I'm not sure why the feedback thread is locked, but it would be awesome if we could get our digital dice to not scatter all over the screen when we roll. It is particularly annoying when the dice roll down into the bottom right corner of the screen. If we could just get an area marked off that the dice will only roll in, that'd be awesome, the fact that you guys could make it a rolling tray just means more stuff you can charge for.
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I deleted my answer because it was unrelated to a "dice tray" suggestion, and I found a more relevant (older) forum entry. Too bad I can't comment there :D
My main issue is that rolls take too much, making this feature unusable for my group. I already use hardware acceleration in my browser. When I say the dice rolls are 'slow', I mean that it takes too much time to click, see the result, click again to roll another one.
So I re-write here my feedback:
The idea of a dice tray is not bad if you can have a really small one so that the roll doesn't take as much as it takes now
Change the dice rolling from physical to a different randomness + visual on top, easily skippable. Right now my group is using traditional dice just because the current system is way too slow. I know Davyd already answered that "The dice should feel real and not just be some numbers on a screen". Personally I heavily disagree on this. The user experience you want to have is to click a button and obtain a cool outcome that feels random. If the main concern here is to have an SKU to sell, personally I'd go for 2D/3D animations that introduce the random number. You can have a beautiful flower that blooms and shows the number inside. A dragon belching the number. Whatever. And it can be fast. I'd personally buy all of them, since I think the current dice are a bit ugly lol (I have a lot of them since I subscribed since a long time ago and pre-order the books). And if we wanna be picky, the current implementation is not necessarily real. A real dice is faster to roll, because it doesn't bounce like a gummy ball for 3 seconds. It flops in the tray. If you really want the dice tray, you can do it like Baldur's Gate III does. It's a fake anim, looks good and you can skip it.
We use dndbeyond because we want to have a faster, better UX than paper. Trying to replicate a tabletop experience is useless, otherwise we would just play with paper and real dice right?
I personally love dndbeyond for the character creation (it helps newbies go through the char creation process, and level up easily), and I hope you guys can keep on implementing good ways to enhance the dnd experience. Not replicating pen and paper.
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I'm not sure why the feedback thread is locked, but it would be awesome if we could get our digital dice to not scatter all over the screen when we roll. It is particularly annoying when the dice roll down into the bottom right corner of the screen. If we could just get an area marked off that the dice will only roll in, that'd be awesome, the fact that you guys could make it a rolling tray just means more stuff you can charge for.
"In the beginning the universe was created.
This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move."
I deleted my answer because it was unrelated to a "dice tray" suggestion, and I found a more relevant (older) forum entry. Too bad I can't comment there :D
My main issue is that rolls take too much, making this feature unusable for my group. I already use hardware acceleration in my browser. When I say the dice rolls are 'slow', I mean that it takes too much time to click, see the result, click again to roll another one.
So I re-write here my feedback:
We use dndbeyond because we want to have a faster, better UX than paper. Trying to replicate a tabletop experience is useless, otherwise we would just play with paper and real dice right?
I personally love dndbeyond for the character creation (it helps newbies go through the char creation process, and level up easily), and I hope you guys can keep on implementing good ways to enhance the dnd experience. Not replicating pen and paper.