Hasbro acquires D&D Beyond Digital Toolset – IGN

“Together we will deliver the best possible Dungeons & Dragons experience”

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Since launching in 2017 as an officially licensed online compendium for both the free version of the D&D Rules (with digital editions of published source books available for purchase), D&D Beyond quickly gained popularity with its additional tools for both Dungeon Masters and players. It’s a digital character sheet taken from official content and playtest material – along with one wide a selection of home-brewed content shared by the community – and has since added other tools, such as digital dice do the math for you, encounters builders and a combat tracker. With the onset of the global pandemic in 2020, the service saw a massive increase in active users as players began to move their weekly D&D games online.

There has been no word on whether players who purchase physical copies of new fifth-edition D&D books will be able to receive free or discounted digital copies, which has long been a topic of discussion in the digital D&D community. Hasbro’s announcement, however, claims that the team aims to follow “a unified, player-centric vision” of the Dungeons & Dragons going forward.

“The team at D&D Beyond has built an incredible digital platform,” said Cynthia Williams, president of WotC and Hasbro’s Digital Gaming division, “and together we will deliver the best possible Dungeons & Dragons experience to players worldwide.”

The transaction is still not final, although it has been approved by both Hasbro’s and Fandom’s boards and is expected to be completed during the second or third quarter of 2022. Stay tuned here for more updates on digital D&D, as well as all upcoming book releases and everything we know about the next version of Dungeons & Dragons.

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