I am truly sorry if this a frequently asked question, but I did not find any thread with a sufficient answer.
I am new to d&d and I want to buy the books. I came across d&d beyond, but I am not sure if it is better to buy the physical copies or the digital ones on dnd beyond. I am playing with my friends offline and at this point in time I do not intend to play it online. So to a player who does not own any of the books would you recommend to start with d&d beyond?
I like the modularity of being able to buy pieces of books. I play a lot online nowadays and a digital version is easier for that. I love the physical books but the digital version is more helpful now.
if you buy the books here on Beyond, you will also be able to make full use of the character creation tools here on Beyond.
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Formerly Devan Avalon.
Trying to get your physical content on Beyond is like going to Microsoft and saying "I have a physical Playstation disk, give me a digital Xbox version!"
Also, if you subscribe to the master tier, then you can share everything with your player group, so only one in the group needs to buy the books which is a really good feature
If you haven't already bought a majority of the books or maybe you just have some spare dosh laying around, I recommend giving it a go! I have all the content on Beyond and so far it hasn't really let me down so far. The new rolling system is letting me just jump straight into my D&D sessions now without worrying about tossing everything around in my dice bag.
I am truly sorry if this a frequently asked question, but I did not find any thread with a sufficient answer.
I am new to d&d and I want to buy the books. I came across d&d beyond, but I am not sure if it is better to buy the physical copies or the digital ones on dnd beyond. I am playing with my friends offline and at this point in time I do not intend to play it online. So to a player who does not own any of the books would you recommend to start with d&d beyond?
The best way to know is to try it. I've created a test campaign for people to try out as I am not using all my sharing slots currently. I'll leave this up for about a week or so for people to create characters with all the sourcebooks and see what they think. I run an "offline" tabletop group and we all use DnDBeyond, we love it.
https://ddb.ac/campaigns/join/11268514117939338 (Up to 12 players can use shared content in here. Test it out and then remove the character or delete please, do not leave it in there to clutter up space.)
It’s a conscience thing if ypu’re a new player. It sure is easy to input what you want and it prints out a character sheet- no bad math or huge errors. It also gives you one small document to better explore your character’s options
I am truly sorry if this a frequently asked question, but I did not find any thread with a sufficient answer.
I am new to d&d and I want to buy the books. I came across d&d beyond, but I am not sure if it is better to buy the physical copies or the digital ones on dnd beyond. I am playing with my friends offline and at this point in time I do not intend to play it online. So to a player who does not own any of the books would you recommend to start with d&d beyond?
If you never play online I would use the character builder and campaign stuff just so that you have a digital copy of your PCs but there is no substitute for pouring over a physical book when you are starting out.
I would say try the base stuff and see if the UI and such is to your liking first of all. Try using some of the search features to look up the basic stuff you don't need any purchases to see (Basic Rules are free). See if that suits you better than using a physical book.
IMO the most important thing to decide if budget is an issue, or even if it's not and you're just philosophically opposed to buying the same thing multiple times, is whether you want to go electronic or physical. Try to do that first. Once you start buying in a certain mode, you either have to commit to it or else you will spend the money twice. The worst thing to do is to buy a couple of the hardbacks, and then find out you really prefer DDB, and now you will have to buy those over again.
So definitely try it out and see. And you may need to buy ONE of the books (probably PHB) in both places to compare if you really want to do it right.
Personally, I love physical books, but I also like computer tools. So I just bite the bullet and buy both copies (one electronic, one physical). I grumble about it every time I do it, but, there is no sub for physical copies for straight reading, but the electronic ones make looking things up quickly a little easier.
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I am truly sorry if this a frequently asked question, but I did not find any thread with a sufficient answer.
I am new to d&d and I want to buy the books. I came across d&d beyond, but I am not sure if it is better to buy the physical copies or the digital ones on dnd beyond. I am playing with my friends offline and at this point in time I do not intend to play it online. So to a player who does not own any of the books would you recommend to start with d&d beyond?
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I like the modularity of being able to buy pieces of books. I play a lot online nowadays and a digital version is easier for that. I love the physical books but the digital version is more helpful now.
if you buy the books here on Beyond, you will also be able to make full use of the character creation tools here on Beyond.
Formerly Devan Avalon.
Trying to get your physical content on Beyond is like going to Microsoft and saying "I have a physical Playstation disk, give me a digital Xbox version!"
Also, if you subscribe to the master tier, then you can share everything with your player group, so only one in the group needs to buy the books which is a really good feature
D&D Beyond is worth it :)
"Not all those who wander are lost"
If you haven't already bought a majority of the books or maybe you just have some spare dosh laying around, I recommend giving it a go! I have all the content on Beyond and so far it hasn't really let me down so far. The new rolling system is letting me just jump straight into my D&D sessions now without worrying about tossing everything around in my dice bag.
The best way to know is to try it. I've created a test campaign for people to try out as I am not using all my sharing slots currently. I'll leave this up for about a week or so for people to create characters with all the sourcebooks and see what they think. I run an "offline" tabletop group and we all use DnDBeyond, we love it.
https://ddb.ac/campaigns/join/11268514117939338 (Up to 12 players can use shared content in here. Test it out and then remove the character or delete please, do not leave it in there to clutter up space.)
It’s a conscience thing if ypu’re a new player. It sure is easy to input what you want and it prints out a character sheet- no bad math or huge errors. It also gives you one small document to better explore your character’s options
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If you never play online I would use the character builder and campaign stuff just so that you have a digital copy of your PCs but there is no substitute for pouring over a physical book when you are starting out.
I would say try the base stuff and see if the UI and such is to your liking first of all. Try using some of the search features to look up the basic stuff you don't need any purchases to see (Basic Rules are free). See if that suits you better than using a physical book.
IMO the most important thing to decide if budget is an issue, or even if it's not and you're just philosophically opposed to buying the same thing multiple times, is whether you want to go electronic or physical. Try to do that first. Once you start buying in a certain mode, you either have to commit to it or else you will spend the money twice. The worst thing to do is to buy a couple of the hardbacks, and then find out you really prefer DDB, and now you will have to buy those over again.
So definitely try it out and see. And you may need to buy ONE of the books (probably PHB) in both places to compare if you really want to do it right.
Personally, I love physical books, but I also like computer tools. So I just bite the bullet and buy both copies (one electronic, one physical). I grumble about it every time I do it, but, there is no sub for physical copies for straight reading, but the electronic ones make looking things up quickly a little easier.
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.