuff for 5e from Keith Baker.
It's great that 3rd party content is coming to Beyond now, though the random unannounced releases do cause a little hesitation when looking at stuff to buy that hasn't been brought over yet.
Agreed that it would be very nice to have a roadmap to what is planned. Hopefully that will come as adding 3rd party content becomes more mature on DnDBeyond.
I personally love the randomness, keeps things exciting, when it comes to 3rd party that is. As for official content I do like me a road map!, and WotC has been pretty good with the heads up on official 1st party content to date.
CENSORSHIP IS THE TOOL OF COWARDS and WANNA BE TYRANTS.
I do know that Monsters of Drakkenheim (the third book from the Dungeon Dudes) will be on D&DBeyond when it's released.
It's been stated in their KickStarter (live now!) that it's the first D&D KS that has D&DBeyond integration from the start.
I am interested into new PC species and classes, and rules for crafting+farming+monster hunt. And fantasy settings based in no-Western cultures.
I want stuff from Frog God Games. So much good stuff in their books. Rappan Athuk etc.
Oh that's interesting, and that would certainly be a boon to may 3PP if other trusted partners were allowed to do so too.
Unfortunately, I don't know if that's possible given the current state of whatever license Goodman had to produce those adaptation/conversions. The latest book in the Original Adventures Reincarnated is #7, Dark Tower, wasn't a TSR now WotC owned property. And the above books, 1-6 in that series don't seem to be available in their web store (if you look around you can find the hardcopy in FLGS and the usual online game stores, but I'm told the ones stores have were stocked years ago and the PDFs no longer seem to be available in Goodman's PDF store, though it it tedious to navigate their PDF store). Might be wrong, but I remember hearing something that Goodman no longer has the license to produce them, which is entirely possible, a lot of creative licenses last for about 3 years or so, can be subject to renewal, and Goodman seems to have embraced ORC during the whole OGL fiasco and may have doubled down on DCC and other output rather than investing the time in what's probably a pretty time consuming and expensive production process given the general quality of the Original Adventures Reincarnated line (I have Barrier Peaks and ToE, myself), not to mention going through the whole contract discussion to keep the license going.
What I'm curious about is whether we'll see a real game changer 3PP contribution that would have a completely new to DDB class. I'm thinking of Matthew Yaro's Druids: Secrets of the Primeval Circle which gives the Dire Druid class for example, and he's got another book coming out that does something similar with Rangers. I think he works at a much smaller scale, but he's not the only third party producer who's put out a new class. Of course, this would also be how the player base would get class building tools too.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
The Dungeon Dudes have said (or at least incredibly heavily hinted) on their Discord that their second book Sebastian Crowe's Guide to Drakkenheim is in the works for DDB but the sticking point is their third party class. Whether it's causing more work so is taking more time or if it's just a line DDB doesn't want to cross is anyone's guess
Third party class can be done, we have the Bloodhunter to show for that. I don't know if introducing that class to DBB produced any "lessons learned" or "yeah, let's not do that again" policy going forward. I don't know Dungeon Dudes appeal relative to Critical Role, and it would become a little contentious if some third party publishers get more support than others (though if we go back to the OGL fiasco memo, it did seem DDB may think of the 3PP sector in terms of tiers, so it could be if you bring x amount of followers/customers DDB may work with you on an elevated tier of implementation. That's all speculation though, and I imagine anyone presently or negotiating their 3PP DnD work into DDB is probably NDA'd from talking about how the system works till DDB has enough practice with this to lay out some more defined policies.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
With the Blood Hunter there's the old sponsorship deal to consider. Before the WOTC buyout DDB used to heavily sponsor Crit Role and I'm assuming part of that was requiring the cast to use DDB at the table. Doesn't look great if everyone is sat there with iPads and Taliesin is sat at the end of the table with a pencil and paper because he wanted to play a homebrew character. As you say they may have learnt a lesson from how complicated it was to set up or maybe only made an exception because they thought raising their profile was worth the effort