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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[Belen]

Either way it's pathetic though - these are a paid products and not a cheap ones, and what they were being asked for with the other books would literally, and I do mean literally, and again, we know this, have been a 1 day of work for 1 employee. They knew it was bollocks which is why they kept going with the false "We'll do it later when we have better tools!" narrative to defend it.

Well, that was one of the arguments people were using with WOTC. They bought the books with the written understanding that the content was useable in the toolset and then WOTC was taking that content away.

A lot of people also said they were going to upgrade when their campaigns finished but did not want to switch rules in the middle.

Wizards considered it an "upgrade" until people on Reddit and DDB showed how much of the 2014 content this would affect. It was not just spells but abilities and class features that relied on them.

 

[Minigiant]

I think it is just data entry, if it took coding effort I doubt they would get it done in time / could have switched course as a consequence

This was all about pushing users to buy 2024 by ‘ruining’ their 2014 game, it was not a generous gift but a trojan horse

They ain't getting it done in time without massive crunch time.

I feel sorry for the poor saps who have to enter all this data.

 

[Belen]

They ain't getting it done in time without massive crunch time.

I feel sorry for the poor saps who have to enter all this data.

The 2014 data is already there and they would have had to enter the 2024 data anyway. They do not have to enter anything new.

 

[Minigiant]

The 2014 data is already there and they would have had to enter the 2024 data anyway. They do not have to enter anything new.

I don't think it's just that.

I think the problem is that D&D beyonds character builder when you set it up for a 2014 or a 2024 PC, can't recognize that they use different ruleset without additional programming.

If it was so simple they would have done it and not offered anything free.

 

[MoonSong]

What I am saying is the 2024 Basic rules won't be Free in the PC builder.

You will need to buy the 2024 PHB to build the awesome upgraded monk or sorcerer on DNDB.

Before it was free.

That's a MEGA LOSS.

Not true. With the previous change, if you only owned 2014 only, you could only create 2014 sorcerers and monks. That hasn' t changed. What changes is that their original plan would have forced you to have hybrid versions of 2014 classes with feats soells and magic items from2024

 

[mamba]

Nah.

Because they don't care when I tell customers "It's not worth my time to do that"

see, I get paid to do the things the customers want, by the customers, so I generally consider it worth my time. I do not always consider it worth their money, but that is for them to decide

 

[mamba]

If it was so simple they would have done it and not offered anything free.

I consider that disproven by the fact that they now decided to change course now / this late. This was about nudging people towards buying 2024

 

[Minigiant]

see, I get paid to do the things the customers want, by the customers, so I generally consider it worth my time

The customer don't always want to pay what it's worth.

I literally just got off 2 phonecalls about customers wants X but not wanting to pay extra for X.

 

[Minigiant]

I consider that disproven by the fact that they now decided to change course now / this late. This was about nudging people towards buying 2024

That's not disproving it

That's eating the cost and getting it back later.

 

[mamba]

The customer don't always want to pay what it's worth.

I literally just got off 2 phonecalls about customers wants X but not wanting to pay extra for X.

different approach I guess, they tell me what they want, I tell them what that costs, and they then either pull the trigger or not