Information suddenly gone from Fandom and other sites?

[Brenoli]

Hi all,

I used to read a lot about classes, subclasses, feats etc. on the Fandom website, but suddenly a lot of information is gone. For example, now it just shows one Feat instead of all and the Wizard class only shows the Evocation school:

https://dnd5e.fandom.com/wiki/Wizard

Anyone know why this is?

Are there good alternative website which contains all the information?

[Edgerunner]

Have run into the same problem.

[Daphne]

Well, the information shouldn't be there in the first place since it's copyrighted material. Fandom is removing it because of that (https://old.reddit.com/r/dndnext/comments/au950a/psa_fandomcom_is_in_the_process_of_stripping_all/?sort=new).

[Klaus Teufel]

Take-down notices. (https://dnd5e.fandom.com/wiki/User_blog:Foxwells/We_Have_a_Problem_(Fate_of_the_Wikia))

[Tanarii]

That site had the wrong text in many cases anyway. If you used it, odds were you were ruling something incorrectly.

[Willie the Duck]

Anyone know why this is?

Digital equivalent of getting a cease and desist letter. Those sites were violating copyright, under the impression that they were too small to bother with. Someone clearly pointed them out to WotC. This isn't the late 90s/early 2000's lawless days of the internet. I'm honestly surprised they lasted this long. It's not like I never used those sites to look up something mid-thread-discussion (given how much easier it was than waiting until I was next to my book), but I always knew that they would (and should) go away (/be reduced to the free material).


Are there good alternative website which contains all the information?

You know we cannot deliberately link to pirated material.

[CheddarChampion]

What I heard on another site is that the company behind Fandom bought D&D Beyond a while back - in the interest of making money they removed non-SRD content so you'd have to pay for it on D&DB.

[Jophiel]

Digital equivalent of getting a cease and desist letter. Those sites were violating copyright, under the impression that they were too small to bother with. Someone clearly pointed them out to WotC.
It wasn't WotC, it was the D&D Beyond people who own the license trying to make sure they're the only game in town for online content.

[Willie the Duck]

What I heard on another site is that the company behind Fandom bought D&D Beyond a while back - in the interest of making money they removed non-SRD content so you'd have to pay for it on D&DB.


It wasn't WotC, it was the D&D Beyond people who own the license trying to make sure they're the only game in town for online content.

Good to know the specifics, thanks. My point was that this was copyrighted material the whole time.

[Bieskaon]

What I heard on another site is that the company behind Fandom bought D&D Beyond a while back - in the interest of making money they removed non-SRD content so you'd have to pay for it on D&DB.

this!

Fandom has bought curse media and with that also acquired dnd-beyond.

The Problem is, whoever owns Dnd-Beyond is only permitted to distribute the free-licenced content outside of the DnD-Beyond ecosystem.

[Keravath]

In case anyone is looking for the news ...

https://kotaku.com/yesterday-just-two-years-after-twitch-acquired-curse-l-1831071841

https://curseweb.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/360013752373-Curse-Media-and-Fandom-are-joining-forces-

https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/news-announcements/29976-curse-media-and-fandom-are-joining-forces

[Jophiel]

Good to know the specifics, thanks. My point was that this was copyrighted material the whole time.
No disagreement there. I just figured that if anyone was going to shake their fist and decry capitalism or something, they could at least shake it at the right person.