Poll: Legacy Content to Include by Default

Clarification added 2025-06-02

The 2024 sheets will exist next to the current one for the 5e (2014) rules. This poll is just for the new, yet to be released, 2024 sheets. If you aren't planning on using the new rules, then this poll will not affect you.

I am making this edit and sending you all a reminder of it, because I see a lot of responses worrying about the sheet no longer properly supporting the 5e (2014) rules. I have mentioned this in previous posts, but should've probably included it here as well. My bad!

The previous poll was about releasing a beta version of the 2024 sheet. The results were very clearly a “do what I think is best”, which has mostly taught me to not include this option anymore if I want a real answer.

After talking with the active contributors on Discord, the option I’m gravitating towards is to release a beta with the SRD content. The SRD contains almost all content, so it will be only a little more work after that to have a version with all PHB’24 content.

Now for today's poll I would like your input on: How to handle Legacy Content.

"Legacy content” refers to all the 5e (2014) publications. As the 2024 rules are (mostly) backwards compatible, you can use all the 5e content with it. This includes both the stuff that hasn’t been updated to 2024 rules (e.g. you want to use the School of Necromancy wizard subclass from the 2014 PHB or play as a Half-Elf), as well as the stuff that has gotten an update, but you want to use anyway (e.g. you want to use the 2014 rules for the Mountain Dwarf).

The question today is how to handle this content in the 2024 character sheet, namely: what legacy content should be included by default. In other words: What legacy content would you always want to have available in the sheet?

Some things to consider

• Regardless of the result of this poll, you can always add any legacy content you want by importing it as an add-on script. This poll is to determine what is included by default.

• [Option 2] This option is what the current fan-made 2024 script by Pokésimmer does. If all legacy content is available but requires to be “included” on a case-by-case basis, that will inflate the sheet’s file size significantly.

• [Option 1] Defaulting the ability to mix and match 2024 content with 2014 content, thus having all of it always available, will result in the sheet significantly slowing down. Imagine dropdowns including much more content and menus having to populate more options. For example, almost all spells would appear twice in the dropdown select boxes, making the spell select dialogs take longer to load and making it harder to select the one you are looking for.

• [Option 3 & 4] Not including (all) the legacy content will reduce file size and speed up the use of the sheet. However, if one of these options is selected, I would prefer to not make it possible to mix and match 2024 rules with those that are replaced (i.e. not have 2 spells/clases/feats/etc. by the same name, one from the 2014 PHB and the other from the 2024 PHB).

• Regardless of the result of this poll, I will not be adding the 5e (2014) Unearthed Arcana content to the 2024 sheet by default. Keep in mind that it is playtest content that didn’t make it to print, and that the 2024 rules are getting their own UA articles. The 5e UA add-on scripts will still be available for those who want to use them with the 2024 sheets.
  

When playing a 2024 game, I would personally not use 2014 rules when there is a 2024 version available, but I can see how a mix of the two might be appealing. If either option 3 or 4 is the winner, I will probably do another poll to ask how you'd prefer legacy add-on scripts be packaged. For example, this next poll could include an option to make separate 2014 class add-on files that include the class and its subclasses from all official sources. That way you’d just import one file to get the full functionality of the 2014 cleric class.