D&D (2024) How D&D Beyond Will Handle Access To 2014 Rules

D&D Beyond has announced how the transition to the new 2024 edition will work on the platform, and how legacy access to the 2014 version of D&D will be implemented.

• You will still be able to access the 2014 Basic Rules and core rulebooks.
• You will still be able to make characters using the 2014 Player's Handbook.
• Existing home-brew content will not be impacted.
• These 2014 rules will be accessible and will be marked with a 'legacy' badge: classes, subclasses, species, backgrounds, feats, monsters.
• Tooltips will reflect the 2024 rules.
• Monster stat blocks will be updated to 2024.
• There will be terminology changes (Heroic Inspiration, Species, etc.)

D&D (2024) - Wizards of the Coast Backtracks on D&D Beyond and 2014 Content

Wizards of the Coast posted an overnight update stating that they are not going forward with previously released plans to require those wishing to use some 2014 content on D&D Beyond to use the Homebrew function to manually enter it. Instead, all the content including spells and magic items will...

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[FitzTheRuke]

The UX is going to be painful on purpose in an attempt to force everyone to upgrade to the new books.

I honestly don't think that it's "on purpose", exactly. (This is one of those stupidity vs malice cases). It's much more likely that it's (for whatever reason) time-consuming programming that they don't want to bother paying for. Sure, the side-effect is that they'll push people toward switching, and I'm sure they're perfectly fine with that, but I doubt that it started there.

The world is generally more pathetic than it is nefarious.

 

[MoonSong]

This is why I recently taught myself book binding. So I can make hard-cover books of those PDFs.

Heavy duty stapler then use binding paste to paste it into a large sheet of heavy paper, then paste that into medium weight cardboard with binding paste and finish with printed stickers or include folded paper in the borders and paste into heavy board with light cement and then cover with vynil or leather.

 

[pukunui]

What I want to know is: for people who don’t buy the 2024 books, will they get to see the 2024 rules for free via the tooltips or will the tooltips just break for them?

 

[Mistwell]

My thanks for finally solving the 2d8 damage weapon, but all of that is absurdly more complicated than it needs to be. Foundry shows what a decent product looks like.

I use Foundry. I find it to be a complete mess. 99% of our game delays are due to Foundry weirdness and quirks, errors and misprogramed stuff.

D&D Beyond is trash in comparison.

D&D Beyond works much better than Foundry in my experience. So much so that some of our players use DNDBeyond with the tool to display in Foundry because Foundry can be such a mess.

 

[Mistwell]

Want to make a scroll that actually hyperlinks the spell? Insert Geocities under construction gif.

Ah, apparently you can create a homebrew magic item called Scroll of Whatever and give it the ability to cast the spell.

 

[Burnside]

What I want to know is: for people who don’t buy the 2024 books, will they get to see the 2024 rules for free via the tooltips or will the tooltips just break for them?

For spells and weapons, according to the post, you will see the 2024 content for free.

 

[Zaukrie]

If I can summarize.....wotc sucks.

Dndbeyond is a great tool. It isn't perfect. It doesn't suit everyone. It isn't going to support rules that are over ten years old and being replaced. I'm not sure how that's wrong, bad, evil, but to each their own.

 

[Burnside]

If I can summarize.....wotc sucks.

Dndbeyond is a great tool. It isn't perfect. It doesn't suit everyone. It isn't going to support rules that are over ten years old and being replaced. I'm not sure how that's wrong, bad, evil, but to each their own.

I have some issues with it that I recognize are "me" problems, but literally forcing a 6 month period where to use DNDBeyond you essentially must use the 2024 player rules in combination with the 2014 monster rules is objectively pretty stupid.

 

[mamba]

I'm not forgiving it for not being better - a hundred and fifty million dollars they paid for it, and that has nothing to do with what it cost to build, or how there's supposedly a huge staff for it. It's kind of crazy.

it has everything to do with user base and market position however, that is what they paid for

 

[mamba]

In the VTT space, how many have failed? How many are truly successful? And expecting anything else from WotC with it's 25 year track record regarding these this is naive imho.

they did not build it, they bought it once it was already a big success, so the failure ratio is irrelevant

And also the question is, why 'fix' something when people just give you money anyway? Throwing money at the problem generally doesn't solve the issue. You're already at a scale where using 9 pregnant women won't get you a kid in a month.

I doubt they are anywhere near that scale. All they are is not very motivated to do any better / spend more money than absolutely necessary… what is your basis for this?