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My question with this, is when we subscribe to a tier will we be able to share our character sheets with other DMs? As in if we have a campaign, can we throw our character at that particular campaign and while we update our character sheet it will reflect, or vice versa?
Eshuvenniel Kazander Ravid, Valor Bard and Acolyte of the Goddess of Luck
Caradoc Langham, Halfling Rogue - Lost Magics - Epic of Pre-made Proportions!
I'm not looking for heaven or hell... just someone to listen to stories I tell...
Honestly, if we're inventing licensing schemes, here's my preferred scheme:
For $15/mo you get access to all non-adventure books immediately, plus $10/mo book credit. The book credit can be used toward permanently unlocking books (WotC gets paid when this happens). Books used without a permanent license give you the "lite" version: crunch, but no art and fluff.
Players can pay $5/mo for an ad-free experience, as well as "lite" access to all books.
Free accounts get free data, but they can join a campaign by a $15/monther for full access to "lite" data as part of the campaign.
This is, of course, irrelevant, because WotC didn't pick this scheme. The scheme we have is the one we have and we can provide feedback, and possibly disappointment, but changes in the short term are extremely unlikely.
Will there be a trial period for the full application? I would like to experience the Master Tier for a game or two with my players to see if it is worth the investment.
Natural 20 Charisma
Eshuvenniel Kazander Ravid, Valor Bard and Acolyte of the Goddess of Luck
Caradoc Langham, Halfling Rogue - Lost Magics - Epic of Pre-made Proportions!
I'm not looking for heaven or hell... just someone to listen to stories I tell...
I'm in their target market, and I don't pay 50 dollars for a physical book. I, ironically, buy them on amazon 40% off day one or wait 6 months and buy them elsewhere for 75% off. I own 5 PHBs and 2 MM and have a gaming group of 12. I can afford DnDB's prices. The thing is, I won't. I was sold on DnDB because it was supposed to be easy. Their pricing scheme, their "sell me things that don't exist" digital goods model isn't easy. This is the same sort of pricing scheme that killed DnD Etools back in the day. Buy books, then buy the books again in a new format, then you can use the full functionality of the thing you are subscribed to, that's just not what a lot of people want.
To be frank. Right now I have every word of every dnd book in a onenote document. Is that same text in DnDB formatted pretty by professionals worth 100 bucks to me? 60? 30? the answer is no. Its not. I already did the work. AND I did it in a way that was likely a hell of a lot harder than Curse did too, they got the text from the publisher and just formatted it. I scanned or retyped everything. There is no amount of work that Curse has done formatting text that is worth anything to me. I won't adopt anything I have to buy. People talk like this is entitlement. Its not. My decision isn't made in a vacuum. I could comment on my mortgage, student loans, or hourly wage. I could talk about the two players I have who are under age 12. Or I could talk about the one who's a clinical cancer patient. I could even talk about how many hours a month we game as working professionals. But none of that matters. Truth is I'm just not willing to BUY more. When it was a subscription sight unseen, where I could put it in the background and pretend it was not affecting my finances I could tolerate it. When I now have to consciously open my wallet. When I have to mentally weigh the options of what book I already own from my collection to purchase digitally so I can use it in a game I'm already running. That's it. That's the line. That's where I just NOPE the hell out. I wanted DnDB to be easy. The model of pricing they have chosen is where my commitment to the hobby, and my tolerance for inconvenience converge against the economic reality of being a lower middle class wage slave and the economics finally wins.
I'm kind of envious of those picking up 5e for the first time in August. They can go completely digital from the start and save all that money.
That being said, if the tools come together as promised, I'll stop buying hardcovers and only buy digital copies here.
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Eshuvenniel Kazander Ravid, Valor Bard and Acolyte of the Goddess of Luck
Caradoc Langham, Halfling Rogue - Lost Magics - Epic of Pre-made Proportions!
I'm not looking for heaven or hell... just someone to listen to stories I tell...
@Aramalian
I don't see people saying anything like this. I see a lot of people saying why do you have to sell us books at all. A lot of the complaints seem more directed at the idea of having an all inclusive tier of subscription so that people can enjoy the books they already own at the cost of spending more over time.
That or maybe WotC could get off their behinds and have digital distribution plan from the beginning of 6th edition rather than adding it 2 years later.