Player’s Handbook - Issues and Support Thread

Quote from Gronk_Jeremy >>

Why is it a bad idea?  Honestly, 2024 ruleset is much better than 2014.  Sure it takes time to get used to, but it is better.

Most things have been ported over to 2024 rules already with just the LEGACY tag, so you could still use them.

I'm not seeing what all the fuss is about.

Everyone needs to remember that when DNDBEYOND was owned by a third party they developed it before know what the future held.  So I can see there are limitations to their program.

I do agree, that WOTC should spend the money and do it right.  Re-do the base database from the foundation, know what the current ruleset is and what the future may bring.

Beyond all that, its so much easier than using the old paper/pencil method.

I started playing in 1981 and DNDBeyond makes it much easier than before. But I do know that some things it can't do, and I will still have to track on that on my own. (or customize the character sheet - or create a homebrew).  I don't have any problems with that.

Rather than complaining about what it doesn't do, we should be grateful about what it does to.

 It could be better. Hell, it could be stellar.

But until Hasbro allocates more funding for WotC to allocate to Beyond for hiring humans, fixing the site, & adding features....it's going to be stalled.

& the edition wars talk helps nothing.

Legacy coding is a problem, & it does need redoing.

But until money is allocated by the dark overlords, & flesh & blood humans are hired to do the work for a benefits package that makes the job worthwhile to take, we're not getting either a unified 2024 or separate websites for multiple editions.

The website is understaffed. The money isn't being allocated to do what's needed.

Because investors want maximum return on investment for minimal expense, or else they'll sue Hasbro CEO Chris Cocks for slacking on fiduciary duty to them.

The problem isn't sloth from the workers(Despite what a bunch of people assume). The problem is greed from the executives & investors.

I agree with all of that.  That's kinda what I was hinting at.

Flame Strike does not upscale correctly in the character sheet - there is scaling only for fire damage, not for the radiant.

Thunderous Smite, when prepared, does not show the correct damage in the spell overview part of character sheet. It shows 1d6 with a blue asterisk behind it on all spells slot levels. While it should be 2d6 for a level 1 spell slot, and scale with 1d6 per spell slot level.

It has been a year and a half how do we still not have half of the Warlock invocations yet? DDB is effectively useless at this point and I feel like I am paying for nothing.

Quote from Holythunder1 >>

When multiclassing into Monk from another class, you gain proficiency with Scimitars but not with Shortsword and Hand Crossbow which you should gain proficiency with as they are also Martial Weapons with the Light Property.

Multiclassing into Monk shouldn't provide any new weapon proficiency (see here where it would be listed). If it's giving you proficiency with scimitars, that's a bug, but you might want to double check that that's not coming from somewhere else. What's your other class?

Quote from TheBrunchGuild >>

It has been a year and a half how do we still not have half of the Warlock invocations yet? DDB is effectively useless at this point and I feel like I am paying for nothing.

 Unless you are in the extremely niche group that only plays as 2024 warlock, it is not "useless".

I'll deleted my comment as I had misread the feature. The other class was Warlock, so i guess there is a bug in that the Monk is giving the character a weapon proficiency they shouldn't have haha

Quote from MaedraDawnkeeper >>

Quote from TheBrunchGuild >>

It has been a year and a half how do we still not have half of the Warlock invocations yet? DDB is effectively useless at this point and I feel like I am paying for nothing.

 Unless you are in the extremely niche group that only plays as 2024 warlock, it is not "useless".

 All 2024 invocations appears to be present in the builder.

Hello! 
I noticed that the 2024 version of the Ritual Caster feat lets you pick the spells for its' benefits, but none of the spells show up on the character sheet outside of the feat's description window. I would assume that this isn't something that should happen.

Same happening with my character, a Sorcerer with the Ritual Caster feat, chosen at 5th level.

Frenzied Berserker barbarian lacks frenzy damage rollable dice in action list, although barrow guard fighter has his damage daugr dice, fnd rogue has his sneak attack

 When adding "Savage Attacker" feat from a background or even a custom background, it says it's already on the character. Go back to the character screen and nothing listed under Feats at all.  Try refreshing page, or changing background to criminal or changing feats and those work.  Alert shows up just fine.  Change back to Savage attacker and this doesn't show up at all.  When trying to manually add it, you get an error page.
Also not showing up on mobile device either.
Is savage attacker bugged currently?

 

Warlock

Warlock Invocations. There are a number of Warlock Invocations that are currently unsupported:

• Agonizing Blast - This is currently only supported for the Eldritch Blast cantrip. 
• Eldritch Smite - This is unsupported.
• Eldritch Spear - This is unsupported as we’re not able to add a variable increase to a spell’s range.
• Fiendish Vigor - This is partially supported as we're able to add the False Life spell but are unable to enforce maximum values on it.
• Investment of the Chain Master - This is unsupported as we are unable to affect stat block traits on the character sheet.
• Lessons of the First Ones - This is partially supported - while we're able to provide you a choice of Origin feats, we're unable to make have a class feature be repeatable. This is now supported!
• Lifedrinker - This is partially supported as we're able to represent the damage, but we're not able to allow you to roll Hit Dice outside of a Short Rest.
• Pact of the Blade - This is currently unsupported. This is now supported!
• Repelling Blast - This is unsupported as we're unable to support targeting single spells and we're unable to support repeatable Class Features.
• Legacy Warlock - Legacy Warlock Invocations aren't supported for the 2024 Warlock. We're working on supporting backward compatibility for Legacy Invocations, but we don't have an ETA.

Great Old One Patron - Create Thrall. We’re unable to support the Summon Aberration's scaling stat block - however we have included the stat block as part of the spell's description.

Backwards Compatible Subclasses. Please note that these subclasses have been updated to adhere to receive their features starting at level 3.

• The Fathomless - Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
• The Genie - Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
• The Hexblade - Xanathar's Guide to Everything
• The Undead -  Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft
• The Undying - Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

 

 
This is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable. First of all, Minimum Viable Product here is not "every single thing can be seamlessly integrated into the character sheet and we have a macro that makes it work perfectly." The MVP is "you can select this feature from the dropdown list and the description of it is loaded into your features and traits." It is 2026. How in the nine Hells are we not at least there yet? Second of all, if you can't figure it out yourselves, at least give the community the means to homebrew invocations so we can do the absolute bare minimum to have the description of the feature in our character sheets. That part of this is truly not that difficult. Probably time to shift to Daggerheart anyway.

I want pact of the talisman personally but that's good news thank you.
Please fix it for life drinker, I got an autognome with the mending spell and I can't update the hit dice as easily as I need.

Quote from m_sticky >>

we exactly do I find that very kind individual

You go to the Release Issues & Support forum — the one you're in right now — and you look in the list of threads for the one labeled with the name of the book you want to report a bug for (not the one with the name of a different book). You can also go to this link.

Quote from TheBrunchGuild >>

 

Warlock

Warlock Invocations. There are a number of Warlock Invocations that are currently unsupported:

• Agonizing Blast - This is currently only supported for the Eldritch Blast cantrip. 
• Eldritch Smite - This is unsupported.
• Eldritch Spear - This is unsupported as we’re not able to add a variable increase to a spell’s range.
• Fiendish Vigor - This is partially supported as we're able to add the False Life spell but are unable to enforce maximum values on it.
• Investment of the Chain Master - This is unsupported as we are unable to affect stat block traits on the character sheet.
• Lessons of the First Ones - This is partially supported - while we're able to provide you a choice of Origin feats, we're unable to make have a class feature be repeatable. This is now supported!
• Lifedrinker - This is partially supported as we're able to represent the damage, but we're not able to allow you to roll Hit Dice outside of a Short Rest.
• Pact of the Blade - This is currently unsupported. This is now supported!
• Repelling Blast - This is unsupported as we're unable to support targeting single spells and we're unable to support repeatable Class Features.
• Legacy Warlock - Legacy Warlock Invocations aren't supported for the 2024 Warlock. We're working on supporting backward compatibility for Legacy Invocations, but we don't have an ETA.

Great Old One Patron - Create Thrall. We’re unable to support the Summon Aberration's scaling stat block - however we have included the stat block as part of the spell's description.

Backwards Compatible Subclasses. Please note that these subclasses have been updated to adhere to receive their features starting at level 3.

• The Fathomless - Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
• The Genie - Tasha's Cauldron of Everything
• The Hexblade - Xanathar's Guide to Everything
• The Undead -  Van Richten's Guide to Ravenloft
• The Undying - Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

 

 
This is absolutely ridiculous and unacceptable. First of all, Minimum Viable Product here is not "every single thing can be seamlessly integrated into the character sheet and we have a macro that makes it work perfectly." The MVP is "you can select this feature from the dropdown list and the description of it is loaded into your features and traits." It is 2026. How in the nine Hells are we not at least there yet? Second of all, if you can't figure it out yourselves, at least give the community the means to homebrew invocations so we can do the absolute bare minimum to have the description of the feature in our character sheets. That part of this is truly not that difficult. Probably time to shift to Daggerheart anyway.

I wonder if they’re waiting for the system overhaul to complete all the backwards compatibility issues because the legacy system can’t support it. 

Quote from AceCruzat >>

I wonder if they’re waiting for the system overall to complete all the backwards compatibility issues because the legacy system can’t support it. 

I'm 99% sure this is the case.