D&D General DnDBeyond not supporting CR?

[Clint_L]

In my school campaign, which uses DDB and the 2024 rules, one of my players wanted to make an Echo Knight, but couldn’t.

Strange. The campaign is set on Exandria, and I triple checked and made sure that CR options were toggled on. I have all the CR books, and several of my players have played Echo Knights, but not for a few years.

So I Googled, and it turns out that this is a known issue, and has been since the 2024 PHB came out. WotC acknowledged the problem a year ago (the current DDB character builder not allowing access to CR classes), but has yet to fix it, despite promises to the contrary.

So, is this just shoddy service, or is something else up? A sign of WotC aligning themselves away from CR?

It seems very peculiar.

 

[Echohawk]

So I Googled, and it turns out that this is a known issue, and has been since the 2024 PHB came out. WotC acknowledged the problem a year ago (the current DDB character builder not allowing access to CR classes), but has yet to fix it, despite promises to the contrary.

I just checked, and the DDB character builder does allow access to the echo knight, but you have to create a 2014 Fighter to be able to choose that martial archetype. I'm assuming you want to be be able to choose the echo knight as a subclass for a 2024 fighter?

 

[Marandahir]

Another part of this issue – Critical Role content is readily available on the website version of D&D Beyond, but in the celllular phone App version of D&D Beyond, they're missing from the databases. Not the book – it can be found in the Sources tab – but Echo Knight, Blood Hunter, etc are all missing from the options when pulling up Classes, despite other Partnered Content showing up correctly. Same thing with Tal'Dorei Reborn content.

I've been wondering the same thing as you re: Critical Role, but think it's rather the other way around: CR now has Daggerheart to play with as a home-published game. They don't NEED to be as cooperative with WotC these days. They still want to sell their books on D&D Beyond, because it's a huge audience. But as WotC cuts back heavily on staff now that they own D&D Beyond outright and now that the 2024 Revised Core Rules are out the door, and now that Sigil was cancelled, they lack the human resources to focus on tinkering with this issue, and CR aren't necessarily as invested in helping them make that fix happen.

I'd also note that while Tal'Dorei Reborn has been incorporated into D&D Beyond since WotC's take over of the service, CR was the ONLY partnered content on D&D Beyond when the service was owned by Fandom (save for that brief collab with Riot Games' Legends of Runeterra because Fandom).

Critical Role has had a good relationship with WotC, but things haven changed significantly in the years since the OGL fiasco.

 

[plecostomus]

In my school campaign, which uses DDB and the 2024 rules, one of my players wanted to make an Echo Knight, but couldn’t.

Strange. The campaign is set on Exandria, and I triple checked and made sure that CR options were toggled on. I have all the CR books, and several of my players have played Echo Knights, but not for a few years.

So I Googled, and it turns out that this is a known issue, and has been since the 2024 PHB came out. WotC acknowledged the problem a year ago (the current DDB character builder not allowing access to CR classes), but has yet to fix it, despite promises to the contrary.

So, is this just shoddy service, or is something else up? A sign of WotC aligning themselves away from CR?

It seems very peculiar.

Nothing specific to do with Critical Role. Your player has to use the 2014 Fighter class to use a 3rd party 2014 Fighter subclass as no 3rd party 2014 subclasses are implemented for 2024 classes.

There is a list of official & compatible 2014 subclasses for 2024 in the following post:

Player’s Handbook - Issues and Support Thread - Release Issues & Support - D&D Beyond General - D&D Beyond Forums - D&D Beyond

Welcome to the Support Thread for Player’s Handbook! If you find any issues with the content from the sourcebook, or using it on a D&D Beyond character,...

www.dndbeyond.com

Just as a note - you’ll note that many subclasses that have been published by our various Partners do not appear for the 2024 classes. We’re working with them to update their content for the new rules, but do not have an ETA for those releases.

This message has been up since last year with zero updates, like most of the issues mentioned (including implementation of official 2024 Warlock invocations).

 

[J-H]

D&D Beyond doesn't support the barbarian either; activating Rage doesn't list resistances or increase weapon damage.

I would chalk this up to the usual - they do what they do, and if they've missed something, maybe they'll fix it next year or maybe they won't.
It took, what, 10 months to get a "toggle 2024 content off" button added?

 

[Imaro]

It took, what, 10 months to get a "toggle 2024 content off" button added?

Eh... in the software world that's actually pretty quick turnaround for something they didn't originally plan to implement.