This may not be the correct place, but I'd love to do a quick call out that I wish Tome of Beasts 2 was available in DNDBeyond. This goes along with a large number of the Kobold Press books. Specifically, the monsters books would be amazing. I'm sure there's lots of licensing hurdles out there, but I'm allowed to dream!
Oh there's a lot of us for licensing. But then again, D&D Beyond will probably ask for a 33% cut, which gives them an incentive not to go here when they can sell on their site.
Oh there's a lot of us for licensing. But then again, D&D Beyond will probably ask for a 33% cut, which gives them an incentive not to go here when they can sell on their site.
DDB is licensed by WotC to produce digital editions of WotC D&D 5e books integrated with D&D Beyonds tool sets. Kobold Press digitally publishes PDFs. WotC does not publish PDFs for "in print" D&D materials (so you can pretty much find everything going back to AD&D on DMs Guild / DriveThru in pdf and in a lot of cases print on demand). Players are free to code third party content into their personal home-brew collections, but are not supposed to publish such home-brew to the community.
Would DDB ever publish a third party book? So far the only precedent that may provide some indication I've seen was when the lead designer of the Eberron books published an additional Eberron book on DMsGuild. DDBeyond gave Baker space to write an article about Eberron timed with the new book release, but also announced since it was't an official WotC publication, they would not be producing a digital edition of it. To me, that lowers the odds of seeing third party content showing up. If DDBeyond were to entertain the idea it would probably have to be a three way negotiation with the third party and Wizards.
On the other hand you do have Matt Mercer providing subclasses based off two of his Critical Role cast members. However, those don't appear in any published book and as I understand it was content Mercer wrote specifically for D&D Beyond as Homebrew. Begs the question whether say Kobold Press could join DDB as a community member and start providing home-brew stat blocks for its published content (maybe stripped of text or skeletal entires so if you want to know what you're looking at, you'd have to buy the books) as home-brew. Not the most sound idea from business standpoint, at least in the rough form I've outlined.
This may not be the correct place, but I'd love to do a quick call out that I wish Tome of Beasts 2 was available in DNDBeyond. This goes along with a large number of the Kobold Press books. Specifically, the monsters books would be amazing. I'm sure there's lots of licensing hurdles out there, but I'm allowed to dream!
Oh there's a lot of us for licensing. But then again, D&D Beyond will probably ask for a 33% cut, which gives them an incentive not to go here when they can sell on their site.
AFAIK DDB doesn't have any third party content available. I feel like KP is a great place to start.
DDB is licensed by WotC to produce digital editions of WotC D&D 5e books integrated with D&D Beyonds tool sets. Kobold Press digitally publishes PDFs. WotC does not publish PDFs for "in print" D&D materials (so you can pretty much find everything going back to AD&D on DMs Guild / DriveThru in pdf and in a lot of cases print on demand). Players are free to code third party content into their personal home-brew collections, but are not supposed to publish such home-brew to the community.
Would DDB ever publish a third party book? So far the only precedent that may provide some indication I've seen was when the lead designer of the Eberron books published an additional Eberron book on DMsGuild. DDBeyond gave Baker space to write an article about Eberron timed with the new book release, but also announced since it was't an official WotC publication, they would not be producing a digital edition of it. To me, that lowers the odds of seeing third party content showing up. If DDBeyond were to entertain the idea it would probably have to be a three way negotiation with the third party and Wizards.
On the other hand you do have Matt Mercer providing subclasses based off two of his Critical Role cast members. However, those don't appear in any published book and as I understand it was content Mercer wrote specifically for D&D Beyond as Homebrew. Begs the question whether say Kobold Press could join DDB as a community member and start providing home-brew stat blocks for its published content (maybe stripped of text or skeletal entires so if you want to know what you're looking at, you'd have to buy the books) as home-brew. Not the most sound idea from business standpoint, at least in the rough form I've outlined.
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