Quote from isledye >>

will XGTE and EGTW be integrated to 2024 rules?

 Of course! But only as re-released content that you will have to pay for all over again to be sure. 

These are some great changes, but I would personally love a revamp of the homebrew section of the site. It can sometimes feel really clunky to create items, and having some of their effects not appear on character sheets can be extremely annoying.

Very encouraging. I’m looking forward to see what happens.

Somewhere within WotC is a frustrated researcher because this forum doesnt include a “Like” button to get a loose sense of how many customers agree with someone else.  

im frustrated and I don’t even work there!

How about a "See all Posts" under the "Media" tab.

So...basically things already stated to be coming and cosmetic changes. I am sorry, but this really isn't what I was hoping to hear. We still have game rules that do not work on this site (as stated above), and homebrewing is a mess. It could be simplified. Furthermore, you have basically given up on announcing physical books and its years later and we are missing core subclasses for core classes...

Lots of people here have made excellent points.

As numerous people have asked, improving the builder so that all current options are supported should be high priority - especially given the expansion of partnered content. I was a little dismayed to find that a significant portion of the Grim Hollow book was unavailable in the builder.

Improving homebrew would also be amazing - not just enhancing current options, but expanding them. Artificer Infusions, Warlock Invocations, Battle Master Manoeuvers, Cunning Strike, Metamagic etc. would be huge. A long-requested feature would be homebrew non-magical equipment, including poions, weapons, armour, miscellaneous etc, as well as "extras" like Charms, Blessings and the like (such as GH Transformations)

Finally, the ability to put our homebrew or creations into folders and then share specific folders with specific campaigns would be a dream! Currently my only fix for this is removing things I don't want shared from "My Creations", but a proper folder system would be so much better!

That's somehow nice, but when do we get a roadmap for upcoming D&D books? And I mean real printed books.

I'd really like the book content to be translated. My players do not all speak english.

I would really like to have a way to catagorize my created characters, so its easier to keep track on.

This is amazing I've always had a hard time with character builder now it will be easy.

Top issue for me is being able to quickly and easily sort out 2014 vs 2024 materials. 

Please for the love of everything don't take your design cues for the new navigation either from the dreadful attempt at the end of last year, or the new library. The new library page is awful. It feels like it was designed by someone with no understanding of either design languages and conventions or who doesn't regularly use the feature, or both. Either way it's dreadful. 

Tread on the navigation redesign with caution. If you mess it up you'll end up with a site that people don't actively want to use. And to be clear, I'm already on the fence about remaining with D&D Beyond just due to the awful library redesign.

2024 Warlock Class + XGE invocations = Now, please.

Speaking of quality of life improvements... here are some of the most requested features for several years now:

- A Concentration toggle
- Custom Conditions 
- Dynamic Conditions (i.e. when toggle on, the digital character sheet reflects the bonuses or penalties)
- An Advantage / Disadvantage option when customizing skills
- Better Search filters for Homebrew Creations and Homebrew Collection  (e.g. search by spell level for spells....) If you have hundreds of homebrew, the current filters aren't that helpful.
- Ability to spend Hit Dice without having to take a Short Rest (so many features now allow this...)
- When managing Inventory on the digital character sheet, we need filters by Rarity !!! (this is really getting unwieldy with the amount of magic items now available in the game when you include 3rd party products and homebrew)

Brian is really giving his best on this, either is it sincere (which i do believe it is) or else they're just selling their product to us (which is also understandable). Both ways we're gonna benefit so i choose first, because beyond suite and maps vtt really have a big potential — could even add that sigil stuff are always a later option.

But continuing, you can see the efforts, and we appreciate that as a community, even though there are things that are a "cool feature" like monster reveal, and things that are very important but behind schedule — but thats ok for now — like shared dice. Guys, come on, we dont need to reinvent the wheel here. Stick to the basics, layout isn't really a thing, we pretty much use your superior menus and sidebars. The character sheet, for example, is a piece of art. Everything is beautiful already.

Furthermore, Rules Assistant is awesome. This establishes a seal of approval of some sort. Journals also have a great potential, please look at that part with care, cause a lot of players really love lore and others sometimes do too, but lack the ability to systematize the whole thing. Which leaves us to a really good point: integration.

That's the whole context of your text. "Hey guys, we really want you to have fun in the easiest way as possible, were gonna take you by the hand wherever thats possible!". And thats really good, we once again appreciate that. The quickbuilder is all about interactivity, and younger or newcome players will take the basics nice. I expect only that this doesn't extends to deeper parts of the game, 'cause (and this is a personal thought) it could be, in a way, being complacent with an accelerated pace of learning and doing things, which goes against what a rpg ultimately means.

I also would like to say that the people you presented seem very, very capable. Some came from one of the biggest's retailer and marketplace, and that really tell us something: those people are really good, otherwise they wouldnt be amongst the succesful ones. I expect they also play some D&D here and there — and if they not, just wouldn it appears to be the best time to try something incredible for the first time?

Therefore, i am really excited and looking forward to the upcoming updates! Last but not least, i am a brazilian DM and i can tell you something: we would love some portuguese localization in the future. No hurries, just gonna leave this on table: its a huge fanbase. Roll for persuasion check!

At long last, thank you Brian and all the D&D Beyond Team, we acknowledge and value your hard work. May Selûne guides and Lathander iluminates you.

Nihil

This is a good post for aspirations. I look forward to seeing all these things come to fruition.

Rules Engine:

The update to the rules engine sounds exactly like what's needed.  Data driven rather than hardcoded lists etc.  But this raises a few suggestions and questions:

• Will this support homebrew?  We've been told a number of times over the years that homebrew classes are not possible because of all of the custom logic required to implement them.  Will the data driven approach allow more flexibility (within reason) for building custom classes?  We also have a number of holes in the homebrew options such as the background ASIs, issues with warlock features and the rest.  I assume that all the official rules will be fully fixed, but will we also see all the holes in homebew corrected?
• Will this support more adaptable dice rolls, such as 1d20+5+1d4 instead of only allowing a flat bonus?  This would be beneficial for various elements including Bless and Guidance.
• Will the rules engine support applying buffs.  Mage Armor being a common issue, where you have to essentially manually create it, or homebrew a feat or item to apply it, which then mucks with things like Unarmored Defence.  The ability to apply something to a character for a number of rounds, e.g. short term buffs tied into a combat encounter, would be a massive benefit but also probably a stretch goal.
• Will the rules engine properly support features Barbarian Rage in a way that doesn't feel like a kludge?
• Will the 2014 rules and the 2024 rules be able to be completely separated?  Things like not showing weapon masteries on equipment, or having Long Rest automatically decide how many Hit Dice are returned based on the character class.

I won't raise any of the existing bugs with things like Homebrew monsters "rolling a 1" during creation, because presumably it would be a new set of bugs that need to get worked through.

Character Builder:

• Will we be able to define which sources a campaign can use? It's a current issue when as someone who "buys everything" I can't easily convey to players "Just use stuff from the PHB24 and Eberron sources" but they see all the other stuff like Valda's and FR books.  Sharing content is great, but we need to be able to limit sources to the Character builder.  I get that "feature by feature" probably goes back into the old issues that the A La Carte purchases were removed to avoid, but you already constrain by source based on whether an book has been purchased, so being able to control that list by sources that the DM chooses would be a godsend.
• This one probably falls across the Rules Engine too, but can we get additional options (or allow homebrew options) for things like crits?  For example, my table uses the character sheets to do most rolls, but if someone rolls a 20, they need to do the work to disable the crit because we use Perkin's Crit, where a 1d8 damage crit would become 1d8+8, and a 2d6 damage crit would become 2d6 + 12. (Simply add the maximum roll as the crit bonus).  It would be amazing if these sorts of things could be included or configured in a way that allows us to define "What happens when a crit occurs" and allow tables to choose their options.  Other methods include things like Exploding Dice, Double Rolled Damage, or Double Maximum Damage, but people will always think up new methods.

DM's Tools:

• One of the biggest complaints of the push to the new Maps VTT, is the expectation that DM's can "plan" encounters on the VTT.  Which is somewhat insane when you've already provided a really good encounter planner in the Encounter Builder, then ceased support.  Can we get that capability updated for 2024, and a way to cut-and-paste or import those encounters into the Maps VTT?

Overall, these sound like really great ideas, but the biggest point when rebuilding the core engine is, DMs and Players will always want customization.  Incorporate that customization in where the RAW are the default customization, and you'll be doing a much bigger service to the D&D community than any fancy new feature could provide.

Quote from DrBonertron >>

Can we please get a co-DM setup implemented?

 I'll second this as I am often mentoring new DMs and being able to have the same access either as a mentor DM or a full Co-DM would be phenemonal!

Quote from ZeeWanderer >>

So will the homebrew be finally allowed to make custom classes?

 This. This right here. 

When my next campaign starts, if this feature still isn't present, I'll need to abandon D&D Beyond.

Quote from TheRealGitC >>

For the love of all that is holy, can you make the app version of beyond actually user friendly? I've had more than a few new players give up wholly on Beyond because the app is clunky and isn't user friendly.

 I almost did give up because of that reason. Thankfully I was steered towards the desktop version!