D&D Beyond Twitch Extension - Looking for Feedback
Today we are opening up the D&D Beyond Twitch Extension to everyone! The team has been hard at work on this and we are thrilled to finally get it into the hands of streamers and viewers. We set out with two core goals: Make the experience for new viewers watching D&D for the first time better, and making the setup for new streamers starting to stream D&D easier and faster than ever before!
Key Features
As players update their hit points, add conditions, and equip new items, viewers will see these changes on the stream in real-time. After initial setup, streamers can be hands-off as the extension does the work!
Viewers no longer have to wait for the streamer to cycle through the display of information about a character. Viewers can mouse over the overlay and click on any character to see their stats, skills, and more!
Streamers can control how the overlay displays, including whether the bar shows on the left or right or if it displays on mouseover only. Choose which characters to show and hide from a given campaign or customize which information about characters appears around their portraits!
Install and Use on Your Stream
- Head to the D&D Beyond Twitch Extension page over on Twitch and click the Install button.
- Click the “Configure” button, and follow the widget to select your campaign and players!
- Note: The account you stream with will need to be a part of your campaign here on D&D Beyond
- Once installed and setup, head over to your “My Extensions” tab on your dashboard page.
- Select the “Activate” dropdown under the D&D Beyond Twitch Extension and set it to “Set as Overlay 1”.
- From here on, you will be able to update any settings on your stream dashboard in real time!
Let Us Know What You Think
Make sure to come back and let us know how everything went! We want to know how your first time setup went, if there was enough options for you, and if your viewers enjoyed the experience! Let us know if there is anything else you are looking for in a Twitch Extension that can help improve your D&D Streams over in our Mega-Thread for feedback!
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Posted Nov 15, 2018Also, im loving the character sheet creator.... makes life a gazilion times easier :D I quite honestly dont think you have to change it a bit.
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Posted Dec 7, 2018I would love a version of this that just displays widgets of there stats that are always up, would be fantastic for those of us that record and post later.
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Posted Mar 1, 2019As a viewer of a stream that the extension is installed on, the button doesn't appear when I hover over the stream. I don't know if this is a bug or if it's on my side but it's worth looking into.
Edit: It seems to only be an issue when I use Google Chrome, but it works on Safari.
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Posted Mar 28, 2019I love the idea of it and think it adds a lot to the stream but it definitley wasn't a real time update for me at all. It was taking several minutes for HP adjustments to the point of being kind of useless. Giving viewers access to the sheets is good.
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Posted Apr 24, 2020Can this be used for private games? Im not a streamer, don't want to be, but I would like to use something besides having to pay for Roll20.
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Posted Nov 20, 2020This article is very old so I doubt there will be an answer, but will DnD Beyond ever expand to other platforms, or even better, have an option for non interactive widgets that can be put directly into streaming software so it is place where we actually want it and it displays on all platforms?
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Posted Feb 17, 2022I am not getting the option to select my campaign and characters. The screen says no campaigns found. Help!
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Posted Feb 18, 2022The twitch extension is currently deactivated; see the Twitch Extension Status changelog entry for more information.
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Posted Nov 27, 2023any updates on this coming back?