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Ah no, it's rubbish again, Dec 7th  Christmas decorations discount code. 

Give us christmas themed portraits, themes, frames, and back drops for our character sheets. Even better Christmas themed magic items, monsters, and spells for the compendium. I actually want to see a *Wand of Merriment*, it's a festive party in a stick. It creates an illusion of a decorated space, and provides festive music and the smell of spiced apple. 

I casts Wish 🤞

 Your wish was granted... and it comes true the christmas after you die. 

Well, that’s already better than anything here.  Thanks for the notice!

Same thing on coffee for me

the coffee is actually available outside the US, that was just a mistake in the print

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Hope they’re good this year. The claimable items are usually great! The discounts, not so much.

 Claimables? There was one that I can remember. The rest was money grabs.

 

They only had one thing that was claimable for the platform, but they also had several simple gifts like coloring pages, and cutouts of an Owlbear and a Tressym. Some of the discounts were actually for things on here. It wasn't perfect but it was much better than this one, especially as they started with the claimable gift.

 Well…

That’s one that is one “claimable” on the 7th, though only if you play video games. BUT if the spoiler is correct (thanks Bellamin_Goldbludgeon) then the Flourishing & Sanguine Dice Sets will be free and theVecna dossier will be to. Personally I’ve been waiting for this since two years ago. So thank you dndbeyond!

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Hope they’re good this year. The claimable items are usually great! The discounts, not so much.

 Claimables? There was one that I can remember. The rest was money grabs.

 

They only had one thing that was claimable for the platform, but they also had several simple gifts like coloring pages, and cutouts of an Owlbear and a Tressym. Some of the discounts were actually for things on here. It wasn't perfect but it was much better than this one, especially as they started with the claimable gift.

 Well…

That’s one that is one “claimable” on the 7th, though only if you play video games. BUT if the spoiler is correct (thanks Bellamin_Goldbludgeon) then the Flourishing & Sanguine Dice Sets will be free and theVecna dossier will be to. Personally I’ve been waiting for this since two years ago. So thank you dndbeyond!

 These are already free right now, no need to wait...someone posted a link about this already a few pages back.

the same as this year, but with some coloring pages

Just garbage.

It does upset me to see the negativity here. Guys, remember that they're not obligated to do anything. I am thankful for the effort that they put in, even if it's not what I was hoping for, it's still good!

7 days in and no actual gifts? Coupons are not gifts, they are obligations. 

I hate this year so far. Its just an advertisement

day 13 - official dnd beyond song (https://www.dndbeyond.com/adventure-calendar/DDB-Theme-Sheet-Music.pdf)
day 21 - beholder decoration (https://www.dndbeyond.com/adventure-calendar/Beholder-Ornament-Color.jpg) (https://www.dndbeyond.com/adventure-calendar/Beholder-Ornament-BW.jpg)
day 18 - vecnas dossier (https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/source/vecna?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023) & spelljammer academy(https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/source/spelljammer-academy?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023)
day 24 - flourishing(https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/dice/sanguine?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023) & sanguine dice set(https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/dice/flourishing?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023)

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day 13 - official dnd beyond song (https://www.dndbeyond.com/adventure-calendar/DDB-Theme-Sheet-Music.pdf)
day 21 - beholder decoration (https://www.dndbeyond.com/adventure-calendar/Beholder-Ornament-Color.jpg) (https://www.dndbeyond.com/adventure-calendar/Beholder-Ornament-BW.jpg)
day 18 - vecnas dossier (https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/source/vecna?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023) & spelljammer academy(https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/source/spelljammer-academy?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023)
day 24 - flourishing(https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/dice/sanguine?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023) & sanguine dice set(https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/dice/flourishing?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023)

 Thanks for that. I switched to the wooden dice.

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the coffee is actually available outside the US, that was just a mistake in the print

No, it's not, because the company only deliver to the US. What is the point in a Discount code that works globally when the shipping is only available to one country?

Edit: Looks like it's available in the UK again, but that's now just two countries, and still excludes many, many people!

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It does upset me to see the negativity here. Guys, remember that they're not obligated to do anything.

Honestly, it's feeling like they would have been better doing nothing. Because what they have done is not great.

There's a saying, "No D&D is better than bad D&D", well, now we can say "No Advent Calendar is better than a bad Advent Calendar"

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day 13 - official dnd beyond song (https://www.dndbeyond.com/adventure-calendar/DDB-Theme-Sheet-Music.pdf)
day 21 - beholder decoration (https://www.dndbeyond.com/adventure-calendar/Beholder-Ornament-Color.jpg) (https://www.dndbeyond.com/adventure-calendar/Beholder-Ornament-BW.jpg)
day 18 - vecnas dossier (https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/source/vecna?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023) & spelljammer academy(https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/source/spelljammer-academy?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023)
day 24 - flourishing(https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/dice/sanguine?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023) & sanguine dice set(https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/dice/flourishing?icid_source=house-ads&icid_medium=crosspromo&icid_campaign=advcal2023)

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It does upset me to see the negativity here. Guys, remember that they're not obligated to do anything.

Honestly, it's feeling like they would have been better doing nothing. Because what they have done is not great.

There's a saying, "No D&D is better than bad D&D", well, now we can say "No Advent Calendar is better than a bad Advent Calendar"

 There is a school of thought in game design that, when a difficult or time-consuming task is presented to the players, if the developers don't want to offer a highly-desirable/powerful/etc. reward for successfully completing the task then it's often better to offer absolutely nothing.

If a reward is offered but the reward is "of low quality" (whatever that may mean in a given context), players will often feel slighted and/or that their time and effort were not worth it.

If, on the other hand, no reward at all is offered, then the player doesn't even think of it. The triumph becomes its own reward. It becomes something the player brags about to their friends or shares on social media. The thought of any "material" reward doesn't even enter their mind the way it would if any reward had been offered.

If it is not realistically possible to offer nothing and a "high quality" reward cannot be offered, then the prevailing thought is that it's typically better to omit the task entirely, as its inclusion is likely to create bad feelings among some players.

And yes, there are games (particularly video games, the Legend of Zelda series is somewhat notorious for this) that deliberately subvert this design principle - but, importantly, they're doing so while recognizing that they're subverting it. That is, they're not just breaking it, but breaking it in a deliberate manner that still gets people talking.

I feel like this principle can be applied, with only minimal modification, to this "advent calendar."

I'd prefer to get some free monsters and character options from books, its more likley to encourage people to buy the things anyway

Today's (12/7/23) discount code is broken. It does not work on the vendor's site. Checkout on the vendor's site keeps labeling the discount code as "invalid".

And those blown glass ornaments look really nice. What a shame.

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the coffee is actually available outside the US, that was just a mistake in the print

 No it's not. The store only delivers to the US. I checked for myself rather than just take their word for it.

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It does upset me to see the negativity here. Guys, remember that they're not obligated to do anything. I am thankful for the effort that they put in, even if it's not what I was hoping for, it's still good!

You're right, they don't owe us anything. But I do advise you to remember that you're defending the low-effort garbage that the "stewards of the game" who want “the type of recurrent spending you see in digital games" of out you because your hobby is “under monetized” in their eyes.

If you're happy being viewed as a walking wallet by a multi-billion dollar company who send the Pinkerton's after their customers, honestly more power to you. But please don't get upset when the rest of us don't.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/claim/dice/baldurs-gate-3

Not sure if many people already have this.