Editing Dungeons & Dragons 5th Edition (section)

=== D&D Beyond ===

[https://www.dndbeyond.com/ Digital version] of every official book, campaign management and character sheet hosting. Also includes a subscription, from which a Dungeon Master can then share the acquired books to his/her campaign's players. Outsourced to fandom.com, who also hosts wikis for videogames. 

Along the announcement of One D&D (See Below) it was announced that D&D Beyond is now directly managed by Wizards of the Coast and it would be overhauled to include things like physical/digital book bundles and D&D Digital, an Unreal Engine-powered virtual tabletop environment where players can create 3D battle maps. 

While this bit sounds all cool and stuff, this is all going to be used for only one thing: D&D. Meanwhile, you could just buy Tabletop Simulator on Steam and use it to make 3D maps for any system, and Roll20 still remains free to use with compatibility for a good majority of systems if you don't really give a shit about 3D. Or you could buy Foundry and have access to an open source VTT that runs well.

Quite a bit of speculation and skepticism is being thrown at how the tool will be commercialized. While it's been confirmed that adventure models will come with the 3D maps required to play it and DMs will be able to create their own battle maps it's yet to be stated if Wizards will retroactively add maps to the existing adventures and how the custom bits and pieces will be sold. With speculation the tool might be a micro-transaction hell-hole to acquire custom bits of scenery and miniatures.

==== The Good ==== 

* Digital versions of the books are sold at a cheaper pricepoint than the physical ones: a typical 50$ hardcover is at a 30$ pricepoint on D&D Beyond. 
* Some D&D products like the Essentials Kit even includes a voucher to get the corresponding digital version on D&D Beyond with a discount.

==== The Bad ==== 

* Free account lets you create up to 6 character sheets
* 3$/mo ("Player" tier) lets you create unlimited character sheets
* 6$/mo ("Dungeon Master" tier) lets you share books you bought with the players joining your campaigns

==== The Ugly ==== 

The website also includes [https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts numerous novice-tier articles] - thing is, they are also written by people who obviously never played the game or touched the books. 
* [https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/950-build-your-first-homebrew-adventure-in-10-easy This article] picks the [[Zorbo]] creature from the Monster Manual, even though it's not in this book (only mentioned in [[Tomb of Annihilation]]). 
* [https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/701-sorcerer-101-wild-magic This article about Wild Magic] states that the [[Wild Magic]] Surge table "''takes up a full two-page spread in the Player’s Handbook''", when it's on page 104 and nowhere else a second page.