I already bought the books

You actually just missed their most recent sale. Keep an eye out for a Black Friday — Digital Monday sale, they usually do one. (Or at least they did before WotC bought the site.)

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Very helpful Mellie thanks.  I'm still on the fence, early excitement soured quickly  with the prospect of buying the digital content on top of a monthly sub. I'll tinker with it more but I am not seeing the value in a subscription with book/piece purchases. Is there ever a Black Friday or "catch up digital bundle" sale?

 

 Yeah, to be honest, the subs are mostly for if there is a group of you, so you can just buy one lot of content and share it (either divided up or with a single master account). It can be very much worth it in that case, but for an individual...it's just not worth it.

As IamSposta said, there's usually a sale around Cyber Monday. There are different sales throughout the year (usually on books, but once or maybe twice a year there is a sale on bundles, never on subs so far as I'm aware). Sales are pretty frequent really - perhaps once every month or two?

Is the TOTAL cost of buying all those individual races and subclasses and feats the same as buying the book? Or if you buy everything for like 4 classes and feats that would cost you $100 instead of the $30 for the digital book...

WoC is making another huge mistake with this if so.

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Is the TOTAL cost of buying all those individual races and subclasses and feats the same as buying the book? Or if you buy everything for like 4 classes and feats that would cost you $100 instead of the $30 for the digital book...

WoC is making another huge mistake with this if so.

It has not been possible to purchase individual character options for over a year. This thread you're posting in has people talking about it because it's 7 years old.

Back when a la carte purchases were a thing, they did provide a commensurate discount on a future purchase of buying the whole book.

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Also please don't use dog-ears it is disrespectful to the book and ruins it. I know it is like a book mark but please just go get a book mark for free from the library instead of ruining a book.

 I realize that this was long ago and far away, but the value of a book is in the ideas inside and the writer's craft.  It is in no way disrespectful to USE a book in that manner.  Intentionally defacing or destroying a book is a different thing of course.

I also take good care of my books, but it's more an OCD thing than respect, lol.