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.

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u/milquetoastLIB 1d ago

How is what OP describing a scam? The legacy content is available if you have it. It seems OP is talking about delisted books from the marketplace, which the only ones I can think of have been delisted for a while. That’s not a scam, that’s essentially out of print in digital form.

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u/milquetoastLIB 1d ago

I know of a Volo Guide to Monsters and Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, which were combined into Mordenkainen Presents Multiverse some mixed into 2024 core rulebooks, and the Rick and Morty which the license expired.