WotC D&D Beyond Reveals 'Partnered Content' Schedule

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)

 

[mamba]

I doubt the 3pp will update their books just for DDB. Remember, 2024 is “backwards compatible.”

would not be the first time a DDB release was updated for 2024 when the PDF was for 2014

 

[Belen]

would not be the first time a DDB release was updated for 2024 when the PDF was for 2014

I just do not see a massive book like Griffon’s Saddlebag updated to 2024. I could see it for smaller products.

 

[Hussar]

I have never used FG but own it and most of the 2e content. Do you know how it handles the old stuff?

Sorry, never tried. Have no idea. To be fair FG does handle 3e and 5e perfectly well 90% of the time.

 

[Hussar]

I just do not see a massive book like Griffon’s Saddlebag updated to 2024. I could see it for smaller products.

To be fair, most of the Saddlebag stuff is pretty agnostic as far as 2014 or 24 goes. I mean, I use this stuff all the time, and, other than things like wands that specifically use spells that have been changed, there's very little there that needs any sort of update.

 

[mamba]

To be fair, most of the Saddlebag stuff is pretty agnostic as far as 2014 or 24 goes. I mean, I use this stuff all the time, and, other than things like wands that specifically use spells that have been changed, there's very little there that needs any sort of update.

I assume it is mostly the 12 subclasses that need updating

 

[Marandahir]

I assume it is mostly the 12 subclasses that need updating

Species, Backgrounds, and Feats, too.

All of the Species and variant/sub-Species need retooling to remove Ability Score modifiers and some need to be rebalanced with an equivalently useful non-ribbon feature to make up for said loss. Some of the Variant/Sub Species need to be completely reworked due to new assumptions of the base species they modify.

The Siberys Aasimar variants, for example, don't work with MP:MotM and 2024 PHB Aasimar (as they are subspecies that essentially replace the VGtM subspecies, while MP:MotM onward introduced the idea that all Aasimar can access all of these forms, rather than them having forked-at-char-creation lineages a la Elves and Tieflings.

Ruinbound Dwarves similarly don't work with the 2024-revised PHB Dwarf species, as Dwarven lineages were eliminated (in part because while most fantasy species follow the "our x is different" trope model, Dwarves are almost always troped as "our dwarves are all the same" – even when dividing cultures. The way around this would be to create a whole-separate species block for Runibound Dwarves, a la Duergar in MP:MotM.

Dhakaani could be turned into a single species with 3 different lineages/heritages, as opposed to using the terms Goblin/Hobgoblin/Bugbear.

The four backgrounds included all assume 2014-weighted background features, rather than the 2022-Dragonlance-onward "background comes with an origin feat" assumption, and the 2024-PHB-onward "background supplies the Ability Score Bumps" assumption.

Species-feats likely need retooling – as XGtE's species feats and the related DDB/DMGuild "Options for Everyone" species feats may also need signifcant retooling to align with 2024 feat assumptions. If we see significant revisions here beyond a "min. 4th-level" requirement for the feat, it could also speak to what we may expect from an updated "Big Book of Character Options" release that may be forthcoming.

 

[Parmandur]

I agree. It is interesting to me that they are putting up stuff that is geared toward the 2014 rules. Or, do we think that they will be updating it to 2024?

They haven't really been updating other third party stuff: it is all compatible, at any rate.

 

[Belen]

Species, Backgrounds, and Feats, too.

All of the Species and variant/sub-Species need retooling to remove Ability Score modifiers and some need to be rebalanced with an equivalently useful non-ribbon feature to make up for said loss. Some of the Variant/Sub Species need to be completely reworked due to new assumptions of the base species they modify.

The Siberys Aasimar variants, for example, don't work with MP:MotM and 2024 PHB Aasimar (as they are subspecies that essentially replace the VGtM subspecies, while MP:MotM onward introduced the idea that all Aasimar can access all of these forms, rather than them having forked-at-char-creation lineages a la Elves and Tieflings.

Ruinbound Dwarves similarly don't work with the 2024-revised PHB Dwarf species, as Dwarven lineages were eliminated (in part because while most fantasy species follow the "our x is different" trope model, Dwarves are almost always troped as "our dwarves are all the same" – even when dividing cultures. The way around this would be to create a whole-separate species block for Runibound Dwarves, a la Duergar in MP:MotM.

Dhakaani could be turned into a single species with 3 different lineages/heritages, as opposed to using the terms Goblin/Hobgoblin/Bugbear.

The four backgrounds included all assume 2014-weighted background features, rather than the 2022-Dragonlance-onward "background comes with an origin feat" assumption, and the 2024-PHB-onward "background supplies the Ability Score Bumps" assumption.

Species-feats likely need retooling – as XGtE's species feats and the related DDB/DMGuild "Options for Everyone" species feats may also need signifcant retooling to align with 2024 feat assumptions. If we see significant revisions here beyond a "min. 4th-level" requirement for the feat, it could also speak to what we may expect from an updated "Big Book of Character Options" release that may be forthcoming.

I do not think they updated Griffon's Saddlebag Book 2 and book one clearly states on their site that it is for 2014. I will be surprised if they update it to 2024 unless Hit Point Press plans to release a new version.

Although WOTC is specifically saying it is 2024 on their website.

 

[Paul Farquhar]

The way around this would be to create a whole-separate species block for Runibound Dwarves, a

Could do it as a background + origin feat.

 

[Marandahir]

I do not think they updated Griffon's Saddlebag Book 2 and book one clearly states on their site that it is for 2014. I will be surprised if they update it to 2024 unless Hit Point Press plans to release a new version.

Although WOTC is specifically saying it is 2024 on their website.

Even if Griffon's Saddlebag Book 2 wasn't previously updated, Keith Baker has said specifically on BlueSky that Exploring Eberron is being updated to be more compatible with the 2024 Revised 5e Core Rules for when it releases on D&D Beyond. More details on what that means, to come.

I expect it may vary from release to release based on the challenge of Players being able to integrating the 3rd party products' ruleset into the new 2024 core rules assumptions. And as we've seen with the Tamer Class, not all content may even be implemented behind the scenes. It didn't say that Tamer would be eratta'd out of the sourcebook for D&D Beyond, but it did say that Tamer would not appear in the list of Classes or in the Rules Compendium.