D&D Beyond just leveled up in a big way

D&D Beyond, the company behind the official digital toolset for Dungeons and Dragons 5th Edition, have long worked as partners of Wizards of the Coast, the publisher for the popular tabletop RPG. However, D&D Beyond have now been acquired by Wizards of the Coast, announced earlier today on both companies twitter pages.

What exactly this will mean for fans of the Tabletop RPG, and the 10 million registered users of D&D Beyond isn’t apparent just yet. However, the staff at D&D Beyond were quick to reassure their users that Wizards of the Coast has no plans to stop supporting D&D Beyond. They go on to confirm that the purchases their customers have made, along with the data for their characters and campaigns they’ve built won’t be going anywhere. The team in general expressed excitement about getting to work with Wizards of the Coast, in improving their support for the game.

This will be welcome news for many players. D&D Beyond has been praised for it’s quick and easy to use features since it launched in 2017. These features include a character builder and digital character sheet, monster and spell listings that can be sorted and filtered, an encounter builder, and an interactive overlay Twitch Extension. D&D Beyond also provides official D&D content available to purchase, as well as the ability to create and add custom homebrew content.

What could this mean?

Now that the service is set to become an official product of Wizards of the Coast, many fans are hopeful that the service could provide free digital versions of books, for those who own a physical copy. In addition, some fans speculate that this could see the return of playtest ‘beta’ content to D&D Beyond. Wizards of the Coast usually releases playtest content in PDF’s under the name ‘Unearthed Arcana’ to gather feedback from players before it’s adapted into upcoming rule and settings books. D&D Beyond has not supported this content for some time, but with this closer partnership, could do so again. However, whether or not these wishes will become a reality, is yet to be determined.

Wizards of the Coast, during D&D Celebration 2021, announced that an updated version of the fifth edition rulebooks will be released in 2024, to celebrate the 50th anniversary of D&D. A calculated move that seeks to appease the already incredibly large player base of the 5th edition to the RPG which launched in 2014. They assured their customers that the new updated rules would be compatible with the current version of the game, whilst cleaning up some of the inconsistencies born from the gradually shifting design philosophies behind the scenes over the last few years. Given the timing of this acquisition, it seems probable that D&D Beyond will play a big part in delivering this new updated content to the players when it releases.

Whether this acquisition will lead to positive changes remains to be seen. Thankfully, Wizards of the Coast and their partners are no strangers to hearing and responding to fan feedback. And we will be excited to see what the team at D&D Beyond can acomplish, with an even closer working relationship with the publisher.

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Pathfinder may never have had the pop culture acclaim of Dungeons and Dragons in the pen-and-paper RPG world, but for a second there in 4th edition of D&D pathfinder was just straight up the better option. These days the game has sort of fallen from grace, due in no small part to how Endlessly accessible 5th edition of D&D is (and also the fact that Pathfinder’s second edition is kind of lacking). With that in mind, though, the Wrath of the Righteous was able to overcome the Weight of its name and has become a minor sleeper hit on steam.

Now, 2 months on from its (somewhat rocky) launch, patch 1.1 is here, and its bringing improved mounted combat in turn based mode, better performance, improved graphics, Changes to reactivity to choices, and some improved NPC visuals. There are also some changes to the crusade system and how it is managed, Including letting you control armies from the throne room, rather than having to leave the city every time.

The update comes in at a Whopping 14.2GB download on steam, and apparently those on other platforms are Reporting much larger file sizes, so there is a very substantial amount in this update. Some reports are coming in of updates to the crusader models, making it easier to distinguish units from eachother. Another major change is Scrolls are marked with quills in the inventory if they contain spells you can learn. The full patchnotes are a long read, so we will give you some of the more…interesting changes here.

• Daeran liked to stand on your bed after sex. Now he’ll assume a more comfortable position
• Primal Treant would sometimes say the lines of your companions, including those not present in the group. That was creepy and was fixed
• Candles no longer continue floating in the air after Daeran’s bath is gone from Commander’s bedroom
• Removed excessive minotaurs in Colyphyr Mines
• Venture-Captain Gristoff during the Fleshmarkets battle could freak out and start killing demons who were important for the plot. Fixed, but not retroactively. If you already encountered this issue, you will need to load an earlier save
• Sometimes, when Commander went to Greengates with Arueshalae during the quest Demon’s Heresy, the location was empty – fixed. We brought all the demons back
• Fixed Glorious Beard visuals
• Beer Elemental portrait added

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Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance was released June 22 and has received mixed reviews from critics and fans alike, with the developer Tuque Games asking for continuous feedback to work on improvements.

Dungeons and Dragons: Dark Alliance is a third-person action role-playing console game set in the Forgotten Realms campaign setting. It is based on the popular tabletop RPG as well as the first book in R.A. Salvatore’s Icewind Dale trilogy and fourth in The Legend of Drizzt series, The Crystal Shard. It is also considered the successor to the Baldur’s Gate: Dark Alliance games that were released for Xbox, Playstation, and Switch earlier this year.

The game follows the world’s four most popular characters, Drizzt Do’Urden, Catti-brie, Wulfgar, and Bruenor Battlehammer, as they fight to protect Ten-Towns, a collection of villages under attack by a wizard intent on stealing the Crystal Shard. The four characters are all playable in the game and each has its own unique combat skills.

There are already mixed reviews from critics so far, with positive reviews praising its engaging combat, entertaining chance to blow off steam with friends, and a loot system that retains players’ interest for hours. Yet other reviews suggest the combat is repetitive and dull, and can sometimes be disruptive of a good story, as well as the game not living up to its full potential.

Bugs have also been reported, where players are repeatedly kicked back to the main menu. There is some difficulty for players to play with friends due to a problematic cross-play system, and the inability for disconnected players to rejoin missions.

Toque Games has since tweeted thanking fans for the feedback and promises to listen to their criticism for the changes that can be expected to be released later this year.

Thank you for those who are choosing to adventure with us on Dark Alliance. We are listening to all of your feedback and working through updates that will keep making the game better. Please continue to share your thoughts with us here. pic.twitter.com/ATXOocKPnl

— Dark Alliance (@DarkAlliance) June 22, 2021

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