The feat Martial Adept states that it adds 1 die to the Battle Master's Superiority Dice pool. So does the Superior Technique fighting style. But neither function as stated in D&D Beyond.
The Martial Adept feat instead retains an independent 1d6 superiority die; tracking the resource separately isn't a huge problem, but the die being the wrong size (since it's supposed to merge with the Battle Master's pool of larger dice) will likely cause confusion.
The Superior Technique fighting style doesn't even have a superiority die resource to track. This obviously creates a problem when a player is trying to track all of their resource usage on the D&D Beyond website, as I am hoping to do. However, the aforementioned issues have made me wary of relying on my D&D Beyond sheet for tracking resources in a session. I believe these issues have straightforward solutions, however!
For the size of superiority dice, I believe a relatively straightforward solution would be (with my relatively little programming knowhow) to have an integer representing die size, whose value is compared to new instances of superiority dice; if the new die is smaller, it is replaced by the existing value. If the new die is larger, it replaces the current value. I'm sure it's not quite that easy, but I don't want to whine about a problem without suggesting a solution!
As for the superiority dice being tracked within the feat (or the fighting style entry, once a tracker is implemented), it's inconvenient but workable. However, if it was possible for the feat/style to check for existing superiority dice pools, and if they find one then adding +1 to the pool, prioritizing the Battle Master subclass feature.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I think it'd be really slick if some of these changes could be implemented to make building with the Battle Master subclass a more streamlined experience.
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The feat Martial Adept states that it adds 1 die to the Battle Master's Superiority Dice pool. So does the Superior Technique fighting style. But neither function as stated in D&D Beyond.
The Martial Adept feat instead retains an independent 1d6 superiority die; tracking the resource separately isn't a huge problem, but the die being the wrong size (since it's supposed to merge with the Battle Master's pool of larger dice) will likely cause confusion.
The Superior Technique fighting style doesn't even have a superiority die resource to track. This obviously creates a problem when a player is trying to track all of their resource usage on the D&D Beyond website, as I am hoping to do. However, the aforementioned issues have made me wary of relying on my D&D Beyond sheet for tracking resources in a session. I believe these issues have straightforward solutions, however!
For the size of superiority dice, I believe a relatively straightforward solution would be (with my relatively little programming knowhow) to have an integer representing die size, whose value is compared to new instances of superiority dice; if the new die is smaller, it is replaced by the existing value. If the new die is larger, it replaces the current value. I'm sure it's not quite that easy, but I don't want to whine about a problem without suggesting a solution!
As for the superiority dice being tracked within the feat (or the fighting style entry, once a tracker is implemented), it's inconvenient but workable. However, if it was possible for the feat/style to check for existing superiority dice pools, and if they find one then adding +1 to the pool, prioritizing the Battle Master subclass feature.
Sorry for the wall of text, but I think it'd be really slick if some of these changes could be implemented to make building with the Battle Master subclass a more streamlined experience.