Having the rules combined in the character generator is an annoyance to me, but not a major one.
Once I learned that there might be two different versions of a feat,, spell, whatever and that I need to be sure to select the right one, I had no big issue with it.
The only thing that crossed a line for me was discovering that DnDB’s position is that, even after I buy an item, they reserve the right to take it away from me without notification, justification, or compensation.
But, as is usually the case, there’s a simple solution 1.) spread the word that that is DnDB’s position and will stay their position until a court rules it a violation of contract law and 2.) let it be known that, as a result of this position, I will purchase no more digital content and encourage other players to take the same stance.
Beyond that, there’s no hard feelings.
It's not a violation of contract law. Being able to modify the content or restrict access to it is boilerplate EULA and TOS language for digital goods and has been for close to thirty years now. The default with most digital purchases is that you don't own what you're buying; you're essentially just paying for a license to use it within certain parameters. Maybe you've been incredibly lucky to not previously have run into this kind of situation where access to a digital good or service changes. But if you find this irksome I strongly suggest you either swear off buying any and all digital goods or read every purchase agreement more carefully than you did here with D&D Beyond, because it's bog standard.
[Redacted] I was saying that my feelings on this are that they should just make the character builder only work with 2024 rules.\
They won't, of course; as I noted they demonstrate ample evidence of having no desire or intent to do so.
Nevertheless, since they are trying to make it work with one older ruleset, why not make it work with all the older rulesets?
At the very least, it would enable me to continue my undying passion for talking smack about 3.x.
2014 and 2024 are both 5th Edition, and are therefore both "current". WotC has been very clear on that. Therefore, could you explain why you feel part of the current edition should be removed/depreciated from the site (which includes the Compendium *and* the character builder)?
Older editions are a completely different subject as they have never been on the site and would have to be programmed from scratch. 2014 on the other hand is already here (mostly), but is actively being removed/downgraded.
All that is needed is a functional way to segregate the two rulesets and/or filter the sources you want to use, including turning off 2024 if you aren'tusing it. Not just in the compendium and builder though, but also on the sheet itself. That way everyone can use exactly what they want.
Don’t forget that among the things they can do is revoke a license for banning, or even for closing a membership account.
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I did not say that I felt part of the current edition should be removed or deprecated from the site.
please do not lie about what I said. It is a bad faith argument. Since I did not say that, I cannot respond to your question, since it has nothing to do with what I did say.
i disagree that older editions are a different subject.
ya know, after 45 years and all the assorted edition was, my feelings on the whole thing can best be summed up by saying this:
The character builder should only work with 2024 content.
Is this not what you said earlier? How do you propose the character builder "only work with 2024 content" without removing the 2014 content that is already there?
i disagree that older editions are a different subject.
Do you not think there's a difference between asking to keepsomething that already exists, and asking to addsomething that doesn''t exist and would need to be made from scratch?
I did not say that I felt part of the current edition should be removed or deprecated from the site.
please do not lie about what I said. It is a bad faith argument. Since I did not say that, I cannot respond to your question, since it has nothing to do with what I did say.
i disagree that older editions are a different subject.
ya know, after 45 years and all the assorted edition was, my feelings on the whole thing can best be summed up by saying this:
The character builder should only work with 2024 content.
Is this not what you said earlier? How do you propose the character builder "only work with 2024 content" without removing the 2014 content that is already there?
i disagree that older editions are a different subject.
Do you not think there's a difference between asking to keepsomething that already exists, and asking to addsomething that doesn''t exist and would need to be made from scratch?
hmmm…
The quoted part is what I said earlier. It makes no mention of methodology or process.
How do you propose the character builder "only work with 2024 content" without removing the 2014 content that is already there?
I am not a programmer. How they do it is not something I am speaking to. So I make no proposal on how they do it now, nor did I do so then. I did note they are obviously trying to accommodate people, however.
This does not seem to be a mea culpa for having lied about what I said.
Do you not think there's a difference between asking to keepsomething that already exists, and asking to addsomething that doesn''t exist and would need to be made from scratch?
If I disagreed, then it seems to me to be obvious that I do not think there is a difference, since they are adding the new rules anyway, and they did not exist in the site earlier, and were, we are told, made from scratch.
Addition is happening either way. Retention of outdated rulesets seems to be the goal, so it is not an unreasonable query in regards older rulesets being retained as well. The same underlying concerns exist — the desire of people to persist in playing with older rulesets to use a free service that is available without cost, to be able to have that service perform the same tracking, updating, etc features as it does for the current ruleset, and the fact that their not doing so is offensive to customers of theirs, an example of bad business planning, and so forth.
The 2014 PHB is an old ruleset, just like any other ruleset produced previously. The treatment and retention of players who enjoy any of the rulesets should be of equal import and value, and the arguments given in this thread so far are all equally supportive and proffer the same reasoning to retain the older ones.
with not one iota less anger and frustration than in previous years of change, I will add.
so, if they are interested in preserving 2014 rules, they should be demanding other outdated, old rulesets — to build up solidarity, boost the strength of their argument, and increase the number of customers supportive of including old, superseded rulesets in the current free service who just want to play with the rules they like and not the latest rules.
lest you think I am being supercilious, note that I played 2e for 25 years, and consider 3.x the most useless trash of a version ever created. I would love for them to completely ignore 3.x — but that would be hypocritical if I sought retention of outdated, replaced rulesets, since it is an outdated, replaced ruleset. Singling one out for retention is equally hypocritical, and comes across as overly entitled and bitter about changes, but unconcerned with others in a similar situation. It is, then, selfish and juvenile.
so, no, I do not see a difference, since those other outdated, replaced, old, superseded, that already exist, just like the 2014 PHB (for now), would be added into the service that is provided without cost.
i do not care about excuses, either — how they achieve that is neither a problem I have to solve, nor one I am genuinely capable of addressing with a degree of competence I find acceptable. That the site already has one old ruleset no longer current is merely a point in favor of bringing on other old rulesets.
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“How could WotC possibly make the tools on this site work only with the 2024 rules without disabling and by doing that negating the purchase of the 2014 rules? I do not mean how would it be coded or implemented, I am asking how you see that working at all even in the abstract. I genuinely would like to understand how you think this would work.”
Before I became disabled, I worked professionally as a software engineer and a cybersecurity engineer. In all the years that I spent doing this work, I came across only one instance which might provide insight into this being difficult to implement.
Before I started working for the company in question, they had attempted to save money by having a foreign company write the next gen of their software. There was a language and a culture barrier and I’m pretty sure this foreign company hired a bunch of lowest-wage programmers. The result was an application that worked, but whose architecture was a total spaghetti bowl. My company’s cost to maintain this monstrosity was quadrupled or more.
But that particular code was also far more complex than this character creation software. I would be shocked if what happened in that case has any relevance to this one.
“How could WotC possibly make the tools on this site work only with the 2024 rules without disabling and by doing that negating the purchase of the 2014 rules? I do not mean how would it be coded or implemented, I am asking how you see that working at all even in the abstract. I genuinely would like to understand how you think this would work.”
Before I became disabled, I worked professionally as a software engineer and a cybersecurity engineer. In all the years that I spent doing this work, I came across only one instance which might provide insight into this being difficult to implement.
Before I started working for the company in question, they had attempted to save money by having a foreign company write the next gen of their software. There was a language and a culture barrier and I’m pretty sure this foreign company hired a bunch of lowest-wage programmers. The result was an application that worked, but whose architecture was a total spaghetti bowl. My company’s cost to maintain this monstrosity was quadrupled or more.
But that particular code was also far more complex than this character creation software. I would be shocked if what happened in that case has any relevance to this one.
I am not following your post, I am interested in understanding how this could work would you mind elaborating?
“How could WotC possibly make the tools on this site work only with the 2024 rules without disabling and by doing that negating the purchase of the 2014 rules? I do not mean how would it be coded or implemented, I am asking how you see that working at all even in the abstract. I genuinely would like to understand how you think this would work.”
Before I became disabled, I worked professionally as a software engineer and a cybersecurity engineer. In all the years that I spent doing this work, I came across only one instance which might provide insight into this being difficult to implement.
Before I started working for the company in question, they had attempted to save money by having a foreign company write the next gen of their software. There was a language and a culture barrier and I’m pretty sure this foreign company hired a bunch of lowest-wage programmers. The result was an application that worked, but whose architecture was a total spaghetti bowl. My company’s cost to maintain this monstrosity was quadrupled or more.
But that particular code was also far more complex than this character creation software. I would be shocked if what happened in that case has any relevance to this one.
I am not following your post, I am interested in understanding how this could work would you mind elaborating?
Well, it isn’t exactly easy to explain to someone who doesn’t understand programming. Consider, a surgeon could tell you how to do corrective surgery for carpal tunnel. If he went into full detail, you probably wouldn’t understand it and if he didn’t go into full detail, well, a little bit of knowledge is poison.
I realize that probably sounds really arrogant and a dodge. *shrug* I can’t help that.
There are a lot of different ways to do it. Which architecture you use will depend on what -ilities you value (e.g. reliability, affordability, maintainability, etc.) and, to a lesser extent, whether there are any particular technologies which you are or are not allowed to be used (for example, being restricted to certain programming languages will impact your decision to use functional or imperative programming).
Until I sat down and began breaking the problem down from technological, architectural, business cultural, project management, etc. perspectives, (and that would require a lot more information than I currently have), I’d just be blindly guessing anyway.
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I don't think going straight to the nuclear option is the best route to produce helpful results for getting the site sorted to separate 2014 and 2024 content.
Admittedly I'm not riled up about this because most of the content is already separated and the bits that aren't register as mild inconvenience to me.
I don't think going straight to the nuclear option is the best route to produce helpful results for getting the site sorted to separate 2014 and 2024 content.
Admittedly I'm not riled up about this because most of the content is already separated and the bits that aren't register as mild inconvenience to me.
Would you mind telling us if you bought into the new rule set? That seems to be the divide, those that bought in don't seem to mind as much as those that didn't. At least that is my theory based on the posts I have read. I am just curious. The tables I play at that have started the transition, while a little frustrated, are not as put off as the tables that were planning to wait a while if ever to switch. Personally I would love a toggle as so much time has/is being wasted over the hot mess WotC has served us with this roll out. It would be a big laugh if so much game time hadn't been wasted over this in my games.
I don't think going straight to the nuclear option is the best route to produce helpful results for getting the site sorted to separate 2014 and 2024 content.
Admittedly I'm not riled up about this because most of the content is already separated and the bits that aren't register as mild inconvenience to me.
Would you mind telling us if you bought into the new rule set? That seems to be the divide, those that bought in don't seem to mind as much as those that didn't. At least that is my theory based on the posts I have read. I am just curious. The tables I play at that have started the transition, while a little frustrated, are not as put off as the tables that were planning to wait a while if ever to switch. Personally I would love a toggle as so much time has/is being wasted over the hot mess WotC has served us with this roll out. It would be a big laugh if so much game time hadn't been wasted over this in my games.
Bought the 2024 PHB, but haven't finished the campaign with 2014 PHB characters yet. I'm so accustomed to rolling with edition changes that a smaller rule update like this feels easier to adjust to.
As I said a while ago, while the current situation doesn't bug me, I'm not opposed to a more effective toggle.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that even though I like the idea of breaking down the PHB2014 vs PHB2024 content even more, nobody has any idea how much work that will take given we don't have any insight to the backend. If I had to guess I'd think there's internal discussion going on that we're just not privy to. C'est la vie.
I have paid for a bunch of content. Now Instead of that I'm getting the new free stuff. How does that make sense? You bought this vintage Ferrari but now we're giving you this brand new Honda Civic, so you get to drive that. Except the Honda only has parts of the engine so we connected it to the Ferrari transmission and the front wheels. But the radio does bluetooth so you're welcome.
I have paid for a bunch of content. Now Instead of that I'm getting the new free stuff. How does that make sense? You bought this vintage Ferrari but now we're giving you this brand new Honda Civic, so you get to drive that. Except the Honda only has parts of the engine so we connected it to the Ferrari transmission and the front wheels. But the radio does bluetooth so you're welcome.
I have paid for a bunch of content. Now Instead of that I'm getting the new free stuff. How does that make sense? You bought this vintage Ferrari but now we're giving you this brand new Honda Civic, so you get to drive that. Except the Honda only has parts of the engine so we connected it to the Ferrari transmission and the front wheels. But the radio does bluetooth so you're welcome.
You still have all your paid content.
Not strictly true. Non-magical weapons and armor are all the 2024 versions, with the 2024 weapon properties. There are no legacy versions.
I have paid for a bunch of content. Now Instead of that I'm getting the new free stuff. How does that make sense? You bought this vintage Ferrari but now we're giving you this brand new Honda Civic, so you get to drive that. Except the Honda only has parts of the engine so we connected it to the Ferrari transmission and the front wheels. But the radio does bluetooth so you're welcome.
I'm fairly certain I was quite clear above how the car analogy was both silly and wrong, and I'm not sure why you thought replying to it would be helpful at all.
Also, because I'd rather not start a long quote chain from information you posted afterwards, I was very much able to open the 2014 PHB and see that none of the information in it has been changed.
I have paid for a bunch of content. Now Instead of that I'm getting the new free stuff. How does that make sense? You bought this vintage Ferrari but now we're giving you this brand new Honda Civic, so you get to drive that. Except the Honda only has parts of the engine so we connected it to the Ferrari transmission and the front wheels. But the radio does bluetooth so you're welcome.
I'm fairly certain I was quite clear above how the car analogy was both silly and wrong, and I'm not sure why you thought replying to it would be helpful at all.
Also, because I'd rather not start a long quote chain from information you posted afterwards, I was very much able to open the 2014 PHB and see that none of the information in it has been changed.
2014 Weapons:
They did not edit the 2014 PHB but they did remove all references from the equipment pages, such that characters made using DDB can only use those referencing the 2024 rules. This is also true for armor, but not sure there are any changes there.
From what I understand, the developers inherited code that was written by a third party and wasn’t particularly architected very well, certainly not designed for future development.
If that is true, then the developers deserve gratitude and praise. Having been in that position myself, I know how hard their task was to integrate 2024 content with the 2012 material. It was a bit like an open hand monk fighting black pudding.
So, I want to take a break from what seems like a thread of never-ending criticism to say “thanks,”
From what I understand, the developers inherited code that was written by a third party and wasn’t particularly architected very well, certainly not designed for future development.
If that is true, then the developers deserve gratitude and praise. Having been in that position myself, I know how hard their task was to integrate 2024 content with the 2012 material. It was a bit like an open hand monk fighting black pudding.
So, I want to take a break from what seems like a thread of never-ending criticism to say “thanks,”
Except they have for other items on the list, so I am skeptical the code is the reason. After all, someone had to have added the 2024 versions and that had to have happened relatively recently. It is more that they retroactively changed the data entries on the original official position is that the 2024 rules overwrite the 2014 rules wherever they overlap.
Which was problematic for a ton of reasons already discussed endlessly, in this and in other threads.
They could make new entries without the 2024 flags (the ability to make new entries seems not any sort coding problem) and flag them 'legacy' but that would cost time and thus money. I do suppose they could have literally fired everyone who set up the new 2024 rules and replaced them all and that causing some issues, but I am skeptical that any such thing happened.
“No code is ever truly designed for future development because you can’t predict what the future will bring.”
This is partially true, but mostly false, or partially false, but mostly true. It has to do with how one looks at Say’s law. I’m going to avoid an argument and just say that the issue is complex.
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It's not a violation of contract law. Being able to modify the content or restrict access to it is boilerplate EULA and TOS language for digital goods and has been for close to thirty years now. The default with most digital purchases is that you don't own what you're buying; you're essentially just paying for a license to use it within certain parameters. Maybe you've been incredibly lucky to not previously have run into this kind of situation where access to a digital good or service changes. But if you find this irksome I strongly suggest you either swear off buying any and all digital goods or read every purchase agreement more carefully than you did here with D&D Beyond, because it's bog standard.
2014 and 2024 are both 5th Edition, and are therefore both "current". WotC has been very clear on that. Therefore, could you explain why you feel part of the current edition should be removed/depreciated from the site (which includes the Compendium *and* the character builder)?
Older editions are a completely different subject as they have never been on the site and would have to be programmed from scratch. 2014 on the other hand is already here (mostly), but is actively being removed/downgraded.
All that is needed is a functional way to segregate the two rulesets and/or filter the sources you want to use, including turning off 2024 if you aren'tusing it. Not just in the compendium and builder though, but also on the sheet itself. That way everyone can use exactly what they want.
Don’t forget that among the things they can do is revoke a license for banning, or even for closing a membership account.
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Is this not what you said earlier? How do you propose the character builder "only work with 2024 content" without removing the 2014 content that is already there?
Do you not think there's a difference between asking to keep something that already exists, and asking to add something that doesn''t exist and would need to be made from scratch?
hmmm…
The quoted part is what I said earlier. It makes no mention of methodology or process.
I am not a programmer. How they do it is not something I am speaking to. So I make no proposal on how they do it now, nor did I do so then. I did note they are obviously trying to accommodate people, however.
This does not seem to be a mea culpa for having lied about what I said.
If I disagreed, then it seems to me to be obvious that I do not think there is a difference, since they are adding the new rules anyway, and they did not exist in the site earlier, and were, we are told, made from scratch.
Addition is happening either way. Retention of outdated rulesets seems to be the goal, so it is not an unreasonable query in regards older rulesets being retained as well. The same underlying concerns exist — the desire of people to persist in playing with older rulesets to use a free service that is available without cost, to be able to have that service perform the same tracking, updating, etc features as it does for the current ruleset, and the fact that their not doing so is offensive to customers of theirs, an example of bad business planning, and so forth.
The 2014 PHB is an old ruleset, just like any other ruleset produced previously. The treatment and retention of players who enjoy any of the rulesets should be of equal import and value, and the arguments given in this thread so far are all equally supportive and proffer the same reasoning to retain the older ones.
with not one iota less anger and frustration than in previous years of change, I will add.
so, if they are interested in preserving 2014 rules, they should be demanding other outdated, old rulesets — to build up solidarity, boost the strength of their argument, and increase the number of customers supportive of including old, superseded rulesets in the current free service who just want to play with the rules they like and not the latest rules.
lest you think I am being supercilious, note that I played 2e for 25 years, and consider 3.x the most useless trash of a version ever created. I would love for them to completely ignore 3.x — but that would be hypocritical if I sought retention of outdated, replaced rulesets, since it is an outdated, replaced ruleset. Singling one out for retention is equally hypocritical, and comes across as overly entitled and bitter about changes, but unconcerned with others in a similar situation. It is, then, selfish and juvenile.
so, no, I do not see a difference, since those other outdated, replaced, old, superseded, that already exist, just like the 2014 PHB (for now), would be added into the service that is provided without cost.
i do not care about excuses, either — how they achieve that is neither a problem I have to solve, nor one I am genuinely capable of addressing with a degree of competence I find acceptable. That the site already has one old ruleset no longer current is merely a point in favor of bringing on other old rulesets.
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“How could WotC possibly make the tools on this site work only with the 2024 rules without disabling and by doing that negating the purchase of the 2014 rules? I do not mean how would it be coded or implemented, I am asking how you see that working at all even in the abstract. I genuinely would like to understand how you think this would work.”
Before I became disabled, I worked professionally as a software engineer and a cybersecurity engineer. In all the years that I spent doing this work, I came across only one instance which might provide insight into this being difficult to implement.
Before I started working for the company in question, they had attempted to save money by having a foreign company write the next gen of their software. There was a language and a culture barrier and I’m pretty sure this foreign company hired a bunch of lowest-wage programmers. The result was an application that worked, but whose architecture was a total spaghetti bowl. My company’s cost to maintain this monstrosity was quadrupled or more.
But that particular code was also far more complex than this character creation software. I would be shocked if what happened in that case has any relevance to this one.
I am not following your post, I am interested in understanding how this could work would you mind elaborating?
Well, it isn’t exactly easy to explain to someone who doesn’t understand programming. Consider, a surgeon could tell you how to do corrective surgery for carpal tunnel. If he went into full detail, you probably wouldn’t understand it and if he didn’t go into full detail, well, a little bit of knowledge is poison.
I realize that probably sounds really arrogant and a dodge. *shrug* I can’t help that.
There are a lot of different ways to do it. Which architecture you use will depend on what -ilities you value (e.g. reliability, affordability, maintainability, etc.) and, to a lesser extent, whether there are any particular technologies which you are or are not allowed to be used (for example, being restricted to certain programming languages will impact your decision to use functional or imperative programming).
Until I sat down and began breaking the problem down from technological, architectural, business cultural, project management, etc. perspectives, (and that would require a lot more information than I currently have), I’d just be blindly guessing anyway.
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I don't think going straight to the nuclear option is the best route to produce helpful results for getting the site sorted to separate 2014 and 2024 content.
Admittedly I'm not riled up about this because most of the content is already separated and the bits that aren't register as mild inconvenience to me.
Would you mind telling us if you bought into the new rule set? That seems to be the divide, those that bought in don't seem to mind as much as those that didn't. At least that is my theory based on the posts I have read. I am just curious. The tables I play at that have started the transition, while a little frustrated, are not as put off as the tables that were planning to wait a while if ever to switch. Personally I would love a toggle as so much time has/is being wasted over the hot mess WotC has served us with this roll out. It would be a big laugh if so much game time hadn't been wasted over this in my games.
Bought the 2024 PHB, but haven't finished the campaign with 2014 PHB characters yet. I'm so accustomed to rolling with edition changes that a smaller rule update like this feels easier to adjust to.
As I said a while ago, while the current situation doesn't bug me, I'm not opposed to a more effective toggle.
EDIT: Forgot to mention that even though I like the idea of breaking down the PHB2014 vs PHB2024 content even more, nobody has any idea how much work that will take given we don't have any insight to the backend. If I had to guess I'd think there's internal discussion going on that we're just not privy to. C'est la vie.
I have paid for a bunch of content. Now Instead of that I'm getting the new free stuff. How does that make sense? You bought this vintage Ferrari but now we're giving you this brand new Honda Civic, so you get to drive that. Except the Honda only has parts of the engine so we connected it to the Ferrari transmission and the front wheels. But the radio does bluetooth so you're welcome.
You still have all your paid content.
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Not strictly true. Non-magical weapons and armor are all the 2024 versions, with the 2024 weapon properties. There are no legacy versions.
I'm fairly certain I was quite clear above how the car analogy was both silly and wrong, and I'm not sure why you thought replying to it would be helpful at all.
Also, because I'd rather not start a long quote chain from information you posted afterwards, I was very much able to open the 2014 PHB and see that none of the information in it has been changed.
2014 Weapons:
They did not edit the 2014 PHB but they did remove all references from the equipment pages, such that characters made using DDB can only use those referencing the 2024 rules. This is also true for armor, but not sure there are any changes there.
From what I understand, the developers inherited code that was written by a third party and wasn’t particularly architected very well, certainly not designed for future development.
If that is true, then the developers deserve gratitude and praise. Having been in that position myself, I know how hard their task was to integrate 2024 content with the 2012 material. It was a bit like an open hand monk fighting black pudding.
So, I want to take a break from what seems like a thread of never-ending criticism to say “thanks,”
Except they have for other items on the list, so I am skeptical the code is the reason. After all, someone had to have added the 2024 versions and that had to have happened relatively recently. It is more that they retroactively changed the data entries on the original official position is that the 2024 rules overwrite the 2014 rules wherever they overlap.
Which was problematic for a ton of reasons already discussed endlessly, in this and in other threads.
They could make new entries without the 2024 flags (the ability to make new entries seems not any sort coding problem) and flag them 'legacy' but that would cost time and thus money. I do suppose they could have literally fired everyone who set up the new 2024 rules and replaced them all and that causing some issues, but I am skeptical that any such thing happened.
“No code is ever truly designed for future development because you can’t predict what the future will bring.”
This is partially true, but mostly false, or partially false, but mostly true. It has to do with how one looks at Say’s law. I’m going to avoid an argument and just say that the issue is complex.