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Good point. It's probably going to get even more complicated with the new 3PP books added, if you buy them, like Flee Mortals! which have new variant versions of core monsters.

There was a Books I Own filter before in the Marketplace which is gone now. Here’s one of the threads about it in the DDB forums and some talk about the double-purchase possibility...

So true. The enshittification of all corporate media companies.

There's a pretty long thread on ddb forums complaining about it. I also heard from one of the podcasts, can't remember which one, said that the marketplace will even let people accidentally buy a book they already owned a second time. It used to block that from happening. I haven't tested that...

It's infuriating. It's ignorant User Experience design. When logged in to D&D Beyond, from the header when you roll over Sourcebooks...it shows "Featured" books, and you can click to "View all" but then there's NO OPTION to only view books you have purchased. There is no collection of the books...

Teos Abadia had a thoughtful speculation about this in Mastering Dungeons podcast, episode 187 at 19:02 minutes mark. I normally listen to that show on Pocket Casts, but here's a convenient link to it on Youtube:

I disagree that it's a tempest in a teapot. It's a sign that they did not follow best practices for an executive departure. Why did they not? Don't know, but it certainly makes me curious. An executive leaving on short notice can rattle the board, it can rattle the stock market (unless they want...

Wicked

"He frequently hallucinates, just like a Large Language Model, which is exactly the kind of optimized use of AI that we’re looking for over here at Wizards of the Coast.”

Wow, this game sounds really cool! And what a generous gift of a free core book for his last system. Snagged it!

My self-hosting does work pretty well although any time my internet gets reset, i have to go back into the router settings and reset the Passthough permissions. It's a pain, but fortunately only happens occasionally. I have one player with fairly poor internet speed and it often lags for them...

Very interesting. I got self hosting to work, so I’m okay with that. But I’m paying through the nose for Discord Nitro Boosts for video and audio quality streaming. What are the video chat and message threads/groups are you offering? Does your service replace both hosting and Discord-like server...

I'm a Gamemaster for my hometeam and separately for a pro game on StartPlaying.games. I've been paying for Discord with multiple Nitro levels--you have to get 7 Boosts in order to get upgraded streaming quality. From 720p to 1080p and the audio quality goes up from 128kbps to 256bps...so double...

Not DND did an interview with the creator of this, and they have a Kickstarter going for 8 more days. https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/sapientsnake/the-contract-rpg?ref=c5nh4t Basically, the rules are free on the website but you pay for scenarios. I think? I must say, it seems like a very...

My homebrew world is set on the great tree YggdrasiI. I have imagined Yggdrasil as a living tree the size of a planet, floating in space and orbiting a sun. As such, I use all the Norse gods primarily as my pantheon, but with some customization, depending on what my players are interested in...

Sigh. Really not sure why you want to argue about this. I said I wasn't going to continue debating but since you keep coming at me, and I can't resist being baited... According to Business Insider, the total TTRPG sales in 2022 was $1.539 Billion. Tabletop Role-Playing Game (TTRPG) Market Size...

Oh interesting. I'll have to look for reviews!

Amazon was a purely financial analogy, not about culture. But if you want to talk culture, within the TTRPG space, WotC isn't that far off as an analogy for Amazon. If you go by percent of sales, percent of revenue, percent of blog topics, percent of conversation about D&D 5e vs. everything...

I get your point, that makes sense. But WotC is the Amazon of the RPG world. Everyone else is puny by comparison. They can spare some margin if it drives volume. That said, there's really no way to know exactly how they plan their revenue goals without being an insider--I guess we'll see if they...

I'm thinking now that possibly they want to see how sales go before deciding if it should be discounted in the future. Maybe they want to scoop up all the 3PP superfans who will buy it even without a discount. Get the early adopters at full price and then if sales slow down in 6 months, maybe it...