Timeline for Stance on using D&D Beyond for references?
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| Oct 2, 2019 at 17:53 | answer | added | Harper - Reinstate Monica | timeline score: 7 | |
| Jan 16, 2018 at 3:16 | answer | added | keithcurtis | timeline score: 13 | |
| Jan 6, 2018 at 21:51 | answer | added | speciesUnknown | timeline score: -7 | |
| Jan 5, 2018 at 0:45 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/StackRPG/status/949079344235925505 | ||
| Jan 3, 2018 at 20:26 | vote | accept | guildsbounty | ||
| Jan 3, 2018 at 18:36 | comment | added | doppelgreener Mod | @NautArch Don't feel pressured to have it -- others can do verification where you can't, just like you can verify book references where others can't. However, from what I can see already of the D&D Beyond website, it's already leagues beyond what D&D 4e's subscription service was like. You can get it, and it will be awesomely useful for finding, say, every single spell ever made in anything that mentions the word "push" for your crowd-control sorcerer to pick from, and that will become more and more desirable the more books D&D 5e releases to sift through. So it looks good to have. | |
| Jan 3, 2018 at 18:26 | comment | added | NotArch | @doppelgreener yeah...now i feel like i need to buy it :/ | |
| Jan 3, 2018 at 17:56 | comment | added | doppelgreener Mod | @NautArch That forum discussion mirrors the sentiments I saw with regards to D&D 4e's subscription service. I expect within a year, D&D Beyond will be the primary way people access material, with core books being kept around as an at-the-table convenience. Granted, the sentiments there are exclusively from people who uses and values the internet -- but then, that's also the case for anyone we expect to be using our site. | |
| Jan 3, 2018 at 5:18 | comment | added | mattdm | Maybe worth noting that the basic rules content on D&D Beyond is available for free? | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 23:34 | history | edited | doppelgreenerMod | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Jan 2, 2018 at 21:15 | comment | added | NotArch | interesting forum discussion from dndbeyond about books vs online | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 21:11 | comment | added | doppelgreener Mod | @NautArch I don't think they ever have or will. We know however that during D&D 4e's time, their online subscription service became a major force -- in fact it became far better to have even than the books. A group could split the cost, and everyone would be paying like $2/mo to freely text-search across dozens of books which would cost hundreds or thousands of dollars to buy outright, with all errata factored in, all of it without juggling ten different heavy manuals. That was a complete bargain proposition. The only book we kept out was the revised core rulebook. | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 21:05 | comment | added | NotArch | @doppelgreener I wonder if Wizards publishes any stats on subscription numbers. | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 20:52 | comment | added | doppelgreener Mod | The policy we work out here will apply for the foreseeable future though, so the status quo will probably shift to be more even. But then, we can revisit that later if need be. | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 20:48 | answer | added | Rubiksmoose | timeline score: 36 | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 20:48 | comment | added | NotArch | That's a good point @doppelgreener. But Beyond is still a new service and the vast majority of the site users likely do have books (because that was the only legal way to get this info before they put it online recently) and catering to the majority (ugh!) is probably a good idea. Unless we're the Wizards Salesforce here to increase subscriptions. | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 20:30 | comment | added | doppelgreener Mod | Bear in mind, the rulebooks themselves are also paywall shielded: you have to buy the book. A person with D&D Beyond but not the book sees a page number reference the same way a person with the book but not D&D Beyond sees a D&D Beyond reference: "bah, I can't verify that!". | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 20:23 | answer | added | NotArch | timeline score: -1 | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 20:06 | comment | added | SevenSidedDie Mod | We had this conversation for regarding D&D 4e and rules links to its DDI paywalled service. I think our conclusions there are still valid, but perhaps revisiting the issue would be useful. So, I think this is a duplicate, but on meta it's sometimes good to revisit these things. :) | |
| Jan 2, 2018 at 19:59 | history | asked | guildsbounty | CC BY-SA 3.0 |