Quote from Jacesen >>

Too much for the cost guys. I was pretty pumped to use this. I have most of the books in hardcover already, I am not spending another 125 + a subscription in order to fully utilize the digital tool. You have made a good product, but whoever has set the price point is just flat wrong.

So a few questions...

1) If I'm a DM that has "Master Tier" and I buy all the digital books, can I share them with my players?

How do you regulate that exactly, as my players may change depending on what campaign I'm running and player characters shouldn't be bound to campaigns. For example, if one DM provides access to the PHB for a player to create his character, can that player take that character to another campaign that isn't supported by the DM?

2) If, for whatever reason, I stop paying the "Master Tier", what happens to the digital books I already paid for, or all the other extra features I had during my tenure in "Master Tier"? 

3) What sort of ads should we be expecting in the "free" version? For that matter, are you selling ad space to third party publishers?

Quote from DravenSwiftbow >>

It says the Hero Tier removes adds, so does that mean there is still going to be free access?

Quote from Gwalxavad >>

I *really* hope when this ends up shooting Wizards in the foot, they adjust their pricing accordingly instead of viewing DnDBeyond as a failure and scrapping it. Say $10-15 for the books, with the content being included for free in the subscription. There's a lot of good stuff here - I like the subscription pricing, and will probably take advantage of the reduced price for the books during the first week launch - but I can certainly understand people having a problem with the book pricing, as it shows complete ignorance of the current market.

Quote from DravenSwiftbow >>

It says the Hero Tier removes adds, so does that mean there is still going to be free access?

Just saw this tidbit on the io9 article:

[With] our monster builder, you will be able to scale the creature’s Challenge Rating up or down based on what you need, with all the math happening automatically.

I'm very excited for that and your combat tracking. I apologize if this has been asked elsewhere, but does the features roadmap include incorporating home-brew for races, classes, and subclasses? I imagine they're a great deal more work but those and magic items comprise the vast amount of home-brew that I see floating around the web.

Quote from Designbot >>

Do I understand this correctly?

For a regular party running a standard campaign, the DM would pay $29.99 each for the three main rule books, plus $24.99 for an adventure, plus $5.99/month for a subscription. (So ~$115 upfront, plus $72 a year.)

On top of that, each player would be expected to pay $2.99/month.

So that's a total of $115 upfront, plus $252/year for a 5-player party and a DM. Plus $30 when new rule books come out and $25 when new adventures come out. Plus, for many, the cost of physical books as well. That… seems like a lot.

Is there anything to stop me from inputting the things from the books i've already payed for as personal homebrew and using them? I don't know if i can afford to buy all of the sourcebooks again.

Quote from MattWebb >>

Is there anything to stop me from inputting the things from the books i've already payed for as personal homebrew and using them? I don't know if i can afford to buy all of the sourcebooks again.

Quote from Darklight >>

So a few questions...

1) If I'm a DM that has "Master Tier" and I buy all the digital books, can I share them with my players?

How do you regulate that exactly, as my players may change depending on what campaign I'm running and player characters shouldn't be bound to campaigns. For example, if one DM provides access to the PHB for a player to create his character, can that player take that character to another campaign that isn't supported by the DM?

2) If, for whatever reason, I stop paying the "Master Tier", what happens to the digital books I already paid for, or all the other extra features I had during my tenure in "Master Tier"? 

3) What sort of ads should we be expecting in the "free" version? For that matter, are you selling ad space to third party publishers?

Quote from S0lman_Grundy >>

Personally I don't see why there is not a full access subscription option. Say $15 a month for everything, but you don't keep any paid content if you cancel your subscription. I think those of us with a substantial investment in physical books would find that more attractive.

Quote from BadEye >>

Quote from matsif >>

already seeing some rumblings that forcing the "hero" sub on people to use homebrew is you trying to profit off of other people's work, drawing comparison to Bethesda and paid mods.

why can't free users add homebrew content to their game if they can still share what they create or just recreate it as a private homebrew?

 Free users can add all the homebrew they want - it's just their own homebrew. You are completely free to re-create anything you want to use for play.

Quote from Sedge >>

Quote from MattWebb >>

Is there anything to stop me from inputting the things from the books i've already payed for as personal homebrew and using them? I don't know if i can afford to buy all of the sourcebooks again.

 You can certainly add the entirety of the core rulebooks to your private homebrew and use them as you see fit.  These items cannot be published, however.

BadEye, the way this post is written makes this a little unclear... Will subscribers of hero or master tier get access to non-SRD content, such as the stuff in the PHB and Volo's Guide? I seem to remember you saying this would be the case, but this post implies that one would need to pay the sub and buy the sourcebook. 

I think it's worth pointing out for those of us with the physical books-- With the homebrew option, we can still enter all the data ourselves from all the sourcebooks. No one is making you buy it twice. You're paying to have someone input all that data and fully integrate it with a digital toolset for you. 

In other words, you can still use your physical books with DDB.  But if you'd like someone to do the work for you to have it entered into the system, you'll pay for that service. 

They are providing the entire toolset for free. And a way to enter all your data from your books. For free. This seems reasonable to me. 

I realize there are other points of view on this matter, and I respect that. But I thought I'd share mine.

AD

P.S. As for the price point-- I suspect they've hit it right on. There will be folks who won't buy in. But I think, at these prices with this flexibility, many more will. Especially once they've integrated it with Roll20 and FG. That integration is the killer feature for me these days. Being able to port characters from an easy builder into Roll20 will save me a lot of time.

Quote from Hyakis >>

BadEye, the way this post is written makes this a little unclear... Will subscribers of hero or master tier get access to non-SRD content, such as the stuff in the PHB and Volo's Guide? I seem to remember you saying this would be the case, but this post implies that one would need to pay the sub and buy the sourcebook.