Site Updates

Apply Session Picks Your Lowest-Level Session First

When you apply a session to a character, Select a Session now starts on the session with the lowest max level that still fits your character, so a credit good for higher levels is saved for later. GM sessions, which apply at any level, are only picked when nothing else fits. You can still choose any session from the list.

Every played session in the list now shows its max level too, including games like social nights whose name doesn't say.

Missing Feat Score Increases

When you levelled up with a feat that increases an ability score, Apply Session let you save without choosing the score, and the point was lost. That is fixed: the feat now can't be saved until you pick one.

If one of your characters was affected, its page now shows a notice. Click Choose Scores to pick the score each feat increases, and the missing points are added to the character sheet.

Warlocks Can Change Lessons of the First Ones Feats

Warlocks who take the Lessons of the First Ones invocation can now record the Origin feat it grants, and change it later, as the 2024 rules allow. When you apply a session that levels up your Warlock (level 2 or higher), Apply Session lists your character's feats. From there you can:

• take Lessons of the First Ones with a new invocation that level gives you,
• replace one Lessons of the First Ones feat with another Origin feat, or give it up,
• record one you took before the site tracked them.

Every other feat stays fixed once taken, and a feat another feat depends on can't be changed. Your changes show on the character's Logged Sessions tab.

Pact Seekers Choose Their Planar Pact Feat

The Pact Seeker background grants one Planar Pact feat of your choice, but character creation always gave Fey Pact. Now, when you pick Pact Seeker, a second select asks which pact you want: Fey Pact, Infernal Pact or Shadow Pact. The Player's Guide lists all three on the Backgrounds tab.

If you already made a Pact Seeker and wanted a different pact, ask an admin to change it.

Reincarnate Can Bring You Back as Any Eberron or Ravenloft Species

Reincarnate never picked an Eberron or Ravenloft species: Changeling (Eberron), Kalashtar, Khoravar, Shifter, Warforged, Hexblood, Lupin and Reborn were all left out of the draw by mistake. Choosing "every allowed species" now includes them, with the same odds as every other species.

Character creation also now offers only the species and lineages members are allowed to pick, and checks the lineage you chose belongs to your species.

Choose a Missing Lineage or Ancestry

A few characters were created as a Dragonborn, Elf, Gnome, Goliath or Tiefling without their lineage, ancestry or legacy being saved. If one of yours is among them, its character page now asks you to choose it. Pick the one you chose when you made the character, if you did; once saved it cannot be changed.

Volunteering to GM a table at an event you already have a seat at? The GM signup form now lists your seats for that event, and you can pick one to give up in the same step. The seat goes back on sale, and whoever paid for it gets a complete refund, tax included, whatever the timing. Refunds are sent overnight.

It's optional: you can keep your seats, for example ones you bought for friends. Giving up a seat can't be undone, even if you later step down as GM.

Add Your Pronouns

Your profile has a new, optional Pronouns field. Pick one of the suggestions (she/her, he/him, they/them and others) or type your own.

Once set, your pronouns appear beside your name on event pages, in the table's player list and beside the GM's name, to members who are logged in.

If you type something that isn't one of the suggestions, one of us checks it before it appears to others. Until then you'll see "Waiting for review" under the field. Each new option only needs checking once, so after that it's available to everyone.

Change and Resubmit

When a Priority GM Signup request isn't placed, we can now invite you to try again. A request marked this way shows a Change and resubmit button under My Requests and on its night in the calendar. You can change anything about it, including moving it to another night that still has room, and send it again as often as you like until the resubmission deadline, even after signup itself has closed.

The reason we gave for not placing it is shown beside it, so you can pick a night or a game that is more likely to fit.

A Message When GM Signup Opens

Each month's schedule now opens to GMs and goes on sale by itself, on dates we set in advance. When GM signup opens, every GM gets a message (on Discord if your account is linked, by email otherwise) saying the month is up, listing any tables you are already down to run, and telling you when tickets go on sale.

When tickets go on sale, we post it in our Discord server.

Observance Logo

During an observance such as Breast Cancer Awareness Month, clicking the site logo used to take you straight to an outside organization, which left no way to get back to the home page from the logo.

Clicking the logo now opens a short note about the observance, the same one that appears in our emails, with a link to learn more and a link to the TorontoDND home page. The rest of the year the logo still takes you home.

Character Summary for Hosts

The Character Summary button on a D&D 2024 table's event page is now available to the host of that event as well as the table's GM, so hosts can see who is sitting at each table and what they are bringing.

Hosts also get a Character Summary button on the Event Check-In page. It shows every character booked at all of the event's D&D 2024 tables, table by table, with each table's averages after its players.

On both summaries, the Print button is now an Export menu. PDF prints one table per sheet, with space to note AC and Passive Perception, and CSV downloads the same details as a spreadsheet.

This update brings Priority GM signups into the site, gives GMs a better look at who is sitting at their table, lets GMs turn off the previously played warning for adventures that change every time, and makes the Max HP breakdown on the character detail page easier to read.

GM Features

Priority GM Signup

Priority GM Signup has moved out of the Google Sheet and onto the site. When signups open for the next month, every GM gets a notification, and a "Priority GM Signup" link appears in the user profile main menu. The menu link turns orange when there are less than 48 hours left, and red under 24.

The signup page is a calendar of the month's events. Click any event to request a table, fill out the details and hit Save. You can withdraw a request the same way. When the schedule is close to being locked, you will also receive a notification about any of your requests that could not be fulfilled, potentially giving you the chance to move resubmit for a different event.

Please note that not all requests will be fulfilled. You will hear about your requests when the schedule is set.

Character Summary

GMs running a D&D 2024 table will find a new "Character Summary" button on the event page. It shows a card for each player's character with everything you need to prep:

• Level, Max HP and Adjusted HP
• Ability scores
• Feats
• Equipped magic items

The table's averages are shown at the bottom. Players are also flagged if this is their first game with us, or if they have played the adventure before.

There is even a printable version of this page that includes spaces for AC and Passive Perception.

Disable Previously Played Warning

Some adventures are run from a template but play out differently every time. For those, you can now switch on "Disable Previously Played Warning" when claiming or editing a table. Players who have played that adventure before will not see a warning when they sign up, and they will not be flagged as having played it on your Character Summary.

You can also set the switch on an adventure template, and every table you apply that template to will start with it switched on. The adventure's page shows whether its Previously Played Notice is on or off.

User Features

Max HP Breakdown

The Max HP popup on the character detail page has been redesigned, and now has two tabs:

• HP History lists each level and each bonus (such as the Tough feat) in the order it was taken, with the HP it added.
• Adjusted HP shows the character's HP at a table balanced to each level in their tier. When PCs at a table are different levels, lower level PCs add one Hit Die for every level between them and the highest level PC. See How to balance your table in the GM guide for the full rule.

Observance Logos

During Pride Month, Orange Shirt Day and Breast Cancer Awareness Month, the site logo now links to a Canadian organization for that observance (Pride Toronto, the Orange Shirt Society and the Canadian Cancer Society). The link opens in a new tab. The rest of the year the logo still takes you home.

Our emails mark these observances too, with a short note above the footer and a link to the same organization.

This update includes a bunch of features and bug fixes, many that have been sitting around for a while.

A couple of features allow players to select between the Free Rules, and a wider selection of options. This is intended to allow people who are playing with limited sources to participate.

New User Features

Reincarnate

This feature allows a user to come back from the dead at a reduced cost, but as a random species. From the character list or detail, select “Reincarnate” from the action menu. Once completed, the session is spent without counting towards leveling, the character keeps half their gold, and they come back as a random species, drawn from either the Free Rules or every allowed species in the PW.

• A Human who reincarnates as another species loses their bonus Origin feat. If another feat depends on it, they cannot reincarnate.
• A character who comes back Human picks a bonus Origin feat on a new page, and the detail page reminds members who have not recorded one.
• Items the new species cannot attune to are unequipped.

Proficiencies

When a user levels into a new tier by hitting levels 5, 9, 13 or 17, they can pick a language, instrument or tool to become proficient in. These are tracked in the Proficiencies tab of the character detail page.

This will backfill for all existing characters. Existing characters of level five and higher will see an alert on their character detail page, inviting them to pick any that are owed to them.

Character Max HP

A character’s maximum HP is now displayed on their character detail page. This takes features provided via CON, feats, class and species into account, but not magic items. Clicking on the info icon beside the HP value will display a detailed breakdown of the calculation.

Hiding Dead Characters

Characters in a user’s Graveyard can now be hidden and unhidden. This can be done by clicking “Hide” or “Unhide” in the action menu for a character, or can be batched by clicking the “Edit” button attached to the filter select at the top right of the graveyard. The default filter applied to the view is “unhidden”.

Mystery Boxes

Users can now purchase random items at a discounted price via the Mystery Boxes tab in the marketplace. These are sold at fixed prices by rarity, and contain a completely random magic item. A box will never contain an item that:

• The character cannot possibly use (cannot be attuned to)
• The character already owns
• Is classified as consumable or has limited charges

The player can see what is potentially inside each box by clicking the “See what's inside” link in the marketplace. Before purchasing they can also decide whether they want to stick to items in the Free Rules, or pick from all options allowable in the PW.

Items purchased this way can be sold for 75% of the value of the box.

Event List Filtering

Users can filter events by event type or day of the week. This works in both card and list views, and can be changed via the existing filter select.

Bug Fixes

Epic Boons

Characters who are not multiclassed can now select an Epic Boon at level 19. Any existing characters owed an Epic Boon will see a backfill alert on their character detail page, and will be able to pick one.

Applying Sessions to L20 Characters

Sessions can now be applied to L20 characters. The character will receive the gold bonus only.

Spellcasting as a Prerequisite for Feats vs Magic Items

The DMG says the following in regards to magic items:

“Attunement Prerequisites. If a magic item has a class prerequisite, a creature must be a member of that class to attune to the item. If a creature must be a spellcaster to attune to an item, the creature qualifies if it can cast at least one spell using its traits or features, not by using a magic item or the like.”

This means that an L1 Aasimar Fighter can attune to magic items, even if they do not have the Spellcasting feature granted by various classes.

In regards to feats, the Spellcasting Feature is required. So the same L1 Aasimar Fighter cannot take any feats that require it.

This has been updated on the site, and should be reflected in any systems on it.

Warlock & the Spellcasting Prerequisite

In some cases Warlocks would be unable to attune to magic items that required a spellcaster. This is fixed now.