D&D 5E (2024) D&D Beyond's Development Roadmap Is A Complete Rebuild Of Platform

D&D Beyond has announced its roadmap for the future, including features in active development and those planned for later down the line. These include a full rebuild of the game platform's engine, a new character builder, tools for Dungeon Masters, and more.

Over the past few months, we’ve launched a new homepage, a revamped and more sortable content library, image reveals in the Maps VTT to help DMs immerse their players more easily, and several other quality-of-life improvements.

2026 is a year of refocusing and rebuilding D&D Beyond to make it easier to play D&D your way. Three major initiatives will drive most of our work:

• Rebuilding D&D Beyond’s Game Platform
• Improving Player Onboarding and Revamping the Character Builder Experience
• Launching a Suite of Dungeon Master Tools

 

[darjr]

Some great points and questions here for the AMA.

 

[bedir than]

Some great points and questions here for the AMA.

Hopefully some of the people who aren't working at 10a/1p/6p are able to support those of us who are

 

[EthanSental]

I’ve been using the maps the last few sessions to show player facing maps and images. Quick and easy, easier than my go to of FG for displaying a map (to me at least).

 

[djotaku]

Interesting, I moved to Foundry because I found maps lacking at the time and, as someone who plays more than just D&D, it makes more sense to use a system agnostic VTT. (Also I prefer one-time payments to subscriptions) That said, I always found the character builder on DDB to already be one of the better features on there. So it'll be interesting to see how that evolves. Thanks to Mr Primate's Foundry plugin, one of the best ways to make D&D characters for Foundry is to make it on DDB and import it.

Since I started my journey with D&D 5e, I have a bunch of the books digitally on DDB and I will say that the reorganization of the library tab has been my favorite thing about the DDB revamp. Before it was very annoying to get to books I owned on there.

 

[doctorbadwolf]

I really like how simple it is to upload maps into the vtt and size them, and as they add more stickers it gets even better.

I make maps in dungeonscrawl but i havent taken the time to learn roll20, so i just export the map and upload it to MAPS.

I hope they eventually make maps have the capability to easily make fully custom maps so i can just do it all in one place.

 

[Scribe]

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Just noticed that the gif showing off the new Character Builder references 2024 rules as “5.5” in the spells section. Just a funny note.