Agonizing Blast

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 And.......this is primarily because the 2014 rules are incompatible with the 2024 rules, despite all the official protestations to the contrary.

No, this is primarily because D&D Beyond is badly coded. If someone had tried to come up with an eldritch invocation in 2014 that added your ability bonus to cantrips other than eldritch blast, exactly the same problem would have appeared. 

 Ah, yes, the most common lament of every programmer (or, grey hat hacker, if you prefer) who has ever been hired to update and/or maintain a previous employee's source code. (Naturally, I, the new hire, will always write perfect source code.)

 It isn't about perfect. DDB's back end code was written to support only what existed at the time of its creation and each new modifier was patched in separately. Now there's so many independent operators the entire system is unstable for changes. 

The new system is said to be designed to be more flexible in the types of modifiers, supported dynamic abilities, etc.

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 And.......this is primarily because the 2014 rules are incompatible with the 2024 rules, despite all the official protestations to the contrary.

No, this is primarily because D&D Beyond is badly coded. If someone had tried to come up with an eldritch invocation in 2014 that added your ability bonus to cantrips other than eldritch blast, exactly the same problem would have appeared. 

 Ah, yes, the most common lament of every programmer (or, grey hat hacker, if you prefer) who has ever been hired to update and/or maintain a previous employee's source code. (Naturally, I, the new hire, will always write perfect source code.)

 It isn't about perfect. DDB's back end code was written to support only what existed at the time of its creation and each new modifier was patched in separately. Now there's so many independent operators the entire system is unstable for changes. 

The new system is said to be designed to be more flexible in the types of modifiers, supported dynamic abilities, etc.

 So therefore the current version of the Character Builder perfectly fits the classic hacker curse word:  kludge (a bunch of mismatched items that have been tied together with baling wire to form a distressing whole). The current U.S. air traffic control system is, sadly, another kludge.