D&D (2024) How D&D Beyond Will Handle Access To 2014 Rules

D&D Beyond has announced how the transition to the new 2024 edition will work on the platform, and how legacy access to the 2014 version of D&D will be implemented.

• You will still be able to access the 2014 Basic Rules and core rulebooks.
• You will still be able to make characters using the 2014 Player's Handbook.
• Existing home-brew content will not be impacted.
• These 2014 rules will be accessible and will be marked with a 'legacy' badge: classes, subclasses, species, backgrounds, feats, monsters.
• Tooltips will reflect the 2024 rules.
• Monster stat blocks will be updated to 2024.
• There will be terminology changes (Heroic Inspiration, Species, etc.)

D&D (2024) - Wizards of the Coast Backtracks on D&D Beyond and 2014 Content

Wizards of the Coast posted an overnight update stating that they are not going forward with previously released plans to require those wishing to use some 2014 content on D&D Beyond to use the Homebrew function to manually enter it. Instead, all the content including spells and magic items will...

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[mamba]

Be careful what you wish for. There is no guarantee 6e would be any better for you than 5.5 is, and it could absolutely crush what 5e support that there is.

agreed that could happen as well. It’s a roll of the dice, but then I am not that impressed with the last roll, so I am willing to roll again

 

[Imaro]

agreed that could happen as well. It’s a roll of the dice, but then I am not that impressed with the last roll, so I am willing to roll again

So are you a fan of 5e or not? Because earlier you were supposedly answering from that perspective and here you're not that impressed with it...

 

[mamba]

Opinions are great, you're allowed to have them but it doesn't make them facts. 5th edittion as in the 5th edition of Dungeons & Dragons... is one thing... an edition of D&D that includes IP as well as other things that are not in the CC.

yep, and the non-IP part largely is in the 5e SRD, allowing for 5e like TTRPGs from publishers other than WotC. Those cannot use the D&D IP but they absolutely can use the 5e core rules, so saying D&D is the IP while 5e is not accounts for this fact

 

[mamba]

So are you a fan of 5e or not? Because earlier you were supposedly answering from that perspective and here you're not that impressed with it...

I am not that impressed with 2024, I like 5e. I don’t see 2024 as sufficiently improved to make me look forward to buying it

 

[Micah Sweet]

A risk you can safely ignore since, by your own admission, you have no skin in the game. I wager you would find reason to ignore 6e regardless of what bold risks it would take.

I'd definitely look it over, if for no other reason than it's always good to know about the new hotness. But yeah, I expect it would have little to no impact on me personally.

 

[mamba]

I asked 2 different questions in the post.

there was only one question in my quote, that is the one I answered

 

[Micah Sweet]

So are you a fan of 5e or not? Because earlier you were supposedly answering from that perspective and here you're not that impressed with it...

Since you see 5e as exclusively WotC, I suppose what you're really asking @mamba is: are you a fan of WotC's game or not?

 

[Imaro]

Since you see 5e as exclusively WotC, I suppose what you're really asking @mamba is: are you a fan of WotC's game or not?

I was pretty clear... otherwise I would be asking if he liked the multitude of games based on the D&D 5e rules set.

 

[mamba]

I was pretty clear... otherwise I would be asking if he liked the multitude of games based on the D&D 5e rules set.

Just to be clear as well, I meant 2014 D&D in my answer when I wrote ‘5e’, so we were aligned

 

[DinoInDisguise]

So we are in a world where we have to specify both the year and the publisher when talking about an edition of D&D. What a wild time to be alive.

I can see a statement such as "I like 2023 Kobold 5e much more than 2024 WotC 5e, or 2014 WotC 5e." as something I see. And I dont know how I feel about that.