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expiredPaladin3 posted Jun 03, 2024 02:49 AM
expiredPaladin3 posted Jun 03, 2024 02:49 AM

Dungeons & Dragons 50th Anniversary Sale: Select Guides, Handbooks (Digital or Physical)

& More + Free S/H on $65+

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D&D Beyond offers Up to 50% Off select Dungeons & Dragons Physical & Digital Products as noted below. Shipping is free on $65+ orders.

Thanks to community member Paladin3 for finding this deal.

Example deals:
  • Player's Handbook (5th Edition)
    • Digital $14.99
    • Physical Copy $24.97
      • note: add both formats to cart to get the digital copy for $10
  • Dungeon Master's Guide (5th Edition)
    • Digital $14.99
    • Physical Copy $24.97
      • note: add both formats to cart to get the digital copy for $10
  • Monster Manual (5th Edition)
    • Digital $14.99
    • Physical Copy $24.97
      • note: add both formats to cart to get the digital copy for $10
  • & More
Alternatively, Amazon also has select Dungeons & Dragons Books (Physical Copies) on sale starting at $26.10. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+ orders.

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D&D Beyond offers Up to 50% Off select Dungeons & Dragons Physical & Digital Products as noted below. Shipping is free on $65+ orders.

Thanks to community member Paladin3 for finding this deal.

Example deals:
  • Player's Handbook (5th Edition)
    • Digital $14.99
    • Physical Copy $24.97
      • note: add both formats to cart to get the digital copy for $10
  • Dungeon Master's Guide (5th Edition)
    • Digital $14.99
    • Physical Copy $24.97
      • note: add both formats to cart to get the digital copy for $10
  • Monster Manual (5th Edition)
    • Digital $14.99
    • Physical Copy $24.97
      • note: add both formats to cart to get the digital copy for $10
  • & More
Alternatively, Amazon also has select Dungeons & Dragons Books (Physical Copies) on sale starting at $26.10. Shipping is free w/ Prime or on $35+ orders.

Available options:

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Written by StrawMan86 | Staff

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Written by Paladin3

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jagedlion
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It's a good deal, but the new Players Handbook is going to be released in September, and the new DMs guide in November. These books are revised rarely, so it might make sense to wait for the new ones, even if for full price.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1...k-releases
Paladin3
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That is an excellent point and it completely slipped my mind that D&D 2024 was on the way. Just when I thought I had a handle on the current edition, they change everything up on me and I have to buy a whole new set of books, lol!

I started playing in junior high around 1982 with the red softcover basic rule book and have played every version since and loved them all. I don't get the hate some have for 5E, as it's so easy to modify your table rules if something doesn't work. Really looking forward to D&D 2024, or whatever they call it.

Thanks!

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Jun 05, 2024 04:22 PM
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jagedlionJun 05, 2024 04:22 PM
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Quote from BostonBatman :
So, here is the full review:

DnD Beyond had been an incredible tool to have interactive and baked-in DnD rules and logic, spells, and movable character tokens and enemies on customizable maps. Then, wizards of the coast/blizzard bought DnD Beyond and turned it into microtransaction Hell. You can "buy the digital book" which will allow you to reference spells and items, maps and different environmental impacts by purchasing the digital book, but the actual DnD books used to come with a free digital copy to redeem on the platform, basically meaning now you need to buy the book twice. DnD Beyond is free to use with custom maps and basic rules. You can even add in free custom music for your campaigns, but without fully investing in all the digital content ($1000s of dollars) you still don't even get access to everything you paid for, let alone the fact that the platform doesn't cover the entire literature of even basic relevant information like basic player class details. In the end, fark Blizzard and DnD - Just use Discord and Microsoft Paint. If you need a game board and token pieces, you just need a better DM. DnD Beyond is basically the Woot! of online ttrpg, but the same exact story of the before and after Amazon bought them.
DnDBeyond still requires a master subscription to host with maps. You'll have to use something else (like abovevtt) if you want a free map hosting experience.
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Jun 05, 2024 10:41 PM
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Paladin3
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Jun 05, 2024 10:41 PM
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Quote from BostonBatman :
The game will always exist, it's been free for decades up until the shitty cashgrabbing actions over the pandemic. They deserve nothing aside from the $1000s of dollars they get from average players whether just through books or going fullsail with all the character pieces and maps. You can shill all you want, but this company farked up and should not be supported. If you stop buying dictionaries, the words and definitions will still exist. If you stop buying playing cards, the card and game will still exist.If no new DnD content comes out because a scummy company did nefarious things to its users/audience, then that's their own fault and we'll just have to sift through decades and hundreds of official campaigns and stories OR MAKE THEM UP OURSELVES.
And, where exactly do you work for free? Roleplaying as an exercise of the mind will always be free, but if you want to use gaming materials, products or service produced by another then you need to pay them the asking price. I'm a big supporter of free markets and companies and individuals being able to profit and make a living off of bringing products to market. If they develop a successful product then they deserve to be successful, just like they will lose their invested capital and hard work if their product fails. If you don't want the product then don't buy it, and if you want to create your own gaming materials then feel free to do so. But unless you work for free and contribute your labors at no charge, you are no different that companies that invest capital and bring products to market for sale. You do sell your labor, correct? Or remind me again where you work for free? Yeah, I'm a shill for free markets and all the wonderful things I can buy and sell in one.
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Jun 05, 2024 10:49 PM
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Paladin3
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Jun 05, 2024 10:49 PM
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Quote from BostonBatman :
There is no way to read the digital content if you buy the DLC for DnDBeyond, you can just use the elements in their system as you "unlock" them. There is no pdf and you don't get a digital copy of the book. And yeah, Hasbro, but still...
Then don't buy it. That's the genius of a free market, you get a vote with your wallet on whether a product is successful or not. Since more folks are playing D&D than ever and supporting Hasbro's business model then they must be providing products and service people want. If folks stop buying then Hasbro will change their business model or die. Isn't that a wonderful system?
Jun 06, 2024 12:44 AM
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moosh21bJun 06, 2024 12:44 AM
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Quote from BostonBatman :
There is no way to read the digital content if you buy the DLC for DnDBeyond, you can just use the elements in their system as you "unlock" them. There is no pdf and you don't get a digital copy of the book. And yeah, Hasbro, but still...
huh, the page by page used to be available (online) via the Compendium view of a book. Can't seem to get it that way anymore.
Jun 07, 2024 02:57 AM
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OliveMagic120Jun 07, 2024 02:57 AM
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Quote from Paladin3 :
That is an excellent point and it completely slipped my mind that D&D 2024 was on the way. Just when I thought I had a handle on the current edition, they change everything up on me and I have to buy a whole new set of books, lol!

I started playing in junior high around 1982 with the red softcover basic rule book and have played every version since and loved them all. I don't get the hate some have for 5E, as it's so easy to modify your table rules if something doesn't work. Really looking forward to D&D 2024, or whatever they call it.

Thanks!
Same here except we started with the D&D Basic Box Set. Quickly got the books. Started painting miniatures.

The good old days. 😆
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Jun 07, 2024 04:25 PM
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Paladin3
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Jun 07, 2024 04:25 PM
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Quote from OliveMagic120 :
Same here except we started with the D&D Basic Box Set. Quickly got the books. Started painting miniatures.

The good old days. 😆
I was in high school when the AD&D hardcover books came out, and the Player's Handbook had a couple of blank character sheets inside. Mind you, this was 1985ish and we didn't all have computers and printers, but I worked in the school's copy center making copies of materials for teachers. I had a pretty good side hustle going running off copies of the character sheets to sell to friends. I always had lunch money in those good old days.

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