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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[Micah Sweet]

No licensing is for however long the conditions and terms afford it. There are STL's that can be licensed indefinitely... You aren't the owner though.

The CC is as permanent as it gets, and the OGL lasted for 20 years before WotC decided to destroy it. Its not the same as WotC licensing out Dragonlance to Sovereign Stone back in the '00s.

 

[Imaro]

The CC is as permanent as it gets, and the OGL lasted for 20 years before WotC decided to destroy it. Its not the same as WotC licensing out Dragonlance to Sovereign Stone back in the '00s.

This isn't addressing my point whatsoever... but ok.

 

[Micah Sweet]

This isn't addressing my point whatsoever... but ok.

Then your point escapes me. If someone who isn't WotC makes a thing using the 5e ruleset, it isn't Dungeons & Dragons, but it is 5e.

 

[Morrus]

Any evidence for that assertion?

Does my experience as a TTRPG publisher for 25 years count? Yes; what he said was exactly true.

It's also common knowledge. Which makes your challenging of it... odd. This is 'water is wet' stuff. It's patently obvious.

Why do you think Level Up is more successful than WOIN? Coincidence?

 

[Imaro]

Then your point escapes me. If someone who isn't WotC makes a thing using the 5e ruleset, it isn't Dungeons & Dragons, but it is 5e.

No it's 5e compatible because 5e is an edition of D&D published by WotC....

 

[Morrus]

No, they are not all implementations of that standard.

5e DnD was created, whole cloth, without any SRD being referenced. There was not a single point in time where WoTC went "we need to look at the reference document for how to write this rule, to follow the "standard" set by a different company". WoTC set the standard.

I don't agree. WotC is starting to do now what other games have been doing for a while. It's not trailblazing (and nor should it be--the market leader needs to play safe, for good reasons). At lot of the 2024 changes have been around in other 5E games for some time. Some of them are still ahead of WotC in terms of things like heritage/culture divides. WotC will get there eventually, but let's not pretend they are the leading edge of TTRPG design. That's what indie games do.

A5e or Level Up, at the very least, has always been "You like DnD 5e, here are a bunch of houserules for it"

That's... a rather insulting characterization.

 

[Morrus]

No it's 5e compatible because 5e is an edition of D&D published by WotC....

5E is a ruleset published in various forms by multiple publishers. D&D is published by WotC. '5E' is published by WotC and others--it has escaped beyond the confines of 'D&D'.

 

[Imaro]

5E is a ruleset published in various forms by multiple publishers. D&D is published by WotC. '5E' is published by WotC and others--it has escaped beyond the confines of 'D&D'.

Disagree. 5E is an edition of D&D. The 5e SRD is a rules framework used by multiple publishers. You publish Level up not 5e. Level up is 5e compatible.

 

[Morrus]

Disagree. 5E is an edition of D&D. The 5e SRD is a rules framework used by multiple publishers. You publish Level up not 5e. Level up is 5e compatible.

Disagree. I publish one of several variations of 5E.



Doesn't really matter, does it? Quibbling about the definition of a marketing term just makes us both look silly.

 

[Morrus]

The CC is as permanent as it gets, and the OGL lasted for 20 years before WotC decided to destroy it.

The OGL still exists, and many of us fully belief that WotC can't destroy it.

They've made it irrelevant now, of course. Which has the exact same effect.