WotC D&D Beyond Reveals 'Partnered Content' Schedule

Products from Eberron creator Keith Baker, Beadle & Grimm's, and Kickstarter favourites Loot Tavern and The Griffon's Saddlebag.
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D&D Beyond has published a release schedule for partnered content in the first quarter of 2026. This includes products from Eberron creator Keith Baker, Beadle & Grimm's, and Kickstarter favourites Loot Tavern and The Griffon's Saddlebag.

Partnered content is existing D&D books from third-party publishers on D&D Beyond.
  • Exploring Eberron (Visionary Production & Design)
  • The Pugilist Class (Benjamin Huffman)
  • Faster, Purple Worm! Everybody Dies, Vol. 1 (Beadle & Grimm’s Pandemonium Warehouse)
  • Heliana’s Guide to Monster Hunting: Part 2 (Loot Tavern)
  • The Griffon’s Saddlebag: Book One (The Griffon’s Saddlebag)
 
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Remathilis said:
The one thing I can say with some certainty is that DnDBeyond integration has helped with legitimizing 3pp content with a larger selection of the player base. The blood hunter was essentially the D&D 13th class for a while, and there are people who will look at Grim Hollow or Crooked Moon or Varda's content in the same light as 1pp supplements. It at least resembles a mark of quality that the product is well known enough to have WotC recognize it. It's not an indicator of quality per se (WotC's own products run the gamut on that) but it does show it's at least good enough to have gotten their attention. And that's worth a lot when convincing a DM to allow it.
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Yeah, this gets into the whole topic of what's "official" and what isn't, which drives me up the wall.

Dan Dillon's work at Kobold Press pre WOTC? Not official. Dan Dillon's work at WOTC? Official! Dan Dillon's 5e work post WOTC? Not official anymore.

Ugh.
 

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Reynard said:
Hence the "picking winners" thing that feels weird for WotC to do.
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Rewarding success is how I rather view it. Almost all the 3pp on beyond was already successful via word of mouth or Kickstarter. Nobody is saying Flee Mortals! Was nothing until WotC promoted it. But it did make it much easier for DMs who have been burned by 3pp content of dubious quality to say "well if WotC is willing to vouch for it, it can't be that bad." And that's worth it's weight in gold when your DM is skeptical.
 

Remathilis said:
Rewarding success is how I rather view it. Almost all the 3pp on beyond was already successful via word of mouth or Kickstarter. Nobody is saying Flee Mortals! Was nothing until WotC promoted it. But it did make it much easier for DMs who have been burned by 3pp content of dubious quality to say "well if WotC is willing to vouch for it, it can't be that bad." And that's worth it's weight in gold when your DM is skeptical.
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That presupposes that WotC picks the "good ones." Since we know things are coming to Beyond as part of their crowd funding, it is clear they aren't weighing quality.

More to the point: something being "good" is not what gets it on the list. Some arcane process within WotC does that.
 

Remathilis said:
Rewarding success is how I rather view it. Almost all the 3pp on beyond was already successful via word of mouth or Kickstarter. Nobody is saying Flee Mortals! Was nothing until WotC promoted it. But it did make it much easier for DMs who have been burned by 3pp content of dubious quality to say "well if WotC is willing to vouch for it, it can't be that bad." And that's worth its weight in gold when your DM is skeptical.
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It looks like crowd funding projects are allowed to say if they’ll be on dndbeyond.

Morrus

D&D 5E (2014) Thread 'D&D Beyond Support Included In ‘Monsters Of Drakkenheim’ Kickstarter'

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WotC has been including select third party products on D&D Beyond for some months now, including product from Ghostfire Gaming, Kobold Press, Critical Role, and others.

Monsters of Drakkenheim from the Dungeon Dudes (who are associated with Ghostfire Gaming)--who already have two million dollar Kickstarters to their name, with this one looking likely also--promises D&D Beyond support in advance. It's a 300 page monster book for their highly successful setting. There's also the usual selection of dice, minis, pins, bookmarks, dice bags, plushies, and so on...
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SlyFlourish said:
Yeah, this gets into the whole topic of what's "official" and what isn't, which drives me up the wall.

Dan Dillon's work at Kobold Press pre WOTC? Not official. Dan Dillon's work at WOTC? Official! Dan Dillon's 5e work post WOTC? Not official anymore.

Ugh.
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You're never going to break the mentality that some things are more official than others. Some people will only buy dealership parts for their car or only use certified Microsoft products. Some people avoid fan patches for video games. The best you can do is have WotC give a thumbs up to 3pp materials they like.

As a wise man once said, "sometimes it do be that way."
 


I buy a lot of 3pp items; however, as I have moved more to online play, I tend to only use content on DDB.

The convenience of the character builder and dice roller integrated on the screen just helps.

I’d like to try Level Up. I own it all but I do not have a physical group right now so that kills it.

That is my biggest issue with any game right now not on DDB.

I have not used any other VTT so not sure if anyone else offers the simple interface of character sheet that allows linked rolls to a campaign group.

DDB is just easy to use.
 

bedir than said:
That's only true for classes

I'm using 3pp stuff in the builder right now -- species, spells, monsters (as a pet), a subclass
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Yeah, I'm convinced that psionics ending up the way it did in the most recent playtests is at least partially because a bog standard spellcaster with a psionic gloss is relatively easy to add within the confines of the existing D&DB code.
 

bedir than said:
That's only true for classes

I'm using 3pp stuff in the builder right now -- species, spells, monsters (as a pet), a subclass
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What's wrong with the tech that it can't handle new classes? Does that mean you can't create an Artificer on Beyond? Or is WotC just gatong 3pp classes?
 

Reynard said:
What's wrong with the tech that it can't handle new classes? Does that mean you can't create an Artificer on Beyond? Or is WotC just gatong 3pp classes?
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Classes are the hardest thing for them to put in char gen, and I think they charge a lot for them. Which is why there are only a handful (Artificer, blood hunter, gunslinger, illrigger and soon pugilist) that have been done.
 

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