The physical books are not tied in any way to D&D Beyond. This is a website owned and run by a separate company, not WOTC, so they don't care if you have the physical books. They want you to buy the stuff here so they get the money for it.
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WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
This website is not owned by the same company that publishes D&D. This website is more like an online bookstore that only sells digital D&D books. And they made all of these additional tools like the character builder for us to use for free with the materials we purchase.
Think of the paper books as like X-Box copies of video games, and the digital books as like PlayStation versions of the same games. This website is like Amazon, and wherever you bought your books is like GameStop. If you buy an X-Box version of a game from GameStop, would you expect Amazon to give you a free PlayStation copy of the same game?
You don’t need a subscription to play with your friends at all. The subscription just lets you share your unlocked materials with your friends for free. And, if you and your friends each purchase one or two books from this website, and any one of you has a subscription, then you can all share each other’s stuff for free with that subscription.
Not to mention, the company that runs this website has to follow a specific contract with the company that publishes the game, Wizards of the Coast. They have no choice. And they worked like heck to build this website, so they deserve to get paid too.
If I own the hard copies of the book. Is there a way I can use a code to unlock them here? To help with character creation .
No.
The physical books are not tied in any way to D&D Beyond. This is a website owned and run by a separate company, not WOTC, so they don't care if you have the physical books. They want you to buy the stuff here so they get the money for it.
WOTC lies. We know that WOTC lies. WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. We know that WOTC knows that we know that WOTC lies. And still they lie.
Because of the above (a paraphrase from Orwell) I no longer post to the forums -- PM me if you need help or anything.
This website is not owned by the same company that publishes D&D. This website is more like an online bookstore that only sells digital D&D books. And they made all of these additional tools like the character builder for us to use for free with the materials we purchase.
Think of the paper books as like X-Box copies of video games, and the digital books as like PlayStation versions of the same games. This website is like Amazon, and wherever you bought your books is like GameStop. If you buy an X-Box version of a game from GameStop, would you expect Amazon to give you a free PlayStation copy of the same game?
You don’t need a subscription to play with your friends at all. The subscription just lets you share your unlocked materials with your friends for free. And, if you and your friends each purchase one or two books from this website, and any one of you has a subscription, then you can all share each other’s stuff for free with that subscription.
Not to mention, the company that runs this website has to follow a specific contract with the company that publishes the game, Wizards of the Coast. They have no choice. And they worked like heck to build this website, so they deserve to get paid too.
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