We’ve just leveled up in a big way.
Dungeons & Dragons and D&D Beyond have always felt like a part of the same family. That’s why we’re excited to announce that D&D Beyond is formally joining Wizards of the Coast, bringing together two teams that eat, breathe, and sweat for this game and continue to strive to make D&D easy to run, exciting, and accessible to all.
You (and by you, we mean the 10 million users that have been on this adventure with us since 2017!) are probably wondering what kind of change might happen as a result of these two teams coming together, so let’s make this clear: Wizards of the Coast has no plans to stop supporting D&D Beyond. Ever. The purchases you’ve made, the characters you’ve created, and the campaigns you’ve run aren’t going anywhere.
You’ve probably got a million questions about what comes next. What we can say for sure is that we’re excited for what the future holds as we dig in with our new partners. We wish you could see the big stupid grins we’ve all been walking around with. This is truly an incredible time for all of us, and it really feels like there’s no limit to what we can accomplish for our players. Remember, the key factor that makes this partnership perfect is that these teams want one thing: to make your experience playing the World’s Greatest Roleplaying Game even better.
If you’ve been on this journey with us for a while, we’re so glad you’re here. If you’re brand new and clicked on the site today to figure out what the big news was all about, welcome! Remember to register for a free account! (Sorry, couldn’t help ourselves.) We’ll have more to share with you throughout the year, so tune in to the Dev Update, which airs on Twitch on Thursdays at 10 a.m. PT, and check out new content right here on dndbeyond.com.
To read Hasbro's press release on the acquisition, click here.
It isn't unheard of. The Essentials Kit was packaged with a code.
And, here, everyone thought WotC was going to make its own DDB competitor.....
I think that they'll be building their own VTT. They're gonna go for vertical integration.
This is awesome, I'm hoping this will mean we can get physical books to go along with the DDB digital copies!
Congratulations!
Very exciting! I'm looking forward to better integration. Is there anywhere on either site to see what the dev updates will be in text form instead of watching a long Twitch video? That would be a great improvement!
I would love to
see them bring in the dnd classic stuff like they did over at fantasy grounds
Is there gonna be a way to use our physical copies of official books for use in D&D Beyond?
Finally.
I do hope they won't do something to break or prevent extensions like Beyond20 from functioning.
Beyond20 is a huge reason I love DnDBeyond so much.
WooHoo!
Thank goodness, because TBH the idea the site would stop being supported with the release of the "next iteration" of D&D was a worry of mine.
As someone who has only bought books on D&D Beyond, I hope they will add a "if you buy the hardcopy, you get digital free" feature, because I'd love to buy some physical books too.
Along with everyone else here, I really hope they put codes or something into the hardcovers so you can have both for the price of (the more expensive) one.
Amazing news!
Congratulations! :D
This is going to be so good. Dndbeyond will get a heads up for new content, which hopefully will be available straight from release. Hopefully small things like clockwork sorcerer swapping spell problem will be a thing of the past.
Best DnD news!
It’s always different payments for physical and online, be it movies, music or whatever. Both cost money and the fact it’s one company won’t magically mean it doesn’t cost money to do both.
Yes, I would hope future hardcovers are packaged with a discount code or something, but I can’t imagine it’ll be buy one and get the other free.
I would assume there will be an integration system whereby you could enter the hardcover books bar-code (or some other unique identifyer) into the DNDBeyond shop check-out and you would be able to redeem the digital book rather than repurchase it.
Awesome news, looking forward to years of playing D&D leveraging D&D Beyond. Eager to see what comes of this, hopefully a VTT.
I'm in the same camp for this one. That extension makes everything I have on here much more useful!
We'll see how this goes...