2024 Player's Handbook Officially Live on D&D Beyond

The 2024 Player's Handbook has officially launched on D&D Beyond after a longer-than-expected wait. The new rulebook, which contains major revisions to the current 5th Edition ruleset for Dungeons & Dragons, is now live for "Master Tier" subscribers of the online character builder and rules compendium website, provided they pre-ordered the book. "Hero Tier" subscribers will gain access to the new Player's Handbook next week (again, provided they pre-ordered it), while the full book will be available to all subscribers starting on September 17th.

The integration of the 2024 Player's Handbook was not without hiccups, with the service initially opting to switchover the rules text for magic spells, magic items, and mundane items before reversing course after a significant uproar among some users. While D&D Beyond was supposed to be down for a four hour maintenance window this morning, assumably to "go live" with the 2024 Player's Handbook, it took an additional two hours to finish the maintenance period.

NOTE: As of 2:52 PM ET, the full suite of character building options for the 2024 Player's Handbook were not available on D&D Beyond. Users can create a Cleric, Rogue, Wizard, or Fighter character using the 2024 Basic Rules set, but all other new material is not available.

 

[OB1]

How did sleep not break concentration before? It puts you to sleep!

Because by Tier II you couldn't roll enough HP to actually put the spell caster to sleep. By changing it to a Wis save, you've got pretty good odds of doing so.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Because by Tier II you couldn't roll enough HP to actually put the spell caster to sleep. By changing it to a Wis save, you've got pretty good odds of doing so.

Is it a save now? Makes sense I guess, but I kinda liked it being different from other spells (although I preferred TSRs version to 5e's).

 

[Demetrios1453]

My Dragon Artbook was just emailed to me.

First good look at the White Dragon

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Oh no, they kept a a full, detailed history of all the artwork in progress. Won't someone please think of the poor troll posters who now can't immediately come in and insinuate it was all done through Ai?

But in all seriousness, just having done a quick glance through, it's really spectacular!

 

[UngainlyTitan]

I see the PHB 2024 in the web version of D&D Beyond, but I don't see it in the Android app, weird...

You need to update the app before seeing it.

 

[Horacio]

Same. I updated the app, and it now gives me the option of downloading the free rules, but the PHB isn’t there. When I go to search and look for something from 2024, it just says the PHB is unavailable.

I can access it from the web version, though.

Exactly the same. I have sent a message to the support team, asking for help

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

Okay, they really mean to restrict you to the 16 backgrounds in the PHB. That's a choice. Custom background is still there, but it has not been updated from 2014 (tells you to pick a background feature rather than lv1 feat).

 

[Demetrios1453]

Okay, they really mean to restrict you to the 16 backgrounds in the PHB. That's a choice. Custom background is still there, but it has not been updated from 2014 (tells you to pick a background feature rather than lv1 feat).

That's a bit uncharitable. It's far more likely that it's something that will be fixed soon enough.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

That's a bit uncharitable. It's far more likely that it's something that will be fixed soon enough.

I think that's cause it's coming in the DMG.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

Okay, they really mean to restrict you to the 16 backgrounds in the PHB. That's a choice. Custom background is still there, but it has not been updated from 2014 (tells you to pick a background feature rather than lv1 feat).

They haven't officially said there will be rules for creating new backgrounds, to my recollection. My suspicion is that the guidance will appear in the new DMG, which could potentially mean we won't have it enabled in DDB until then.

 

[plecostomus]

Okay, they really mean to restrict you to the 16 backgrounds in the PHB. That's a choice. Custom background is still there, but it has not been updated from 2014 (tells you to pick a background feature rather than lv1 feat).

They know it's an issue but they don't have an ETA on fixing it. There's a pretty long list of both new features and unsupported features on this post:

https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/bugs-support/204813-players-handbook-issues-and-support-thread

Some of them they say they'll fix soon, or they'll fix it but don't have ETA, and some just say they can't support it. Hide your Warlocks.