Licenses

[donortiz]

I just recently purchased the ultimate license. One of my friend's is now thinking of getting the standard license. Can I still play with demo friend's if one player has the standard license? It would be 1 Ultimate license, 1 Standard license, and 5 demo players.

[Zacchaeus]

Hi donortiz, welcome to FG.

If you are hosting the game then any license type can connect to you, whether demo, standard or ultimate.

Your friend, with the Standard Licence, will only be able to host other standard license or Ultimate license holders (or one demo user only - any other connection will remove the demo user).

The only benefit that a player might have from owning the standard license (in the case where the DM has the Ultimate license) is that they can purchase their own DLC such as Player's Handbook etc.

[Valyar]

If the player hosting the game is running Ultimate license - it does not matter what license the connecting players have.

[Dian]

How many players can I host under a Standard License? I have one player with a Standard License and I thought I could add a Demo but I can't. I'm running a hybrid game. I have our main players (3) at the table. But I have one that has recently moved but still wants to play. He bought a Standard License. Now my table laptop (Demo) won't work. If I upgrade my demo license to standard, that would make 3 standard license games connected. Is this possible? I don't want to buy another Standard and then turn around and have to upgrade to Ultimate.

[JohnD]

On Standard you can host one demo account. That's it. One demo account. As soon as a Standard account connects the Demo account will be disconnected.

If you have a Standard account and three other people all with Standard accounts connect, you'll be fine.

[Andraax]

A standard license can host any number of standard or ultimate licenses, or one demo license.