To no surprise to the Play-by-Post community, the D&D Beyond dice roller remains broken.
Almost daily, we experience the dice roller bugs in these forums. Most of my players have abandoned it for the Game Log, and simply copy and paste their results into the forum. But many groups have abandoned D&D Beyond altogether for Discord and Avarae, having been frustrated by D&D Beyond's faulty dice tool for too many years.
This is just one of the many flavors in which this bug manifests itself - another involves erroneous "manipulated dice" banners, often with changing dice results, even when the post is not edited.
But D&D Beyond refuses to fix it... Why do they leave a tool broken for years, when they know it is frustrating and alienating the play-by-post community?
Just to throw my anecdata into the ring, I just tested all of those and for me none of them resolve at mouseover. They all just make a spinning wheel icon that never goes away.
As for "Why do they leave a tool broken for years, when they know it is frustrating and alienating the play-by-post community?" - who can say? Potentially for the same reasons they don't seem to mind all the other communities they've alienated recently. Between the OGL fiasco, the AI-art debacle with Bigby's, the spectacle of sending literal Pinkertons to threaten a person who was subject to a shipping error that wasn't even under that person's control, the still-ongoing saga with regard to the Book Of Many Things, and probably a few more I'm forgetting at this moment...honestly, I could teach a whole "Public Relations for Business: What Not To Do" course just from the last few months of this crap alone.
WotC and DDB have more resources and more business know-how than I could ever dream of, so I have to figure that their recent alienation of huge portions of their fanbase is either some sort of calculated 4D-chess maneuver, or that they just don't care who they alienate. I know which of those I consider more likely, even if it seems like hubris to me. At the end of the day, what do I know?
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To no surprise to the Play-by-Post community, the D&D Beyond dice roller remains broken.
Almost daily, we experience the dice roller bugs in these forums. Most of my players have abandoned it for the Game Log, and simply copy and paste their results into the forum. But many groups have abandoned D&D Beyond altogether for Discord and Avarae, having been frustrated by D&D Beyond's faulty dice tool for too many years.
Here's today's example, for instance: (Screenshot and link, below) I made two 1d20+5 rolls, but this one shows a mouseover of 1d20+10. The other gives a nonsensical mouseover. The other rolls in this post refuse to resolve at all in the mouseovers. (Try it yourself at https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/play-by-post/139629-the-wild-beyond-the-witchlight?comment=3528 and tell me what you see!)
This is just one of the many flavors in which this bug manifests itself - another involves erroneous "manipulated dice" banners, often with changing dice results, even when the post is not edited.
But D&D Beyond refuses to fix it... Why do they leave a tool broken for years, when they know it is frustrating and alienating the play-by-post community?
Just to throw my anecdata into the ring, I just tested all of those and for me none of them resolve at mouseover. They all just make a spinning wheel icon that never goes away.
As for "Why do they leave a tool broken for years, when they know it is frustrating and alienating the play-by-post community?" - who can say? Potentially for the same reasons they don't seem to mind all the other communities they've alienated recently. Between the OGL fiasco, the AI-art debacle with Bigby's, the spectacle of sending literal Pinkertons to threaten a person who was subject to a shipping error that wasn't even under that person's control, the still-ongoing saga with regard to the Book Of Many Things, and probably a few more I'm forgetting at this moment...honestly, I could teach a whole "Public Relations for Business: What Not To Do" course just from the last few months of this crap alone.
WotC and DDB have more resources and more business know-how than I could ever dream of, so I have to figure that their recent alienation of huge portions of their fanbase is either some sort of calculated 4D-chess maneuver, or that they just don't care who they alienate. I know which of those I consider more likely, even if it seems like hubris to me. At the end of the day, what do I know?