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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[Frozen_Heart]

Great. Sounds like it's going to become a complete pain to keep using pure 2014.

Having to manually scroll through the rulebooks rather than just mouse over tooltips. And having older versions of spells outright removed.

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

All this money going in, and the platform is still hot garbage for actually running a game. Can you add a custom new class? No. Can you make a custom invocation? No. Can you do basic stuff like make a longsword that deals 2d8 or give a character an extra death save box? No. Want to make a scroll that actually hyperlinks the spell? Insert Geocities under construction gif.

The campaign page is one public notes section and one private notes section. That's it!

D&D Beyond would have been embarrassing 10 years ago. It's an insult today.

 

[Whizbang Dustyboots]

I wonder if you can toggle between 2014 character sheets and 2024 character sheets. I'd be surprised if there isn't an option for this considering how many character sheets are on Dndbeyond.

The fact that they didn't mention it, at this late stage of the game, makes me think that they're switching the sheet over.

 

[Frozen_Heart]

All this money going in, and the platform is still hot garbage for actually running a game. Can you add a custom new class? No. Can you make a custom invocation? No. Can you do basic stuff like make a longsword that deals 2d8 or give a character an extra death save box? No. Want to make a scroll that actually hyperlinks the spell? Insert Geocities under construction gif.

The campaign page is one public notes section and one private notes section. That's it!

D&D Beyond would have been embarrassing 10 years ago. It's an insult today.

Spell points rules from the 2014 DMG:

 

[Twiggly the Gnome]

You stay away from my PDFs! Do you hear me?!

You can access your books on shigawire, once the thinking machines are destroyed!

 

[Jefe Bergenstein]

Spell points rules from the 2014 DMG:

Sorry pal, best I can do is a wordpad document. That'll be $5 a month on top of the books you bought a second time.

 

[Azzy]

That's going to make our game that's on hiatus go funky when it resumes (as we play online as many of us are in different states, so we use D&D Beyond with Foundry VTT).

 

[darjr]

I'm looking out for you. Physical media is the path to health, well-being, and fitness.

Do you even lift books, bruh? Do ... you ... even.... lift?

Don’t come at me bruh!

I have a BIG iPad!

 

[John Lloyd1]

Me too, although I can accept pdfs as needed for practicality. That's as far as I go for material I want to access long term, however.

This is why I recently taught myself book binding. So I can make hard-cover books of those PDFs.

 

[DarkCrisis]

DDB to 2014 only players: