OK I have a issue with where you placed the Pronunciation guide for Monsters and Races. I bought the Books. I have them and they are very useful to me. I like the tactile nature of reading from a book rather than reading from a screen. So why is it necessary for me to upgrade my account on dndbeyond in order for me to know how to pronounce the names correctly. Yes there are useful things on dndbeyond for players and DM alike and I may eventually upgrade my account to get those benefits. But why should I be excluded when I have spent the money in purchasing the books themselves. I feel that this is unfair, and excludes those who play and run old school games. Not all of us (your customers) have converted over to the teck. and digital D&D world and some of us don't want to. We like playing face to face with our friend and flipping through books. Maybe Im just archaic and the digital world will pass me by. So I will just keep pronouncing the names wrong until I can find a better solution.
Signed a faithful and New D&D customer (Original Red Box owner, haven't played in 25 years, and reignited my imagination and creativity to start writing again, player and future DM)
OK I have a issue with where you placed the Pronunciation guide for Monsters and Races. I bought the Books. I have them and they are very useful to me. I like the tactile nature of reading from a book rather than reading from a screen. So why is it necessary for me to upgrade my account on dndbeyond in order for me to know how to pronounce the names correctly. Yes there are useful things on dndbeyond for players and DM alike and I may eventually upgrade my account to get those benefits. But why should I be excluded when I have spent the money in purchasing the books themselves. I feel that this is unfair, and excludes those who play and run old school games. Not all of us (your customers) have converted over to the teck. and digital D&D world and some of us don't want to. We like playing face to face with our friend and flipping through books. Maybe Im just archaic and the digital world will pass me by. So I will just keep pronouncing the names wrong until I can find a better solution.
Signed a faithful and New D&D customer (Original Red Box owner, haven't played in 25 years, and reignited my imagination and creativity to start writing again, player and future DM)
Because Curse likely paid Matt Mercer for the work, not WotC. Based on your argument, you're better off asking WotC directly to offer a pronunciation guide rather than Curse, who quite frankly do not owe you jack.
...But why should I be excluded when I have spent the money in purchasing the books themselves. I feel that this is unfair, and excludes those who play and run old school games. Not all of us (your customers) have converted over to the teck. and digital D&D world and some of us don't want to.
Hi Garvidal,
from your post above referring to "your customers" I'm guessing that you are referring to customers of Wizards of the Coast?
It's worth noting that D&D Beyond, whilst affiliated with WotC, is a product created and managed by Curse, who are an entirely separate company, operating this site based upon a commercial agreement with WotC.
I think the initiative shown by the Curse product team to include functionality such as a pronunciation guide is amazing is one of many parts of the site that really adds value to the D&D Beyond experience as a whole. With Todd onboard now, we're going to see a lot more quality media here as well.
What you're doing is asking people to give away their hard work for free, which I don't think is fair. :)
I do see your point though and I don't ever recall seeing any form of official pronunciation before, with the D&D books, so it's certainly something that WotC could look at making available, probably in written phonetic form, to existing customer base.
I can understand that. Im new to the D&D community so I don't know who is affiliated with who. I just don't want to have to buy the same books twice to get the same information in a different format. I understand what you are doing and as and artist myself I completely understand the need for getting paid for your work. Sorry for the confusion and thank you for the clarification.
I can understand that. Im new to the D&D community so I don't know who is affiliated with who. I just don't want to have to buy the same books twice to get the same information in a different format. I understand what you are doing and as and artist myself I completely understand the need for getting paid for your work. Sorry for the confusion and thank you for the clarification.
No worries, nobody is offended and given Curse are working closely with Wizards of the Coast on this, I fully understand the confusion! :)
I hope you find D&D Beyond useful and stick around!
I think this is a really cool feature to add, especially for the names with stranger spellings. However, I will forever rhyme Drow with Crow, and Duergar will be pronounced Dur-ra-gar... because that's how my first DM pronounced them when we were 14 and we didn't have access to his Monster Manual. It's a tradition.
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I am super excited to use this. Awesome work!
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I firmly believe Marisha was doing spirit fingers while pronouncing "Rakshasa".
My group has wanted this for so long
When making a home brew creature the template creature has a pronunciation option. How do we remove the button from the stat sheet?
"She cut off her adulterous husbands head while he slept... then she decapitated him."
Not sure if it's a glitch but I can't click on the audio button.
I had a group that all pronounced Paladin wrong. (puh-lah-din) Drove me nuts. Maybe you should add this feature to everything :-D
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Awesome!!!
Yay, awesome. Now I can justify my gurgling noises to the party!
Also, YAY FOR MATT MERCER.
Does Matt help us learn the proper way to say Sigil?
OK I have a issue with where you placed the Pronunciation guide for Monsters and Races. I bought the Books. I have them and they are very useful to me. I like the tactile nature of reading from a book rather than reading from a screen. So why is it necessary for me to upgrade my account on dndbeyond in order for me to know how to pronounce the names correctly. Yes there are useful things on dndbeyond for players and DM alike and I may eventually upgrade my account to get those benefits. But why should I be excluded when I have spent the money in purchasing the books themselves. I feel that this is unfair, and excludes those who play and run old school games. Not all of us (your customers) have converted over to the teck. and digital D&D world and some of us don't want to. We like playing face to face with our friend and flipping through books. Maybe Im just archaic and the digital world will pass me by. So I will just keep pronouncing the names wrong until I can find a better solution.
Signed a faithful and New D&D customer (Original Red Box owner, haven't played in 25 years, and reignited my imagination and creativity to start writing again, player and future DM)
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Add me to the group that apparently can't pronounce Lich. For 20 some years I've said it like Leech and no one has corrected me. Color me embarrassed.
Uh... the pronunciation guide isn't very far from "leech" (with a shorter "e", obviously).
I can understand that. Im new to the D&D community so I don't know who is affiliated with who. I just don't want to have to buy the same books twice to get the same information in a different format. I understand what you are doing and as and artist myself I completely understand the need for getting paid for your work. Sorry for the confusion and thank you for the clarification.
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This is so cool!! what a great addition
I think this is a really cool feature to add, especially for the names with stranger spellings. However, I will forever rhyme Drow with Crow, and Duergar will be pronounced Dur-ra-gar... because that's how my first DM pronounced them when we were 14 and we didn't have access to his Monster Manual. It's a tradition.
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