D&D Beyond, the online hub for Dungeons & Dragons, has just introduced a controversial pricing change that makes the game a lot more expensive for some players. As part of a new marketplace design, D&D Beyond announced that it was doing away with"a la carte purchases," which allowed users to purchase individual subclasses, monster statblocks, spells, feats, and magic items from individual sourcebooks. No reason was given for the change.
The change removes a cost-affordable option for obtaining new player-facing content without purchasing a full sourcebook. While a subclass on D&D Beyond only cost $2-$3, a full sourcebook typically costs $29.99 on the site's marketplace.
The"Basic Rules" for Dungeons & Dragons, which includes rules for 12 of the game's 13 current classes, remains free to access on D&D Beyond. Each core class comes with access to one subclass, which also appears in the Basic Rules. These rules allow players to build characters for free on D&D Beyond using the site's character builder.
D&D Beyond is making this move ahead of the release of Wizards of the Coast's 2024 Core Rulebook release, which will feature significant revisions to Dungeons & Dragons' 5th Edition ruleset and major class re-balances. The first of these rulebooks, the Player's Handbook, comes out this fall and will include 48 subclasses, which is significantly more than any other book published by Wizards of the Coast for 5th Edition.
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