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It says at the bottom of the page that the PDF drops in a few hours.

The pages on Beyond are talking about PDFs though.

Looks like the first playtest packet is up later today.

It's far more likely that Amazon's categories are just messed up. That's pretty common.

Umm, no. The latest Drizzt novel (Glacier’s Edge) was literally released last week.

If that's real it's the result of some wildly overly optimistic ideas about what people are willing to pay for D&D Beyond.

Eldritch Blast scaling with Warlock level instead of character level. Sharpshooter and Great Weapon Master working via -prof bonus/+double prof bonus instead of -5/+10. Sadly, I don't get to use these often, as I mostly DM for AL games.

I want a PHB that's published in digest format. The game is fundamentally not that large, there's no reason the core rulebook can't fit that form factor.

Honestly, I wouldn't be shocked to see that in 5.5e. They're already showing up in Spelljammer and will almost certainly be in the new Dragonlance book, so it's not really like they consider them incompatible with the current game.

You're not talking about the existence of Beyond, you're talking about Beyond being "necessary" to play in some sense. The current game is exceedingly far from requiring something like Beyond to play, so I can't envision a world in which a backward compatible version of the game changed it...

There is absolutely zero chance that Beyond will become "necessary" to play 5.5e. It would be so far from everything they've said about backwards compatibility that it's not even in the realm of the possible.

I mean, it's pretty clearly going to revamp the core ancestries (MotM didn't give us new versions of them, so this will), and consolidating all the changes to the core classes along with whatever other tweaks is worth a new PHB to me. Better monsters in a new MM are also worthwhile.

Flavor. It's entirely about providing a mechanical hook that ensures a Rogue is actually being played like the fictional archetype the class is supposed to emulate.

This is one of those design assumptions that rests on top of other assumptions about how the rules would be read. Like, if you are the sort of DM who makes it practical for a rogue to cunning action hide and shoot with advantage afterwards then this was basically how it already worked. If you're...

This is promising. I’d personally like them to go a bit further on updating some of the classes, but I also don’t think that’s necessarily ruled out by any of what’s said here. Here’s hoping for more specific news soon.

IIRC that's what the Phyrexians call it when they turn someone into a Phyrexian.

Agreed that it would have made more sense to set the boxed sets after the novels, but that would have required a LOT more coordination between the game side of TSR and the novel side of TSR, and it’s pretty clear that didn’t really exist (especially in Dark Sun related stuff, IIRC there are...

D&D as it is currently constructed in 5e wants you to go hard on a single stat. That doesn’t mean you have to build it that way. PF2, for example, gives you enough attribute increases that you can quite reasonably max DEX, have a reasonable STR, and not be totally useless at everything else. As...

I’m sorry, but “INT/WIS/CHA do too much stuff” doesn’t mean it’s reasonable to make STR even less good than it already is, especially taking stuff it does and giving it to DEX, which is already the wonder-stat. Acrobats in reality are incredibly strong people, because it turns out it requires a...

Acrobats climb quickly because they’re Athletic and Strong ;-) Seriously, Strength is already one of the worst attributes, it doesn’t need its lunch money being stolen by Dexterity any more than it already has been.