I am in the process of homebrew copying over spells, and I can finish doing that over the next few days.
However, I am not sure I can handle magic items. The amount to copy is insane. Is there anyway we can get a list of items that are being updated so I do not have to copy everything over? Seems like armor is unchanged, so I do not have to copy over that, but is there anything else I can skip copying?
I am really not happy that I have to resort to homebrew copy a bunch of stuff that I paid for. As much as I love the digital tools on Beyond, I am not optimistic about Beyond's future. I am sticking with Beyond for now, so I will still continue to make purchases in the foreseeable future, but I really do not want to. I guess I should really start considering using Google Sheets, but it is such a pain in the ass to set things up.
this is going to be a problem if they do these changes the amount of people making their 2014 spells in HB will be alot of stuff for the website to deal with
You guys need to reverse course on this decision. As has been stated and should have been the logical decision, a simple toggle on the character creation screen (similar to what sources are being used) should be available to define whether we see tooltips and spells for 2014 or 2024. I have no interest in most of what I have seen for 2024 and I will not be playing it at my table. Considering the fact that I have paid for content and been a paying subscriber for many years this is simply unacceptable. Honestly if this doesn't change, I think I will have to reconsider continuing to use this site. As convenient as it has been and as much as I have enjoyed the creation and management of characters and campaigns, I will not support companies that decide to do stupid things like this. Especially when there are simple solutions available and considering those rule books etc have content that was paid for. It's more than inconvenient for tool tips to change to things that might not make sense or apply to those playing strictly 2014. Not to mention the confusion for players that aren't seasoned seeing something different than before or different than what you've explained. Add to that the inconvenience of needing to create lots of homebrew spells so things can stay consistent. I suspect there may be others that will simply find this decision to be more hassle than it's worth to continue using your platform. I sincerely hope you change course.
I wonder what the EU consumer protection has to say about you locking us out from purchased content.
Let's find out.
I'm sure the T&Cs techically say we don't own any of the content we purchased so unless it impacted a lot of people it likely wouldn't be something consumer practices would be interested in I think? I dunno I'm not a lawyer.
However every single book sold here is advertised as functioning with the D&D Beyond toolset, not just as compendium content. So yeah it definitely feels scam-like to have the toolset functionality removed without any cause. At least scam adjacent
what does this mean? im from the US so no clue on what the EU laws are
In general EU consumer protection laws are stricter and prevent businesses from certain practices.
There are EU laws entitling you to a refund when a digital good no longer functions under certain conditions. (E.g. If you legally bought a chat app on Samsung that suddenly said "Only iPhones allowed" you would be entitled to a refund regardless of what the T&C said. EU guidelines also include things like 'music that doesn't play' and 'software that stops working' here).
However I doubt they'd be applicable in this case, at least not without a truly monumental fuss being kicked up. D&D Beyond is extremely niche and although all books are advertised as functioning with the D&D Beyond toolset I'm sure Hasbro lawyers would argue that the purchased asset is actually just the compendium content.
I just tried to go in and post homebrew copies of spells, races, and magic items. I keep getting a 404 error when i post anything. So no, we can't even do their work for them.
it worked for me just now. I copied Spiritual Weapon.
How do we access the 2014 rules for those in the middle of a campaign?
I currently have no interest in the new errata edition.
At least in Archives of Nethys you can toggle between legacy and remaster for Pathfinder 2e... I probably should abandon this platform for that better system...
How do we access the 2014 rules for those in the middle of a campaign?
I currently have no interest in the new errata edition.
At least in Archives of Nethys you can toggle between legacy and remaster for Pathfinder 2e... I probably should abandon this platform for that better system...
the new changes will be forced apon you whether you like it or not
i'd pay for this to stay separate over this force overide. a tag or toggle be all you have to do. people paid money for 5e books not this force update.
I heard about this and was extremely annoyed and shocked TBH, yes to some this might not seem like much at all but think about people with learning disabilities or people with Autism like myself, for some of us we are told that we can purchase one thing and always have access to it online and that it wont go away. We get used to that for 10 years and then get used to legacy content and now we are told we have to make homebrew stuff now to make sure our old content we paid cash for is still there. This isn't right, massive bloody fail Hasbro and DnDBeyond, think I might cancel my subscription over this.
I heard about this and was extremely annoyed and shocked TBH, yes to some this might not seem like much at all but think about people with learning disabilities or people with Autism like myself, for some of us we are told that we can purchase one thing and always have access to it online and that it wont go away. We get used to that for 10 years and then get used to legacy content and now we are told we have to make homebrew stuff now to make sure our old content we paid cash for is still there. This isn't right, massive bloody fail Hasbro and DnDBeyond, think I might cancel my subscription over this.
its sad to say but they only act like they care at this point.
I've been reading through this topic all day yesterday, and I agree with everything said:
I run multiple groups for different people, all where I am the DM. Some people I've been playing DnD 5e with for 6 years now, others have just started. My idea was to eventually move to the new 5.5 edition with my groups, but I'm not doing that in the middle of a campaign we've been playing for a couple of years now. I don't want to re-create lvl12 characters with the new rules, but just start another campaign fresh with new and changed rules.
We've discussed the new edition in my groups and we all wanted to finish this campaign with the old rules: The spells we memorized, the classes we know, and the magic items we've aquired through the years. I feel like Wizards / DnDBeyond really dropped the ball on this by forcing the new spells and items on everyone, not caring whether you're playing 5e or 5.5e. Some of my players are still overwhelmed by the rules and the spells they have, but they are starting to learn some of the spells at this point. I can only imagine how they will feel when spells are suddenly changed and they have to start all over again.
I really hope they change their mind over this and just the Legacy toggle for spells and magic items as well. That way I can finish this campaign the way I wanted to before eventually crossing over to 5.5e.
When, exactly, will the Character Sheets be updated to use 2024 spells, terminology, etc.?
I want to give my players clear communication for how long they have to grab their character sheets before they're irreperably damaged by this move.
I will not update the core rules of the system in use in the middle of an ongoing campaign, so I desperately want to give my players a clear timeline on how long they have. And that's before I, or any of my players, get to deal with the headache of figuring out a platform that won't pull the rug out from under us by swapping mechanics like this.
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Just a silly little fool, trying their best. He/They
this is going to be a problem if they do these changes the amount of people making their 2014 spells in HB will be alot of stuff for the website to deal with
I wonder what the EU consumer protection has to say about you locking us out from purchased content.
Let's find out.
You guys need to reverse course on this decision. As has been stated and should have been the logical decision, a simple toggle on the character creation screen (similar to what sources are being used) should be available to define whether we see tooltips and spells for 2014 or 2024. I have no interest in most of what I have seen for 2024 and I will not be playing it at my table. Considering the fact that I have paid for content and been a paying subscriber for many years this is simply unacceptable. Honestly if this doesn't change, I think I will have to reconsider continuing to use this site. As convenient as it has been and as much as I have enjoyed the creation and management of characters and campaigns, I will not support companies that decide to do stupid things like this. Especially when there are simple solutions available and considering those rule books etc have content that was paid for. It's more than inconvenient for tool tips to change to things that might not make sense or apply to those playing strictly 2014. Not to mention the confusion for players that aren't seasoned seeing something different than before or different than what you've explained. Add to that the inconvenience of needing to create lots of homebrew spells so things can stay consistent. I suspect there may be others that will simply find this decision to be more hassle than it's worth to continue using your platform. I sincerely hope you change course.
I'm sure the T&Cs techically say we don't own any of the content we purchased so unless it impacted a lot of people it likely wouldn't be something consumer practices would be interested in I think? I dunno I'm not a lawyer.
However every single book sold here is advertised as functioning with the D&D Beyond toolset, not just as compendium content. So yeah it definitely feels scam-like to have the toolset functionality removed without any cause. At least scam adjacent
what does this mean? im from the US so no clue on what the EU laws are
In general EU consumer protection laws are stricter and prevent businesses from certain practices.
There are EU laws entitling you to a refund when a digital good no longer functions under certain conditions. (E.g. If you legally bought a chat app on Samsung that suddenly said "Only iPhones allowed" you would be entitled to a refund regardless of what the T&C said. EU guidelines also include things like 'music that doesn't play' and 'software that stops working' here).
However I doubt they'd be applicable in this case, at least not without a truly monumental fuss being kicked up. D&D Beyond is extremely niche and although all books are advertised as functioning with the D&D Beyond toolset I'm sure Hasbro lawyers would argue that the purchased asset is actually just the compendium content.
it worked for me just now. I copied Spiritual Weapon.
How do we access the 2014 rules for those in the middle of a campaign?
I currently have no interest in the new errata edition.
At least in Archives of Nethys you can toggle between legacy and remaster for Pathfinder 2e... I probably should abandon this platform for that better system...
the new changes will be forced apon you whether you like it or not
i'd pay for this to stay separate over this force overide. a tag or toggle be all you have to do. people paid money for 5e books not this force update.
I heard about this and was extremely annoyed and shocked TBH, yes to some this might not seem like much at all but think about people with learning disabilities or people with Autism like myself, for some of us we are told that we can purchase one thing and always have access to it online and that it wont go away. We get used to that for 10 years and then get used to legacy content and now we are told we have to make homebrew stuff now to make sure our old content we paid cash for is still there. This isn't right, massive bloody fail Hasbro and DnDBeyond, think I might cancel my subscription over this.
its sad to say but they only act like they care at this point.
Cash grab. Time to move on to another platform.
I've been reading through this topic all day yesterday, and I agree with everything said:
I run multiple groups for different people, all where I am the DM. Some people I've been playing DnD 5e with for 6 years now, others have just started. My idea was to eventually move to the new 5.5 edition with my groups, but I'm not doing that in the middle of a campaign we've been playing for a couple of years now. I don't want to re-create lvl12 characters with the new rules, but just start another campaign fresh with new and changed rules.
We've discussed the new edition in my groups and we all wanted to finish this campaign with the old rules: The spells we memorized, the classes we know, and the magic items we've aquired through the years. I feel like Wizards / DnDBeyond really dropped the ball on this by forcing the new spells and items on everyone, not caring whether you're playing 5e or 5.5e. Some of my players are still overwhelmed by the rules and the spells they have, but they are starting to learn some of the spells at this point. I can only imagine how they will feel when spells are suddenly changed and they have to start all over again.
I really hope they change their mind over this and just the Legacy toggle for spells and magic items as well. That way I can finish this campaign the way I wanted to before eventually crossing over to 5.5e.
Subscribtion canceled because of this
they have 10 days to fix this huge screw up tho i doubt they will.
Hah!
I called this BS ages ago, engineered obsolescence
our games will move on to a platform that allows us to use a digital set of 5e and not force the new edition on us.
what platform is that? i need to start looking for a new one lol even roll20 is starting to look better then DnDBeyond
When, exactly, will the Character Sheets be updated to use 2024 spells, terminology, etc.?
I want to give my players clear communication for how long they have to grab their character sheets before they're irreperably damaged by this move.
I will not update the core rules of the system in use in the middle of an ongoing campaign, so I desperately want to give my players a clear timeline on how long they have. And that's before I, or any of my players, get to deal with the headache of figuring out a platform that won't pull the rug out from under us by swapping mechanics like this.
Just a silly little fool, trying their best. He/They
Why is there no one from DnD beyond in this thread to comment? If they had any thoughts for their customers they would be trying to put this fire out.