It is unfair if the biggest selling point of a service for years is being able to share your library of player facing content with anyone in your group, regardless of whether or not they have a paid subscription only to suddenly put an asterisk next to certain ones. If you and the people at your table are fine with it, more power to you, but don’t be dismissive about other people’s concerns about this and what it means for future releases especially since they’ve hinted at doing this with subclasses and species/races.
It is unfair if the biggest selling point of a service for years is being able to share your library of player facing content with anyone in your group, regardless of whether or not they have a paid subscription only to suddenly put an asterisk next to certain ones. If you and the people at your table are fine with it, more power to you, but don’t be dismissive about other people’s concerns about this and what it means for future releases especially since they’ve hinted at doing this with subclasses and species/races.
I think when you are trying to complain that free content that, while needs to be worked around (yes you pay for your sub, no the price did not increase ergo "free"), makes a part of this site "bad" or that it is "unfair" is when you start to lose a lot of people on your side.
Me disagreeing with your idea that these extras, a reason to buy a sub, should be free is "dismissing you" is very hyberbolic. Would it be nice if I did not need to homebrew this stuff sure! Can I still share it with my players, yes. Is it basically free homebrew that I do not need to make myself, also yes.
It not being shareable does not discount the good side of this move. Honestly all the "I can't share it" does is make me as a support go "While this is nice, maybe just don't bother making more, it will just be a headache." And then everyone loses.
It is unfair if the biggest selling point of a service for years is being able to share your library of player facing content with anyone in your group, regardless of whether or not they have a paid subscription only to suddenly put an asterisk next to certain ones. If you and the people at your table are fine with it, more power to you, but don’t be dismissive about other people’s concerns about this and what it means for future releases especially since they’ve hinted at doing this with subclasses and species/races.
I would agree if they were retroactively applying the asterisk to existing content. But they are not. They are producing new content for the purpose of being offered as a subscription perk, with no indication this is going to alter the paradigm of how book content will be handled. Using one paradigm to date is not an irrevocable bond that they must use that paradigm if they branch out into other offerings. If you don’t like it and don’t wish to engage, that’s your prerogative, but this simply is not some kind of dastardly double dealing, it’s them simply expanding their offerings to include new products with different terms.
It is unfair if the biggest selling point of a service for years is being able to share your library of player facing content with anyone in your group, regardless of whether or not they have a paid subscription only to suddenly put an asterisk next to certain ones. If you and the people at your table are fine with it, more power to you, but don’t be dismissive about other people’s concerns about this and what it means for future releases especially since they’ve hinted at doing this with subclasses and species/races.
As I've said before, all of the things that you could share before you can still share. If you buy future releases, you can still share those the same as you always could. Drops are an extra benefit to subscriptions. My point wasn't to be dismissive of your concerns, it was to point out that saying "But it isn’t usable if fewer people have access to it" is not true. Whether it is usable for you and your group is up to you and your group. Drops being a subscriber perk does not in anyway make them unusable.
They’re accessible if you do a bunch of work around instead of just letting the players do it themselves like every other piece of player facing opposition on this platform
Smh; the character sheets here have spoiled people if the suggestion one should ever have to do any pen and paper equivalent work of their own for a character is considered so hideously objectionable.
They’re accessible if you do a bunch of work around instead of just letting the players do it themselves like every other piece of player facing opposition on this platform
"A bunch of work" ? It's faster and less effort to homebrew a copy in a few clicks than it is to write out the feature on the paper. And it will be faster and easier to track the changes. And you only need to do it once so all players in all future campaigns you will ever be in, as player or DM, can add it without having to make it. If pen and paper they'd all need to write it out.
Your math ain't mathing there, bud.
3-4 seconds per option once only, is much less work than 20-30 seconds per option per sheet.
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It is unfair if the biggest selling point of a service for years is being able to share your library of player facing content with anyone in your group, regardless of whether or not they have a paid subscription only to suddenly put an asterisk next to certain ones. If you and the people at your table are fine with it, more power to you, but don’t be dismissive about other people’s concerns about this and what it means for future releases especially since they’ve hinted at doing this with subclasses and species/races.
I think when you are trying to complain that free content that, while needs to be worked around (yes you pay for your sub, no the price did not increase ergo "free"), makes a part of this site "bad" or that it is "unfair" is when you start to lose a lot of people on your side.
Me disagreeing with your idea that these extras, a reason to buy a sub, should be free is "dismissing you" is very hyberbolic. Would it be nice if I did not need to homebrew this stuff sure! Can I still share it with my players, yes. Is it basically free homebrew that I do not need to make myself, also yes.
It not being shareable does not discount the good side of this move. Honestly all the "I can't share it" does is make me as a support go "While this is nice, maybe just don't bother making more, it will just be a headache." And then everyone loses.
I would agree if they were retroactively applying the asterisk to existing content. But they are not. They are producing new content for the purpose of being offered as a subscription perk, with no indication this is going to alter the paradigm of how book content will be handled. Using one paradigm to date is not an irrevocable bond that they must use that paradigm if they branch out into other offerings. If you don’t like it and don’t wish to engage, that’s your prerogative, but this simply is not some kind of dastardly double dealing, it’s them simply expanding their offerings to include new products with different terms.
As I've said before, all of the things that you could share before you can still share. If you buy future releases, you can still share those the same as you always could. Drops are an extra benefit to subscriptions. My point wasn't to be dismissive of your concerns, it was to point out that saying "But it isn’t usable if fewer people have access to it" is not true. Whether it is usable for you and your group is up to you and your group. Drops being a subscriber perk does not in anyway make them unusable.
They’re accessible if you do a bunch of work around instead of just letting the players do it themselves like every other piece of player facing opposition on this platform
Smh; the character sheets here have spoiled people if the suggestion one should ever have to do any pen and paper equivalent work of their own for a character is considered so hideously objectionable.
"A bunch of work" ? It's faster and less effort to homebrew a copy in a few clicks than it is to write out the feature on the paper. And it will be faster and easier to track the changes. And you only need to do it once so all players in all future campaigns you will ever be in, as player or DM, can add it without having to make it. If pen and paper they'd all need to write it out.
Your math ain't mathing there, bud.
3-4 seconds per option once only, is much less work than 20-30 seconds per option per sheet.
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