Beauty and Guile Are in the Eye of the Beholder!
We're excited to announce the bonuses you will receive for pre-ordering Xanathar's Guide to Everything on D&D Beyond:
Expanded Racial Feats*
You'll get access to 16 new racial feats for all the races available on D&D Beyond outside the Player's Handbook - from the aarakocra to the yuan-ti pureblood. Created by the D&D Beyond team, these feats can be used in your home games or as inspiration for your own upcoming homebrew racial feats.
Digital Character Sheet Customization
Get access to new digital character sheet image backgrounds and portrait frame options from artwork in Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
Alpha Access to the D&D Beyond Mobile App**
Get early alpha access to the D&D Beyond mobile app release later this year, which will include compendium/ reader offline access for all the sources you've unlocked on D&D Beyond. Be among the first to help us test an exciting part of D&D Beyond's future!
Xanathar's Guide to Everything releases on D&D Beyond on November 10th. Pre-order today!
Product Description
Explore a wealth of new rules options for both players and Dungeon Masters in this supplement for the world’s greatest roleplaying game.
The beholder Xanathar — Waterdeep’s most infamous crime lord — is known to hoard information on friend and foe alike. The beholder catalogs lore about adventurers and ponders methods to thwart them. Its twisted mind imagines that it can eventually record everything!
Xanathar's Guide to Everything is the first major expansion for fifth edition Dungeons & Dragons, offering new rules and story options:
- Over twenty-five new subclasses for the character classes in the Player’s Handbook, including the Cavalier for the fighter, the Circle of Dreams for the druid, the Horizon Walker for the ranger, the Inquisitive for the rogue, and many more.
- Dozens of new spells, a collection of racial feats, and a system to give your character a randomized backstory.
- A variety of tools that provide Dungeon Masters fresh ways to use traps, magic items, downtime activities, and more — all designed to enhance a D&D campaign and push it in new directions.
Amid all this expansion material, Xanathar offers bizarre observations about whatever its eyestalks happen to glimpse. Pray they don’t come to rest on you.
* - Expanded racial feats not available in Adventurers League play.
** - Limited to the first 10,000 pre-orders.
I pre-ordred. How do I get access to the mobile alpha?
Pre-ordered without hesitation. Fantastic idea, and I look forward to more of them in a similar vein. The only thing I'll note is, I hope the app will come to Windows App Store in addition to Android/ios (as I've said elsewhere numerously). Keep it coming, DDB team.
Just for information as I see some people complaining, in another thread its mentioned that the feats will be available to other when that feature is rolled out to the public the pre orders just get early access, but no one will be missing out on anything.
BadEye I hope i got that right!
I pre-ordered as soon as pre-ordering was announced, so the bonuses are just a nice surprise than an incentive. So, thanks, guys! Personally, I find early access to the beta mobile app to be the more exciting incentive.
The feats are nice, and while I do not understand the umbrage some take at it, it does emphasize the need for the ability to select which content to share with players. I'm not a fan of the current all-or-nothing content sharing. Yes, you can just discuss with players, but it would be simpler to just share what is legal for your campaign.
Also, despite what some (or at least one guy on this thread) have said, I have to say that I've been very impressed with DnD Beyond's PR and community engagement. One of the things that influenced me to take the plunge and buy all the core books is the professionalism that I've seen in everything this team is doing.
@mcbobbo
Projector: We play darker, or grittier DnD more often than not, so we don't have a bright amount of light in our game room. That being said, the Lumens of the projector didn't really matter for us. Be sure of how much lighting you use in the room and how many lumens you'll need to make a projector work for you. There are some screens and filters you can get for projectors to make the lumens less important as well. I just grabbed one for like 200 bucks on Amazon. (DBPower T20 1500 Lumens is on sale right now for like 100 bucks, but the brightness is a bit dull for a well-lit room. Some people claim to have used it outdoors though near evening, but not pitch black, and gotten a great display out of it.)
VTT: I use maptools at rptools.net. It's free, open source, and pretty much gives you the freedom to make it as complex or as simple as you want. I just use it to track initiative and monster hit points. Also comes default with fog of war and movement automatically unveiling the fog of war / vision block. Fantastic for exploring dungeons one room at a time without your players being able to see more than you intend them to, including line of sight. The downside is, a lot of work is involved with making it function for you. There's no default system or anything like that, so you'll need to brush up on your coding skills to use it as anything other than vision blocking and digital map display.
Now for the hard part.
I thought about the problem for a while and concluded that they need someone who can explain things to the potential customers in a way that they can understand more easily. The only term I could think of for such a person was better PR manager. I do not know whether or not such a person exists, or even whether or not it is possible for such a person to exist, but, if such a person does exist, I firmly believe that Curse should hire them.
Here's an idea, fellas. An actual pre-order incentive for DnD: A limited edition book, a set of dice, and a mini?
Right there with you.