We are excited to announce that D&D Beyond will soon be joining Hasbro as part of the Wizards of the Coast family!
On May 18, 2022 or soon after, your D&D Beyond account will transfer to Wizards of the Coast, at which point (and going forward) the Wizards Terms of Use will apply to your use of D&D Beyond, and the Wizards Privacy Policy will apply to the personal data associated with your account. If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, Wizards of the Coast LLC will become the “data controller” of your personal data once it transfers.
For more information on this transaction, please click here. If you wish to delete your account prior to the transfer, you will find instructions for doing so here.
Frequently asked questions
When will the D&D Beyond Terms of Service be updated?
The Terms of Service will be updated to Wizards of the Coast Terms of Service on or around May 18, 2022.
Why are they being updated?
As part of Wizards of the Coast acquiring D&D Beyond, we will extend the Wizards Terms of Service to cover this new service.
What is changing in them?
We need your permission to put your user content on D&D Beyond and operate the D&D Beyond service, and we’re working to ensure that the scope of the permission you give us is tailored to that goal. The Wizards Terms of Service will therefore be updated with a section specific to D&D Beyond to allow us to host your content and otherwise operate the D&D Beyond service.
Will Wizards own my homebrew content created on D&D Beyond?
Wizards has no intent of taking ownership over user content you put on D&D Beyond, and the Terms of Service will not grant us such rights. The permissions we will need for user content will relate to allowing us to operate the D&D Beyond service, including displaying that content on our site.
Do these changes affect homebrew content that was created before May 18?
Any content that remains on the D&D Beyond service will be subject to the updated Wizards Terms of Service. The updated Terms of Service should not impact how you've used the site or owned your content prior to May 18.
If I delete my D&D Beyond account, will my homebrew content remain on D&D Beyond? If so, will my username still be credited?
While your homebrew content will remain on D&D Beyond, the credited username will change to “user-[number].”
Will Wizards own any character or account information I upload (e.g. character sheets, profile pictures)?
Wizards has no intent of taking ownership over user content you put on D&D Beyond, and the Terms of Service will not grant us such rights. The permissions we will need for that content will relate to allowing us to operate the D&D Beyond service, including displaying that content on our site.
Will I need a Wizards account to access or sign up for D&D Beyond after May 18?
No. You can continue to use your Twitch or Google account or Apple ID to sign into D&D Beyond. New users will still need a Twitch or Google account or Apple ID to sign up for D&D Beyond after May 18.
"Oh yeah, and I also changed what 'Irrevocable' means, for the purposes of this contract"
~Satan
Well thier you go i am out of this shit. Wizards has become unethical. Good bye dnd beyond. I wil not use you for my own material. Paper and pencil work just fine with me. By the way, this goes against copy wright law has a willing permission to utilise content protect under those law must be done outside the preview of a user policy and notarized by both willing party. In your face. Wizard
Sigh. This has been covered countless times. The language of 5.2 looks scary - it isn’t. You’ll find this on almost every single website you use.
Why? You have a common law copyright to the material you produce, which includes forum posts. Wizards (or YouTube, or Reddit, etc.) needs to have a license in order for their website to function - after all, every time they beam your forum post out to the world, they are distributing your copyrights. That is why they use this license language - if they did not have this language, they literally could not have the site function as they would have no right to beam your IP to the world.
If you do not like the language, that is something you will have to take up with Congress.
I'm no lawyer, but to my simple logic they could have either:
a) Kept the original OGL.
b) Tailored the legalese to state:
Don't blame the US Congress "common copyright law" for their overreach.
They certainly didn't need this bit of language
if all they wanted was to display your content dndbeyond.com and send out an email.
You might not be a lawyer, but apparently you think you know more than the lawyers at Google. At Reddit. At Discord. At wiki sites everywhere. At dozens of other sites. Here is reality - all these sites and more have their own version of 5.2. They all are being told by their lawyers they have to. Those lawyers would love to use different language - the other lawyers I have talked to about this, ones who specifically draft up the terms with this language in it, find it incredibly annoying that they are required to include this language despite all the “are you are trying to take our stuff?” complaints they bring about.
None of them have come up with a cleaner or less prone to abuse set of terms—and they will not until the painfully out of date law catches up to they modern world.
Congratulations DNDBEYOND, WOTC and Hasbro, you have just ruined D&D en everything that made the game so compelling to use, therefore, you can take your subscriptions ans stick it up your thirsty wallets while the players (which are the ones that keep you alive) start leaving you for other TTG.
Greedy bastards, you should be thanking Critical Role for pushing D&D upwards instead of trying to take their well earned subscription money, and worst, now you are trying to steal the genius work of Matt Mercer, Wizards of the Coast and Hasbro, you are a true disappointment .
Don´t even bother in working with One D&D since it wont be played any more, the true players are leaving your greedy ass, starting with me cancelling my subscrption and taking all my content back to paper.
PS. Screw you greedy bastards
I agree. The things that kept me here are so easily done on a spread sheet. I actually made a better encounter generator tracker with a more consistant algorithm. I agree they can shoved it. My friends paper and pencils don't cost me anything and they don't try to profit from my effort without recognizing that I am the one powering them. And they compensate me with beautiful marking on a paper that remains in my procession not in data for me to do as I please with. Like on a money bill. If they were to compensate people with royalty, they would make a greater fortune, because more people would become interested. What a dumb bunch of idiot. they didn't go to business school but to dumb greed school.