Dungeons and Dragons is reversing its decision to remove the original 2014 spells and magic items from D&D Beyond with the release of its new 2024 core rulebooks. Though it originally intended to replace these D&D Beyond entries, Dungeons and Dragons will be keeping both in response to player feedback.
On September 17, Dungeons and Dragons is releasing its 2024 Player’s Handbook – the first of three new core rulebooks to update 5th Edition for its 10-year anniversary. As its official digital toolset and game companion, D&D Beyond will have all of these new character options added to it, though most of the original 2014 versions will still be available as Legacy content. However, in a recent update, D&D Beyond announced that the old versions of spells and magic items would be overwritten by the new ones and that fans hoping to keep the originals would need to add them as homebrew entries.
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