"With the rules revision, we are updating game materials in the toolset and in tooltips to be in line with the 2024 Core Rulebooks. This change impacts the information you’ll find on your character sheet, in tooltips, and that is linked in the compendium.
Aside from a few exceptions, all entries for mundane and magical items, weapons, armor, and spells will also be updated to their 2024 version. For magic items, most of those changes will come with the release of the 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide. Further, all tooltips and links to monsters will also be updated to point to their newest version."
So ANY items, weapons, armor and spells, mundane or magical (read: ALL) are subject to change. Maybe some of them haven't changed, but as others have stated, WotC, Hasbro and DnDBeyond have failed to provide any information about what is being changed. The only way I found out about it, as a subscriber and DM, is from one of my players, who found it on TIK-TOK! This feels like a deliberate dupe on the part of Hasbro (which is what we should be calling all of this now).
As soon as I can get my players to replicate their characters on paper, I'm canceling.
Technically they're not removing any content that you own they're just making it useless for their online tools.
I agree it's dumb but let's not make it worse than it is. You still own your content, but the online character sheet may have just gone from cool to effing garbage.
It's such a blatant attempt to artificially prop up 5.5e because they know otherwise most people won't bother buying whole new books just to get some patch notes. It's pathetic and they should be ashamed. Remember to all people cancelling: you will still have an active subscription through to the next pay period, your players will still get a chance to move over. CANCEL NOW!
The character creator *is* the content I own. Most of what I've bought was from the old store and explicitly seperate from the digital compendium. Even now, if you buy from the new marketplace it specifically states that you are buy content for the character builder (in addition to the text etc).
(And before anyone tries to be clever, I'm well aware that "own" is a nebulous concept with digital goods, but to the extent that you can own anything, I own character creator content.)
Technically they're not removing any content that you own they're just making it useless for their online tools.
I agree it's dumb but let's not make it worse than it is. You still own your content, but the online character sheet may have just gone from cool to effing garbage.
When we made the purchase, we did so with the promise that the material was unlocked for use in the toolset. Removing it from the toolset is theft.
Technically they're not removing any content that you own they're just making it useless for their online tools.
I agree it's dumb but let's not make it worse than it is. You still own your content, but the online character sheet may have just gone from cool to effing garbage.
When we made the purchase, we did so with the promise that the material was unlocked for use in the toolset. Removing it from the toolset is theft.
Furthermore, up until April, you could buy exclusively access to the data within the character creator or exclusively just the compendium.
It's tiring to see so many people say "You only bought book access", because if that was true then we could have saved a lot of money actually buying the "Compendium Only" versions and making that actually true.
Nevermind the sales page for the 2014 books still tout character creator use as a selling point.
Like this "You never bought anything for the character creator" claim seems to be fabricated out of thin air.
To make this claim work, D&D Beyond would need to refund every A La Carte purchase made & give the option to either refund half of every book purchase down to the "Compendium Only" price or refund the full thing & let people leave (to avoid accusation of bait & switch from people who wouldn't have bought at all without it), then this decision would still be terrible, but at least people would be made whole. After that they'd need to remove all mention of the character creator from the marketplace, so nobody in the future is tricked into thinking they're buying access to it.
Simply piling on here to share my dissapointment, and incrementing the counters for this thread. Hopefully D&D Beyond / WOTC is paying attention to the anger and frustration they have created.
From the changelog:
"With the rules revision, we are updating game materials in the toolset and in tooltips to be in line with the 2024 Core Rulebooks. This change impacts the information you’ll find on your character sheet, in tooltips, and that is linked in the compendium.
The following rules will be updated:
Aside from a few exceptions, all entries for mundane and magical items, weapons, armor, and spells will also be updated to their 2024 version. For magic items, most of those changes will come with the release of the 2024 Dungeon Master’s Guide. Further, all tooltips and links to monsters will also be updated to point to their newest version."
So ANY items, weapons, armor and spells, mundane or magical (read: ALL) are subject to change. Maybe some of them haven't changed, but as others have stated, WotC, Hasbro and DnDBeyond have failed to provide any information about what is being changed. The only way I found out about it, as a subscriber and DM, is from one of my players, who found it on TIK-TOK! This feels like a deliberate dupe on the part of Hasbro (which is what we should be calling all of this now).
As soon as I can get my players to replicate their characters on paper, I'm canceling.
It's just plain theft... I bought the digital content. I *own* the digital content and they're removing it?
Technically they're not removing any content that you own they're just making it useless for their online tools.
I agree it's dumb but let's not make it worse than it is. You still own your content, but the online character sheet may have just gone from cool to effing garbage.
It's such a blatant attempt to artificially prop up 5.5e because they know otherwise most people won't bother buying whole new books just to get some patch notes. It's pathetic and they should be ashamed. Remember to all people cancelling: you will still have an active subscription through to the next pay period, your players will still get a chance to move over. CANCEL NOW!
The character creator *is* the content I own. Most of what I've bought was from the old store and explicitly seperate from the digital compendium. Even now, if you buy from the new marketplace it specifically states that you are buy content for the character builder (in addition to the text etc).
(And before anyone tries to be clever, I'm well aware that "own" is a nebulous concept with digital goods, but to the extent that you can own anything, I own character creator content.)
When we made the purchase, we did so with the promise that the material was unlocked for use in the toolset. Removing it from the toolset is theft.
Furthermore, up until April, you could buy exclusively access to the data within the character creator or exclusively just the compendium.
It's tiring to see so many people say "You only bought book access", because if that was true then we could have saved a lot of money actually buying the "Compendium Only" versions and making that actually true.
Nevermind the sales page for the 2014 books still tout character creator use as a selling point.
Like this "You never bought anything for the character creator" claim seems to be fabricated out of thin air.
To make this claim work, D&D Beyond would need to refund every A La Carte purchase made & give the option to either refund half of every book purchase down to the "Compendium Only" price or refund the full thing & let people leave (to avoid accusation of bait & switch from people who wouldn't have bought at all without it), then this decision would still be terrible, but at least people would be made whole. After that they'd need to remove all mention of the character creator from the marketplace, so nobody in the future is tricked into thinking they're buying access to it.
Because Robots.
Simply piling on here to share my dissapointment, and incrementing the counters for this thread. Hopefully D&D Beyond / WOTC is paying attention to the anger and frustration they have created.
Hopefully a class action lawsuit is a possibility. I asked for a sub refund and have received no response, so they clearly are avoiding the issue.