A relatively small handful of lower-quality character sheet shinies. Mostly just art clipped from the book and jimmied up to work on your character sheet, because all the folks usually responsible for sheet shinies were busy trying to implement Tasha's in the system instead.
If you want more sheet shinies and don't mind supporting a toxic business habit (pre-ordering in general, not preordering-from-DDB specifically), do it up. if you want Wizards/DDB to have to actually earn your money, save your dollars until the book releases.
EDIT: To be more specific, I suppose, you get: >Borders to put around your character's picture/icon on your sheet, a couple of which are all animated-y and shit. >New colors to use in the "Theme" section of "Change Theme". Which isn't nothing, it can help readability, but if you have one set of colors you mostly have them all, the last threeish books I've let myself be dumb and preorder all had subtle variations on the same half-dozen or so theme colors >Background art to put behind the information on your character sheet, which is usually just artwork stripped straight from the book and plastered as wallpaper behind the sheet. A lot of it is more distracting than useful, though a small few of them are actually nice for helping set the character's 'mood'. Sort of.
That's it. Nothing else of any note, outside dice sets they started doing recently. if you use the dice roller here, cool, but my group doesn't so DigiDice are a nothingburger for me. Imagine more people than not are in that same boat.
Or do it with the, I'm going to buy it regardless, might as well pre-order and get something shiny on top of it. Assuming they have anything for pre-ordering...and if not but you were going to buy it anyway? No harm no foul.
I still prefer physical books that I can hold in my hand, feel the texture, smell the paper etc to non existent web pages that I can't use outside of this website. They aren't even downloadable as pdf. If DDB as a website goes down then you lose everything you have paid for temporarily. If the company goes bust then you lose everything permanently. If the people running the site take a dislike to you and you get perma-banned then you lose everything. It's a huge risk. Outside of Covid and lockdown I don't see how the business model could have become so big, I mean sure it is really quick and easy to use. Site navigation is simple and there are some great visuals, you still run the risk of loosing hundreds of pounds of real world money. It's probably because I'm older than Methuselah because I don't get crypto-currency or any of that stuff either.
Or should I just order it when it comes out?
It will likely come with pre-order bonuses, frames etc but they haven't been released yet. So fully up to you to wait or pre-order now.
Just as a way of comparison to anyone who pre-ordered Tasha's, what did you all wind up getting?
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
A relatively small handful of lower-quality character sheet shinies. Mostly just art clipped from the book and jimmied up to work on your character sheet, because all the folks usually responsible for sheet shinies were busy trying to implement Tasha's in the system instead.
If you want more sheet shinies and don't mind supporting a toxic business habit (pre-ordering in general, not preordering-from-DDB specifically), do it up. if you want Wizards/DDB to have to actually earn your money, save your dollars until the book releases.
EDIT: To be more specific, I suppose, you get:
>Borders to put around your character's picture/icon on your sheet, a couple of which are all animated-y and shit.
>New colors to use in the "Theme" section of "Change Theme". Which isn't nothing, it can help readability, but if you have one set of colors you mostly have them all, the last threeish books I've let myself be dumb and preorder all had subtle variations on the same half-dozen or so theme colors
>Background art to put behind the information on your character sheet, which is usually just artwork stripped straight from the book and plastered as wallpaper behind the sheet. A lot of it is more distracting than useful, though a small few of them are actually nice for helping set the character's 'mood'. Sort of.
That's it. Nothing else of any note, outside dice sets they started doing recently. if you use the dice roller here, cool, but my group doesn't so DigiDice are a nothingburger for me. Imagine more people than not are in that same boat.
Please do not contact or message me.
Or do it with the, I'm going to buy it regardless, might as well pre-order and get something shiny on top of it. Assuming they have anything for pre-ordering...and if not but you were going to buy it anyway? No harm no foul.
I still prefer physical books that I can hold in my hand, feel the texture, smell the paper etc to non existent web pages that I can't use outside of this website. They aren't even downloadable as pdf. If DDB as a website goes down then you lose everything you have paid for temporarily. If the company goes bust then you lose everything permanently. If the people running the site take a dislike to you and you get perma-banned then you lose everything. It's a huge risk. Outside of Covid and lockdown I don't see how the business model could have become so big, I mean sure it is really quick and easy to use. Site navigation is simple and there are some great visuals, you still run the risk of loosing hundreds of pounds of real world money. It's probably because I'm older than Methuselah because I don't get crypto-currency or any of that stuff either.
Thanks. Imma wait till it comes out in Mar.