Recent content by mamba

doesn’t make a difference to me. The main point still is that other than WotC no one can drop $150M on something like DDB, so no one else having something like it and also selling PDF means nothing since no one else is in a position to / has something like DDB. The closest we have is VTT...

I think they won by sales collapsing in a year or two, showing that there was relatively little interest in 4e, no matter how it was being repackaged (Essentials).

most are too small to afford something like DDB, so who cares. I certainly am aware of a lot of publishers that offer their products on a VTT and in PDF, I do not see why I should not see DDB as a VTT equivalent

I am not saying it is a bad argument because I think you are wrong on the fact that most people in the world do not care. I consider it a bad argument because that is true for every TTRPG product, every movie, every book, etc. so as a metric, it just fails right out of the gate

it's in the preorder bonus adventure

Depends on the players I guess. As far as being a DM willing to homebrew their own system is concerned, your approach fails right at the start by veering off in a direction I have not the least bit of interest ending up in, and I assume the same is true for the OP

I am not saying I only want a PDF, but I also want a PDF ;) I do not see usability of a patreon post, let alone discord chat, as even on the level of a PDF. I agree that depending on your use case, DDB offers higher usability than a PDF would, but that requires you to be ok with limiting...

if it is a post that is not also a PDF, I dislike it just as much as DDB. I’d never spend money on that patreon, unless these cases are very rare rather than the norm

it’s not either DDB only or print only though, there are other options too

so we are back to ‘99% do not care’, still as bad an argument as the first time around…

not really parallel, you still get a PDF, just from a different ‘shop’, you are not locked in the way DDB does it. If DDB offered me a proper PDF (proper layout, ToC) to go alongside the content, I’d much prefer that over the current approach. In fact I’d rather buy that over what DDB wants to...

If I were to create my own 5e spinoff that is absolutely how I would go about it. Base every caster on the abandoned 5.5 UA Warlock chassis.

not from my understanding… the text says ‘Pre-order Ravenloft: The Horrors Within on D&D Beyond to unlock early access to monsters featured in the book and seen on Dungeon Masters. Plus, get weekly ready-to-run encounters and quickplay maps inspired by the episode!’ So the book will contain...

why not, where else are they available?

that was my point whichever, that is not really relevant, I can get those things in PDF or print as well, DDB is just another distribution channel (with the notable exception of Cthulhu by Torchlight). It is only the WotC stuff that is not available any other way