The ability to place items, equipment, and coin directly into a player character's inventory. And perhaps into a (temporary) party inventory.
For example, the players defeat a red dragon. They find its hoard and I, as the DM, can directly drop those goodies in their inventory. Then they divvy it up among themselves.
It will be nice to have an interface similar to adding items to a character sheet.
Search and choose monsters, traps and items to add to encounter; a custom text box, such as the custom attack would be nice for adding and rearranging DM notes throughout.
Finding music and art to supplement the story. So yes if I had a repository of good background music I could queue up and change up as need during a session that would be change (ie chains clinking in a prison dungeon, occasional inmate swearing, people being tortured in the background, crowds in a big city, village, etc, in a Library, Forest, Jungle, Desert, Boss Music :P etc...) Some DM's do it other's don't. I try when possible. But when I do it sucks away a lot of prep time.
As a feature this could be partnership with royalty-free music source(s) (I'd be ok for an increase in sub cost if it was reasonable, or even a separate audio-subscription), or via a member-driven market place where people could upload their audio for others (freely hopefully) as long as it was not in violation of any copyright. Same with art.
More importantly this feature would need to be able to assign these audio/image assets to "stuff" within the campaign manager (sessions, events during story, monsters, player journals, dm journals, etc).
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Definitely an encounter builder. Ability to add monsters and easy reference to Stat Blocks, NPCs, Maps, Treasure, etc.
As a DM, one of the biggest obstacles to keeping combat live and interesting is having to flip between pages for stats, etc. I usually have to prepare spreadsheets or similar in advance for any combat that involves more than a couple enemies.
Encounters.. specifically slapping together a list of monsters I want in the encounter for a given part of the session. Then rolling out the loot should the party win (or subtracting out loot that got away). Their are other components but those are "key" ones for me. Also, save the monster encounter list aside and re-use later (and just modify) as needed.
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In general, having greater control over the layout and appearance of the Campaign Homepage. I'd like to make the invite link smaller/otherwise less visible so that it isn't the first thing I and my players see when they come to the campaign page. Having some banner art, choosing what elements appear in what order, that sort of thing.
NPCs. Love them. Tedious to roll them up. I need help here. I'd love to provide some generic parameters (ie race, class, level, heck I wouldn't mind going through a basic survey type questionnaire) and bam, I have an NPC, equipment, spells. This feature would need to be integrated with other features though. Having an NPC is great. Being able to assign them to Cities/Towns, Countries etc. For those as awesome as Critical Role - the ability to record audio to remind the DM what the NPC sounded like. Notes of course related to NPC. Whether they are dead or alive. Meta-data tagging them to events, sessions, journal entries by players and DM (if each had their own journals).
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I would love a gallery. Someplace to keep notable NPC's, Locations, items, and maybe even quests. Then have the ability to decide which things in the gallery the players could see.
And within each item in the gallery, I would like private notes and public notes. Again so I can keep my notes all in one place, but I can decide what to leave in the open for the players. This way they have an easy reference guide to things I deem important.
Bigger picture stuff, Collections of Cities, Towns, Countries, etc. Each which I can associate with monsters, NPCs. I don't need fancy maps (I usually make those on my own). This is just the meta-data to keep everything straight in my head. So if the party ever returns and say, "Oh yeah is XYZ still here". I can quickly look it up and know who they are talking about and the context. Only reason this is important is quite literally I had a 2nd edition campaign that stretched over 20 years (same group {mostly} from level 1 to 30). So a lot of history was built up over the years that we lost track of... would have been a great book if we remember it all. I'm DMing a homebrew world, so it's all news. At the same time, this could be pulled from existing sources for DMs that want to use Forgotten Realms or whatever. Same way you meta-data'd the heck out of the core rules, same idea with the worlds of D&D.
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I currently work out of a word document of sorts. Everything is sorted into Tabs. I would like a journal sections that we could divide up and organize. With the ability to make certain entries public to the players.
Journal (Notes on Steroids?). We've started having individuals journals and a campaign journal going now. Reason is two-fold. Individual journals record some of the private stuff the players wants. Plus also the player's memory of what happened. In the most fun cases my players choose to remember the same event differently, especially when it comes to what an absent player is doing at this time in the game :P. Now the meta data connections possibilities could be really rich here. Imagine over the course of several sessions the DM can have a visible timeline of events build up. Players make journal entries, and link them to the session or event of interest. 5 years later we can look back at an event or session and go through and see what everyone was thinking at the time. Sub-features would be private/public sections of journals. Characters registered to a campaign would allow DM visibility (and maybe even ability to edit journals). And it's not typed notes, these could be images/videos/audio files. Timestamped. Sub-feature connect to other content in the campaign.
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DropBox, OneDrive, GoogleDrive integration. There is no reason for DnDBeyond to be on the hook for creating storage space for some of the rich media that we DMs would like to connect to our campaigns. I already have a OneDrive account which has within it folders for myself and 1:1 shares with my players. that's how I accommodate our content. NOTE: Over the years my team has drifted across the country so we play using Skype. So using DropBox or OneDrive became a necessity for us.
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Character log for each character in the campaign, with timestamps of course - creation, changes to inventory, changes to prepared spells, XP gained, short and long rests taken, deaths, etc.
I trust my players, but I want to keep track of who has healing potions, when they would need to restock, how many hit dice they have left and so on. It may be too much, but once each campaign has its own forum, I'd love to see stats for rolls - how many nat20s, highest damage dealt in a single round, highest damage taken in a single round, etc.
Custom visual styling for a campaign. Could be as simple as just a background color or the option to upload a background image.
"As a DM I want the ability to style my campaign pages so that it creates the visual impression of a distinct area."
The ability to place items, equipment, and coin directly into a player character's inventory. And perhaps into a (temporary) party inventory.
For example, the players defeat a red dragon. They find its hoard and I, as the DM, can directly drop those goodies in their inventory. Then they divvy it up among themselves.
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Wiki templates for common setting elements like gods, nations, factions, etc.
Encounter Management
It will be nice to have an interface similar to adding items to a character sheet.
Search and choose monsters, traps and items to add to encounter; a custom text box, such as the custom attack would be nice for adding and rearranging DM notes throughout.
Finding music and art to supplement the story. So yes if I had a repository of good background music I could queue up and change up as need during a session that would be change (ie chains clinking in a prison dungeon, occasional inmate swearing, people being tortured in the background, crowds in a big city, village, etc, in a Library, Forest, Jungle, Desert, Boss Music :P etc...) Some DM's do it other's don't. I try when possible. But when I do it sucks away a lot of prep time.
As a feature this could be partnership with royalty-free music source(s) (I'd be ok for an increase in sub cost if it was reasonable, or even a separate audio-subscription), or via a member-driven market place where people could upload their audio for others (freely hopefully) as long as it was not in violation of any copyright. Same with art.
More importantly this feature would need to be able to assign these audio/image assets to "stuff" within the campaign manager (sessions, events during story, monsters, player journals, dm journals, etc).
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Definitely an encounter builder. Ability to add monsters and easy reference to Stat Blocks, NPCs, Maps, Treasure, etc.
As a DM, one of the biggest obstacles to keeping combat live and interesting is having to flip between pages for stats, etc. I usually have to prepare spreadsheets or similar in advance for any combat that involves more than a couple enemies.
Encounters.. specifically slapping together a list of monsters I want in the encounter for a given part of the session. Then rolling out the loot should the party win (or subtracting out loot that got away). Their are other components but those are "key" ones for me. Also, save the monster encounter list aside and re-use later (and just modify) as needed.
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In general, having greater control over the layout and appearance of the Campaign Homepage. I'd like to make the invite link smaller/otherwise less visible so that it isn't the first thing I and my players see when they come to the campaign page. Having some banner art, choosing what elements appear in what order, that sort of thing.
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The function to change (drag n drop) the layout of the Campaign Splash Page by creating Columns and Rows.
NPCs. Love them. Tedious to roll them up. I need help here. I'd love to provide some generic parameters (ie race, class, level, heck I wouldn't mind going through a basic survey type questionnaire) and bam, I have an NPC, equipment, spells. This feature would need to be integrated with other features though. Having an NPC is great. Being able to assign them to Cities/Towns, Countries etc. For those as awesome as Critical Role - the ability to record audio to remind the DM what the NPC sounded like. Notes of course related to NPC. Whether they are dead or alive. Meta-data tagging them to events, sessions, journal entries by players and DM (if each had their own journals).
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tabbed browser layout.
I would love a gallery. Someplace to keep notable NPC's, Locations, items, and maybe even quests. Then have the ability to decide which things in the gallery the players could see.
And within each item in the gallery, I would like private notes and public notes. Again so I can keep my notes all in one place, but I can decide what to leave in the open for the players. This way they have an easy reference guide to things I deem important.
Bigger picture stuff, Collections of Cities, Towns, Countries, etc. Each which I can associate with monsters, NPCs. I don't need fancy maps (I usually make those on my own). This is just the meta-data to keep everything straight in my head. So if the party ever returns and say, "Oh yeah is XYZ still here". I can quickly look it up and know who they are talking about and the context. Only reason this is important is quite literally I had a 2nd edition campaign that stretched over 20 years (same group {mostly} from level 1 to 30). So a lot of history was built up over the years that we lost track of... would have been a great book if we remember it all. I'm DMing a homebrew world, so it's all news. At the same time, this could be pulled from existing sources for DMs that want to use Forgotten Realms or whatever. Same way you meta-data'd the heck out of the core rules, same idea with the worlds of D&D.
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Function to roll dice....!
Personal Views.
Record rolls such as Ability Score Creation and can be sent to a character sheet.
I currently work out of a word document of sorts. Everything is sorted into Tabs. I would like a journal sections that we could divide up and organize. With the ability to make certain entries public to the players.
Journal (Notes on Steroids?). We've started having individuals journals and a campaign journal going now. Reason is two-fold. Individual journals record some of the private stuff the players wants. Plus also the player's memory of what happened. In the most fun cases my players choose to remember the same event differently, especially when it comes to what an absent player is doing at this time in the game :P. Now the meta data connections possibilities could be really rich here. Imagine over the course of several sessions the DM can have a visible timeline of events build up. Players make journal entries, and link them to the session or event of interest. 5 years later we can look back at an event or session and go through and see what everyone was thinking at the time. Sub-features would be private/public sections of journals. Characters registered to a campaign would allow DM visibility (and maybe even ability to edit journals). And it's not typed notes, these could be images/videos/audio files. Timestamped. Sub-feature connect to other content in the campaign.
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A campaign management system similar to what Realm Works has.
DropBox, OneDrive, GoogleDrive integration. There is no reason for DnDBeyond to be on the hook for creating storage space for some of the rich media that we DMs would like to connect to our campaigns. I already have a OneDrive account which has within it folders for myself and 1:1 shares with my players. that's how I accommodate our content. NOTE: Over the years my team has drifted across the country so we play using Skype. So using DropBox or OneDrive became a necessity for us.
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Character log for each character in the campaign, with timestamps of course - creation, changes to inventory, changes to prepared spells, XP gained, short and long rests taken, deaths, etc.
I trust my players, but I want to keep track of who has healing potions, when they would need to restock, how many hit dice they have left and so on. It may be too much, but once each campaign has its own forum, I'd love to see stats for rolls - how many nat20s, highest damage dealt in a single round, highest damage taken in a single round, etc.
Campaign languages and deities that players can choose for their characters.