The sub is valuable if you have all the major sourcebooks and are the DM for your group. The great attraction is the ability to share your content with players and access their character sheets.
For middle school students I run a D&D summer camp, so I get the legendary DDB team free bundle. INFINITY made it easier for me to live. These camps are run online, in particular.
I doubt they’ll ever do blanket access for a monthly fee until well after a whole new edition is established- any rate low enough to be a decent value for players is all but certainly going to be too low for WotC to see it as viable compared to the current model.
I doubt they’ll ever do blanket access for a monthly fee until well after a whole new edition is established- any rate low enough to be a decent value for players is all but certainly going to be too low for WotC to see it as viable compared to the current model.
They probably won't do it at all -- if they didn't switch over with the 24 books, they likely have no plan to do so. (And they do have experience with doing it that way back in the 4e days.)
From a player/GM perspective, we shouldn't want them to -- any likely subscription fee they'd charge would rapidly make it more expensive than buying the books outright. (Especially since I can't imagine they'd keep content sharing as an option in the new business model.)
D&D isn't like Netflix or Spotify -- they're for grazing, watching/listening to things once each from a wide variety of options. For D&D, you keep going back to a small number of books over and over. (And, yes, that's like Adobe, but nearly everyone who uses Adobe hates them with the heat of a thousand suns, and that's one of the reasons. People don't need D&D for their jobs.)
(Also, their licenses with third-party publishers would almost certainly have to be renegotiated. There's no way that provision would be in so many contracts and not have leaked by now.)
The ‘24 books aren’t representative of a whole new edition- a point they very clearly emphasized in the lead-up. At this point everything since 2014 is still broadly compatible with each other. I wasn’t paying attention for 4e, but depending on what the operating costs of Beyond are it seems possible they could eventually sunset it with a subscription system for a bit after whatever comes next starts carrying most of the playerbase.
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The sub is valuable if you have all the major sourcebooks and are the DM for your group. The great attraction is the ability to share your content with players and access their character sheets.
For middle school students I run a D&D summer camp, so I get the legendary DDB team free bundle. INFINITY made it easier for me to live. These camps are run online, in particular.
I found some solution about subscription handling at subscription flow.
I doubt they’ll ever do blanket access for a monthly fee until well after a whole new edition is established- any rate low enough to be a decent value for players is all but certainly going to be too low for WotC to see it as viable compared to the current model.
They probably won't do it at all -- if they didn't switch over with the 24 books, they likely have no plan to do so. (And they do have experience with doing it that way back in the 4e days.)
From a player/GM perspective, we shouldn't want them to -- any likely subscription fee they'd charge would rapidly make it more expensive than buying the books outright. (Especially since I can't imagine they'd keep content sharing as an option in the new business model.)
D&D isn't like Netflix or Spotify -- they're for grazing, watching/listening to things once each from a wide variety of options. For D&D, you keep going back to a small number of books over and over. (And, yes, that's like Adobe, but nearly everyone who uses Adobe hates them with the heat of a thousand suns, and that's one of the reasons. People don't need D&D for their jobs.)
(Also, their licenses with third-party publishers would almost certainly have to be renegotiated. There's no way that provision would be in so many contracts and not have leaked by now.)
The ‘24 books aren’t representative of a whole new edition- a point they very clearly emphasized in the lead-up. At this point everything since 2014 is still broadly compatible with each other. I wasn’t paying attention for 4e, but depending on what the operating costs of Beyond are it seems possible they could eventually sunset it with a subscription system for a bit after whatever comes next starts carrying most of the playerbase.