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I wonder if this will mean going forward that physical books will come with a digital redemption code. I've often heard people balking at having to re-buy digital copies of book here when they already own the book (or vice versa).

This sort of redemption scheme isn't uncommon. DVDs and Blu Ray discs used to come with a card / code to redeem a digital copy. Texts books will often come with a similar thing to access online resources, practice tests and labs, etc.

It's just a matter of having the redemption code obscured or not readily accessible before purchase to stop people just grabbing the code without purchase. Usually this is done by shrink wrapping the book and/or having the code in a sealed folder/envelope in the book that needs to be opened and sometimes scratched off to reveal the code.

 it would make sense to do if they DDB was just a simple digital version of what the physical is, but its not. It is a completely different product. I don't understand why people are not getting that? you are not baying just the content of the book when you buy it on DDB. you are buying a toolset.

Does this mean I can scan my physical books onto D&D beyond to have them stored instead of buying the digital copy?

You say they don't have any intent to take your content but that's not how the ToS reads. It written in plain language...

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You say they don't have any intent to take your content but that's not how the ToS reads. It written in plain language...

5.2. License to Wizards. By posting or submitting any User Content to or through the Websites, Games, or Services, you hereby irrevocably grant to Wizards a worldwide, perpetual, irrevocable, royalty-free, non-exclusive, and fully sublicensable license to use, reproduce, modify, adapt, publish, translate, create derivative works from, distribute, perform and display such User Content (in whole or in part) in any media and to incorporate the User Content into other works in any format or medium now known or later developed. The foregoing grants shall include the right to: (i) exploit any proprietary rights in such User Content, including but not limited to, rights under copyright, trademark or patent laws under any relevant jurisdiction; (ii) your name, likeness, and any other information included in your User Content, without any obligation to you. You waive any and all claims that any use by us or our licensees of your User Content violates any of your rights, including moral rights, privacy rights, rights to publicity, proprietary, attribution, or other rights, and rights to any material or ideas contained in your User Content.

 Fandom had this exact same language, where was your fake outrage then? My guess is you didn't bother reading it.

I did, but the difference is the likelyhood of Fandom creating DnD content versus WotC. It also is not good to assume what others did or did not do.

...weren't they already connected with Wizards?

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I did, but the difference is the likelyhood of Fandom creating DnD content versus WotC. It also is not good to assume what others did or did not do.

 
Since you did (allegedly) read the terms under Fandom, then surely you know that Fandom has a vastly more broad license than Wizards, by virtue of language allowing them to share their license with any third party they wished.  And then you might draw the reasonable conclusion that, if Wizards did want to steal people’s homebrew, they certainly could have under Fandom’s terms, with little-to-no additional effort as they could under their own terms.

Then you could look and notice that Wizards hasn’t been mining the homebrew section for ideas in the past, despite how easily they could have, and that past is a generally good indication of future.

The simple reality is that Wizards doesn’t really want the homebrew - they probably don’t even want these terms, since they’re clearly causing more headaches for the community (and thus their staff) than anyone would want.

But the lawyers require terms like this, even if it gives folks a bit of a conniption. That’s why people hate us.

I don't hate lawyers...but see your point. The point was they may not want to but that this ToS gives them options.

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...weren't they already connected with Wizards?

 D&D Beyond was the official digital toolset and a partner of Wizards of the Coast.

 Yeah, that's what I thought... so really, what changes?

This means that Foundry will not have the connectivity it does now going forward? If so, is there any thoughts on putting products on that platform like is done with Fantasy Grounds or Roll20. This integration is part of my reason to invest in DnDBeyond.