D&D Beyond's Launch Is Here
This morning, we launched D&D Beyond - an official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons fifth edition.
For over 40 years, Dungeons & Dragons has been bringing players together at tables all over the world. D&D Beyond, our new digital companion web app, aims to enhance the D&D experience by making game management easier by putting all of the game information you need to tell fantastic stories with your friends into a digital format, eliminating the need to manually search through books, and taking the load off of players through other features.
At launch, D&D Beyond offers a compendium with all the game rules, lore, and adventures, as well as sought-after tools like a character builder and an interactive digital character sheet. It’s built with official D&D content and the ability to create and add your own custom homebrew spells, magic items, and monsters. Groups can play with digital versions of every official D&D sourcebook within the compendium. They can build characters using all the material published by Dungeons & Dragons for fifth edition, while adding custom magic items or spells created using the homebrew system. That homebrew content can then be shared with the community for other players to use in their own games.
We never could have gotten to where we are without the incredible support of over 200 thousand beta testers. For all of the help, for enduring "Basic Rules only" content and the accompanying forum posts for all these months, we sincerely thank you. You have already built nearly 300 thousand characters and 25 thousand homebrew creations. You have shared feedback that has been vital to the development of the toolset, and we have taken great strides to build confidence that we not only listen to that feedback, but we move quickly to act on it when it's needed.
Our team has an extensive roadmap for D&D Beyond, including implementing features such as a native mobile app, monster and encounter building, digital dice rolling, combat tracking, and much more. D&D Beyond is excited to continue to work closely with the D&D team at Wizards of the Coast to introduce all new adventures and rules material into the toolset, such as Tomb of Annihilation and Xanathar’s Guide to Everything coming this fall, the new mystic and artificer classes and other Unearthed Arcana playtest material, and Adventurers League support.
With the launch of the toolset, we are also excited to also unveil our new video and content initiative. We have a vision for DDB to be your hub for all things D&D - your companion both at the table and between sessions - whether you're looking up spells or watching Mike Mearls geek out about ogre magi. We'll tell the story of Dungeons & Dragons and help you play out your own D&D stories. We can't wait to see where all of it leads.
This truly is only the beginning for us and for what D&D Beyond will become in the upcoming weeks, months, and years. We welcome you to the adventure. Pack your gear and let's hit the trail!
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So excited! Can't wait for a native app, either!
Great work! I love it!
Congrats on the launch!
Woo hoo! Congratulations and thank you for creating this!
When I can give you some ÂŁÂŁÂŁÂŁÂŁÂŁ? I want to buy things!!
Shelley created a monster. Gygax created a symphony. Glad we can all enjoy the game in many different ways.
YES YES YES!!
I want to buy things, where do I go?
How do I "Share Unlocked Official Content with Others"? I bought the players hand book and have the Master tier subscription. I then added a player to a campaign but she still can't select the Wild Mage sorcerous origin.
Is it me or every class has only one archetype available? Is that coming later?
I own literally every book since 5e released. I legitimately love 5e. Despite this service being well made, I'm not going to buy these products a second time.
It's a damn shame to be honest, because it would be so easy to have included a digital code with the paper books, or tied the serial numbers on the books to make it work...
I should be the bread and butter of this service's user base, but instead I wont touch it.
I buy a CD of my favorite band at BestBuy but don't get it on iTunes for free.
I buy a book at the store but don't get it on my Kindle for free.
I buy a video game disc but don't get to download it on Steam for free.
I buy a game 10 years ago but don't get the remastered for free.
Why would this be any different?
I know this isn't what you want to hear, but D&D Beyond is developed by Curse which is an entirely separate company than Wizards of the Coast.
Not to mention to put together this tool Curse is most likely paying a licensing fee for the content.
I'm not saying some discount system for those who have purchased the physical books is out of the question, but it is highly unlikely.
That's like going to iTunes and saying they should give you a discount on the digital copy of a movie (that they are licensing the right to resell) because you previouslh bought the physical copy from somewhere else.
Thanks. It worked.
This is what I've been waiting for since the days of 3.0 / 3.5..... I will no longer need to carry so many books around that it breaks my bags of holding. All I need now is something to keep my laptop charged! :-D Thank you!