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.
There is no plans by Wizards of the Coast to stop supporting D&D Beyond.
Does it cost money?
Perhaps this question is pointless, but will our purchased digital books transfer? Or will we need to get ahold of such books again? Will all my encounters and the like transition? I have like half my campaign on here, for all the ones I DM.
Once Wizards takes over, will there be some way to transfer physical copies we've bought over to digital?
It stings having to buy digital copies after we've already paid for the physical ones and since it's from the same company now, you shouldn't have to pay for both.
There is free content available on D&D Beyond, and may different ways to purchase the content along with regular sales.
There have been no announcements about free books.
The way that GW has implemented it is by having the books sealed in plastic, which has both pros and cons to it, but it is very doable.
I have an account with Wizard of the West Coast as well with you guys under the same email account. Will that have a problem with me?
It will not. Your account will not be affected beyond having a new terms of service and new data controller.
Will Twitch, Google account , or Apple ID be the only means to sign into D&D beyond? Will there be a inclusive only d&D beyond way to log in?
and what you get with digiatl for GW is not the same as what you get with D&D Beyond
They will continue to be the ways used to login.
If I have both a wizards.com account and dndbeyond.com account will the accounts be merged? Will they be seperated?
will this update affect the Critical Roll Content displayed on DnD Beyond??
There is no changes announced beyond the one on the Terms of Service and data controller given here.
There have been no announcements about any changes.
Will we still be able to purchase individual monsters, spells, races, feats, and classes from handbooks?
Or will there be any updates to the content available to free accounts?
(not a request, but just something I'd like to ask) Are there any plans to make the content in the basic 5e player handbook free? Or to at least make more of it available (like feats)?
Everything in the Basic Rules, and SRD, and the Elemental Evil Player's Companion are all already available for free to every user. Beyond that there are no announcements about any changes to any content.
Either this page has been edited or I just misread or plain didn't read more than half the things here before today
It was updated last week since people were overreacting to what it had said.
My eyes start to glaze over when I read legalistic text. Here’s what I want to know:
If I enter something I plan to sell elsewhere onto DDB as private homebrew for playtesting purposes, and never share it with the community, do I still own it and can therefore publish it elsewhere for sale? Or, would WotC own it as it’s hosted on their system, even if I never make it public here? Because I’m writing a sourcebook I intend to publish on DM’s Guild, and have the content I am creating on DDB’s system. Do I need to delete it prior to May 18th in order to retain my own work? Or is it safe to leave it in my private homebrew and keep entering things for playtest purposes? Can you please spell that out in plain English for me?