Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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I don't want it for free. It isn't about paying for it. I buy books, that is paying for it. I don't even care if it is printed. I just want to buy it, own it, and share it. They could offer the exact same thing in a pdf. That is also digital and saves on printing cost.
Mother and Cat Herder. Playing TTRPGs since 1989 (She/Her)
They're deathly afraid of PDFs being shared endlessly for free w/o revenue from such coming to investors/shareholders. It's Hasbro brass who likely mandate this policy, since they are a toy company which acts like a tech company, & who don't know how to run a TTRPG & card game company.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
I see your razors remain unsharpened and the advice of your own signature remains unfollowed.
Heaven forbid Wizards try to buff a system that was kind of lackluster without a bunch of people trying to spin some grand Big Hasbro conspiracy out of it. The metaphorical Occam would be most disappointed in your posting.
It is also a weird take when a lot of WOTC and D&D main staff have been part of the TTRPG systems for a long time. WOTC makes hasbro the most money, WOTC is the benchmark for how Hasbro should run the rest of its company (things said in past shareholder calls) so its an odd take to say they do not know what they are doing.
I'm saying HASBRO is the problem, not WotC.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Let’s play a game.
The facts in evidence that are undisputed are as follows:
1. This was created by a fan turned D&D staff whose post on the subject is written with excited diction.
2. The old rewards were almost exclusively cosmetic.
3. The new rewards give more options.
4. Wizards has left in place an easy system for sharing the content and keeping the content after you unsubscribe.
A logical conclusion that requires zero assumptions is that a fan turned staff looked at the lackluster rewards and made them more useful than pure cosmetics.
Your “this is Hasbro” conspiracy requires a Hasbro that is willing to micromanage D&D Beyond in a way that provides more utility to players… without also jacking up the price. It requires staff who are sophisticated enough in D&D Beyond to implement this system, but not sophisticated enough to remove the longstanding work around that would be required for this to accomplish the goal you are saying Hasbro has. It would require someone who is a fan-turned-staff to be producing something for the sake of Hasbro then feigning the genuine excitement they have shown on their post.
You are welcome to believe what you want, but Occam’s razor supports the pretty obvious conclusion that the plain facts support. Your position veers into the realm of conspiracy as it requires internally inconsistent assumptions and assumptions inconsistent with reality. So, if you do decide to stick with your theory, might I suggest updating your signature block to remove the third line?
To be very clear, I do think this system should be updated to allow sharing. But, come on, why can’t we as a community ask for something sensible in a constructive way, without all the ranting and nonsensical conspiracies that this community is so prone to?
This is a whole lotta back 'n' forthing and arguing over something so immensely trivial.
Get sub
Get drops (sheet options)
Make copies in a few clicks
And now you have the options forever more no sub needed and those homebrew copies will be shared with everyone no sub needed.
So you now have free extras everyone in your party can benefit from, even if you stop your sub.
Whenever the drops release something you like, repeat process. It's a purely "only when needed" thing. Hero subs are cheap enough to warrant the drops alone. Making copies is easy enough that the entire suite of new drops can be copied in about 3 mins or less.
It's a literal everybody wins situation and people are complaining? Really?
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