The only change so far is who owns the site. I can't imagine suddenly changing how the site makes its money overnight, but we'll have to wait and see if we get more updates as we get closer to May 18th.

Thank you for the reply. I might not have a paid subscription but I have bought a lot of books through the site and I would hate to lose them because i could not afford a monthly fee structure.

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This crap is exactly what I was afraid of when Beyond was being purchased. WotC effectively owns my characters and homebrew. What a waste of all my money. Expect to lose a ton of customers if that ToS does not change.

 This

I most certainly owned the stories of my characters, their descriptions, likeness and use.... Corpo cuckery is all I see in your words.

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I most certainly owned the stories of my characters, their descriptions, likeness and use.... Corpo cuckery is all I see in your words.

 
You did own them. You will own them. Wizards is claiming the exact same rights Fandom did. Nothing is changing. 

When GW went to digital versions of their books in the app, they started shipping all of their books in shrink wrap and including the code inside. This would reduce the chances that people would do what you are describing. I have also the code included in a sealed envelope inside the book.

What if we have no Wotc accounts

and what about if we are not subscribed

Awesome!! I hope there is a plan in place to get a discount o the digital copy of a product if we purchase a hard copy book. Good luck Wizards!

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Thank you for the reply. I might not have a paid subscription but I have bought a lot of books through the site and I would hate to lose them because i could not afford a monthly fee structure.

 That would be unfortunate. I held off on using the site for years as I own most books on hard-copy, and prefer physical material where possible. I only recently started using DDB and bought the Source Book Bundle when unfortunate circumstances forced my hand if I want to use anything other than the core books (By core, I mean the holy trinity. I still consider XGtE and TCoE as source books, not core books.).

I get that. I bought the new mordenheim of the multiverse and I hope to get to read it.  

I was hoping for more information that lead to answers, not more questions 

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For those of us with an account with DDB and WotC with a shared email, will this merge the accounts?

 That's what I want to know as well. 

This is just too good! looking forward to what this means for the future on D&D Beyond.

Same 🙁

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So, under the new ToS am I understanding that WoTC will own my characters and content also? If so I see a deactivation coming soon. 

 Is this what you are referring to?
"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."

Seems a valid concern. Would be good to get clarification. 

 My gosh, they make it sound like they're gonna own our Souls. I would like clarification too, since I'm a writer and the characters I use in games become beloved enough to be converted to stories. For understandable reasons, I'd prefer to NOT have a copyright issue with my own characters 

 Any character you created in Dndbeyond.com was already under the same conditions. You use copyrighted material as soon as you use something which not 100% homebrew, hence you already do not own the full right on it.

Do We Have To Do Anything To Prepare So Things Dont Get Deleted Or Removed?

I guess I'll be removing all of my homebrew content. I refuse to allow someone to steel my hard word just so they can be lazy. Lets just say, if that isn't their intention, I would highly suggest that someone clarify to their customers really quick or they may be loosing a lot of business. Looks like we may need another place to hang our hat.

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This crap is exactly what I was afraid of when Beyond was being purchased. WotC effectively owns my characters and homebrew. What a waste of all my money. Expect to lose a ton of customers if that ToS does not change.

 

To all those being alarmist about the new Terms & Conditions and how (a) you don't own your characters and (b) about giving Wizards a license to your homebrew.... you NEVER owned your characters, even under Fandom--you have a license to the character through the content you have purchased.  And you ALWAYS had granted Fandom a license to either use your homebrew or allow any third-party they wished, including their allowing Wizards to use the fan-created content if they so wished.

So, with respect, you have a bit of egg on your face--"this crap" that you are complaining about is something you have been A-okay with for however long you have been using Beyond.  As for it causing a "ton of customers" to leave?  It never really stopped those customers before.

This.