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]

Well let me assure your cynic... the company producing the 800lb gorilla of ttrpg's (not to mention MtG) doesn't rely on anyone to raise its importance.

That doesn't mean people aren't doing it anyway.

 

[mamba]

I’m not a fan of a tiny part of the community trying to co-opt terms the broader community uses

WotC didn’t like that term anyway, now they get their wish

 

[Remathilis]

So the shorthand used for D&D 5e first was co-opted and changed in meaning. Yep seems like a recipe for confusion.

I'll hand you a kleenex as soon as I finish my jello and google how to send physical objects over the internet.

 

[Imaro]

terms evolve over time

In this case only for a select few...

and yet you try to

So different opinion = must be a corporate shill and tool for THE MAN... what are we in high school??

 

[mamba]

In this case only for a select few...

it’s not like I can make you change…

 

[Imaro]

it’s not like I can make use change…

Then stop trying so hard.

 

[mamba]

Then stop trying so hard.

I am not trying

 

[Minigiant]

Sooo... Nimble 5e is 5e (even though at least 3 maybe 4 posters don't consider it as such)? Because it meets this very broad criteria... In fact there are non-5e games that meet this criteria.

I think three questions are in play here

1) Are you compatible with D&D 5e?

2) Are you compatible with products that are compatible with D&D 5e?

3) Do you keep within the spirit of recognizable 5e elements?

Because someone can make something that is compatible with D&D 5e but not with another 3PP product.

Or someone can make something that is compatible with 5e elements but remove core 5e mechanics or design philosophy which would require users to relearn the whole system.

 

[Chaosmancer]

I have no reason to believe either LU or TotV is going to change their game to accommodate WotC's shift to 5.5. Why would they? Each is its own version of 5e.

Other companies who had no reason to do so already announced their new 2024-compatible rule sets coming in the future.

 

[Chaosmancer]

I do not believe that matters, what mattered was compatibility and ongoing support, not that PF1 was released around the same time

I believe that matters a lot. People were angry and looking for something that gave them what they wanted, an updated version of the game they loved. Pathfinder came at exactly the correct time to fulfill that need.

Currently existing games now will not be that for 6e, so I do not believe they will have the same surge.