D&D Beyond Drops: Master Tier Content Sharing is Here

Awesome Job, showing such a fast reaction to the community is setting a REALLY good precedent for how serious the team is about the future!

Content is shareable with anyone in the same campaign by anyone who has the Master tier and above. As in, they can read your books, use your monsters in the encounter builder, and yes, use your maps. That part is nothing new. It works the same way it does for you.

Thank you! \o/

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How will the drop maps  be sharable? As in usable in the VTT? Because as far as i know you can only share as a dm, and your players cannot use your content outside of the campaign so how are they going to use it.

 When content sharing is active it shares from all the owned content anyone in the campaign has. If the DM isn't the one with the Master tier subscription but someone else in the campaign does have that, then turning on content sharing when the drops encounter sharing goes live would give the DM access to the drops encounters.

I didn't mind the way it was originally but it's good to see you listening to feedback like this.

Excellent. Thank you for listening!

Thank-you for the constructive and prompt response to the community feedback!

Quote from Odande >>

Good! 

Where are all the others from the original post about Drops? How are they feeling now that they were clearly defending the content being unshareable? LOL. This was the obvious outcome and I'm glad to see WOTC folded. This was an extremely bad and greedy decision to begin with so I'm glad it didn't work out. Keep content shareable or there is no point into using DND Beyond at all. 

 I always wanted the Player Content shareable, but also the hyperbole about moustache twisting villains turning everything into microtransactions was insane and had to repeatedly be called out.

Stop acting like it's "Your way or the high way".

Quote from sergastan >>

How will the drop maps  be sharable? As in usable in the VTT? Because as far as i know you can only share as a dm, and your players cannot use your content outside of the campaign so how are they going to use it.

 That changed a long time ago when they made the VTT publicly usable.  All purchased content for Maps in a campaign with sharing turned on is usable by the DM of that campaign, even if they didn't buy it and don't have the Master Tier themselves.

Thank you for the pivot, you’ve made a good decision. 

YAY! Love this! Master Tier is truly a master tier.

Excellent—I appreciate the update and I’m so glad to be able to easily use this new content at my table. FWIW I would also buy a physical book based on Drops.

Tysm for listening to us :D

Thanks for the heads up! This is good and easily managed in the campaign

Thank you for listening to player feedback, this is great ! 

Thank you very much :)

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Quote from Odande >>

Good! 

Where are all the others from the original post about Drops? How are they feeling now that they were clearly defending the content being unshareable? LOL. This was the obvious outcome and I'm glad to see WOTC folded. This was an extremely bad and greedy decision to begin with so I'm glad it didn't work out. Keep content shareable or there is no point into using DND Beyond at all. 

 I always wanted the Player Content shareable, but also the hyperbole about moustache twisting villains turning everything into microtransactions was insane and had to repeatedly be called out.

Stop acting like it's "Your way or the high way".

 Well, you were wrong to defend it because here we are lol. Clearly the majority of people wanted it shareable and you were trying to say you were completely okay with how it was before. It's not "my way" or the highway, it's everyone's way since everyone else wanted it this way

Also I do not know where you're getting mustache twirling villains from since I never said that. Would you like to provide evidence that I did? I also never said that they're turning everything into microtransactions. This is why talking to you is frustrating, you have to make up a straw man. Just accept the fact that you were on the wrong side of this one particular issue and move on

Good change. THIS is the WOTC we want to support. The one who tries to make the game as inviting an experience as possible trusting that the monetization will happen naturally as a consequence of happy, engaged players and DMs and not in spite of us.

I want to thank Wizards for taking this step.  I think everyone in the community wanted this to happen, and I am glad Wizards listened and made changes.  I have been very impressed with the level of outreach and engagement, and this instance is particularly meaningful as it produced tangible results.

I also want to thank the members of the community who politely expressed their dissatisfaction with how these were implemented.  The number of people who expressed their dislike in a polite and reasoned manner I like to think had a much bigger effect on Wizards than the more rabid, poorly articulated rants that infected this conversation. 

I also want to apologize to Wizards for how some of the community treated you all.  It was absolutely unacceptable that you all extended an invitation to dialogue, kept updating us on progress of changes, and some folks still attacked and belittled your staff.  It was also unacceptable that some members of this community actively attacked others. And baffling to me that some saw “I want this changed, but can we be polite” as  “I support the current way this works.”  

I hope this instance has helped gain some trust with the players, and next time there are more of the former, polite protests, than the latter type of post.

Thank you for responding appropriately to community feedback.