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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[Peter BOSCO'S]

Cut electronic subscriptions — Cut loot boxes and NFTs — Smash the control images — Smash the control machine — Burn the pdfs and the pdf makers— Kill the digital age evils— Kill! Kill! Kill!

Do you want Dune? This is how we get Dune....

 

[Peter BOSCO'S]

That is not how 'profit' works. You take all sales and the subtract all costs of the whole company, what's left is profit. Hasbro isn't making insane profits. They made a loss. And even before that, the profits they made weren't stellar.

When you have a family, you also don't just look at what dad and/or mom makes and what they cost. You look at what the whole family costs (and kids are expensive!).

I thought that you split your family into three parts and transferred all the family debts to one part. "Your kids" (Asmodee) can handle being a billion dollars in debt, right?

 

[Corinnguard]

I'm looking out for you. Physical media is the path to health, well-being, and fitness.

Do you even lift books, bruh? Do ... you ... even.... lift?

You know very well that wizards enchant their books with Levitate. They even use spells to summon the book to their hand and flip through to the section of the book they want to read.

No need to do all of that physical stuff.

 

[SkidAce]

It's my understanding that there will be no legacy versions of spells (or items), so it's not just a tool tip concern.

 

[Nikosandros]

It's my understanding that there will be no legacy versions of spells (or items), so it's not just a tool tip concern.

Correct. Spells and items in the database and in the character builder will be updated to the 2024 version. If you have compendium access to the 2014 books, you can read the old text there.

 

[Belen]

Is there a list of spells that will be changed from 5 to 5.5?

 

[Queer Venger]

If I'm just dense and this was sarcasm, forgive me; it's late.

If it's not, 2014 material will be accessible except spells, magic items, equipment, and monsters, which will be updated to 2024 regardless if you want them to. Oh, and the tooltips will give you the 2024 info.

got it! Yeah, I assumed that the old spells and magic items will not, which is fine.

 

[Queer Venger]

Is there a list of spells that will be changed from 5 to 5.5?

a few YouTubers have been doing videos covering the new updated spells, counter spell, for example has. been fixed

 

[Micah Sweet]

Please forgive me if I'm being obtuse here, but the issue is purely the tooltip, right? Your 2014 character will still have the 2014 features and 2014 options. You just need to have the compendium open in a separate tab rather than hovering over. That's really not much more inconvenient than using a PDF or the SRD. It's not like they are going to convert your character to 2024 or remove access to the compendium, they are just going to adjust the tooltips to the most recent version of the rules rather than keep two separate ones.

It's not like it changes what rules your DM is going to use just because the tooltip now says it's a wisdom save rather tham HP scaling.

I get it is a little more inconvenient, but as someone who played Pathfinder off the PRD and runs 5e out of physical books, I don't consider having the virtual books and character sheet open simultaneously a deal breaker. So unless I'm really missing some element, it just seems that it's not going to be as big an inconvenience as some make it out to be.

I mean, you still have the compendium. Ask 4e players how much they miss that.

4e is not the currently supported edition. 5e is, and WotC is adamant that 2014 5e and 2024 5e are both 5e.

 

[Micah Sweet]

I empathize, but that's the cost of digital ownership..I don't have a choice when my favorite video game gets a patch and my character gets nerfed. I can only put off Windows updates for so long before my system gets unsafe. There are lots of TV shows, movies and music that I can no longer stream or even access. It sucks, but that's the price you pay.

Digital ownership from the consumer side isn't ownership; it's rent where the landlord can come into the house and redesign and redecorate whenever they want without your permission. The industry should be clearer about what you're "buying" in my opinion.