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.
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Posted May 11, 2022I wouldn't be surprised if the free books thing didn't happen. I mean, how else is DDB supposed to make money? If you could buy the book irl and just get it on here also, the only way it would be profitable to allow that is to almost double the price of the physical books, and I'm sure we don't want that. Maybe if there were things with the Essentials Kit, where discounts are given for the specific book, but I'd be shocked if they were free
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Posted May 11, 2022wotc is so incompetent they can't even figure out why i can't log into their website while using chrome. if they're going to require me to log into wotc to log into d&d beyond they're basically preventing me from accessing all the content i've purchased so just go ahead and shoot me over a big fat refund and i'll buy the books somewhere else
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Posted May 11, 2022Hey, if you read the article you'd have your answer.
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Posted May 11, 2022I wish I could thumb-up article comments.
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Posted May 11, 2022Thank you!!!
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Posted May 11, 2022Happy to help.
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Posted May 11, 2022It's cool that this is happening, but will WotC have some kind of ability to allow us to have digital versions of our already physical bought books? It would be a bummer to have to spend full price for a digital copy. If they have lower pricings, I'd be fine with it though.
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Posted May 11, 2022There have been no announcements about discounts or free books.
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Posted May 11, 2022Their Q&A specifically says “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 license in the terms of service is so WOTC can display & provide access to home brew content on DDB. If they don’t have a license to use your homebrew material, they wouldn’t be able to display it on their website.
Moreover, the current terms of service you already agreed to with Fandom (the current owner) by creating a DDB account contain similar wording, so you are already past the point of deleting your account & going home, though you can certainly try (it won’t get you very far since that license extends to assignees of Fandom, meaning any licenses you gave to Fandom will now go to WOTC). All that said, at the end of the day, not only does WOTC not want to subject itself to potential litigation (even if unlikely to succeed) by expressly saying they are not doing something and then trying to sneakily do the exact opposite, their bigger concern would be losing customer goodwill.
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Posted May 11, 2022strategical dot placed
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Posted May 11, 2022Can wizards look into including dnd beyond codes with the physical copy of the books so you don't have to buy two copes?
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Posted May 11, 2022There have been no announcements about free books.
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Posted May 11, 2022As explained in the article itself, that's not at all what that's about. If you use Roll20 they require the same license. If you use Google's sheets or docs, they also require the exact same thing. This is what's required by the lawyers for a service.
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Posted May 11, 2022Sigh. This is no different than the terms you already agreed to. And it doesn’t give Wizards an ownership interest in your characters and homebrew - the plain text of the license makes it clear. And this is the same language (in effect, though the specific text might differ) you agree to on hundreds of sites you regularly use. And this language is a necessity for the site to actually function as otherwise Wizards would lack a license to distribute your content.. even to yourself. And it is unreasonable to think that Wizards, which has its own team of paid developers, would pay someone to comb through homebrew just to take it and risk bad press.
And all of this is clear if you just read the Q&A contained in the very article you are responding to.
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Posted May 11, 2022Will this impact any subscriptions/purchased content on D&D Beyond?
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Posted May 11, 2022Wizards of the Coast has no plans to stop supporting D&D Beyond.
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Posted May 11, 2022Will physical books be able to be transferred to beyond after the transfer
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Posted May 11, 2022There have been no announcements about free books.
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Posted May 11, 2022will the transfer allow you to scan or somehow input a physical D&D book you own, and receive an electronic copy on D&D beyond, seeing as you already own the book?