Is there a way use certain versions of source material?
For instance I don't want to use VGtM errata v3.0 as it removes a lot of content, including mechanical stuff affecting character creation (f.g. they changed Orc race traits to please PC Principal). Of course I can tell my players to manually adjust this stuff, but the point of a character creator is kind of not having to do that.
There is no such option; D&D Beyond presents the latest and most accurate of all content released by Wizards of the Coast, and only that version of the content.
Would've been nice is Wizards would've told us they were going to go full political correctness before I spent literally 100's of dollars on the online content then...
Can I file a complaint about this? For example the v3 VGtM errata just removes tons of lore content without adding anything new, I paid for that content they just scrapped from the book.
Is there a way use certain versions of source material?
For instance I don't want to use VGtM errata v3.0 as it removes a lot of content, including mechanical stuff affecting character creation (f.g. they changed Orc race traits to please PC Principal). Of course I can tell my players to manually adjust this stuff, but the point of a character creator is kind of not having to do that.
You do realize the Orc's mechanics and all negative mechanics player race wide were changed over a year ago right? So you're upset over a feature that's been in effect without your notice for how long?
You also don't have to tell your player to manually adjust anything. If you want to play old school, you can copy the races you own in homebrew and set them to whatever modifiers you want, and any of your friends in your campaign should be able to generate "Old School Orcs" or whatever you want to call them. The homebrew subforum might even have quick go bys to "restore" player races to what you want them to be.
Would've been nice is Wizards would've told us they were going to go full political correctness before I spent literally 100's of dollars on the online content then...
Can I file a complaint about this? For example the v3 VGtM errata just removes tons of lore content without adding anything new, I paid for that content they just scrapped from the book.
Again, the change you cite being really upset about (racial modifiers) happened over a year ago so I can't imagine the impact it's had on your game if you're just getting around to complaining (given the timing of your post you sound more "article triggered" by bad press). Re the "lore." A ton? That's an overstatement. The amount of actual text that was cut is actually very small. I would love to hear how the various lore edits have harmed your game though. This isn't the area of the forum for that though, you can read through this where I discuss exactly what was taken out of the book and what's actually left in the book (contra BolS's pot stirring). Feel free to quantify your loss, but a consensus of players who have actually looked at Volos beofre and after just don't see it the injury.
You're not the first person to ask for legacy access to material post errata. DDB can't do that. They're obligated to keep the current version of the texts online per their arrangement with WotC, no Wayback machine. But again, one of the neat things about DDB is that the sort of stuff you're claiming to miss (from a year back) mechanically are easily restored to your game via homebrew, and if you really need to add on the lost lore notes, that can also be done by creating a restored "homebrew" edition of what creature you want to retro feature.
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You do realize the Orc's mechanics and all negative mechanics player race wide were changed over a year ago right? So you're upset over a feature that's been in effect without your notice for how long? I did not come up as an issue, but noticed it in the 13/12/21 sage advice (also the errata is dated "2021", and if I read the post correctly it is the first actual errata...before it was just changed in reprints, which you hardly notice when you don't re-buy the books...and yeah it didn't come up, no one played an orc lol).
You also don't have to tell your player to manually adjust anything. If you want to play old school, you can copy the races you own in homebrew and set them to whatever modifiers you want, and any of your friends in your campaign should be able to generate "Old School Orcs" or whatever you want to call them. The homebrew subforum might even have quick go bys to "restore" player races to what you want them to be. Yeah true, but a build in feature would be better than me (or someone else) having to do it myself.
Again, the change you cite being really upset about (racial modifiers) happened over a year ago so I can't imagine the impact it's had on your game if you're just getting around to complaining (given the timing of your post you sound more "article triggered" by bad press). See above.
Re the "lore." A ton? That's an overstatement. The amount of actual text that was cut is actually very small. I would love to hear how the various lore edits have harmed your game though. This isn't the area of the forum for that though, you can read through thisinteresting discussion, read your 1 post for now, might check the rest tomorrow and drop my 0.02 where I discuss exactly what was taken out of the book and what's actually left in the book (contra BolS's pot stirring who's what?). Feel free to quantify your loss, but a consensus of players who have actually looked at Volos beofre and after just don't see it the injury. True, "players" would not see the issue since the information is mainly useful for DM's. I would not call 18 paragraphs/sections/side-bars a small amount. It's very nice and all if you just love tables and hate text, but for the more lore-oriented DM it is useful information. Also the alignment info was pretty useful. Sure I can get that in my old copy of VGtM but I paid for those 18 paragraphs, discount would be nice on my subscription or something (I'm dutch, we care about not getting ripped off).
You're not the first person to ask for legacy access to material post errata. DDB can't do that. They're obligated to keep the current version of the texts online per their arrangement with WotC, no Wayback machine. Yeah but they can and should compensate me for ripping pages out of the book I bought. But again, one of the neat things about DDB is that the sort of stuff you're claiming to miss (from a year back) mechanically are easily restored to your game via homebrew would be nice if I didn't have to, was asking for it not demanding it, and if you really need to add on the lost lore notes, that can also be done by creating a restored "homebrew" edition of what creature you want to retro feature. Like I said, it's more the principle of the thing.
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Is there a way use certain versions of source material?
For instance I don't want to use VGtM errata v3.0 as it removes a lot of content, including mechanical stuff affecting character creation (f.g. they changed Orc race traits to please PC Principal). Of course I can tell my players to manually adjust this stuff, but the point of a character creator is kind of not having to do that.
There is no such option; D&D Beyond presents the latest and most accurate of all content released by Wizards of the Coast, and only that version of the content.
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Would've been nice is Wizards would've told us they were going to go full political correctness before I spent literally 100's of dollars on the online content then...
Can I file a complaint about this? For example the v3 VGtM errata just removes tons of lore content without adding anything new, I paid for that content they just scrapped from the book.
You do realize the Orc's mechanics and all negative mechanics player race wide were changed over a year ago right? So you're upset over a feature that's been in effect without your notice for how long?
You also don't have to tell your player to manually adjust anything. If you want to play old school, you can copy the races you own in homebrew and set them to whatever modifiers you want, and any of your friends in your campaign should be able to generate "Old School Orcs" or whatever you want to call them. The homebrew subforum might even have quick go bys to "restore" player races to what you want them to be.
Again, the change you cite being really upset about (racial modifiers) happened over a year ago so I can't imagine the impact it's had on your game if you're just getting around to complaining (given the timing of your post you sound more "article triggered" by bad press). Re the "lore." A ton? That's an overstatement. The amount of actual text that was cut is actually very small. I would love to hear how the various lore edits have harmed your game though. This isn't the area of the forum for that though, you can read through this where I discuss exactly what was taken out of the book and what's actually left in the book (contra BolS's pot stirring). Feel free to quantify your loss, but a consensus of players who have actually looked at Volos beofre and after just don't see it the injury.
You're not the first person to ask for legacy access to material post errata. DDB can't do that. They're obligated to keep the current version of the texts online per their arrangement with WotC, no Wayback machine. But again, one of the neat things about DDB is that the sort of stuff you're claiming to miss (from a year back) mechanically are easily restored to your game via homebrew, and if you really need to add on the lost lore notes, that can also be done by creating a restored "homebrew" edition of what creature you want to retro feature.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
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