The 2024 rules give your turn twelve named actions. Seven are old friends: Attack, Dash, Disengage, Dodge, Help, Hide and Ready. Five are new or renamed: Influence, Study, Search, Utilize and Magic. They cover the things players did all along (talk someone round, remember a fact, look for a trap, pull a lever, cast a spell), and now each one…
The Ruins of Castle Greyhawk comes to D&D Beyond in November 2026: four adventures for levels 5 to 10 from Baldman Games, built on the 2024 rules, "featuring the iconic three towers and the dungeons beneath them" [1]. It is the fifth published go at a dungeon Gary Gygax started under his own house rules in 1972, and the owlbear's…
Greetings, adventurers! As you may have noticed, there has been a lot changing around here. New themes. New features. 3D dice that tumble right across the page. To name a few. None of it would have been possible without your support. So before anything else, I want to say thank you. To our Founders Some of you backed True Randomness…
Two kittens in the picture above. The ginger one is mid-leap, claws out. The tabby has its head on the floor. It looks like a fight. It isn't. In ten seconds the tabby leaps and the ginger one rolls over. Every D&D table plays at fighting. Characters argue, steal from each other, insult the paladin's god. Most of it is…
In 2014, Inspiration gave you Advantage. You had to say so before you rolled, and if the die came up 19 anyway, you had spent it for nothing. So players sat on it, waiting for a moment that deserved it. The 2024 rules rename it Heroic Inspiration and turn it into a reroll. You roll, you look at the die,…
Nearly two thousand years ago, a British queen rode a chariot along the front of her army with her two daughters in front of her. The Roman historian Tacitus records what Boudica told them. It was usual, she said, for Britons to fight under the leadership of women. Then she named the cause: "my scourged body, the outraged chastity of…
The 2014 rules called them races. The 2024 rules call them species, and the change is more than the name. A 2014 dwarf got +2 Constitution and walked at 25 feet. A 2024 dwarf gets no ability score increase at all, walks at 30 feet, and sees twice as far in the dark. The free System Reference Document 5.2.1 [1]…
Legends of Greyhawk: Heralds of the Old One comes to D&D Beyond in October 2026: three adventures for levels 5 to 10 from Baldman Games, set in the Land of Iuz and the Horned Society. The Ruins of Castle Greyhawk follows in November with four more. Both run in the Legends of Greyhawk organized play campaign, or as one-shots at…
The most famous sword in fantasy comes out of a lake, held up by a woman's arm. In Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, Arthur has just broken his sword in a fight and spent three days healing his wounds. Merlin takes him to a lake, "and in the midst of the lake Arthur was ware of an arm clothed in…
In the 2014 rules your species set your ability scores. A dwarf got +2 Constitution, an elf +2 Dexterity, and a halfling wizard started a point behind a gnome wizard forever. Your background handed you two skills, a feature and some gear. Feats were an optional rule you might see at level 4. The 2024 rules move all of that.…
