add toggle or lose even more subs, already cancelled when they initially announced it, either add a toggle to have 2024 on or off or when you click create a character at the start you pick 2014 or 2024 character sheet then it goes into creation.
I'd also love to have a toggle to turn of 2024 content. My DM might at some point make the switch, but right now this isn't the case because our party consists of a Kalashtar, a Satyr and a Dhampir, none of which have been updated yet, as haven't all our classes' subclasses.
Having to scroll through a TON of legacy spells is frankly quite annoying.
^ being able to hide content from both legacy and 2024 making it an account preference should filter it out from character sheets, compendiums, searches and etc.
Yes! I'm in the middle of Eve of Ruin using only 2014 content and now everything is showing up with 2024 content. Most of my players are new and very rules oriented. This is going to cause a lot of problems next session.
+1 PLEASE add this. Having to dig to figure out which options are 2024 and which are 2014 is absolutely miserable. Being able to toggle it campaign by campaign makes sense to me.
Throwing my +1 here. If I'm searching for a spell, I want to view the spell version for the game I'm running, not the spell version that we might use in the next game.
It really feels like nobody involved in maintaining D&D Beyond (post-layoffs, naturally) actually plays in games on a regular basis. The website's usability has just gone down considerably with the release of the new version.
Similar feedback, but from the opposite side. I want a way to turn off Legacy content, sitewide.
For example, I just looked at some of the Wizard statblocks (from Monster's of the Multiverse, which replace Legacy statblocks) and all the spells refer to 2014 spells. I get that that works for the posters above... but for me, that's unacceptable. Surely in the settings you can come up with a way to pick which version of which ever game element (2014/24) you want to use.
And to be clear, the abomination that is having both appear that is Conditions, is NOT an acceptable option!
I saw a Legacy and Extended Rules Toggle in the Home section of the character creation. Those should turn off 2014 content, as well as Tasha's and Xanathar's. Unless the toggles aren't working as intended yet.
To be clear, I'm not talking about the character builder. I'm my group's regular DM, so I almost never get to play... so I frankly don't care much what happens with the character builder, I'm talking about everything else in DDB--the compendiums, the monster stat blocks, the spell lists, etc. Yes, I can spend several minutes using filters to only see the relevant results when I'm looking for game elements, but that dramatically increases my prep time. DDB has always been a time saver, not am impediment to me as a DM (until now).
I completely agree with this, i have no interest in the 2024 rules and the website is unusable for my current 2014 campaign. I will be cancelling my subscription if they cannot make DDB usable again.
Same, the site is unusable for my many 2014 only campaigns despite all the money I paid here to buy content. Nothing I see can be trusted not to come from 2024. Some 2014 spells are not labeled Legacy because they were not updated in 2024. How can you tell? The only reason we used Beyond was to make it easy for players to see all their options when creating characters. It’s useless now and I canceled.
When they switched to 4e, I stopped buying from Wizards completely. I’m back to not buying anything from Wizards again.
+1 This has created so much confusion among some of my fellow players that heavily relied on DnDBeyond to remember rules and some that uses the on board dice rolling system.
We played years before this new release, most of us new to the system. And been having DnDBeyond was such a great relief for some of the players that I know has been having trouble remembering rules in other systems. And some that was completely new to TTRPG games that never had to rely on knowing the system beyond what DnDBeyond told them.
It has just over complicated things.
Now we go through each session where we multiple times has to tell some of the players, nope that is wrong, that is 2024 rules. That time add up and take a lot of time out of furthering the plot from session to session.
I have to agree with many of the previous posts. I really need a way to toggle off 2024 rules. I play in one campaign that is still 2014 and another that os 2024.
Not to mention if you try looking up spells in their particular section, it doesn't even show the old ones anymore, it only gives you the 2024 versions of the spells unless you specifically search for the spells by name in the everything bar and then select the specific legacy version. Why doesn't the search bar have an option to specifically look through the content you have purchased, and ONLY what you have available to you personally!?
I did not buy the 2024 PHB, I did not want the 2024 PHB, I have no intention of changing to the 2024 PHB in the near future.
I have paid for so much digital content that I wish to use as it was provided to me and do not wish to upgrade.
The reason for my resistance to change is because I believe that I have enough content, I can play an infinite amount of D&D with what I have already purchased, and I can share it with my players.
WotC, please give me an option to continue using my legacy content without having to also see the 2024 content, you will still get my yearly subscription, and you may even get me to look at the new rules, but not by forcing me into it.
Yea I have been having a very hard time getting new players up to speed for joining my active games. Now I have to teach them how to avoid all the 2024 content since we are in a long running 2014 game. I've been losing a bunch of time and ddb is now adding to the confusion instead than helping me or the palyers with a streamlined process. Making me question the value proposition of my subscription when it makes headaches instead of makes them go away.
Unbelievable that the 2024 ruleset wasn't implemented with an on/off toggle.
This is a must-have ASAP need. It completely undercuts the core advantage of using D&D Beyond for my campaigns, which is helping newer or less rules-oriented players get through the character creation/leveling process and manage in-game abilities. For my group, this makes D&D Beyond effectively non-functional. A real shame and a. deal-breaker. Needs immediate attention.
Adding my +1 to this as well. Though I have already given up with this website long term anyway, we're currently playing a game and starting a new game using 2014 rules, and this is causing constant headaches with character creation and leveling. Just a total mess. Especially when importing the characters into a VTT running 2014.
Sadly, it's likely by design as they don't want us to use 2014 anymore. They want people to purchase the new version. I do not see them implementing a way to toggle it.
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DM subscriber since I joined this website. Ended my subscription June 2024 due to the removal of individual purchases. Was the only reason I ever bothered with this website. I use it for character building for my players and occasional referencing. I don't want digital books that can be removed whenever the company sees fit.
January 2025: seems it was a correct move. They're removing 2014 content that we paid for in lieu of their new version of the game. You only rent content on here, never own.
It would have been best to lock the 5.24e EVERYTHING behind pay wall, or make a sister section on this site for it as it alters too much. As that didn't happen, there should be a single account toggle that hides the 5.24e content and reverts it to only the 5.14e rules, the rest hidden. It would keep the 5.14e players happy as it does a revert to single spells and correct rules for general reading and character builder, and if people choose not to use it, then the site is unchanged.
I'm skeptical they preserved the build before they rolled out this abysmal 2024 state, because it makes no sense to not have simply had a "legacy" version to access without cluttering it with irrelevant information. It may be only mildly more annoying, but I'm not going to keep paying for something that used to be better. I convinced my players to use DDB so I didn't have to be the one to troubleshoot their sheets. Now I have to again, so I'd rather go back to pen and paper. And I'm not paying $90+ for pointless changes, most of which I don't care for if not outright detest at this point.
I'm willing to pay for a character builder to play and run 5e content, and DDB is not worth the cost to keep doing that. I'd love to be proven wrong but it's been months, and I expected better.
God I miss the old teams streams and actual love toward the community.
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+1 - what is this!? Wizards of the Coast has even said they changed this? It's not changed. This is horrible and destroys DnDBeyond completely.
add toggle or lose even more subs, already cancelled when they initially announced it, either add a toggle to have 2024 on or off or when you click create a character at the start you pick 2014 or 2024 character sheet then it goes into creation.
I'd also love to have a toggle to turn of 2024 content. My DM might at some point make the switch, but right now this isn't the case because our party consists of a Kalashtar, a Satyr and a Dhampir, none of which have been updated yet, as haven't all our classes' subclasses.
Having to scroll through a TON of legacy spells is frankly quite annoying.
We need something like this
^ being able to hide content from both legacy and 2024 making it an account preference should filter it out from character sheets, compendiums, searches and etc.
Yes! I'm in the middle of Eve of Ruin using only 2014 content and now everything is showing up with 2024 content. Most of my players are new and very rules oriented. This is going to cause a lot of problems next session.
+1 PLEASE add this. Having to dig to figure out which options are 2024 and which are 2014 is absolutely miserable. Being able to toggle it campaign by campaign makes sense to me.
Throwing my +1 here. If I'm searching for a spell, I want to view the spell version for the game I'm running, not the spell version that we might use in the next game.
It really feels like nobody involved in maintaining D&D Beyond (post-layoffs, naturally) actually plays in games on a regular basis. The website's usability has just gone down considerably with the release of the new version.
To be clear, I'm not talking about the character builder. I'm my group's regular DM, so I almost never get to play... so I frankly don't care much what happens with the character builder, I'm talking about everything else in DDB--the compendiums, the monster stat blocks, the spell lists, etc. Yes, I can spend several minutes using filters to only see the relevant results when I'm looking for game elements, but that dramatically increases my prep time. DDB has always been a time saver, not am impediment to me as a DM (until now).
I completely agree with this, i have no interest in the 2024 rules and the website is unusable for my current 2014 campaign. I will be cancelling my subscription if they cannot make DDB usable again.
Same, the site is unusable for my many 2014 only campaigns despite all the money I paid here to buy content. Nothing I see can be trusted not to come from 2024. Some 2014 spells are not labeled Legacy because they were not updated in 2024. How can you tell? The only reason we used Beyond was to make it easy for players to see all their options when creating characters. It’s useless now and I canceled.
When they switched to 4e, I stopped buying from Wizards completely. I’m back to not buying anything from Wizards again.
+1 This has created so much confusion among some of my fellow players that heavily relied on DnDBeyond to remember rules and some that uses the on board dice rolling system.
We played years before this new release, most of us new to the system. And been having DnDBeyond was such a great relief for some of the players that I know has been having trouble remembering rules in other systems. And some that was completely new to TTRPG games that never had to rely on knowing the system beyond what DnDBeyond told them.
It has just over complicated things.
Now we go through each session where we multiple times has to tell some of the players, nope that is wrong, that is 2024 rules. That time add up and take a lot of time out of furthering the plot from session to session.
It has become a bit of a headache.
I have to agree with many of the previous posts. I really need a way to toggle off 2024 rules. I play in one campaign that is still 2014 and another that os 2024.
Not to mention if you try looking up spells in their particular section, it doesn't even show the old ones anymore, it only gives you the 2024 versions of the spells unless you specifically search for the spells by name in the everything bar and then select the specific legacy version. Why doesn't the search bar have an option to specifically look through the content you have purchased, and ONLY what you have available to you personally!?
THIS. THIS IS EXACTLY IT!
Yes ! Please add a toggle. This has only made d&d beyond harder to use, not easier!
Yea I have been having a very hard time getting new players up to speed for joining my active games. Now I have to teach them how to avoid all the 2024 content since we are in a long running 2014 game. I've been losing a bunch of time and ddb is now adding to the confusion instead than helping me or the palyers with a streamlined process. Making me question the value proposition of my subscription when it makes headaches instead of makes them go away.
Unbelievable that the 2024 ruleset wasn't implemented with an on/off toggle.
This is a must-have ASAP need. It completely undercuts the core advantage of using D&D Beyond for my campaigns, which is helping newer or less rules-oriented players get through the character creation/leveling process and manage in-game abilities. For my group, this makes D&D Beyond effectively non-functional. A real shame and a. deal-breaker. Needs immediate attention.
Adding my +1 to this as well. Though I have already given up with this website long term anyway, we're currently playing a game and starting a new game using 2014 rules, and this is causing constant headaches with character creation and leveling. Just a total mess. Especially when importing the characters into a VTT running 2014.
Sadly, it's likely by design as they don't want us to use 2014 anymore. They want people to purchase the new version. I do not see them implementing a way to toggle it.
DM subscriber since I joined this website. Ended my subscription June 2024 due to the removal of individual purchases. Was the only reason I ever bothered with this website. I use it for character building for my players and occasional referencing. I don't want digital books that can be removed whenever the company sees fit.
January 2025: seems it was a correct move. They're removing 2014 content that we paid for in lieu of their new version of the game. You only rent content on here, never own.
It would have been best to lock the 5.24e EVERYTHING behind pay wall, or make a sister section on this site for it as it alters too much. As that didn't happen, there should be a single account toggle that hides the 5.24e content and reverts it to only the 5.14e rules, the rest hidden. It would keep the 5.14e players happy as it does a revert to single spells and correct rules for general reading and character builder, and if people choose not to use it, then the site is unchanged.
I'm skeptical they preserved the build before they rolled out this abysmal 2024 state, because it makes no sense to not have simply had a "legacy" version to access without cluttering it with irrelevant information. It may be only mildly more annoying, but I'm not going to keep paying for something that used to be better. I convinced my players to use DDB so I didn't have to be the one to troubleshoot their sheets. Now I have to again, so I'd rather go back to pen and paper. And I'm not paying $90+ for pointless changes, most of which I don't care for if not outright detest at this point.
I'm willing to pay for a character builder to play and run 5e content, and DDB is not worth the cost to keep doing that. I'd love to be proven wrong but it's been months, and I expected better.
God I miss the old teams streams and actual love toward the community.
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