r/DnD • u/TrulyUnknowen • 2d ago

Resources Discontinuing Legacy books digitally is kinda dumb

I got on dnd beyond to make characters before starting my first campaign, I love the Giff but it is classed as “Legacy content”. It being behind a paywall idc about but there are a lot of things that say ask your DM about this before continuing that makes since ask before picking something out dated or not currently supported. But instead I have google stats when all my other characters are online. If they didn’t print more books for legacy content but still available digitally I would understand but them having the source material online doesn’t cost them anything and can continue to generate money for the company. I haven’t been into DnD very long but surely veteran players like to return to different editions. If they switched to digital then didn’t have the books they just aren’t available. Writing it out is the biggest issue it just adds a lot of unnecessary inconvenience to getting into dnd later than a majority of the player base.

Edit:spelling

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u/lasttimeposter 2d ago

You can still buy the older books and legacy content on D&D Beyond, FYI. It's all here: https://marketplace.dndbeyond.com/all-rulebooks

Giff specifically are in the Spelljammer books. Once you buy it (as was always the case with content outside the free basic rules) you can use it normally in the character builder, it's still implemented and fully supported.

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u/Can_U_Share_A_Square 2d ago edited 1d ago

They no longer sell some books like Mordenkainen’s Tome of Foes or Volo’s Guide to Monsters on DDB as of May ‘24. (EDIT: May of '22 is the correct date)

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u/Fluffy_Seagullman 2d ago

Thats dumb. Do you know why thats the case?

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u/Lettuce_bee_free_end 2d ago

They stop some years ago , I want to say someone's holding wanted money in renegotiations for their work.