I'm really excited about a character I've made that uses the UA patron The Raven Queen, but I'm unable to select this patron using D&D Beyond. Is this playtest content that could be added? Thanks!

Hello there,

Any Unearthed Arcana created before January 2018 is unable to be placed on DDB. Wizards of the Coast consider it to be archived. You are free to privately homebrew it, though.

Does this mean we will never see the Mystic class unless it gets publish through an official product? Since we can't homebrew our own Class it is a bit frustrating.

If they release a new UA mystic, like they did with the artificer, then that will likely get added. Also custom classes are in the works

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It seems really unfortunate that Mystic and other UA material is not supported. I know the reasons we have been given apparently... Wizards of the Coast won't allow it to be published on dndbeyond blah blah until it's published in a book but I think that really hurts players and it's just an annoyance for us who want to use dndbeyond and pay you more money and by proxy pay Wizards of the Coast more money.... but because we want to play a Mystic or some other class or whatever and you restrict us from even home brewing the class properly on your set of online tools... It's going to alienate ao bunch of us.... Why not allow us to create our own classes? You've told us it's too fiddly or whatever but the reasons you give just feel like poor excuses. I think there are a lot of us out there that probably feel similarly.... Come on guys either Wizards of the Coast or dndbeyond... Please let us use the content we love... Heck we will even pay for it! The demand is here. I'd even pay as much as one of the source books costs to get access to the Mystic class at this point.

You do know full homebrew classes is in the roadmap, right? That means that it will eventually become reality.

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It seems really unfortunate that Mystic and other UA material is not supported. I know the reasons we have been given apparently... Wizards of the Coast won't allow it to be published on dndbeyond blah blah until it's published in a book but I think that really hurts players and it's just an annoyance for us who want to use dndbeyond and pay you more money and by proxy pay Wizards of the Coast more money.... but because we want to play a Mystic or some other class or whatever and you restrict us from even home brewing the class properly on your set of online tools... It's going to alienate ao bunch of us.... Why not allow us to create our own classes? You've told us it's too fiddly or whatever but the reasons you give just feel like poor excuses. I think there are a lot of us out there that probably feel similarly.... Come on guys either Wizards of the Coast or dndbeyond... Please let us use the content we love... Heck we will even pay for it! The demand is here. I'd even pay as much as one of the source books costs to get access to the Mystic class at this point.

You do know full homebrew classes is in the roadmap, right? That means that it will eventually become reality.

But......you HAVE to admit that having anyone create a fully functional Mystic class based on the UA, which was a 28 page pdf, will be a LARGE task to undertake. Better for a team, let alone the official D&D Beyond team.

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Quote from ryanpaton >>

It seems really unfortunate that Mystic and other UA material is not supported. I know the reasons we have been given apparently... Wizards of the Coast won't allow it to be published on dndbeyond blah blah until it's published in a book but I think that really hurts players and it's just an annoyance for us who want to use dndbeyond and pay you more money and by proxy pay Wizards of the Coast more money.... but because we want to play a Mystic or some other class or whatever and you restrict us from even home brewing the class properly on your set of online tools... It's going to alienate ao bunch of us.... Why not allow us to create our own classes? You've told us it's too fiddly or whatever but the reasons you give just feel like poor excuses. I think there are a lot of us out there that probably feel similarly.... Come on guys either Wizards of the Coast or dndbeyond... Please let us use the content we love... Heck we will even pay for it! The demand is here. I'd even pay as much as one of the source books costs to get access to the Mystic class at this point.

You do know full homebrew classes is in the roadmap, right? That means that it will eventually become reality.

 

But......you HAVE to admit that having anyone create a fully functional Mystic class based on the UA, which was a 28 page pdf, will be a LARGE task to undertake. Better for a team, let alone the official D&D Beyond team.

 Not arguing that, I was mostly replying to the question "Why not allow us to create our own classes?"

Creating any homebrew full class with any kind of original mechanic is going to be a daunting task, but if one is REALLY interested in having it implemented in the system, and having no other way of doing it, it will eventually be done.

I personally understand the reasoning behind WotC putting a veto on the introduction of archived playtest content here in DDB.