Hello! I ran into a bug a few weeks back. Hopefully the DnD devs will be able to fix it fairly quickly, because it has really started to have a detrimental effect on my campaign :-/
I'm running a campaign where everyone plays a custom race that I created, and this race has a +3 to Wisdom Saving Throws. However, everyone's character sheet is now stuck with an annoying "+3 on WIS" alert at the bottom of their Saving Throws box (see the included picture).
My custom race also gives each player a plus to certain skills, and there is no alert that pops up there, only for when there is a bonus to saves.
But why is this issue detrimental for the campaign, you ask? Because the alerts that pop up there in the Saving Throws box are supposed to be when some sort of special exception occurs. But now, because we see this alert in the Saving Throws box 24/7, our eyes have now become numb to an actual alert in the Saving Throws box, one that we really do need to see, every time it happens.
Sounds like an issue with your homebrew race, which you'll need to fix. Edit the homebrew race, and edit the trait that gives them the +3 to WIS. The alert text is from the 'details' field. Check that there's no text there, and if there is remove it, then save that modifier, then the whole homebrew again.
It's just a thing DDB does. Anything that gives a bonus or advantage/disadvantage to saving throws puts a little alert there: Elves always show "Advantage against being charmed", Paladins of level 5 or higher show "+(CHA) on saves", someone benefiting from a Cloak of Protection shows "+1 on saves", etc.
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Well that's the thing... advantage/disadvantage should definitely show an alert, both for saves and skills (since the user needs that information to correctly carry out the rolling algorithm himself)... but showing an alert for a flat bonus makes no sense, since DDB is taking care of that for the user 100%. But of course, if the user wants information about why the final save mod is what it is, then he can always click on the save, to see a breakdown of where all of the sub-modifiers come from.
Anyway, I hope the developers listen to this complaint, because it would make DDB quite a bit better, at least for 99% of its users.
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Hello! I ran into a bug a few weeks back. Hopefully the DnD devs will be able to fix it fairly quickly, because it has really started to have a detrimental effect on my campaign :-/
I'm running a campaign where everyone plays a custom race that I created, and this race has a +3 to Wisdom Saving Throws. However, everyone's character sheet is now stuck with an annoying "+3 on WIS" alert at the bottom of their Saving Throws box (see the included picture).
My custom race also gives each player a plus to certain skills, and there is no alert that pops up there, only for when there is a bonus to saves.
But why is this issue detrimental for the campaign, you ask? Because the alerts that pop up there in the Saving Throws box are supposed to be when some sort of special exception occurs. But now, because we see this alert in the Saving Throws box 24/7, our eyes have now become numb to an actual alert in the Saving Throws box, one that we really do need to see, every time it happens.
Here is the picture I mentioned earlier.
Sounds like an issue with your homebrew race, which you'll need to fix. Edit the homebrew race, and edit the trait that gives them the +3 to WIS. The alert text is from the 'details' field. Check that there's no text there, and if there is remove it, then save that modifier, then the whole homebrew again.
Birgit | Shifter | Sorcerer | Dragonlords
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Thank you very much for replying. I'm going to try what you just suggested...
... hmm. I checked, and the 'details' field is empty. This appears to indeed be a bug.
It's just a thing DDB does. Anything that gives a bonus or advantage/disadvantage to saving throws puts a little alert there: Elves always show "Advantage against being charmed", Paladins of level 5 or higher show "+(CHA) on saves", someone benefiting from a Cloak of Protection shows "+1 on saves", etc.
Helpful rewriter of Japanese->English translation and delver into software codebases (she/e/they)
Well that's the thing... advantage/disadvantage should definitely show an alert, both for saves and skills (since the user needs that information to correctly carry out the rolling algorithm himself)... but showing an alert for a flat bonus makes no sense, since DDB is taking care of that for the user 100%. But of course, if the user wants information about why the final save mod is what it is, then he can always click on the save, to see a breakdown of where all of the sub-modifiers come from.
Anyway, I hope the developers listen to this complaint, because it would make DDB quite a bit better, at least for 99% of its users.