I personally make a ton of characters for specific campaigns, and I would love a way to make folders within the "My Characters" tab, to assort them and organize them by a folder.
Similar... whether you call them folders or something else, just a simple way to organize characters. I am thinking of it like this... just something simple.
was just thinking of making a new Thread about this but happy to see this has been posted already, so:
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Would love to see this as well!
From a DMs perspective this would be very helpful and allow me to create and store npcs, since i like to create them fully fleshed out. To be able to cerate folders for locations and store characters/npcs in them would be a tremendous feature!
was just thinking of making a new Thread about this but happy to see this has been posted already, so:
/push
Would love to see this as well!
From a DMs perspective this would be very helpful and allow me to create and store npcs, since i like to create them fully fleshed out. To be able to cerate folders for locations and store characters/npcs in them would be a tremendous feature!
I see that you have a similar issue to me, where your players are occasionally murder hobo's and thus every character needs a stat block for when they inevitably try to murder them.
hehe not quite ;) It weas just a very immediate issue since they're facing off against another group of mercenaries and i created them as fully fledged characters, but also when creating NPCs, going through the normal character creation steps helps me flesh out their goals and personas, so i have a bunch of npcs in there right now.
atm i sort by name and give my player characters a "00" at the beginning, and NPCs from one town a "10" at the beginning, and from another town "20" etc etc this at least keeps them grouped, but it is far from being an elegant system...
Was looking for this and it looks like it still isn't implemented. What I started doing as a work around (and as a subscriber) is creating campaigns for the groupings I need and adding characters to them as unnassigned. For the most recent campaign I'm running in Wildemount, I made folders based on region like Empire, Xhorhas, Menagerie, etc.
Since the browser extension I was using for this very thing was discontinued... yes please. It would be really, really wonderful if I could sort my characters by active/backup/one-shot etc.
More sorting and organizational options for characters has been an often requested feature, and has been passed along to the team! Thanks, we'll announce if we have any details to share!
Yeah I agree I'm one to make multiple characters either for story Beats or character Concepts I just like and might want to use so having a way to separate ones that I'm using in two different groups would be a big help.
It's funny that this thread is now over a year old and yet it's still getting attention. This wasn't even the first thread of its kind and yet something as simple as basic organization has somehow never made it up the priority ladder for the dev team.
Even worse, 3rd parties have solved this problem entirely with a browser plug-in and no access to the server-side code. It's almost embarrassing that the dev team couldn't come up with at least a rudimentary organization system for DMs.
You know... DMs... the people who visit your store and it says "Congratulations! You own it all." The people with Master Tier subscriptions. The people who create tons of characters as pre-gen backups, NPCs, and villains.
This is some seriously low hanging fruit that could turn a year old thread into a marvelous list of THANK YOUs. Maybe now that there's been a mass exodus of the old guard(and hopefully the project owners/managers got flushed too) perhaps just one developer could spend a single day doing some junior-level coding to help out a bunch of people.
Ya I'm not even a DM well not that often at least but I still make plenty of characters because I have Concepts in my head I just want to get down before I forget them or just one shot campaign characters that I might want to use again. but having them mixed in with characters that I am playing who makes it very hard for me and makes it a bit longer to try and get to certain things.
This has been asked for since the beginning, there used to be a plugin that did it. However, it doesn't seem like they want to do it and have chosen to start ignoring the request.
I think it is/was called BeyondHelp. It's unfortunately unreliable at times due to dndbeyond making changes and the plugin breaking. When it works, it's not bad, and when it doesn't, you may not even be able to have your data display properly on the screen.
I personally make a ton of characters for specific campaigns, and I would love a way to make folders within the "My Characters" tab, to assort them and organize them by a folder.
Thanks!
Similar... whether you call them folders or something else, just a simple way to organize characters. I am thinking of it like this... just something simple.
was just thinking of making a new Thread about this but happy to see this has been posted already, so:
/push
Would love to see this as well!
From a DMs perspective this would be very helpful and allow me to create and store npcs, since i like to create them fully fleshed out. To be able to cerate folders for locations and store characters/npcs in them would be a tremendous feature!
Yes, folders or another means of grouping the characters. So I can access the characters I need quicker and more easily!
I'd love to see folders plus the option to add txt, doc, pdf, and various image files to those folders.
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I see that you have a similar issue to me, where your players are occasionally murder hobo's and thus every character needs a stat block for when they inevitably try to murder them.
hehe not quite ;) It weas just a very immediate issue since they're facing off against another group of mercenaries and i created them as fully fledged characters, but also when creating NPCs, going through the normal character creation steps helps me flesh out their goals and personas, so i have a bunch of npcs in there right now.
atm i sort by name and give my player characters a "00" at the beginning, and NPCs from one town a "10" at the beginning, and from another town "20" etc etc this at least keeps them grouped, but it is far from being an elegant system...
Was looking for this and it looks like it still isn't implemented. What I started doing as a work around (and as a subscriber) is creating campaigns for the groupings I need and adding characters to them as unnassigned. For the most recent campaign I'm running in Wildemount, I made folders based on region like Empire, Xhorhas, Menagerie, etc.
i agreeing with my follow adventures. a folder systeem is a good idee. most times i print the sheets no but need a lot off papier each time.
so i hoop that D&D beyond will find a solution to this
Since the browser extension I was using for this very thing was discontinued... yes please. It would be really, really wonderful if I could sort my characters by active/backup/one-shot etc.
More sorting and organizational options for characters has been an often requested feature, and has been passed along to the team! Thanks, we'll announce if we have any details to share!
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As far as I can tell this is one of the most often requested features, and I wholeheartedly agree. Hoping that it gets implemented soon.
Yeah I agree I'm one to make multiple characters either for story Beats or character Concepts I just like and might want to use so having a way to separate ones that I'm using in two different groups would be a big help.
It's funny that this thread is now over a year old and yet it's still getting attention. This wasn't even the first thread of its kind and yet something as simple as basic organization has somehow never made it up the priority ladder for the dev team.
Even worse, 3rd parties have solved this problem entirely with a browser plug-in and no access to the server-side code. It's almost embarrassing that the dev team couldn't come up with at least a rudimentary organization system for DMs.
You know... DMs... the people who visit your store and it says "Congratulations! You own it all." The people with Master Tier subscriptions. The people who create tons of characters as pre-gen backups, NPCs, and villains.
This is some seriously low hanging fruit that could turn a year old thread into a marvelous list of THANK YOUs. Maybe now that there's been a mass exodus of the old guard(and hopefully the project owners/managers got flushed too) perhaps just one developer could spend a single day doing some junior-level coding to help out a bunch of people.
Ya I'm not even a DM well not that often at least but I still make plenty of characters because I have Concepts in my head I just want to get down before I forget them or just one shot campaign characters that I might want to use again. but having them mixed in with characters that I am playing who makes it very hard for me and makes it a bit longer to try and get to certain things.
There is a browser plugin? Care to share it's name??
This has been asked for since the beginning, there used to be a plugin that did it. However, it doesn't seem like they want to do it and have chosen to start ignoring the request.
I think it is/was called BeyondHelp. It's unfortunately unreliable at times due to dndbeyond making changes and the plugin breaking. When it works, it's not bad, and when it doesn't, you may not even be able to have your data display properly on the screen.
Yeah this seems like a no-brainer but it's still not a thing... also, I looked for beyondhelp and it said it was discontinued unfortunately I think