I have many characters already made for use as backup characters or for one shots, etc., and I am trying to move one of them into a campaign I have created on DDB, but as far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to recreate the character from scratch within the campaign, which is tedious to say the least. I wish there was a way to edit the character and assign them to an already created campaign.
I also really want a way to organize my characters into groups. Being able to have an unlimited number of characters is nice, but it's frustrating to not have any way to sort them (i.e. these are my Curse of Strahd backup characters, these are my one shot characters, these are my backup copies, etc.).
Are either of these features being considered for future updates?
the spoilers are just to collapse the how-to pictures
For your DM, they will want to click "Copy Link" and then email / send that out to all the players
Then, you as the player, when you follow that link in, should be presented by a screen for what character you want to play. Either click "Create a Character" or select one of your existing ones below that. In this case, I want to join as ZimBrimble TurboBlaster, so I would click on his name and then below that (scroll down if you have lots of characters like I do) click "Join With This Character"
the DM can also follow the join link in and should be presented with the same character selection screen.
if you just copy and paste the URL from your web browser instead of the join link, you will not get this screen!
A quick video (its the same steps whether you are joining your own or someone else's game after you have the invite link):
As for character organisation, there is none at the moment, but the developers do want to implement it.
I have many characters already made for use as backup characters or for one shots, etc., and I am trying to move one of them into a campaign I have created on DDB, but as far as I can tell, the only way to do this is to recreate the character from scratch within the campaign, which is tedious to say the least. I wish there was a way to edit the character and assign them to an already created campaign.
I also really want a way to organize my characters into groups. Being able to have an unlimited number of characters is nice, but it's frustrating to not have any way to sort them (i.e. these are my Curse of Strahd backup characters, these are my one shot characters, these are my backup copies, etc.).
Are either of these features being considered for future updates?
Hello there CellBlockTango,
You already can add a pregenerated character to a campaign. Here is a very detailed post from Houligan in another thread that should help you.
As for character organisation, there is none at the moment, but the developers do want to implement it.
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Oh, thank you! I knew you could as a player, but I didn't know there was a way for me to do this as a DM!