D&D Beyond's June Drop: New Monsters, Spells, Magic Items, and More!

I hope the Drops content becomes viewable on the D&DBeyond app soon. Would be nice to have at least.

Oh, I LOVE these drops!!! 

From the previous update post a couple of days ago:

"We made the business decision to not make Drops content eligible for Master Tier content sharing. It’s clear that was not the right decision and we need to find a way to give Master Tier subscribers the ability to content share Drops. We have been taking another look and expect to have an update on the feasibility of content sharing in the next few weeks."

For anyone asking about sharing with their players.  Looking forward to seeing what's decided!!

Thanks for the drop.  Keep up the good work.

Personal opinion here, the spells and wondrous items are very mediocre. Except the chalk, that's good. 

The Searing Orb should be a level 1 spell and 120 range. If it has to stay at level 2, then it needs to do 3d6 and have 120ft range and even then that will make it only ok. 

The Tortoise Shell spell should be a level 1 spell and no concentration. If it had to stay at level 2 then still remove concentration and add advantage to some saving throws/immunity to being forcibly moved. 

The Void Star spell is just soooo bad at level 7, Warlocks can't even cast 7th level spells, they cap at level 5. The damage is ok, the healing effect isn't even a guarantee because of the way it's written. The way the spell is written, only the 3d12 Necrotic damage dealt at the end of the following turn will provide the healing. So if the initial 6d12 kills the target or the target dies at any point in time before the next turn or if the target gains a way to negate the necrotic damage then the healing is useless. In addition, you only have 1 level 7 slot and it's competing with Prismatic Spray, Finger of Death, Delayed Blast Fireball, Reverse Gravity, Plane Shift, Teleport, etc. Steel Wind Strike is a 5th level spell with similar damage and a secondary ability. 

The only gripe I have with the amulet is that is the name. And it could be written better, like specifying what type of action is taken in order to expend a charge. I can see the argument from a rules lawyer that it's a Utilize or Magic Action to activate the item and then how would you cast a healing spell, except Healing Word or a class ability. 

And Salubrious Armor is objectively worse in every way than other options. Attunement, Rare so very expensive to purchase, and the +1 to AC is only for 1 turn and only when healed.
DMG lists rare at 4000-39,999 gp in value. Plate +1 is also Rare, listed as 5500gp in value and the +1 to AC is ALWAYS active with NO attunement required. Change the Salubrious Armor to +1 all the time with an additional +1 when healed and then it becomes ok, still not great. 

With the announced allowance of these drops eventually becoming sharable by DMs to players once you've cleaned up the backend and the notion that they'll be alacart or bulk purchasable down the line, I withdraw half of my current reason to not spend money on WotC or this platform. Now I just gotta wait out the outcome of the Magic Arena employee Unionization. I continue to badmouth company leadership for seeking filthy disgusting Union Busting lawfirm Fisher Phillips. I will forever swing freely and with commando stealth making jokes of an uncouth and vulgar nature about Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks. I again state my money is contingent on the success of UWotC-CWA, with support of them absolute and encouragement and support of other departments including D&D and D&D Beyond to Unionize. You have nothing to lose but the chains of Avernus itself. Spit in the eye of those who have positioned themselves most high and take back what's your's!

Drops are great. Not being able to share them with my players means it’s not as usable as it should 

They published an article saying they’re working towards making them shareable as well as compiling them into packs non subscribers can buy annually 

This is great! I hope we get more of these.

I would like to see you do with Drops what you did in the online Dragon+ Magazine issue #36, "The Fathomless" set.    It was a short cohesive set with narative, a handful of magic items,  and some characters that could be used as either NPCs or monsters, and of course a new mount / monster (Deep Rothe). 

Same with the "Negative Plane" story in Dragon+ #37: short setting description, a couple monsters & NPCs.

In fact, it'd be great if you brought several of the Dragon+ monsters into 5.5 via drops.  Well, except maybe Shaggy the Groovy God.  :p

More monsters would be awesome to see in further drops!! There's many old oddities I'd LOVE to see get a 5 5.5e take, like the wingless wonder, or the spellweavers! Loving the drops so far!!

Sorry, may be a dumb question. I am a Master tier subscriber. I see a lot of stuff on the drops list that I cant click on. Am I doing something wrong? Example Elemental Incursion, says its an encounter. Is that like a one shot adventure.. How do I access it?

(edit) D'oh as soon as I asked I found it in maps. So let me change this to a suggestion. I play irl not online. Would be great to have any adventures like this to print and take to the table. Love DND Beyond, super helpful for prep and characters sheets and info

 

The Void Star spell is just soooo bad at level 7, Warlocks can't even cast 7th level spells, they cap at level 5. 

 Warlocks can take with the Mystic Arcanum feature

Still cant share these with a master sub.... dont want gate kept, digital only content.