I played years ago with Gary Gygax and Luke at Glathricon (3rd edition). SO I am relearning all this and have a few podcasts that I follow. I would like to play a Gith, Githyanki , or Githzeri race. I only see it listed on the monster selections and on Mordains. I don't want to make a purchase if I'm not 100% sure it is in the book and I don't want to "homebrew" the race/class. That would defeat the purpose of buying it. So my work around that isn't very clear to me on the pay wall is the subscriptions. Do you get full access to all content if you pay the GM sub or the hero tier ? It was confusing. I may also want to play Cthulhu down the line- that is also a D20 system right ?
The subscriptions are separate from digital content purchases, I'd have to check but I believe you can purchase the races you're interested in "piecemeal" without purchasing the entire book.
ETA: yes, the Gith race is available for $1.99 , just check purchase options under Mordy's Tome.
Cthulhu Mythos 5e is not an official supplement, and therefore not included in the range of products available on DDB.
Having said that, it looks like most of the content in the book is fairly simple to transcribe, no new base classes at least, so you should be able to transcribe most of the content over to DDB homebrew with some patience. A few people have probably already made transcriptions of some of the content in it, but to add public content to your collection, you do need a subscription.
Personally, I've always been more partial to just using physical books for my campaigns, but the DDB toolset definitely has its upsides.
If you scroll down, you can see all of the individual purchase options available, such as the Gith race.
I see it listed as a monster- not a player race option. I'd hate to buy something that's misrepresenting. $1.99 or $30.00 I get 0 to hateful pretty quick on little things like that. I quit buying things on EBay because people were calling something it wasn't and you wouldn't know until you rec'd it. So far this sites been good to me, I just don't want to compromise the "good faith."
I'm not too sure how serious I am about D&D. A lot of things "depend" on play times of others and I'm more of a Cthulhu person than D&D. I feel there should be a "sanity" roll for seeing some monsters in the game and characters should get phobias temporarily if not permanent. I never felt that way before playing/Running Cthulhu years ago.
If you scroll down, you can see all of the individual purchase options available, such as the Gith race.
I see it listed as a monster- not a player race option. I'd hate to buy something that's misrepresenting. $1.99 or $30.00 I get 0 to hateful pretty quick on little things like that.
If you clicked that link and scrolled down, you should have seen something like this. "Races" are not monsters.
Important: the base gith race is not playable, it has two subraces listed further down under "subraces" (you'll know your in the right place if you see a bunch of elf and Tiefling subraces too). In order to play as a githyanki or githzerai (the names of the 2 subraces), you must buy the base with race and the subrace (minimum $3.98 for 1 subrace, $5.97 for both subraces).
Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any more questions.
As far as piecemeals, If I pick up a couple purchases then decide to buy the whole "book" later will it pro-rate minus what I've bought ?
Yes. Whatever you spend on a piece of a book reduces the cost of the book (and the legendary bundle) by the same amount.
The only downside is that the coupon codes reduce the remaining cost of the book, not the original cost. For example, if you spend $10 piecemeal on a $30 book, then buy the rest of the book with a 25% off coupon, the book will cost $15 ($25 spent total), but if you had bought the whole book at 25% off without piecemeal you would have only spent $22.50. It isn't a big difference, but it adds up.
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I played years ago with Gary Gygax and Luke at Glathricon (3rd edition). SO I am relearning all this and have a few podcasts that I follow. I would like to play a Gith, Githyanki , or Githzeri race. I only see it listed on the monster selections and on Mordains. I don't want to make a purchase if I'm not 100% sure it is in the book and I don't want to "homebrew" the race/class. That would defeat the purpose of buying it. So my work around that isn't very clear to me on the pay wall is the subscriptions. Do you get full access to all content if you pay the GM sub or the hero tier ? It was confusing. I may also want to play Cthulhu down the line- that is also a D20 system right ?
The subscriptions are separate from digital content purchases, I'd have to check but I believe you can purchase the races you're interested in "piecemeal" without purchasing the entire book.
ETA: yes, the Gith race is available for $1.99 , just check purchase options under Mordy's Tome.
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The subscriptions do not unlock content.
But if you know someone who has bought content on DDB, you can enable content sharing in a campaign with a master subscription.
I also saw the Cthulhu 5E over on Sandy Peterson's website. Are the 2 not interchangeable ?
Thanks for your help about the Gith.
Cthulhu Mythos 5e is not an official supplement, and therefore not included in the range of products available on DDB.
Having said that, it looks like most of the content in the book is fairly simple to transcribe, no new base classes at least, so you should be able to transcribe most of the content over to DDB homebrew with some patience. A few people have probably already made transcriptions of some of the content in it, but to add public content to your collection, you do need a subscription.
Personally, I've always been more partial to just using physical books for my campaigns, but the DDB toolset definitely has its upsides.
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For example, the page on Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/marketplace/source/33
If you scroll down, you can see all of the individual purchase options available, such as the Gith race.
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I see it listed as a monster- not a player race option. I'd hate to buy something that's misrepresenting. $1.99 or $30.00 I get 0 to hateful pretty quick on little things like that. I quit buying things on EBay because people were calling something it wasn't and you wouldn't know until you rec'd it. So far this sites been good to me, I just don't want to compromise the "good faith."
I'm not too sure how serious I am about D&D. A lot of things "depend" on play times of others and I'm more of a Cthulhu person than D&D. I feel there should be a "sanity" roll for seeing some monsters in the game and characters should get phobias temporarily if not permanent. I never felt that way before playing/Running Cthulhu years ago.
If you clicked that link and scrolled down, you should have seen something like this. "Races" are not monsters.
Important: the base gith race is not playable, it has two subraces listed further down under "subraces" (you'll know your in the right place if you see a bunch of elf and Tiefling subraces too). In order to play as a githyanki or githzerai (the names of the 2 subraces), you must buy the base with race and the subrace (minimum $3.98 for 1 subrace, $5.97 for both subraces).
Hope that helps. Let me know if you have any more questions.
As far as piecemeals, If I pick up a couple purchases then decide to buy the whole "book" later will it pro-rate minus what I've bought ?
Yes. Whatever you spend on a piece of a book reduces the cost of the book (and the legendary bundle) by the same amount.
The only downside is that the coupon codes reduce the remaining cost of the book, not the original cost. For example, if you spend $10 piecemeal on a $30 book, then buy the rest of the book with a 25% off coupon, the book will cost $15 ($25 spent total), but if you had bought the whole book at 25% off without piecemeal you would have only spent $22.50. It isn't a big difference, but it adds up.