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Has anyone else noticed that when you try adding spells to a wizard, you just prepare them from the full list of wizard spells rather than adding them to your spellbook and preparing them from that list? One of my newbie players got very confused because this functionality seems (and is) wrong. I don't remember running into this issue before, so wondering if it is a new bug.

 
More than likely they're using homebrew that has allowed them the whole list.

I would have thought so, too, but we sat down together to do it, and when I rolled up a wizard to test it out I had the same issue.

i would also be interested to know if this is a change or a bug. It does not make sense since in Add Spells a wizard should be able to Learn or Delete as all they are doing is adding a spell to their spell book which is different than preparing/memorizing a learned spell from a spell book.

Our Wizard started getting confused regarding what spells were learned vs prepared.

Yes but frankly its confusing as the term Prepare and the term Learn mean two different things when it comes to the Wizard class.

Learn - scribe into your spell book

Prepare - memories the spell to be cast with a spell slot.

Nothing in this section regarding a Wizard's Spellbook mentions the word Prepare in terms of adding spells, it mentions prepare regarding spells already in the spellbook. .

Also the last paragraph differentiates prepare from add or learn - if a wizard lost their spellbook and did not have a backup, they can only copy the spell's they've prepared into that new spellbook and must find the remaining spells a new to add to the spellbook. If prepare and learn were the same then they could simply add all of the spells from one spellbook to another, even if they lost the first spell book.

Magic Initiate (Cleric, Druid,  or Wizard) allows selection of a level 1 spell that gets one free use, and the feat also states you can use any spell slots you have to cast it as well.  Up until recently,  both displayed in my spell list, once with a "USE", and the other as a "CAST" which displayed allowing one to select other available level spell slot.    Now, only the "USE" listing is available, and there is no way to select the higher level spell slots.   

The "Show level-scaled spells" option makes no difference, checked or unchecked. 

Other feats that give a spell with a "USE" as well as allowing other spell slots, such as Fey-Touched with Misty Step or Shadow-Touched with Invisible, still have both a "USE" and "CAST" option and display for other levels, as does stuff like "gnomish lineage spells" - speak with animals has both a use and a cast.   It looks like just the magic initiate spells are now only "USE".

UPDATE:  This is weird, some of my characters have the Fey-Touched Misty Step with just the "USE" option, and some have both "USE" and "CAST" options.  I can't tell what is different between them.    https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/133611189   does NOT have "CAST" option.    https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/133638103   HAS both "USE" and "CAST".    I'm very confused.

This changed with the last update.  Prior to the update, both "USE" and "CAST" were available.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/134572768   is one example - "SHIELD" should have a "USE" and a "CAST" as it did previously.   See the Speak with Animals as example of how it worked previously.

Yes that bug is happening to me too. I have cure wounds for my magic initiate and it doesn't show the leveled spell option

But this is a change from pre-update and should have at least been listed as such.  Sure for stuff like Misty Step, Shield, or Invisibility, clicking off a spell slot isn't a big deal.  But for spells such as Cure Wounds/Healing Touch (from magic initiate Druid/Cleric),  there is now no mechanic for casting/upcasting after the initial free use and it will have to be rolled manually and any bonuses manually added.  Removing the functionality that existed and forcing mechanical implementation is sort of counter to what using DnD Beyond for spellcasting is for, is it not?   Now I'm manually rolling my "2d8+5 Hit Points and add an additional 2d8 for every level I want to upcast, and oh yeah don't forget to go click off the spell slot).  

The functionality was there, and now it was removed.  It wasn't broken, it worked fine.  Now I'm back to manually casting my cure wounds at the level I want. 

You say "there’s not a good way to provide both in these cases" but there was as way, it was there, it worked.

woops, sorry, set them to public....

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In cases where the player chooses their spell, only USE is included; there’s not a good way to provide both in these cases. 

 Yes, there is. Show the two buttons next to each other.

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But this is a change from pre-update and should have at least been listed as such.  Sure for stuff like Misty Step, Shield, or Invisibility, clicking off a spell slot isn't a big deal.  But for spells such as Cure Wounds/Healing Touch (from magic initiate Druid/Cleric),  there is now no mechanic for casting/upcasting after the initial free use and it will have to be rolled manually and any bonuses manually added.  Removing the functionality that existed and forcing mechanical implementation is sort of counter to what using DnD Beyond for spellcasting is for, is it not?   Now I'm manually rolling my "2d8+5 Hit Points and add an additional 2d8 for every level I want to upcast, and oh yeah don't forget to go click off the spell slot).  

The functionality was there, and now it was removed.  It wasn't broken, it worked fine.  Now I'm back to manually casting my cure wounds at the level I want. 

You say "there’s not a good way to provide both in these cases" but there was as way, it was there, it worked.

 
Actually, it never worked. At least not for feats. The "Use Spell Slots" option for spells added via homebrew has only ever been supported in Race/Species and Subclass. Nothing else can add spells that use spell slots and never have.

For homebrew purposes when adding a feature like this for species/subclass is to add the spell twice : one that doesn't use a slot and has limited uses set and the second time to add a version that uses spell slots. It's clunky because the player has to ensure the select the same spell twice if it's a choice and the homebrewer has to add both versions. But, it works just fine. WHen doing homebrew nobody would care if you put a note "to get this working on D&D Beyond choose the same spell twice in both boxes". And I doubt anybody cares if there's two versions in the spell list on the sheet. 

Which means the solution is easy: the devs just need to update feats to add the spell the same way species/subclass does. Problem solved. But, they've known this for years and nothing has been done. They don't prioritise this so our complaints and "wish they'd do this" posts will just fall on deaf ears because they've proven beyond doubt "amount of posts" are not a factor in prioritisation. Or they're waiting on some update to the homebrew system - in which case, again, our complaining will not result in anything.

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For now, all we can do is the workaround : make a copy of the subclass/species and add a feature to add the "uses spell slots" version of the spell. Using fey/shadow touched feats as the example, you can see a shitty video I made on how to do this here:

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Actually, it never worked. At least not for feats. The "Use Spell Slots" option for spells added via homebrew has only ever been supported in Race/Species and Subclass. Nothing else can add spells that use spell slots and never have.

 It never worked for us making homebrew, but the official feats do have that capability.

 
Never worked for 2014 Magic Initiate, and still doesn't for 2024 Magic Initiate. 

Which feats now do this, and why do some and not others?

It did work albeit briefly for 2024 Magic Initiate (Druid and Cleric).  My level 9 warlock had both (as Lessons of the First Ones eldritch evocations).  Both Cure wounds and Healing Word would have a USE listing and CAST listing, and I could cast them with her highest level pact magic spell slots.  Until this last update.

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That presents a unique problem when the player chooses the spell, though, because those separate entries can’t currently be tied together; taking this approach would rely on making the player select the same spell twice, which aside from being a bother would open up the opportunity for players to choose a separate spell instead.

 That sounds like a very bad way of data management, cause it kinda suggests that each spell has two copies in the database (one that can be cast and one that can be “used”) instead of just one - otherwise it should not be a hard task to have one dropdown where you select the spell, and then the background logic that adds the selected spell to both the castable and the “usable” list. Hell, if you can’t do any other way, one could add a second dropdown which is not shown but always take the value of the first one. I can’t really think a way where you don’t have to deliberately make it unfeasable to do that, especially since the aforementioned feats prove it is possible to have the same spell added to both lists.

But I guess the Humblewood Tales and shiny new backgrounds and dice are more important than actual core functionality, cause people won’t pay again for the latter. Probably that’s why there’s no light theme for the mobile app either, just “being considered” since 2020.