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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[Minigiant]

Which is why I would be happier with a smaller industry.

Again a smaller industry just puts more power in the biggest name as the smaller companies will go out of business,

 

[mamba]

That's the core issue. A RPG company would have to sell out or go corporate monster themselves in order to get their money up.

not sure I see this as an issue at all, apart from that I agree

 

[UngainlyTitan]

network effects help in establishing big players, it does not need to result in a single one though. Now that we have one (and we had one for a long time) it is next to impossible to unseat that player however

In theory you are correct but we have never seen that in this market and I doubt we will. Of course, we will not know the answer unless WoTC's dominance is overturned.

 

[Minigiant]

not sure I see this as an issue at all, apart from that I agree

It's not an issue we have.

It's an issue some fans have. They want their favorite RPG company to be big without doing what is needed to be big.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Wait huh?? 2014 to 2024 are small changes.

Yes it is. 2e to 3e, 3e to 4e, and 4e to 5e are not. Those should be separate games.

 

[Micah Sweet]

Again a smaller industry just puts more power in the biggest name as the smaller companies will go out of business,

Citation please. I provided a past example where that wasn't the case.

 

[Micah Sweet]

It's not an issue we have.

It's an issue some fans have. They want their favorite RPG company to be big without doing what is needed to be big.

I don't need any company, whether they make games I like or not, to be as big as WotC.

 

[mamba]

nvm

 

[Remathilis]

Yes it is. 2e to 3e, 3e to 4e, and 4e to 5e are not. Those should be separate games.

So they could be othered and ignored as not "real" D&D.

(Honestly, we should take Gary at his word that AD&D was a separate game from D&D and thus the Basic D&D was the true heir to OD&D. Everything else are different games wearing D&D's name).

 

[mamba]

So they could be othered and ignored as not "real" D&D.

we are talking about editions here, it is not about othering them, just about discussing what constitutes sufficient changes to warrant a new edition