Hello all. I recently got into DnD with a local group, and have been trying to move my goblin gloomstalker ranger to the app to make sure that all the math is mathing while I learn everything myself. After looking it up, I'd found that the goblin race was included in the "Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse" book, and the gloomstalker subclass was included in the "Xanathar's Guide to Everything" book. So, I purchased both books, but apparently there was some version discrepancy I wasn't aware of, or something to that effect, because I can't choose that subclass for a level 6 goblin. I was wondering if there was any way to exchange whichever book is causing the issue, with the appropriate version, or anything like that?
Hello all. I recently got into DnD with a local group, and have been trying to move my goblin gloomstalker ranger to the app to make sure that all the math is mathing while I learn everything myself. After looking it up, I'd found that the goblin race was included in the "Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse" book, and the gloomstalker subclass was included in the "Xanathar's Guide to Everything" book. So, I purchased both books, but apparently there was some version discrepancy I wasn't aware of, or something to that effect, because I can't choose that subclass for a level 6 goblin. I was wondering if there was any way to exchange whichever book is causing the issue, with the appropriate version, or anything like that?
Which species you choose doesn't have any effect on which class or subclass you can choose. You do need to make sure that "Expanded Rules" is checked on the Home tab of the character builder.
It's also worth pointing out that there are two different versions of each class (and some of the subclasses) now: a 2014 version and a 2024 version. If you've selected the 2024 version of the Ranger class, you need to own the 2024 Player's Handbook to use the 2024 version of the Gloom Stalker subclass. To use the older version of the subclass (which is what's in Xanathar's Guide to Everything) you need to use the 2014 version of the Ranger class.
So, try this:
Make sure both "2014 Core Rules" and "Expanded Rules" are checked on the Home tab of the character builder.
Go to the Class tab and remove the class that you have selected.
Scroll down in the list to the section with the 2014 classes and choose that Ranger class instead.
Or, if you want to use the updated 2024 version of the Ranger class and the Gloom Stalker subclass, you can purchase the 2024 Player's Handbook.
Or, if you want to use the updated 2024 version of the Ranger class and the Gloom Stalker subclass, you can purchase the 2024 Player's Handbook.
You should really check with your group which version of the classes they're playing with before buying more books. If they're still on the old rules, and they might well be, then you're fine for now.
Hello all. I recently got into DnD with a local group, and have been trying to move my goblin gloomstalker ranger to the app to make sure that all the math is mathing while I learn everything myself. After looking it up, I'd found that the goblin race was included in the "Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse" book, and the gloomstalker subclass was included in the "Xanathar's Guide to Everything" book. So, I purchased both books, but apparently there was some version discrepancy I wasn't aware of, or something to that effect, because I can't choose that subclass for a level 6 goblin. I was wondering if there was any way to exchange whichever book is causing the issue, with the appropriate version, or anything like that?
Which species you choose doesn't have any effect on which class or subclass you can choose. You do need to make sure that "Expanded Rules" is checked on the Home tab of the character builder.
It's also worth pointing out that there are two different versions of each class (and some of the subclasses) now: a 2014 version and a 2024 version. If you've selected the 2024 version of the Ranger class, you need to own the 2024 Player's Handbook to use the 2024 version of the Gloom Stalker subclass. To use the older version of the subclass (which is what's in Xanathar's Guide to Everything) you need to use the 2014 version of the Ranger class.
So, try this:
Or, if you want to use the updated 2024 version of the Ranger class and the Gloom Stalker subclass, you can purchase the 2024 Player's Handbook.
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You should really check with your group which version of the classes they're playing with before buying more books. If they're still on the old rules, and they might well be, then you're fine for now.
Ah. I didn't know that the different classes were separated by version. Thank you. ^^ That answered the question.
No problem!
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