Which dlc are worth their money?

Leatherface is worth it for BBQ.

Buy Laurie, Myers is pretty bad but DS is good.

Pinhead has good perks.

Don't buy non-licensed content.

In terms of being "worth their money", I got all the original killer DLCs for free using shards. The only DLC I've paid for was the licensed killers.

Ranking those in terms of how fun the killer is to play (which is the only thing I care about honestly, I don't buy DLC for the perks.)

• Nightmare on Elm Street - Freddy : I love playing Freddy. The Dream World has a neat aesthetic, and it's fun teleporting around the map and using his ability. While I consider his snares a bit more effective than pallets, I always use pallets because I never get tired of seeing survivors fall for them and getting smacked in the face while their pallet explodes. 😄
• Halloween - Meyers : Although I'm not really a fan of his base kit, his variant playstyle add-ons (Mirrors and Tombstones) are really fun to use. I love Purple and Red add-ons that really change up how you actually play a killer.
• Hellraiser - Pinhead : The IP is great, Pinhead has a good luck to him, and they really did a nice job capturing the theme with the Box (and it's pretty awesome that they got Doug Bradley to record a whole slew of new voice lines for the next patch!) More importantly, despite him being a ranged killer which I don't usually go for as much as melee, his ranged attack is actually easy for me to hit with and his Chain Hunts are really impactful. Plus, to my surprise, I found his teleports are actually more useful than some people think. Basically if it looks like a survivor is going to be opening the box anyway, and you don't have something pressing going on, Teleporting to them normally gets you a quick hit and also denies them a free item they'd get from opening the box. It's that combination of three different abilities that I like, he's just fun to play because of it.
• Saw - Pig : I know Pig isn't high on a lot of tier lists, but I always have a good time playing her. I actually like her Stealth, and I even like hitting survivors with her Ambush from stealth (I hit surprisingly often with it, I think it might get a bit of a bad rap honestly.) And of course her head traps give her some nice passive slowdown which gives you time to get hits and downs hopefully. Frankly despite her not being popular I tend to have a good time with her and actually do pretty decently even.
• Silent Hill - Pyramid Head : My favorite part of Pyramid Head's kit is his Cages and Torment Trails. Yeah, his ranged attack is effective, but I just like melee style better than ranged generally speaking. But the Cages and trails are a lot of fun to mess with, and a lot of people underestimate how much time Cages save you compared to carrying someone to a hook. (Carrying can take around 10 seconds to do, versus a 2 second Cage, and in 8 seconds you can cross most of the map and get into a new chase in the time it takes to carry someone.) He also has some great music, and just has a great look to him.
• Resident Evil - Nemesis : Again, my favorite part of Nemesis' kit isn't his ranged attack, it's his Zombies. Yeah, they're stupid and slow, but they make pretty great survivor detectors. It's very common for me to see a Zombie's aura chasing someone, I head over there and a few seconds later and in a chase. With a little luck I can even steer the chase toward the Zombie to mess up the survivor's pathing. And then after the chase ends, I can just whip the Zombie, gain infection, and force it to respawn elsewhere to try and keep the other survivors on their toes not knowing where the new zombies are appearing. I'm not really a fan of using his whip to damage survivors typically, but it does make for a pretty sweet pallet smasher once you hit second stage.
• Ghost Face : Really Ghost Face and Pig are pretty close in terms of why I like them. I just generally like using their Stealth to get in close and get hits. Ghost Face's Stalk is fun, but it's a bit finicky sometimes getting it to work. I like playing him but for whatever reason I just seem to do a bit better with Pig I think, go figure.
• Stranger Things - Demogorgon : Demogorgon is a fun killer, in fact my favorite part of his kit is actually using his tunnels as radar stations for tracking. Other than that he's pretty good. I put him a bit above Leatherface simply because his combination of tunnels and lunges gives his playstyle a bit more breadth.
• Leatherface : Bubba is pretty solid since his revamp a couple years ago. I put him a bit below Meyers in the fun department though mainly because his add-ons don't really change up his playstyle at all so he's kind of a one trick pony. It's a neat trick, but it just doesn't have the same feeling of variety.

So looking back over them all I don't regret buying any of these killers. Even Leatherface, who's probably my least favorite DLC character above, is still a character I like playing more than some of the other original characters. (Notably, I like playing Leatherface waaaay more than I like playing Hillbilly. Hitting with Bubba's chainsaw just feels a lot more fluid, and if I wanted to sprint quickly around the map Blight does it at least as well if not better in terms of doing sharp turns.) There are original characters I really like playing (Doctor is one of my favorite killers to play overall for instance), but there are also original characters I don't enjoy (Nurse is my least favorite killer in the game, by far. So much so that I keep a Nurse mission in my daily log just so I never get another Nurse mission.)

the only chapters worth getting (imo) would probably have to be Bubba, Hellraiser (if the nft thing doesnt bother you), Portrait or murder, Mikaelas chapter (forget the name), and Halloween

Bubba for bbq, hes also fun to play (and, you’ll be getting 6k shards soon for the removal of his masks)

hellraiser for Plaything & deadlock. Pinhead can also be fun if you like ranged killers.

portrait of murder because of the new scourge hook, its a very good perk. plus artist is a great killer, and jonah has 2 really good perks (unbreakaboon and overcome)

Mikaela for… obvious reasons.

and finally, halloween- ds, object, and save the best for last. Myers is meh.

Leatherface. You can facecamp and make people mad, because they can't do anything against it unless they are in SWF. It's the most fun you can ever get from this game.

Personally I see no point in buying characters I have no desire to play so most I have skipped and just waited for their perks to appear in the shrine.

For licensed characters the only ones I own are Demo, Pyramid head and Nemesis.

I don't now about sadako. I need to see her in action first. I'm burnt out from grinding bloodpoints for artist. I will wait until sometime after the ring chapter releases and if there is a bloodhunt I will decide.

Also, if you don't want to grind out all the shards, the killers pack is quite cool and worth it. If it's on sale, you can get all the original killers for about 10 or 12 bucks or something ,and they provide you with so much different playstyles and most meta perks.

Besides that, everything else has been saod and done here. Leatherface for BBQ is practically a necessity in order to lessen the grind, Pyramid Head is my favorite killer so the Silent Hill chapter is a favorite of mine, Nemesis is a surprisingly fun killer and Lethal Pursuer is a great perk to let you learn how busted spawns can work and generally get a feel for them. Also getting the first chase going 15s into the game is a guilty pleasure of mine.

Pinhead is another rather cool killer that many on the forums love to whine about, but I have a lot of fun with his box mechanic and his perks are top notch.

Same with The Artist, her Scourge Hook perk was a game changer to me and made it into nearly every loadout of mine that unlocked it.