Let me preface this block of text by mentioning that I've just started using the service to test it out and see what it's like, and have only really used it for around a week now, across three campaigns that I have characters in.
After using Beyond for a bit I've got some things that seem wonky to me, as well as some things that are a disappointment currently. On the whole, the service is handy, so props for that. Here's a list of wants/issues I had:
General stat bar across the top (with initiative, hp etc.) doesn't pin to top of screen.
As a spellcaster, or just while you're taking a quick note of something, it'd be nice if I didn't have to scroll all the way back up the page to find my initiative, hp, perception etc.
In the attacks section, the racial cantrip from being an Elf is fairly awkward to get to - I'd argue in most cases it doesn't matter where it comes from, and should just display like other spell attacks without extra things to need to expand out
Notes section: this section is what initially sold me on trying out Beyond, but now that I've used it in actual sessions I feel like it needs a lot of work
There's no formatting, as far as I can tell (even tried html/markdown), once you get a longer list of contacts/allies it becomes very difficult to read without some sort of formatting like bolding names etc.
should really be able to re-arrange the sections, or at least rename them as needed
Lastly the pdf export really needs work - I probably won't be using it personally, but I did try it out since I'm still trying to decide if I'm going to keep using Beyond
a bunch of extra ancillary information gets added - just the names of every feature from the class, including "Hit Points", "Proficiencies" etc. but without explaining any of it, or even the actually useful information about them, like how far Darkvision can see for that particular character or what "Arcane Recovery" is
I realize these are things that most players just straight up know, but when you have a bunch going on within a character it's easy to get your numbers confused
Doesn't scale the text down when there's too much of it to fit in the boxes
For Wizard, the spellbook doesn't get put into the spell list - only spells that are prepared
Please let me know if I'm missing functionality somewhere - I really want to like this, saves my scatterbrain from having to remember which character does what in my various groups.
Almost all of that is on the to-be-fixed list. Several of those bulletpoints are expected to be part of the deluxe character sheet revamp, which is expected "sometime this quarter".
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There's a complete overhaul of the entire character sheet happening currently and it's due to go live fairly soon (the team said Q1, so should be before the end of March).
The PDF export is a placeholder and will also be replaced.
(the team said Q1, so should be before the end of March).
So that's what "this quarter" means!
By the way, has anyone reported that quoting someone now inserts a line-break-thing (I'm not sure what it's actually called) above the quoted post and a second one below it?
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Hi guys,
Let me preface this block of text by mentioning that I've just started using the service to test it out and see what it's like, and have only really used it for around a week now, across three campaigns that I have characters in.
After using Beyond for a bit I've got some things that seem wonky to me, as well as some things that are a disappointment currently. On the whole, the service is handy, so props for that. Here's a list of wants/issues I had:
Please let me know if I'm missing functionality somewhere - I really want to like this, saves my scatterbrain from having to remember which character does what in my various groups.
Almost all of that is on the to-be-fixed list. Several of those bulletpoints are expected to be part of the deluxe character sheet revamp, which is expected "sometime this quarter".
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" -- allegedly Benjamin Franklin
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Well, I have good news!
There's a complete overhaul of the entire character sheet happening currently and it's due to go live fairly soon (the team said Q1, so should be before the end of March).
The PDF export is a placeholder and will also be replaced.
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Thanks folks,
I guess I'll try to pay attention to the forum and hope the revamp is what I'm looking for.
One further question: are the features/to-do's posted somewhere publicly? Would be nice to see what's up and coming.