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.
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To read Hasbro's press release on the acquisition, click here.
there is no way to verify purchase of a hard copy to do such a thing, but they are doing bundles for future releases
DDB has been a true boon for 5E play. Thank you.
Having said that, by selling to WOTC, you have enabled them to take it away from us for such use. It has been less than a year since the sale and it is now very clear WOTC is going to attempt to use this to drive everyone to OneDND and their turning D&D into a video game, or MMO. Those of us who prefer this digital tool set for 5E appear to be completely hosed.
what are the chances DDB will continue to support 5E play going forward? For as short a time as WOTC can tolerate, I predict. We will have little choice other than to move away from DDB and WOTC OneDND should we wish to continue with 5E, it appears.
this sale will be seen to have backstabbed those of us who have been supporting it from its inception, in my opinion, unless it continues to support 5E play. I believe it won’t.
we shall see…
I closed my subscription and it makes DDB far less useful to me. Moving my subscription/membership to Pathfinder Nexus. This is very painful and disappointing.
This is my concern as well. My gaming group are members of DDB and have purchased a number of books and made our characters here on DDB to play 5E. If it loses its usefulness for playing 5E (not "oneDND"), then we will have to go elsewhere (such as pathfinder).
Same. I've actually gotten the Legendary Bundle over at Pathfinder Nexus and picked up the token pack from Paizo.
I hear what you are saying, but at the same time we can all hope that they listen to us about how D&D is not a video game. D&D is and always (hopefully) be what we make of it. we all do even have to remember how the change from 1E to 2E was (For me at least what I think it may have been like) 2E to 3E and 3.5E to 5E. Eventully and hopefully OneDND will be beneficial to us and not a repeat of 4E. If we all jump ship now, then what is the point of everything that we have built hear on DDB and others like it. Yes this is dark times for us all, but we need to stand strong and see get our voices heard instead of jumping mid-journey.
Will physical books be transferable to DND Beyond now?