After receiving feedback from the userbase, D&D Beyond issued an update about its ‘Drops’ program, content sharing, and subscriptions.
The D&D Beyond Drops program, which debuted last month (how is it June already?), offered players and DMs new options that might not “fit anywhere else in the release schedule.” That is, ideas for feats, backgrounds, and other stuff that didn’t make sense to be included in the release calendar, ideas without a home, could be released via drops. Along with, as it turns out, old battlemaps, spells (updated, of course), and a metric ton of D&D Beyond cosmetic options.
But one thing that D&D Beyond Drops didn’t feature was the ability to share it. Or even get the items without a subscription. Sharing books and other resources is one of the main reasons people subscribe to the highest tier of D&D Beyond subscriptions. It allows a GM to share whatever options they want to use with other players in their campaign, subscription or no. Which brings us to a new update from D&D Beyond.
D&D Beyond Drops Update – Bundles For Non-Subscribers And Possibly More
One of the big points of contention from the community was all about the lack of content sharing. As mentioned, it’s one of the big draws for the Master Tier subscribers. And wherever D&D communities gather online, be it in reddit threads, survey responses, on the official D&D Discord, you name it, that was one of the big issues.
The other big one was access to these options without a subscription. Because, presumably, if you are subscribed and then stop, you lose access to the bonus stuff. And that never feels good, as many are learning, when say, live-service games with active player populations get shuttered. In a new update, D&D Beyond addresses both of these points:
“We made the business decision to not make Drops content eligible for Master Tier content sharing. It’s clear that was not the right decision and we need to find a way to give Master Tier subscribers the ability to content share Drops. We have been taking another look and expect to have an update on the feasibility of content sharing in the next few weeks.
We didn’t tell players about any way in which they could get DDB Drops content without having a subscription. While this was a possibility we had discussed internally, we made the wrong choice at rollout not to commit to anything yet. I’m here to correct that today. We will commit to releasing at least yearly D&D Beyond Drops bundles on the D&D Beyond marketplace every year (in May), covering the previous year’s content and purchasable for all players. We have ways to further augment this with player feedback. For now, I wanted to make that baseline commitment clear.”
A timely response and clear plan of action in place, makes it really feel like WotC has taken the feedback to heart. So, with that in mind, be on the lookout for more on D&D Beyond Drops in the coming weeks.
I guess that means next year will be the first Drop Bundle. Whatever your opinions, WotC is listening!
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