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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[Nikosandros]

The proposed solution of making home-brewed copies is not only incredibly boring and time-consuming, but - in my personal situation - useless.

I'm in a campaign where I'm a player. I'm also the one who has bought the books that are being shared. This means that I'm the only one who can actually make the copies. Unfortunately, private copies are accessible to the other players only if the DM for the campaign has made them. And you can't make the copies public because they are identical to official material.

 

[mamba]

They are and they aren't treating it like errata. The classes and subclasses, and presumably the monsters later (ie the parts they want to sell the most) aren't being erased in favor of the new stuff. You don't just get those without paying extra like the spells and items.

are you sure? I except the same to happen for monsters once the MM is out, ie tooltips show the current stats not the 2014 ones

 

[Nikosandros]

are you sure? I except the same to happen for monsters once the MM is out, ie tooltips show the current stats not the 2014 ones

It has been officially stated that the monsters will have legacy versions. Of course, the tooltips will point to the new ones, but the older ones will still be available in the system. Spells and magic items will instead be over-written.

 

[mamba]

It has been officially stated that the monsters will have legacy versions. Of course, the tooltips will point to the new ones, but the older ones will still be available in the system. Spells and magic items will instead be over-written.

I am not sure I understand the difference… when I read the 2014 PHB once it is legacy content it will still contain the old spells, won’t it? How is that different from what is happening with the MM 2014?

 

[Remathilis]

You can in fact still access the orc stats from Volo, if you bought it back then. This applies to all the legacy races.

Not quite. They updated the orc stats in Volo to match the ones in Eberron and Wildmount (which lacked the -2 Int. Afaik, you can't access the version with the Int penalty anymore.

I don't own Volo on DnDB, but if you can make the Orc with the int penalty, I'll admit I'm wrong.

 

[MockingBird]

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[Nikosandros]

I am not sure I understand the difference… when I read the 2014 PHB once it is legacy content it will still contain the old spells, won’t it? How is that different from what is happening with the MM 2014?

When using the encounter builder, you'll be able to put in the legacy versions. Furthermore, my main way of using DDB is not reading the compendium pages, but accessing the rules elements in the database. That means that I can quickly access the description of legacy items. With spells this is even more important, because normally players look them up from the character sheets and, in some cases, the dice that need to be rolled are automatically configured in the sheet.

 

[MockingBird]

Roll20 over on X has announced they will give you a choice to select 2014 or 2024 5e.

 

[Belen]

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

Thanks. I have been going through and using that as a basis on which of the old spells I want to copy.

 

[Nikosandros]

Not quite. They updated the orc stats in Volo to match the ones in Eberron and Wildmount (which lacked the -2 Int. Afaik, you can't access the version with the Int penalty anymore.

I don't own Volo on DnDB, but if you can make the Orc with the int penalty, I'll admit I'm wrong.

You are correct about the int penalty because Volo has been considered errata-ed. In fact, even in the compendium, you can no longer find the int penalty.