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.

 

[Zaukrie]

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.

That is a shocking number of important features unsupported "at this time".....like, dndbeyond is almost unusable for a warlock right now. Like, seriously bad.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

That is a shocking number of important features unsupported "at this time".....like, dndbeyond is almost unusable for a warlock right now. Like, seriously bad.

Learning magic out of a book, like a nerd, doesn't seem so bad now, does it?

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

First impressions, updating my Human Ranger to 2024...

• picking 'fighting style' for my Ranger does not open up a fighting style-picking menu (previously this part worked fine, because Druidic Warrior was one of the fighting styles, and they could've just left it there)
• Human Inspiration is not automatically added to the sheet after a long rest
• weapon mastery effect is not included as part of the attack resolution, it's just something you'll have to remember to mention every time

Just little things.

 

[Zaukrie]

Learning magic out of a book, like a nerd, doesn't seem so bad now, does it?

all of my players use dndbeyond so they don't all have to buy the book....so, no. It seems bad.

 

[pablomaz]

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

It's available now for me at the Android app.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

Foe Slayer. This is unsupported as we are unable to change the damage die of Hunter's Mark from 1d6 to 1d10.

It's okay, no-one's playing Ranger for Foe Slayer. I just like the straight-forward 'we cannot'.

 

[Horacio]

It's available now for me at the Android app.

You did something to see it? Still nothing in my app

 

[Tales and Chronicles]

Is it me or is are the remaining/total Hit Dice absent from Beyond character sheet?

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

They really aren't allowed to update the back-end of Beyond at all, huh.

They seem to be struggling with the same limitations as homebrew (cannot have racial features that unlock when you hit lv5, critical range cannot be expanded, etc). I, perhaps naively, thought that they'd have someone give those systems a look before this release... seeing how they've known that this is coming for years now.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

You did something to see it? Still nothing in my app

try updating it.