Monday, Sept 9th, 2019
Additions:
Professional Pass (removed cats)
Fixes:
More bug and accessibility issue fixes.
Thursday, Aug 8th, 2019
Additions:
Hombrew is now available
Fixes:
Mobile functionality improvements
More bug and accessibility issue fixes.
Thursday, July 11th, 2019
Additions:
All official content and new release content monster are now available to search and add..
Fixes:
Responsive design first pass has been implemented for Mobile functionality.
More bug and accessibility issue fixes.
Thursday, June 27th, 2019
Additions:
You are now able to Sort and Search your encounters on the My Encounters page.
Fixes:
More bug and accessibility issue fixes
Thursday, June 6th, 2019
Additions:
You are now able to add your own text to Summary, Description and Treasure & Rewards fields
Fixes:
More accessibility issue fixes
Friday, May 24th, 2019
As we iterate through comments, suggestions and recommendations we will be posting weekly change logs to keep you up to date on the newest additions, fixes.
Additions:
Column Sorting (you can now sort by column in the encounter builder (Name, Type, Size, CR, Difficulty)
Fixes:
Improved Search (search is now more intelligent)
Saturday, May 18th, 2019
The DDB Encounter Builder ALPHA is available now for subscribers!
Let your voice be heard - try out the feature in this early, unfinished state and provide feedback that will help us create what the community needs.
Access the encounter builder here: www.dndbeyond.com/encounter-builder
What Is Available in the Alpha
The alpha currently has the following features:
- Name your Encounter
- Select Character(s) Composition
- Determine Individual Threshold
- Determine Party Threshold
- Total Monster XP
- Modify Total Monster XP for Multiples
- Compare Party vs. Monster XP
- Categorize XP Threshold
- Calculate Daily Budget
- Modify Encounter Difficulty
What is NOT Available in the Alpha
The alpha does not yet have the following features, but they are planned:
- Optimized Mobile Views
- Campaign Integration/Selection for Party Composition
- Encounters for Published Adventures
- Sharing Encounters Publicly
- Randomize Monsters by Difficult Setting
- Expanded Filter Options
- Expanded Encounter Details, Images, Maps, etc.
- Modified Difficulty by Location
- Running an Encounter
- Initiative Tracking
- Monster HP/Status Tracking
- PC HP/Status Tracking
How to Provide Feedback
As always, your feedback is valued as a huge driving force behind what we do at D&D Beyond. After you give the encounter builder a try, you can share your feedback in four different ways:
- The Encounter Builder Feedback forum
- The #ddb-feedback channel in Discord
- The 'Feedback' button on each page of the Encounter Builder
- Taking the Alpha Survey by clicking on the button near the encounter name on the builder page
Thanks again for your help - we look forward to the alpha and the updates to come!
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Posted May 19, 2019Yeeaaaaaaasssssssssss!!!!! This has excited me for sooo long!
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Posted May 19, 2019This has me super stoked! I am wondering however, because it's not mentioned as in scope or out of scope: Should we be able to add homebrew monsters right now? I can't do it, but I'm not sure if that's a glitch or if that's intended.
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Posted May 19, 2019When you say it’s available to subscribers, does that mean only the alpha version or will it only be for subscribers even after future updates?
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Posted May 20, 2019The Alpha is for subscribers of any level to test. I'm fairly certain they've said its for all users once it's officially released. Their efforts, so far, have been to have the toolset be usable based on how many of the sources you've bought, rather than a subscription tier.
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Posted May 20, 2019Will any encounters created in the alpha be lost in future updates, or is it safe to frontload a tonne of work now?
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Posted May 20, 2019Is there a plan to create encounters that are linked in the sources at all? It would be great to have the encounter prebuilt for campaigns!
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Posted May 21, 2019Terrific news! I plan to play around with this quite a bit, especially once it’s out of Alpha with the further campaign integration. For now, I’ll see if I can get what I need out of it to prep for upcoming battles. 😈
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Posted May 21, 2019Yes. That's listed among the things specifically left out of the Alpha.
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Posted May 23, 2019Ooooh, HP and Initiative tracking are coming soon. <3
I have tried the encounter builder and it's brilliant for what it does right now. I used the feedback form but I was kinda let down that I couldn't input feedback by typing. Thanks for directing me to the forum!
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Posted May 26, 2019Wow this is extremely useful to note down while I make my campaign.Hope you continue ideas like this on anyway see you in the next news update....BYE!
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Posted May 29, 2019Is the changelog going to reflect the updates being done to the Encounter Builder while in Alpha/Beta?
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Posted Jun 4, 2019They've said that once they move on to beta it'll be available to all users.
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Posted Jun 6, 2019Yes, that is the plan.
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Posted Jun 6, 2019We will release the Beta version of the Encounter Builder to the entire D&D Beyond community, all users.
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Posted Jun 10, 2019Will there be a way to add a monster/NPC that is friendly to the PC's as an ally, so it doesn't add to the deadliness of the encounter?
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Posted Jun 11, 2019We are looking at the best way to determine that in future iterations. Kind of a Hostile, Neutral, or Friendly marker.
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Posted Jun 12, 2019Ok awesome. I used the encounter maker and had added friendly NPCs and noticed there was no option. Thanks for the response!
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Posted Jun 21, 2019So you are saying Dice Roles are not yet available for this section? Bugcrowd we will get to it. Thanks for the feedback.
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Posted Jul 14, 2019Awesome as this is, it's been over six months since we've had any significant updates to the character sheet, which has to be core to the DDB experience for the majority of users.
Can you please indicate when can we expect to see more progress there?
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Posted Jul 14, 2019It's indicated in the feature road map that that'll go into development sometime after the character sheet beta comes to the mobile app, which is soon(Character sheet updates are: Character Builder Overhaul, General Features System, and in the longer term Inventory Management Enhancements and Temporary Effects System). The full feature roadmap is here: https://trello.com/b/vIKxuEs8/dd-beyond-feature-roadmap. To stay up to date on Development, there's a Dev Update stream every Thursday 9 am PT on their Twitch channel(https://www.twitch.tv/dndbeyond). Hope this helps!