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,…
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.…
Obojima: Tales from Yatamon arrives on D&D Beyond on 27 October 2026. It is the second Obojima book from 1985 Games: a 160-page supplement for the 2024 rules (5.5e) set in Yatamon, the island's biggest city, with three new subclasses including the Neko Duelist Fighter. The hardcover is on pre-order and ships in December 2026. James has wanted to play…
Look at the picture at the top of this page. It is a dragon, or a hand's width of one. Every scale is the size of a shield, every crack as long as your arm, and you can't see where it ends. That is how a Gargantuan dragon looks from the ground. You don't see the monster. You see its…
D&D: World of Warcraft releases on 17 November 2026, with Master Tier early access on D&D Beyond from 3 November. It is a gameplay expansion: rules for all 13 World of Warcraft classes, 16 playable species, seven dungeons rebuilt for the table, and 20-plus factions with renown rewards. Pre-orders are open now. That is the announced part. Everything below comes…
A friend who has never played asked whether a D&D turn is like blackjack: learnable rules, so you never freeze when the table looks at you. It is. Both games compress to one law each. Blackjack: "the dealer has no choices, so play off what their up-card threatens." D&D: "actions are the currency, so spend yours to take away theirs."…
You have seen it on a spell scroll, in a monster's stat block, scratched in the margin of somebody's house rule: . Four symbols and a promise. Everyone else at the table reads it without pausing, the way you read a road sign. This is how they do it. Dice notation says how many dice to roll, what kind, and…
Nine Solids and What They Are For Every die in the set, one at a time. What it is, what it looks like, and the moment at the table it was made for. Dice are written in dX notation, where d means die and X is the number of sides. Nine shapes cover nearly everything D&D asks you to roll.…
