I'm eager to play with more, but I am glad they are not trying to go too fast either. Right now they are really working on making sure the foundation doesn't have cracks in it and with all the great bug reporting going on, some things have been fixed already. Then with comments, they have seen ideas they liked and knew they could get in within days and did so. Some things are taking longer as they want to make sure they use the right option to clear up the issue or just make things smoother.
I definitely hope they let us test the character builder several weeks so we can put it through its paces and see what breaks and what works. I know they are reading through all our ideas out of the wish list thread and probably having fun sorting out all the campaign management stuff that won't be needed when the sheet first comes out, but at least they can have the linkage of the sheet to campaigns built in the background to turn on knowing we want and need it as other things can do this out there. I'll be concentrating on ease of creation and then ease of use of the sheet as I play games using them since that is what Phase 2 will be about.
I've even stated in places to stop talking campaign management in a wish list for the char sheet. YES, it appears it will have campaign linking, but we won't be able to test that until Phase 3. Let's make sure we tell them what we want for good ole character creation and sheet organizing without making them sort through stuff for another phase. I even sent one of the staff a PM that it would help if they put up a wish list for Phase 3 just to get campaign management out of the character sheet wish list just to try to be more organized, but I'm sure they are waiting to time it closer to when they REALLY are ready for our input. I am sure someone is parsing all the wishes so they are in the right bucket to look at at the right time. Though their time could be better organized if we just stick to the right topic in any of the mega threads we post in. =)
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Hey guys, a few bits of info that may help. Please remember, whilst I chat with members of the dev team, I'm not part of it, so this is just info I am personally aware of.
No date has been released for the start of phase 2 - I'm personally hoping it's later this month, but we'll just have to wait until it's ready - only then will it be available for beta test.
There are no plans to introduce any subscription or paid for content during the beta test. Commitment to this, and to those investing their time to help test, is one of the main reasons why content is restricted to the SRD for the duration of beta test.
The team absolutely are taking the feedback and ideas generated by the D&D Beyond community and using that to shape a better product. Good work community!
edit: also, the official D&D Beyond video trailer has some interesting information about the character sheet in it, around 35 seconds onwards.
Thanks for this update. I know the moderators are just helpers without official information, but you guys are doing an awesome job of making sure we at least can find what has been officially said and organize it. I have no issues with how long a test goes as long as it is actually progressing. I think this one is doing that and smartly so far. We know they are because of all the cool stuff they have done and told us about bugs and ideas. I say keep it up and just want to inspire the testers to have patient and do better at categorizing info as requested by devs to help them even more. ;) Probably one of my reasons for being like this is being an ex project manager in the IT industry. ::chuckles:: I've seen some crazy things due to rushing, missing something, etc.
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64 hours left in this month, something has to be happening very soon.
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To everyone working on DDB - you folks are AWESOME! Thank you for letting us all into your beta! To the community - thank you for being the friendliest I've ever experienced in a forum!
Someone's twitter from Curse yesterday said it'd come out today. He went on to say or Thursday or Friday. But the fact he even said it could be today has me thinking its just a matter of tying up a few loose ends and then immediately releasing it. I unfortunately don't have a url for you.
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-Vimul "Fiend-fisher" Thulinaga, Goliath Bloodhunter, Order of the Lycan
we are going to be automatically able to access Phase 2 as in it simply unlock for us when it drops or will we have to resign up for the Beta Phase 2?
I don't know for sure, but I imagine it'll just unlock. If you hover over your user name in the top right corner, the options are already there it just leads to a blocked page at the moment.
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Yep. I agree. The more time they take on this, the better. At least as long as it comes to fruition, which I imagine it will.
I'm eager to play with more, but I am glad they are not trying to go too fast either. Right now they are really working on making sure the foundation doesn't have cracks in it and with all the great bug reporting going on, some things have been fixed already. Then with comments, they have seen ideas they liked and knew they could get in within days and did so. Some things are taking longer as they want to make sure they use the right option to clear up the issue or just make things smoother.
I definitely hope they let us test the character builder several weeks so we can put it through its paces and see what breaks and what works. I know they are reading through all our ideas out of the wish list thread and probably having fun sorting out all the campaign management stuff that won't be needed when the sheet first comes out, but at least they can have the linkage of the sheet to campaigns built in the background to turn on knowing we want and need it as other things can do this out there. I'll be concentrating on ease of creation and then ease of use of the sheet as I play games using them since that is what Phase 2 will be about.
I've even stated in places to stop talking campaign management in a wish list for the char sheet. YES, it appears it will have campaign linking, but we won't be able to test that until Phase 3. Let's make sure we tell them what we want for good ole character creation and sheet organizing without making them sort through stuff for another phase. I even sent one of the staff a PM that it would help if they put up a wish list for Phase 3 just to get campaign management out of the character sheet wish list just to try to be more organized, but I'm sure they are waiting to time it closer to when they REALLY are ready for our input. I am sure someone is parsing all the wishes so they are in the right bucket to look at at the right time. Though their time could be better organized if we just stick to the right topic in any of the mega threads we post in. =)
PbP - Beregost Blues - Portia Starflower, Half Elf, Cleric, Life Domain
PbP - Tome of Annhilation - Vistani Mocanu, Human, Bard
Hey guys, a few bits of info that may help. Please remember, whilst I chat with members of the dev team, I'm not part of it, so this is just info I am personally aware of.
edit: also, the official D&D Beyond video trailer has some interesting information about the character sheet in it, around 35 seconds onwards.
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Thanks for this update. I know the moderators are just helpers without official information, but you guys are doing an awesome job of making sure we at least can find what has been officially said and organize it. I have no issues with how long a test goes as long as it is actually progressing. I think this one is doing that and smartly so far. We know they are because of all the cool stuff they have done and told us about bugs and ideas. I say keep it up and just want to inspire the testers to have patient and do better at categorizing info as requested by devs to help them even more. ;) Probably one of my reasons for being like this is being an ex project manager in the IT industry. ::chuckles:: I've seen some crazy things due to rushing, missing something, etc.
PbP - Beregost Blues - Portia Starflower, Half Elf, Cleric, Life Domain
PbP - Tome of Annhilation - Vistani Mocanu, Human, Bard
Last I heard they were talking roll out in the summer. It's almost the end of May, do we have any update on the release of phase 2?
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Last I heard it was end of June, which it almost is, and nothing has been said since. So, I'm hoping no news is good news.
I don't run from evil. Evil runs from me.
-Vimul "Fiend-fisher" Thulinaga, Goliath Bloodhunter, Order of the Lycan
Phase 2 was confirmed on twitter to be released this week.
Source: https://twitter.com/BadEyeAdam/status/876844297513029632
Creator of Balthazar Cage II blah blah blah whatever he calls himself these days.........
Awesome! Thanks for the link.
I don't run from evil. Evil runs from me.
-Vimul "Fiend-fisher" Thulinaga, Goliath Bloodhunter, Order of the Lycan
64 hours left in this month, something has to be happening very soon.
To everyone working on DDB - you folks are AWESOME! Thank you for letting us all into your beta! To the community - thank you for being the friendliest I've ever experienced in a forum!
Someone's twitter from Curse yesterday said it'd come out today. He went on to say or Thursday or Friday. But the fact he even said it could be today has me thinking its just a matter of tying up a few loose ends and then immediately releasing it. I unfortunately don't have a url for you.
I don't run from evil. Evil runs from me.
-Vimul "Fiend-fisher" Thulinaga, Goliath Bloodhunter, Order of the Lycan
There's also this. https://twitter.com/DnDBeyond/status/878121304917893120
I dont know if they are joking or not, but i'd love this!
I don't run from evil. Evil runs from me.
-Vimul "Fiend-fisher" Thulinaga, Goliath Bloodhunter, Order of the Lycan
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
Yeah, i had posted this on two separate forums, thats my bad. But im stoked for the final result of it.
I don't run from evil. Evil runs from me.
-Vimul "Fiend-fisher" Thulinaga, Goliath Bloodhunter, Order of the Lycan
Does anyone know if...
we are going to be automatically able to access Phase 2 as in it simply unlock for us when it drops or will we have to resign up for the Beta Phase 2?
That was confirmed at origins as well. Can't wait to hear how badly I've been pronouncing some of those for years now!
I don't run from evil. Evil runs from me.
-Vimul "Fiend-fisher" Thulinaga, Goliath Bloodhunter, Order of the Lycan
Hi all,
don't worry - if you currently have a D&D Beyond account, you'll automatically be included in the phase 2 & phase 3 of beta. :)
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