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Great point, Ardwinn: they are pricing out kids - think of the children Ahahaha

Once they move onto 6e, they can stop hosting 5e content per their underwriting:

other functionality on D&D Beyond are provided as-is, and are subject to changes and further development. We may update and change our Services from time to time to reflect changes to our products, our users’ needs and our business priorities. We will try to give you reasonable notice of any major changes. By “earning,” “buying,” “unlocking,” “purchasing,” or otherwise gaining access to these digital goods in connection with D&D Beyond, you obtain a non-exclusive, revocable, limited right and license to access the software programs, information, and/or functionality that manifest themselves as such digital goods for non-commercial, personal entertainment purposes only, subject to your compliance with these Terms and any other relevant policies... The purchase price or other cost of such limited licenses is not refundable, transferable or exchangeable including, without limitation, upon termination of your account, upon termination of these Terms, upon the discontinuation of the Service, or otherwise.

So, I recommend you buy the books, and not digital, cause they can stop hosting 5e content anytime, they can sell business anytime, they can restructure anytime... .

So if I'm reading this right. Even though we have purchased the digital books, they can revoke our access to them? How does that make any sense

Quote from JJ_Seattle >>

It's digital. All sellers of digital content have underwriters who ensure company keep all monies, legally. For example, when I buy videos on YouTube, in their underwriting I only get the keep the digital movie to view for 5 years, after 5 years they can, at anytime, revoke my ownership and I will have to pay again - yet if they remove my access to viewing my purchase within 5 years of purchase, I get a full refund - that is something they are not offering for your 5e digital purchases:

The purchase price or other cost of such limited licenses is not refundable, transferable or exchangeable including, without limitation, upon termination of your account, upon termination of these Terms, upon the discontinuation of the Service, or otherwise.  

WOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW did not know that.....that seems kind of crooked....

I do believe they would just create a separate website/rule book that you can choose. It wouldn't make sense to completely delete one of the most popular dnd versions.

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I don't understand why access to the digital content is SO expensive. I've already dropped a few hundred bucks on the print books and even with your misleading bundles and "deals" you are still price gouging players. I understand it takes money to create and distribute the content but why should a digital copy cost the same as a print book? The are entirely different media and you don't have to physically print digital material so you're saving a ton of money right there. Really makes players like me feel like you're taking advantage. You might reconsider your business model and pricing methodology. I mean the Stranger Things kids would NEVER be able to afford to play D&D at your prices. Just saying.

You're not buying digital books. You're paying for the convenience of having had the official content transcribed into D&D Beyond's platform. You'd have to pay again if you wanted to leverage the same content within the context of the Roll20 VTT platform as well. If you don't want to pay for a particular class, monster, magic item, background, feat, etc. you can just as easily create it in the system as homebrew -- for free... you just have to be willing to invest the time to do it, which isn't very much, especially if you're just copying stuff from the actual book you do own.

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So if I'm reading this right. Even though we have purchased the digital books, they can revoke our access to them? How does that make any sense

This is the nature of "owning" digital content. You only have access to it for as long as it's actually available from the provider. If you "purchase" a digital Ultraviolet movie, you enter into that contract with the understanding that if that platform ever goes out of business or otherwise shuts down, you no longer have access to it. They don't owe you the movie.

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I do believe they would just create a separate website/rule book that you can choose. It wouldn't make sense to completely delete one of the most popular dnd versions.

 They'd keep it up and running for as long as it made business sense to do so. Ten years down the line, maybe we've moved on to 6th Edition, and numbers for 5th Edition have dwindled. Assuming D&D Beyond is even still around, if it didn't make sense for them to continue paying for the servers needed to host these services, they wouldn't.

When will there be another Marketplace sale?

When is the next sale? Itching to add some books as I embark upon my journey as a DM

Does it not automatically show or apply to the cart? Is there a code I need or something?