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.

 

[pukunui]

they don't really indicate they will fix some things....unless I'm reading that update wrong.

they've had a long time to work on the backend, knowing what is coming, and can't implement them. What I know from experience is that htye might NOT be able to.......not without new code.

Yes, as I said above, I'm pretty sure it's been established that if they really want to give DDB full functionality, they'd have to rebuild it from scratch due to poor decision-making in the past.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

Some stuff has already been fixed. What's an issue you are having right now Zaukrie?

 

[jasper]

Any body got a link to the new character sheet? The 2024 basic rules on the phone app, does not download the sheet. Thanks.

 

[Zaukrie]

Some stuff has already been fixed. What's an issue you are having right now Zaukrie?

pretty much none of the new warlock invocations are usable. sear undead (two clerics). (literally the only two things I've checked, coincidentally)

I'll have to see what's fixed! hoping to be wrong...and that it something we can use quickly. Because both my groups are ready to update when possible.

"We are currently unable to support the Wild Shape rules presented in the 2024 Player's Handbook. To avoid confusion, we have avoided creating a 2024 version of the Wild Shape extras section."

 

[MonsterEnvy]

pretty much none of the new warlock invocations are usable. sear undead (two clerics). (literally the only two things I've checked, coincidentally)

I'll have to see what's fixed! hoping to be wrong...and that it something we can use quickly. Because both my groups are ready to update when possible.

"We are currently unable to support the Wild Shape rules presented in the 2024 Player's Handbook. To avoid confusion, we have avoided creating a 2024 version of the Wild Shape extras section."

In this case, many of these things will just have to be tracked manually. Sear Undead is pretty easy at least. With Luck some of this will be fixed within the week.

 

[Zaukrie]

In this case, many of these things will just have to be tracked manually. Sear Undead is pretty easy at least. With Luck some of this will be fixed within the week.

that would be easier in a game that wasn't played virtually.....

let's hope it is fixed soon.

 

[MonsterEnvy]

that would be easier in a game that wasn't played virtually.....

let's hope it is fixed soon.

Well the descriptions are still there, so something like sear undead is easy. You know you roll equal to your wismod so you just do that. It won't auto take care of them sadly, but we can wait to see if some of the growing pains go away.

Any body got a link to the new character sheet? The 2024 basic rules on the phone app, does not download the sheet. Thanks.

https://media.dndbeyond.com/compendium-images/phb/downloads/DnD_2024_Character-Sheet.pdf

 

[plecostomus]

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.

This was my immediate thought when I saw that my 2014 Cleric has access to the 2024 free rules spells, but those spells aren't properly attached to my 2014 subclass as Always Prepared (ex. Bless below).

Because I've homebrewed a spell in Beyond before, I know that to get it as a subclass Always Prepared spell, I have to manually add my subclass to its availability list. The lack of attachment between 2024 spells and 2014 subclasses suggests to me that the devs are also using that homebrew menu to add availability manually for each spell.

Given that the original plan was to update all spells to 2024 versions, I have to wonder if Always Prepared spells for 2014 characters would have been in the list of unsupported features at first. Or is this a new issue from when they realized they would need to keep separate versions?

Gameplay-wise this all means nothing for my particular character, as most of the subclass spells changed only in wording. But it's interesting to have the same pitfall I ran into when I homebrewed a spell years ago reappear now and illuminate the process a bit for me.

 

[fluffybunbunkittens]

Oh yeah, homebrewing any spell, if you previously clicked that it appeared only on some class lists, those only apply to the 2014 classes. You (and Beyond crew) have to edit every single spell to add the same 2024 classes to the list as well.

 

[Belen]

All the peeps who said that early access was not free beta testing….