D&D Beyond: Official D&D 5E digital tools.

[Spectacle]

Enjoy the pompus trailer!


Feature list is:

• D&D Compendium with Official Content
• Create, Browse, & Use Homebrew Content
• Manage Characters - Build, Progress, & Play
• D&D News, Articles, Forums, & More
• Access Anywhere, Anytime, on Any Device

This is apparently a licensed product made by Curse, which some may know is a gamer oriented message system and website community owned by Twitch. So for the first time in quite a while there's a fairly big and established company doing digital stuff for D&D.

No word yet on pricing as far as I can see.

 

[Scroo]

Huh, now that's interesting. Actually seems pretty cool, looking forward to learning more about it.

 

[Spectacle]

One of the devs posted some pricing info on ENWorld:

What I can say for now:

At launch, players will be able to access SRD content and build and view a small number of characters with a free D&D Beyond account.

We don’t have exact pricing nailed down, but you will also be able to buy official digital D&D content for all fifth edition products with flexible purchase options. You can pay only for the D&D content you need. If you only play fighters, for example, you’ll be able to just pick up the stuff you need to track swinging that giant two-handed sword.

A small monthly subscription will be needed to manage more than a handful of characters and to enable more advanced features, like homebrew content integration. At this time, we don’t know exactly how much the subscription will cost, but please continue to check dndbeyond.com for the most up-to-date announcements and information!

Sounds like we're getting death from a thousand microtransactions.

 

[Grunker]

If you only play fighters, for example,

RUH ROH

 

[Scroo]

"flexible purchase options"

lol nice marketing talk there. Sounds like we're gonna need to pay for every little thing.