Dungeons & Dragons Has a New Home Webpage

Dungeons & Dragons has a brand new landing site. You can check out the redesigned homepage for Dungeons & Dragons here, which contains starting points for building your own character, finding organized play at stores, and checking out various D&D media, such as games and movies. We'll add that currently the video game and live-action sections of the webpage are a bit short on content right now, but there are plans to expand D&D in both formats in the nearish future.

This appears to be a shift away from using D&D Beyond as the homepage for the game. D&D previously had a separate homepage that served as the announcement page for various initiatives, news, and more, but they eventually merged the website in favor of making D&D Beyond their sole portal for D&D content. The reasoning behind that move was that D&D Beyond got substantially more traffic than the D&D webpage, but it appears that the powers that be at Wizards of the Coast (and we'll note that there has been some large shifts in terms of who's in charge at D&D recently) has changed their mind.

 

[bedir than]

It's a slick page and considering it promotes so much more than the TTRPG makes a lot of sense for marketing. DnDBeyond hosting half of that content wouldn't make a lick of sense.

 

[SkidAce]

Too slick for me.

Seems like a great central point for info, but so far too much cinematic and flash versus info navigation. (initial reaction, we will see)

 

[aco175]

Not a fan. I found that I needed to enlarge it a lot to read the banner headings. Then I clicked on Books to go to a page listing which books are in the game and it just scrolled down to a section with right arrows to see a history of the edition books. Same with Community to bring me to a page with threads and topics or something and it was just to another scroll down section that I could not click on anything. Looks fancy though. Lots of fancy graphics and images that scroll to new ones too fast for my liking.

I keep finding that I am obsolete in their marketing.

 

[Ruin Explorer]

It's a slick page and considering it promotes so much more than the TTRPG makes a lot of sense for marketing. DnDBeyond hosting half of that content wouldn't make a lick of sense.

The issue I have with this is that, at least on PC, it feels like the webpage of just a random TTRPG company.

Like, any RPG that could hit $500k on Kickstarter (which is not many but quite a few) could have a webpage like this. There's nothing unique or impressive or really grounded-feeling about it. It doesn't say "This game has existed for decades and will exist for decades" or "This is THE RPG of RPGs". It's slick in a very generic way that almost feels unbranded. I saw a new corporate website for a manufacturing company a few days ago which was actually very similar, hilariously (I won't link to it because it might doxx me a little lol).

I guess maybe on mobile, which is more like how most people will experience, it, it might be relatively more impressive? A lot of the elements have that horizontal scroll stuff that says "I was designed primarily for mobile".

 

[Koloth]

Interesting that 3.5 is skipped. They did get the 2024 version with the 5.5e tag.

 

[GreyLord]

The issue I have with this is that, at least on PC, it feels like the webpage of just a random TTRPG company.

Like, any RPG that could hit $500k on Kickstarter (which is not many but quite a few) could have a webpage like this. There's nothing unique or impressive or really grounded-feeling about it. It doesn't say "This game has existed for decades and will exist for decades" or "This is THE RPG of RPGs". It's slick in a very generic way that almost feels unbranded. I saw a new corporate website for a manufacturing company a few days ago which was actually very similar, hilariously (I won't link to it because it might doxx me a little lol).

I guess maybe on mobile, which is more like how most people will experience, it, it might be relatively more impressive? A lot of the elements have that horizontal scroll stuff that says "I was designed primarily for mobile".

I think they have a problem, or they are completely abandoning some audiences (which would not surprise me).

The webpage doesn't even work on my PC. It simply says..."rotate your device for best experience" and then you can't do anything on it.

Like...Rotate a Desktop??? I don't think that's going to have the effect that they want.

It's made for primarily for cellphones. That's great, but is focused on the groups that only use cellphones for internet access (which is a majority these days from what I've seen, but still not everyone).

 

[bedir than]

t doesn't say "This game has existed for decades and will exist for decades" or "This is THE RPG of RPGs".

Did you not see the scroll starting with the white pamphlets going through the deades?

 

[Zaukrie]

I don't see links to the other movies

 

[Remathilis]

Interesting that 3.5 is skipped. They did get the 2024 version with the 5.5e tag.

The older editions get a brief mention. Basic in all it's forms is lumped in to Original and any rules permeation seems to be connected to the base edition. But most people don't really care about the nuance of Moldvay vs Metzner when discussing D&D's past.