D&D 2024

We are excited to announce full support for D&D 2024. If you’d like to try it, there is a free compatibility pack in the marketplace with all of the new 2024 player’s handbook character options. Everything is fully modeled to work seamlessly with the Shard Tabletop character sheet.

The new 2024 character options included many changes to existing character features as well as a large variety of new features. This release makes it possible to model those all in Shard. In addition to being used for the new compatibility pack containing the D&D 2024 character options, all of them are now available for all of your own creations.

New Features

While these new feature options are great fun, many of them also introduce additional tracking and can be a bit cumbersome to keep track of everything. We have tried to continue our tradition of making these easy to use and keep up with everything. Here are some of the highlights.

Wild Shape

Wild Shape has always been a bit complicated to manage, which is why Shard built in the behaviors to make it simple. The 2024 versions are a bit different using temporary hit points instead of a separate set hit points for the wild shape. Shard’s shape change features now support all of these variations make it simply a matter of picking what you want to change into.

Summon Creatures

Summon spells and summon creature features have been updated to use specialized monster blocks where the statistics and abilities are combination of the monster’s, the summoner and the level of the spell. The Shard modeling features now support this rich combination. The options included in the D&D 2024 character options automatically calculate the combined values and show you the final result, eliminating the need for you to manually add and track this state.

Expanded Use Sharing

Many features that have limited uses have been expanded to allow multiple options for how to use those usage pools. Shard groups the actions sharing a usage pool on the character sheet, combining the tracking. These usage pools can even be used to cast spells.

Stacking Features

Warlocks in particular, include many features to increase the capabilities of spells and specific items, for example: add capabilities to a pact weapon, or pick multiple spells to augment their casting abilities. Shard makes it easy to pick the right spells or items and then show the abilities directly with the spell or item.

Compatibility

D&D 2024 was envisioned to be fully compatible with 5E and Shard is determined to make that true. Our approach allows you to fully play a traditional 5E game, a D&D 2024 game or one with a combination in a seamless fashion.

Characters

At character creation the game system for a character can be set to either D&D 5E (2014) or D&D 5E (2024). In a campaign the gamemaster can set the appropriate value or the user can choose. The game system will determine the preferences for race/species, backgrounds, classes, and spells. With gamemaster approval though, a player can choose to mix and match.

Spells can be particularly challenging, especially when using any of the big spell compendiums from other creators. You want to use the new versions of spells, but don’t want to be excluded from using any of these spells. When picking spells the game system version will always be preferred giving 2014 characters the older version and 2024 characters the new ones.

Campaigns

Gamemasters can combine content at their discretion, picking the preferred and allowed game systems for characters and selecting which content they choose to include in their games.

Enjoy Playing

Have fun playing with these new options and let us know what you think.