Wizard Subclass Savant spells

The Wizard's subclass savant features state:

Choose two Wizard spells from the [subclass] school, each of which must be no higher than level 2, and add them to your spellbook for free.

In addition, whenever you gain access to a new level of spell slots in this class, you can add one Wizard spell from the [subclass] school to your spellbook for free. The chosen spell must be of a level for which you have spell slots.

This states specifically that these spells are added to your spellbook. They are not additional prepared spells. However, the DDB character builder does not add the selected spells to the spellbook so they cannot be selected as prepared, yet the initial two spells are automatically listed as prepared spells on the DDB character sheet. Higher level spells added via this feature, however – e.g. the 3rd level spell gained at 5th level – are not selectable through the feature configuration and need to be added to the spellbook directly, so they behave correctly.

Even if the theory is that the rules are wrong and the initial character builder behaviour is correct – unlikely as it blatantly contradicts the PHB and DDB text of the feature – the implementation is inconsistent. So, the bug is buggy.

Yeah, that's been a bug since the initial release of the 2024 Player's Handbook over a year ago. It's been reported many times, but it's unclear when or if they're planning to fix it.

In general, D&D Beyond's behavior does not have any impact on the actual rules, and if they disagree, the rules are by definition correct.

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Yeah, that's been a bug since the initial release of the 2024 Player's Handbook over a year ago. It's been reported many times, but it's unclear when or if they're planning to fix it.

In general, D&D Beyond's behavior does not have any impact on the actual rules, and if they disagree, the rules are by definition correct.

 Thanks. (Why am I ot surprised)

You say it has no impact on the rules, but it has a direct impact on the usability of a DDB-generated character, because it displays information that fails to align with the rules, thus corrupting the game.

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You say it has no impact on the rules, but it has a direct impact on the usability of a DDB-generated character, because it displays information that fails to align with the rules, thus corrupting the game.

To be clear, what I was saying was that D&D Beyond's character builder's behavior doesn't define what the actual rules are, not that bugs in the character builder don't have any impact on your ability to play D&D.