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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[Micah Sweet]

Because I can pick and choose what I want to use for my 5e game. It's the same as getting a new sourcebook. I'm not saying it's impossible but I've yet to see you present a coherent argument for choosing the two options you presented over it.

The reprint option is better for the future of 5e 3pp, and the 6e option is better for the TTRPG community (and even WotC in the long run) by creating a new game better suited to WotC's sensibilities and the needs of their preferred customer base.

 

[Micah Sweet]

There's only one definition of what 5th edition is in this context, the 5ht edition of D&D and sorry but that includes IP. You can disagree but you're wrong.

Agree to disagree. I'm not wrong.

 

[mamba]

Which question are you answering?

the one you asked, why would someone who likes 5e prefer either a reprint or more changes over what we get in 2024…

If it's WotC... well they could have done any of those things if they wanted to and they didn't, so I'll assume it's for a fan of 5e...

I am not answering for WotC, I am answering as someone who likes 5e. As to why WotC did it, to sell more books via upgrades, and to have a refresh that rekindles the growth they had over the last years, that has slumped quite a bit the last two years or so

Why would a 5e fan want resourcezs, time, etc. spent on a reprint when they could get new material instead?

are you sure you read my post? The answer is in it… I am not saying that is the answer for everyone who likes 5e, but it definitely answers the question you asked wrt why prefer something other than 2024

None of what you wrote makes sense for someone who actually plays and enjoys 5e.

I disagree entirely, it might not make sense for someone who strongly prefers 2024 over 2014, but that is not the same thing as enjoying 5e

 

[mamba]

I didn't specify the rules only, I specified 5e which includes IP as well...

D&D is the IP, 5e is not

 

[Remathilis]

The reprint option is better for the future of 5e 3pp, and the 6e option is better for the TTRPG community (and even WotC in the long run) by creating a new game better suited to WotC's sensibilities and the needs of their preferred customer base.

Of course, there is the "monkey paw" scenario where 6e is released, all the major publishers abandon 5e for it (save for a few diehards) and the rules are even further opposite to your liking and now everyone is producing material that is compatible with a game you really don't like and the 5e community withers like the 3e community has.

Be careful what you wish for. There is no guarantee 6e would be any better for you than 5.5 is, and it could absolutely crush what 5e support that there is.

 

[Dire Bare]

There are a few clauses here that aren't factual.

5e is not owned by WotC. They put it in the Creative Commons, for use by anyone.
D&D is owned by WotC. It uses 5e.

Several other publishers have rulesets based on the 5e CC. Those rules aren't owned by WotC (unlike other licenses)

D&D 5th Edition is created, published, and owned by WotC. They opened the core of the rules, the SRD, in both the OGL and later CC. D&D 5E is an open game, owned by WotC. Several awesome game companies developed their own variations of D&D 5E, like Level Up and Tales of the Valiant. Doesn't change ownership of the game, but does affect what others can do with it.

If you are fan of one of these variants of D&D 5E over the official rules, 2014 and/or 2024 revisions . . . that's great! It all works together rather easily, despite folks claiming the 2024 revision (or the DDB implementation of it) makes "sweeping" changes to the play community.

 

[Imaro]

D&D is the IP, 5e is not

Opinions are great, you're allowed to have them but it doesn't make them facts. 5th edittion as in the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons... is one thing... an edition of D&D that includes IP as well as other things that are not in the CC.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Of course, there is the "monkey paw" scenario where 6e is released, all the major publishers abandon 5e for it (save for a few diehards) and the rules are even further opposite to your liking and now everyone is producing material that is compatible with a game you really don't like and the 5e community withers like the 3e community has.

Be careful what you wish for. There is no guarantee 6e would be any better for you than 5.5 is, and it could absolutely crush what 5e support that there is.

If that happens, I'll still have Level Up. And it would be interesting to see WotC take a risk.

 

[Imaro]

the one you asked, why would someone who likes 5e prefer either a reprint or more changes over what we get in 2024…

I asked 2 different questions in the post.

are you sure you read my post? The answer is in it… I am not saying that is the answer for everyone who likes 5e, but it definitely answers the question you asked wrt why prefer something other than 2024

I read it...

 

[Remathilis]

If that happens, I'll still have Level Up. And it would be interesting to see WotC take a risk.

A risk you can safely ignore since, by your own admission, you have no skin in the game. I wager you would find reason to ignore 6e regardless of what bold risks it would take.