In the character sheet's Extras section, when looking at an Extra's stat block in the sidebar, there are a few differences from how monster stat blocks are displayed elsewhere on the site that can negatively impact the system's usability:
The Bonus Actions section is not displayed at all, which is a problem if important informaton would be listed there (for example, a Sidekick Warrior made through the Homebrew system would likely have its Second Wind feature in the Bonus Actions section.)
Proficiency Bonus is not displayed.
Adding a Sidekick as an Extra after creating it through the Homebrew system (as seems to be the officially recommended way to play them on D&D Beyond), using Challenge Rating as their Sidekick Level in order to get the correct Proficiency Bonus, if we add them under --Choose a category -- > Sidekick their Proficiency Bonus isn't added to their Saving Throws or Skills as it is when viewing the stat block on the Sidekick's details page or if instead adding them under --Choose a category-- > Misc.
Skills are ordered with Strength skills first, then Dexterity skills, Constitution, Intelligence, Wisdom, then Charisma, instead of being listed alphabetically like they are in stat blocks viewed elsewhere.
So I just learned that bonus actions don't show up in extras. This seems like a pretty big oversight considering even supported monsters (ie not sidekicks/homebrew) have bonus actions. I'm normally not a player and my players only use monster/npc stat blocks through extras. I'm wondering now how much they've just not known they can use because of this.
Dndbeyond seems to have a really hard time finishing any one tool jumping to the next new thing and forgetting about the stuff that's only partially complete. I'm fine with incremental releases but most of these tools/features have been around for a really long time with minimal or no improvement since their initial releases.
Yeah, with existing official creatures such as Boggles and Korreds having been updated with the release of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight to actually use the Bonus Actions section instead of listing bonus actions as traits, and it being standard for the newly introduced creatures, including that section suddenly became more important. I'm not sure whether Witchlight was the first time it was used or not.
It seems this issue is still unresolved to this day. I have added an extra (sidekick) to each of my 5 players, and the same issues listed above are present:
Missing proficiency bonuses
Sections of the full monster stat sheet (bonus actions) are missing
Proficient skills are not ordered alphabetically, but by ability score (STR,DEX,CON,INT,WIS,CHA)
It'd be nice for this issue to be at least acknowledged by an admin. Even if it's just to say "hi, this doesn't have our priority, but it's been put on the backlog"
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In the character sheet's Extras section, when looking at an Extra's stat block in the sidebar, there are a few differences from how monster stat blocks are displayed elsewhere on the site that can negatively impact the system's usability:
So I just learned that bonus actions don't show up in extras. This seems like a pretty big oversight considering even supported monsters (ie not sidekicks/homebrew) have bonus actions. I'm normally not a player and my players only use monster/npc stat blocks through extras. I'm wondering now how much they've just not known they can use because of this.
Dndbeyond seems to have a really hard time finishing any one tool jumping to the next new thing and forgetting about the stuff that's only partially complete. I'm fine with incremental releases but most of these tools/features have been around for a really long time with minimal or no improvement since their initial releases.
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Yeah, with existing official creatures such as Boggles and Korreds having been updated with the release of The Wild Beyond the Witchlight to actually use the Bonus Actions section instead of listing bonus actions as traits, and it being standard for the newly introduced creatures, including that section suddenly became more important. I'm not sure whether Witchlight was the first time it was used or not.
Hi, time traveler here!
It seems this issue is still unresolved to this day. I have added an extra (sidekick) to each of my 5 players, and the same issues listed above are present:
Any update on this? This still seems to be an issue.
Is there a work around?
It'd be nice for this issue to be at least acknowledged by an admin. Even if it's just to say "hi, this doesn't have our priority, but it's been put on the backlog"