We had a player out, so my other 2 players were to show up with 11th level character sheets. One showed up with a printed char sheet from Beyond, and the other was going to make his on the app at the table (boo).
"Here, take a look at it."
I see sources - free rules; Nick; something about slowing things down by rejiggering initiative; origin feat; missing ability scores from a human; "Yep, you built it using 2024 rules." "I did? I thought I turned them off!"
It was faster to toss his original sheet and rebuild it using just the correct, proper ruleset (5e, not 5.24) with someone who knows how to skip/bypass all the 2024 stuff, and reprint it.
The other guy got a "You're an 11th level paladin, so your numbers are around here, and you can do X, Y, and Z and here's a summary of the common Paladin spells" because there wasn't going to be time to rebuild his as well and apparently navigating turning sources off on the phone app is complicated.
More time wasted because all the non-savvy players have a hard time correctly identifying what to use because there is NO WAY to turn off the 5.24 edition rules. Two more players have now been steered away from using D&D Beyond through actual play experience with it screwing things up and making gaming harder instead of easier.
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We had a player out, so my other 2 players were to show up with 11th level character sheets. One showed up with a printed char sheet from Beyond, and the other was going to make his on the app at the table (boo).
"Here, take a look at it."
I see sources - free rules; Nick; something about slowing things down by rejiggering initiative; origin feat; missing ability scores from a human; "Yep, you built it using 2024 rules."
"I did? I thought I turned them off!"
It was faster to toss his original sheet and rebuild it using just the correct, proper ruleset (5e, not 5.24) with someone who knows how to skip/bypass all the 2024 stuff, and reprint it.
The other guy got a "You're an 11th level paladin, so your numbers are around here, and you can do X, Y, and Z and here's a summary of the common Paladin spells" because there wasn't going to be time to rebuild his as well and apparently navigating turning sources off on the phone app is complicated.
More time wasted because all the non-savvy players have a hard time correctly identifying what to use because there is NO WAY to turn off the 5.24 edition rules. Two more players have now been steered away from using D&D Beyond through actual play experience with it screwing things up and making gaming harder instead of easier.