We are excited to announce that D&D Beyond will soon be joining Hasbro as part of the Wizards of the Coast family!
On May 18, 2022 or soon after, your D&D Beyond account will transfer to Wizards of the Coast, at which point (and going forward) the Wizards Terms of Use will apply to your use of D&D Beyond, and the Wizards Privacy Policy will apply to the personal data associated with your account. If you are located in the European Economic Area or the United Kingdom, Wizards of the Coast LLC will become the “data controller” of your personal data once it transfers.
For more information on this transaction, please click here. If you wish to delete your account prior to the transfer, you will find instructions for doing so here.
Frequently asked questions
When will the D&D Beyond Terms of Service be updated?
The Terms of Service will be updated to Wizards of the Coast Terms of Service on or around May 18, 2022.
Why are they being updated?
As part of Wizards of the Coast acquiring D&D Beyond, we will extend the Wizards Terms of Service to cover this new service.
What is changing in them?
We need your permission to put your user content on D&D Beyond and operate the D&D Beyond service, and we’re working to ensure that the scope of the permission you give us is tailored to that goal. The Wizards Terms of Service will therefore be updated with a section specific to D&D Beyond to allow us to host your content and otherwise operate the D&D Beyond service.
Will Wizards own my homebrew content created on D&D Beyond?
Wizards has no intent of taking ownership over user content you put on D&D Beyond, and the Terms of Service will not grant us such rights. The permissions we will need for user content will relate to allowing us to operate the D&D Beyond service, including displaying that content on our site.
Do these changes affect homebrew content that was created before May 18?
Any content that remains on the D&D Beyond service will be subject to the updated Wizards Terms of Service. The updated Terms of Service should not impact how you've used the site or owned your content prior to May 18.
If I delete my D&D Beyond account, will my homebrew content remain on D&D Beyond? If so, will my username still be credited?
While your homebrew content will remain on D&D Beyond, the credited username will change to “user-[number].”
Will Wizards own any character or account information I upload (e.g. character sheets, profile pictures)?
Wizards has no intent of taking ownership over user content you put on D&D Beyond, and the Terms of Service will not grant us such rights. The permissions we will need for that content will relate to allowing us to operate the D&D Beyond service, including displaying that content on our site.
Will I need a Wizards account to access or sign up for D&D Beyond after May 18?
No. You can continue to use your Twitch or Google account or Apple ID to sign into D&D Beyond. New users will still need a Twitch or Google account or Apple ID to sign up for D&D Beyond after May 18.
OK...I will unsubscribe from this thread, it's too annoying. It would be great if DDB could post another article that answers:
1. Can we merge accounts into a Wizards account that has a different email.
2. Can we choose to NOT merge accounts?
3. Are there any tangible benefits to subscribers and owners of source material whatsoever? eg. I'd love a more accessible book-like format for the sources.
4. How will the login and authentication work?
Thanks.
[citation needed] plus a lot of baseless opinion, not objective facts.
Need I remind you that original D&D was literally just ripping off Tolkien, so much so that his estate issued a cease & desist to TSR so they'd stop using terms like "hobbit"?
I'd love to see a list of lawsuits about WotC stealing homebrew supplements (none of which are, by definition, "popular" except amongst the particular gaming group they were made for).
UK English is "standard English," because it's spoken in more countries and by more people. American English is non-standard - and anyway, "licence" is how it's spelled in legal terminology anyway (as much of it originated in England centuries ago).
Blood Hunter is in an officially-licenced D&D sourcebook; Critical Role has deals with both DDB and WotC. It's not going anywhere.
British English is actually "standard English," since it's what is used around the world by billions of people & has been in use much longer. American English is non-standard, as it's only used by the US (and occasionally in parts of Mexico).
Both spellings are listed as correct in the dictionary, and I believe "licence" is used more often in legal documents.
Will the site change?
So even I brought some of the content and the sourcebook, it can keep the content I brought.
there are no digital purchases that are the same on both websites to transfer. WotC does not sell anything on their website
for everyone ask8ing about account changes and merging of accounts. this article mentions nothing of account access changing or logins merging, all it is doing is giving legal notice that as of May 18th Wizards of the Coast takes ownership of all the accounts and data on DDB.
Reading comprehension is a wonderful thing.
Well technically if you published copywritten material to Beyond, it is you that is violating that copyright not Beyond, and there for you that could be in legal trouble from it. The same as if you upload a movie to YouTube it's not YouTube that would get in trouble from that. It would be the uploader. All the websites that allow public uploads are pretty well protected against being held liable for the content users upload. That being said this is not going to be an issue, because this is just legal mumbo jumbo to say that the things you post are viewable to other users of the site. WotC is not going to have people read threw all the hundreds of thousands of posts made on the site to see if they want to publish any of it. That would be an enormous waste of time and money. Since 80% of the homebrew on this site is just not any good, and especially as it relates to the characters made on the site.
I think most of you people are vastly over estimating your creativity. WotC is not going to be reading threw the insane amount of user submitted content on here to take it and write movies and books about your characters. It is at most a protection that if they come up with something similar to something you posted you can't claim they stole it, but they are never going to have people reading threw hundreds of thousands of pages to find the handful of things that are actually good. That would be an insane waste of money, time, and resources.
Blood Hunter is not in an officially licensed book, but I agree that it's not going anywhere
I agree with Jonashellemose.
Noice
Why... why didn't WotC already own D&D Beyond?
Wait, what even is D&D Beyond?
I only have more questions now.
"...sign here..."
@Vesperwood
I'd be surprised if the current license that we all agree to by using DnDB does't result in Fandom currently holding that same ownership. I haven't read the details, but I'd expect the terms governing any Homebrew we create will remain the same as they are now (which is that the Homebrew we create using DnDB is not our owned property). The change is just the company that holds that content, but our rights are likely to continue exactly as they are now (which from what you've written, is I suspect is more limited than you might have thought).
is the subscription fee going up? will my existing service continue in the same form it currently has with content sharing?
Everyone else is harping about License and ownership, but frankly my only concerns are:
1) That the content I spent money on is still available for me to use without further payment or red tape.
2) The Site continues to function as it previously did and any changes only make the function more user friendly.
3) The subscription rates don't become so ridiculous that a holy crusade against WotC becomes needed.
When you change will I still need to pay for my account or will the prices change and what about my character sheets will I lose them as I’m mid campaign and an playing with my group and don’t want to lose everything