I am dissapointed in so much of my content, time and effort spent on homebrew and other things for 5e and so much of it just thrown down the drain by the changes towards the new dnd edition. Forced upon me despite not having asked for it. No option to stay some campaigns and similar in 5e.
The new edition of DND is not the same. It is a new generation and all of my sourcebook and materials I have purchased digitally through this platform are now not as acccessible as before. It is hard to make a normal dnd 5e character now and playing my current dnd 5e characters and making sure nothing is 5.5e is difficult. Having spent so much money on this I just find it unacceptable. I paid specifically for the convenience of having the material digitally and conveniently collected in one place so I could just manage my characters here. I bought and purchased 5e material to play 5e. Now I feel this was removed and I am forced to play and buy into 5.5e despite not all campaigns having transitioned to it.
Solution: Create a button on the character creation: "Play DND 5e Legacy" or similar. Not just enable legacy. That checkbox just reverts rules and choices back to how it was. This not existing just made running my campaigns and PCs that are still running 5e campaigns so much harder. I am really sad and dissapointed by these changes. The characters I had that were legacy are now also ruined.
Last week when we were going to play, several of the players in our game noticed how their sheets had changed and that options they now had taken were accidentally new ones. Without them even realizing it. Their characters remade to new edition characters and no option to revert it. Struggles of sorting through options and find only ones that are legacy.
It should be two completely different game modes. dnd 5e. Dnd new 5e. 5.5e. Dnd 2024. Whatever you want to call it.
I am dissapointed in so much of my content, time and effort spent on homebrew and other things for 5e and so much of it just thrown down the drain by the changes towards the new dnd edition. Forced upon me despite not having asked for it. No option to stay some campaigns and similar in 5e.
The new edition of DND is not the same. It is a new generation and all of my sourcebook and materials I have purchased digitally through this platform are now not as acccessible as before. It is hard to make a normal dnd 5e character now and playing my current dnd 5e characters and making sure nothing is 5.5e is difficult. Having spent so much money on this I just find it unacceptable. I paid specifically for the convenience of having the material digitally and conveniently collected in one place so I could just manage my characters here. I bought and purchased 5e material to play 5e. Now I feel this was removed and I am forced to play and buy into 5.5e despite not all campaigns having transitioned to it.
Solution: Create a button on the character creation: "Play DND 5e Legacy" or similar. Not just enable legacy. That checkbox just reverts rules and choices back to how it was. This not existing just made running my campaigns and PCs that are still running 5e campaigns so much harder. I am really sad and dissapointed by these changes. The characters I had that were legacy are now also ruined.
Last week when we were going to play, several of the players in our game noticed how their sheets had changed and that options they now had taken were accidentally new ones. Without them even realizing it. Their characters remade to new edition characters and no option to revert it. Struggles of sorting through options and find only ones that are legacy.
It should be two completely different game modes. dnd 5e. Dnd new 5e. 5.5e. Dnd 2024. Whatever you want to call it.
Exactly what options were changed? None of the old class, racial, or feat features changed on existing characters. The only things that would be updated on them (not counting bugs) automatically would be: -Tooltips (Admittedly, an annoying change, but doesn't change their features) -Inspiration replaced with Heroic Inspiration (which is ultimately just a single checkbox, on or off, changes literally nothing about the game) -Weapons: Updated to reflect the Mastery properties attached, but those properties don't do anything with 2014 characters so can be completely ignored
There are a couple of known bugs that can be annoying, I'm curious if they've affected you. A couple of examples off the top of my head: -Monk damage die table was changed for 2024 and WotC somehow doesn't know how to separate the tables (just build a new table, guys, it's not difficult) -A couple of weapons have updated damage dice (Lance went from 1d12 to 1d10 and gained Heavy, Trident went from 1d8 to 1d10, Net was updated and is no longer a weapon)
I really just wish that they had these products separated but I get why they don't - they don't want to compete with themselves for the new product. My campaign uses Foundry and in our most recent set of character imports it exploded spell lists, so we're going to be opting to just use everything directly in the VTT and no longer port from D&D Beyond. It's a real shame because I've spent hundreds on source books that we ultimately now don't need.
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I am dissapointed in so much of my content, time and effort spent on homebrew and other things for 5e and so much of it just thrown down the drain by the changes towards the new dnd edition. Forced upon me despite not having asked for it. No option to stay some campaigns and similar in 5e.
The new edition of DND is not the same. It is a new generation and all of my sourcebook and materials I have purchased digitally through this platform are now not as acccessible as before. It is hard to make a normal dnd 5e character now and playing my current dnd 5e characters and making sure nothing is 5.5e is difficult. Having spent so much money on this I just find it unacceptable. I paid specifically for the convenience of having the material digitally and conveniently collected in one place so I could just manage my characters here. I bought and purchased 5e material to play 5e. Now I feel this was removed and I am forced to play and buy into 5.5e despite not all campaigns having transitioned to it.
Solution: Create a button on the character creation: "Play DND 5e Legacy" or similar. Not just enable legacy. That checkbox just reverts rules and choices back to how it was. This not existing just made running my campaigns and PCs that are still running 5e campaigns so much harder. I am really sad and dissapointed by these changes. The characters I had that were legacy are now also ruined.
Last week when we were going to play, several of the players in our game noticed how their sheets had changed and that options they now had taken were accidentally new ones. Without them even realizing it. Their characters remade to new edition characters and no option to revert it. Struggles of sorting through options and find only ones that are legacy.
It should be two completely different game modes. dnd 5e. Dnd new 5e. 5.5e. Dnd 2024. Whatever you want to call it.
This is the exact issue my groups are having. I find it asinine and very telling how 2024 was just forced upon us as to their true intentions.
Exactly what options were changed? None of the old class, racial, or feat features changed on existing characters. The only things that would be updated on them (not counting bugs) automatically would be:
-Tooltips (Admittedly, an annoying change, but doesn't change their features)
-Inspiration replaced with Heroic Inspiration (which is ultimately just a single checkbox, on or off, changes literally nothing about the game)
-Weapons: Updated to reflect the Mastery properties attached, but those properties don't do anything with 2014 characters so can be completely ignored
There are a couple of known bugs that can be annoying, I'm curious if they've affected you. A couple of examples off the top of my head:
-Monk damage die table was changed for 2024 and WotC somehow doesn't know how to separate the tables (just build a new table, guys, it's not difficult)
-A couple of weapons have updated damage dice (Lance went from 1d12 to 1d10 and gained Heavy, Trident went from 1d8 to 1d10, Net was updated and is no longer a weapon)
I really just wish that they had these products separated but I get why they don't - they don't want to compete with themselves for the new product. My campaign uses Foundry and in our most recent set of character imports it exploded spell lists, so we're going to be opting to just use everything directly in the VTT and no longer port from D&D Beyond. It's a real shame because I've spent hundreds on source books that we ultimately now don't need.