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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[mamba]

No it's the 5th edition of D&D which WotC owns and has allowed others the ability to reference parts of in their games...

no, they own the parts not under CC

Simple question, is a Mind Flayer part of 5e is a Beholder? Are they part of what's allowed by the 5e SRD and/or creative commons? Why not if WotC doesn't own 5e?

because they are not under CC, so WotC owns the name. Look at Flee Mortals for how much that is worth

 

[Micah Sweet]

What about companies that build off of the 5.2 SRD in 2025? What will you call those?

I'm not sure. Any suggestions?

 

[Micah Sweet]

No it's the 5th edition of D&D which WotC owns and has allowed others the ability to reference parts of in their games...

Simple question, is a Mind Flayer part of 5e is a Beholder? Are they part of what's allowed by the 5e SRD and/or creative commons? Why not if WotC doesn't own 5e?

Mind flyers and beholders are part of D&D, a particular version of 5e owned by WotC.

 

[Minigiant]

You see, that's the problem. You're "needed to be fixed" and mine are going to be different. To me, the uneven subclass progression across classes needed to be fixed. Pact magic warlocks needed to be fixed. Abilities tied to short rests and stat modifier per day needed to be fixed. Wild shape using the Monster Manual needed to be fixed. None of those things were. They backtracked on all the biggest things and opted for a slightly better version of Tasha's. The only major changes were weapon mastery, ASI and feats to background, level 3 subclasses and bastions. Everything else is errata or Tasha made core.

The problem

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY

the surveys contained people complaining that their material from older books would not be compatible so TONS was walked back


You cannot fix most of the old problems AND be compatible with most of the old material.

 

[mamba]

I'm not sure. Any suggestions?

Not sure there is a need to distinguish, you could have built A5e and ToV on top of the 2024 SRD as well and they could have looked just like they do now.

The only time it might matter is when you build for D&D itself

 

[Imaro]

no, they own the parts not under

No they own the entire thing... and have allowed (keyword here) others to use parts of it.

because they are not under CC, so WotC owns the name. Look at Flee Mortals for how much that is worth

So again... some parts of 5e have been licensed (another key word... who has the power to license parts of 5e?)for public use but 5e in its totality is still firmly under ownership by WotC.

Flee Mortals? What were the sales of Flee Mortals compared to the 5e Monster Manual?

 

[Micah Sweet]

The problem

BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY

the surveys contained people complaining that their material from older books would not be compatible so TONS was walked back


You cannot fix most of the old problems AND be compatible with most of the old material.

Which is why I have long advocated for a 6e from WotC that could solve those problems (and as an added benefit to my interests separate WotC's desires for the game from 5e).

 

[Imaro]

Mind flyers and beholders are part of D&D, a particular version of 5e owned by WotC.

Lol!! 5e is an edition of D&D... revisionist history is always interesting though.

 

[Micah Sweet]

No they own the entire thing... and have allowed (keyword here) others to use parts of it.



So again... some parts of 5e have been licensed (another key word... who has the power to license parts of 5e?)for public use but 5e in its totality is still firmly under ownership by WotC.

Flee Mortals? What were the sales of Flee Mortals compared to the 5e Monster Manual?

Who cares about sales? What does that have to with this discussion?

 

[Micah Sweet]

Lol!! 5e is an edition of D&D... revisionist history is always interesting though.

What are you talking about? 5e became more than an edition of D&D when non-WotC people starting writing for it (so upon release), but it was also still a version of D&D.