Why does the character limit exist? I just don't understand.

Hello there BilmoBlampkins,

I am reasonably certain someone else will describe it far more eloquently than I (or correct me if I am wrong), but it basically boils down to server space. DDB uses a lot of it when it comes to storing our characters, so they ask us to pay if we want to have more than 6 characters active at one time.

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Why does the character limit exist? I just don't understand.

 Because servers cost money.

Please perform a search in appropriate forums like Feedback or Bugs & Support. This has been covered before and very recently.

 Thread: Why do we only have six character slots

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Why: Because every character slot is data that they have to store on their servers and the more data, the bigger and more amount of servers requires and the more upkeep and maintenance needed. It reduces the unnecessary wastage of storage space for abandoned accounts and protects against malicious use: give everyone the ability to fill your data storage for free and the Ever-Annoying-Bad-Peeps can run bots that routinely create basic characters over and over (noting there is a quick copy action available, such an exploit takes a couple of mins to set up and no expensive/hard to get software to do it: you just have a script on a browser re-submit the create character data over and over with auto-refresher/auto-clicker script. The creation of a sheet runs a lot of script in background to create that data onto the database. Set this up on some points and voila: easy DoS attack as they run the servers out of storage space, lagging it and slowing it down. The cap prevents this: once the limit is reached no more chars are made on the account. Bad Peeps aren't going to pay for the ability to get unlimited char slots because this creates an easy trail of identification.

You can purchase a Hero or Master tier subscription here. Either one will unlock unlimited character slots.

To get more money out of people. It is as simple as that.

I really miss the D&D 4e offline character generator, it was really well designed and could use it on your own computer instead of this online only stuff that is really clunky to use through a browser.  Then this whole shift to online only so they have more control over everything bothers me to no end (repay for books, no thanks).  The 6 character limit until you sub is just salt on the wound.