I have scanned a BUNCH of the threads here and what I find missing is a DM screen. Is there any plans in the future for DDB to create a customizable digital DM screen?
There’s been a lot of discussion about it, and last I heard it talked about by staff, it was on the roadmap out there somewhere in the hazy future. One of the challenges is that if you ask 20 DMs what they want on a digital DM screen, or what it should do, you get at least 20 different answers.
Since the last time I heard staff discuss it (over a year ago, now), we do have the beginnings of what some people have asked for in a DM screen: Both the Campaign View in the app and the “Run Encounter” feature in the Encounters tool of the website interface will show AC, HP, and some other stats for PCs in an encounter/campaign.
If you would share what, specifically, you would like to see in a “digital DM screen,” the mods and/or staff will take that and add it to the tool they are using to consolidate and collect feedback that is used for planning future features.
If you want a digital DM screen by DDB, the mobile app on a tablet is your best option, as it has the all of the ACs and passives of the PCs in your campaign on a single screen, something the web browser version is still lacking.
There are Chrome extensions that function as a DM screen using the DDB info, though, which might be useful to you
Leaving OGL 1.0(a) untouched and making SRD 5.1 CC-BY-4.0 is a great first step. The next is a promise to do the same for future editions. Here's a discussion thread on that.
I have scanned a BUNCH of the threads here and what I find missing is a DM screen. Is there any plans in the future for DDB to create a customizable digital DM screen?
There’s been a lot of discussion about it, and last I heard it talked about by staff, it was on the roadmap out there somewhere in the hazy future. One of the challenges is that if you ask 20 DMs what they want on a digital DM screen, or what it should do, you get at least 20 different answers.
Since the last time I heard staff discuss it (over a year ago, now), we do have the beginnings of what some people have asked for in a DM screen: Both the Campaign View in the app and the “Run Encounter” feature in the Encounters tool of the website interface will show AC, HP, and some other stats for PCs in an encounter/campaign.
If you would share what, specifically, you would like to see in a “digital DM screen,” the mods and/or staff will take that and add it to the tool they are using to consolidate and collect feedback that is used for planning future features.
Trying to Decide if DDB is for you? A few helpful threads: A Buyer's Guide to DDB; What I/We Bought and Why; How some DMs use DDB; A Newer Thread on Using DDB to Play
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If you want a digital DM screen by DDB, the mobile app on a tablet is your best option, as it has the all of the ACs and passives of the PCs in your campaign on a single screen, something the web browser version is still lacking.
There are Chrome extensions that function as a DM screen using the DDB info, though, which might be useful to you
Leaving OGL 1.0(a) untouched and making SRD 5.1 CC-BY-4.0 is a great first step. The next is a promise to do the same for future editions. Here's a discussion thread on that.
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