Winninger points out that people buy the physical D&D books even if they’re not playing the game. “Each has advantages the other doesn’t, and our players tend to use them in different ways.” “I’d argue that, while there is certainly overlap, the physical copy of the Player’s Handbook that you purchase at your local game store and the digital copy you purchase at D&D Beyond provide very different experiences,” Winninger said in an email interview with Polygon. So why do these digital products cost as much as their physical counterparts? As the executive producer of Dungeons & Dragons Ray Winninger puts it, it’s because they’re fundamentally different products. That includes digital tabletops like Fantasy Grounds and the Roll20 platform.īut I buy lots of digital books online, and I’m used to paying less than the retail cost of a physical book. The price-per-digital-book in D&D Beyond is pretty much the same across all of the officially-licensed platforms Wizards has formed partnerships with over the last few years.
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Dungeon Masters might pick up a campaign or two to have easy access to the information they need to run a game on the fly, plus a subscription to allow them to share that information with their players. They’re paying $29.99 for the Player’s Handbook alone. Most consumers likely aren’t paying $600-plus for D&D Beyond. But even those packages feel like overkill. There’s smaller bundles, in the $300 range, that will give you access to core rulebooks and campaign books. That’s enough content to fuel multiple D&D campaigns for many, many years. For the price you also get 15% off anything that comes next - including the upcoming Magic: The Gathering crossover Mythic Odysseys of Theros and the Critical Role-themed Explorer’s Guide to Wildemount. It sounds like a lot, but it’s actually a significant discount off the cover price of those same books. It includes access to all of the sourcebooks, campaign modules, and individual adventures published so far in digital format - more than 30 titles in all. That’s the price for D&D Beyond’s Legendary Bundle, as it’s called. But, I had no idea what access to all that content actually cost consumers: $637.19 to date.
I’ve used it for years now, both to cover the original role-playing game for work and to act as Dungeon Master in my own personal games. To research that article, developers gave me unfettered access to all of D&D Beyond’s content.
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It includes a character generator and a digital character sheet, and gives players access to the same materials that show up in publisher Wizards of the Coast’s printed books. It’s a web-based portal and a smartphone app. In 2017 I did a story for Polygon about D&D Beyond, the official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons.
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