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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[Imaro]

There are plenty of threads and announcements on DDB, I'd suggest starting here https://www.dndbeyond.com/changelog#UpdatingtheDDBeyondToolsetforthe2024CoreRulebooks

and here

https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/news-announcements/203904-news-updating-the-d-d-beyond-toolset-for-the-2024

I'm asking for a statement where WotC mislead their consumers on the amount of support they would be offering for 2014 after '24 was released. I get if you didn't like their initial plan... and i give them props for responding to feedback, but where is the negativity around their actions coming from?

 

[Dire Bare]

I'm asking for a statement where WotC mislead their consumers on the amount of support they would be offering for 2014 after '24 was released. I get if you didn't like their initial plan... and i give them props for responding to feedback, but where is the negativity around their actions coming from?

They didn't mislead anybody. They simply rolled out the 2024 udpates to DDB in a way that bothered some folks. Then they changed it in response to the upset. That's about the beginning and the end of it.

 

[kayakingpoodle]

I'm asking for a statement where WotC mislead their consumers on the amount of support they would be offering for 2014 after '24 was released. I get if you didn't like their initial plan... and i give them props for responding to feedback, but where is the negativity around their actions coming from?

I gave you a starting place, dig in I will not do your research for you.

Their initial plan was not disclosed until days before rollout, their marketing in the many videos for over a year with Perkins et al stating we had nothing to worry about and then we did if we were not going to adopt upon rollout.

If you equate being able to read the content on DDB to being able to use it in the tools as continued support then you are likely not going to see the reason for the outrage and we will call this discussion done.

It is the tools that sell the content on DDB for most and saying that you can still read the content you paid for on the site and only there but not use it in the tools without adding it via homebrew is continued support there will be disgruntled customers.

 

[Imaro]

I gave you a starting place, dig in I will not do your research for you.

Their initial plan was not disclosed until days before rollout, their marketing in the many videos for over a year with Perkins et al stating we had nothing to worry about and then we did if we were not going to adopt upon rollout.

If you equate being able to read the content on DDB to being able to use it in the tools as continued support then you are likely not going to see the reason for the outrage and we will call this discussion done.

It is the tools that sell the content on DDB for most and saying that you can still read the content you paid for on the site and only there but not use it in the tools without adding it via homebrew is continued support there will be disgruntled customers.

Cool. Thanks for explaining.... I dont agree with the reasoning but I at least understand the situation now... because i really wasn't getting it.

 

[kayakingpoodle]

Cool. Thanks for explaining.... I dont agree with the reasoning but I at least understand the situation now... because i really wasn't getting it.

If we all agree all the time life wouldn't be better, it would be worse.

 

[Corinnguard]

If we all agree all the time life wouldn't be better, it would be worse.

It would be very boring.