D&D (2024) Wizards of the Coast Backtracks on D&D Beyond and 2014 Content

2014 material including spells and magic items will be available and not require using the Homebrew tool

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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 be included. From the update:


Last week we released a Changelog detailing how players would experience the 2024 Core Rulebooks on D&D Beyond. We heard your feedback loud and clear and thank you for speaking up.

Our excitement around the 2024 Core Rulebooks led us to view these planned updates as welcome improvements and free upgrades to existing content. We misjudged the impact of this change, and we agree that you should be free to choose your own way to play. Taking your feedback to heart, here’s what we’re going to do:

Players who only have access to the 2014 Player’s Handbook will maintain their character options, spells, and magical items in their character sheets. Players with access to the 2024 and 2014 digital Player’s Handbooks can select from both sources when creating new characters. Players will not need to rely on Homebrew to use their 2014 player options, including spells and magic items, as recommended in previous changelogs.

Please Note:

Players will continue to have access to their free, shared, and purchased items on D&D Beyond, with the ability to use previously acquired player options when creating characters and using character sheets.

We are not changing players’ current character sheets, except for relabeling and renaming. Examples include Races to Species, Inspiration to Heroic Inspiration, and Cast Spell to Magic.

We’re dedicated to making D&D Beyond the ultimate digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons, continuously enhancing the platform to ensure you can create, customize, and play your game just as you envision it. From your first one-shot to multi-year campaigns and everything in between, we're grateful to be on this journey with you.

- The D&D Studio
 

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Darryl Mott

Darryl Mott


Ondath

Hero
This black background to white text, "YOU CAN KEEP THINGS AS YOU LIKED, WE LISTENED TO YOUR FEEDBACK." message from D&D is starting to become too much of a regular thing. I'm starting to have the same Pavlovian "oh what did they mess up again?" reaction to it as CDPR's yellow background "whoopsie daisy, Cyberpunk 2077 got delayed again" messages.
 

Nikosandros

Golden Procrastinator
This black background to white text, "YOU CAN KEEP THINGS AS YOU LIKED, WE LISTENED TO YOUR FEEDBACK." message from D&D is starting to become too much of a regular thing. I'm starting to have the same Pavlovian "oh what did they mess up again?" reaction to it as CDPR's yellow background "whoopsie daisy, Cyberpunk 2077 got delayed again" messages.
Yes, I agree. I mean, it's a good move, but I feel that they could have avoided the whole situation. In any event, I'm happy that my group can complete the ongoing campaign hopefully without much of an hassle.
 


cbwjm

Seb-wejem
I wasn't too concerned about the spell/item changes, many of them seemed needed, healing spells especially. I guess this is a good change though, I assume that they should be able to make a toggle for 2014/2024 data but I'm not a programmer so I've no idea how difficult it is with dndbeyond's current set-up.
 


mamba

Legend
So they can just do that? All the functionality for this exists and they just chose to not use it?

Well, there goes the ‘DDB is a pile of crap and poor WotC cannot add this feature to it’ defense…

Given two choices, WotC way too often chooses the wrong one, a coin would make better decisions… be better than a coinflip guys…
 

Minigiant

Legend
Supporter
BIG WIN for the 2014 Remainers

MEGA LOSS for 2024 free Adopters

Draw for 2014 and 2024 Buy Everything Remixers
So they can just do that? All the functionality for this exists and they just chose to not use it?

Well, there goes the ‘DDB is a pile of crap and poor WotC cannot add this feature to it’ defense…

Given two choices, WotC way too often chooses the wrong one, a coin would make better decisions… be better than a coinflip guys…
DNDB could still be a piece of crap.

The question was how much work is it

1) make it work
2) make it not ugly.

I fear making a 2024 PC will bemore work and searching for 2024 monsters will frequently pop up 2014 monster.
 

MarkB

Legend
I fear making a 2024 PC will bemore work and searching for 2024 monsters will frequently pop up 2014 monster.
Ever since MotM there's been a mixture of current and "legacy" content on DnD Beyond, and those of us who didn't buy those books have had to scroll through to the legacy versions.

The current version is the one that shows up at the top in sorted lists, and tends to show up first in searches, so anyone using the 2024 rules will find that the 2024 version of classes, species, spells etc. will be the ones that come up first for them.

There's also already a toggle in the character builder to enable / disable legacy content, which will likely be updated to reflect the 2024 content. Flip the switch when you start making a character, and you'll only see 2024 options available as you build it.
 

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