While I agree having better homebrew tools would be a huge boon to the site you certainly don't need to be a programmer to understand them or use at a basic level. I have players that couldn't even name a programming language that are proficient in the homebrew tools now.
True, coding might be a bit too much, but My main point is that the solutions proposed from the guy are too technical.
.... It's primarily dropdowns and text areas/inputs. These require no more programming knowledge then posting on these forums. It unfortunately does require time to learn as it is complex and in some cases convoluted how we need to make things work. How those dropdowns, text areas and inputs interact with the sheet can be confusing for sure.
If you try to use them they are not clear on what each text area does. No mouseover popups, not direction, and using an unclear connection to other things you make that are impossible for my level of teck knowledge. Ie. making a subrace for a race is impossible.
...It is also not trolling to say that it's not a paid feature of the site.
I never claimed that, what I said was that increasing the size of the letters and all caps is shouting and rude, and trolling is using this as an argument.
What we pay for is the ability to add other peoples homebrew that is already made to our collection which requires zero programming knowledge and zero knowledge of how to use the tools as someone else has done it for us. Essentially paying for the ability to bypass having to use the tools to create those things ourselves.
I am not sure about this... I tought that you can use other people can use any shared homebrew for free, but you cannot share your homebrew with others without paying.
Making homebrew and using it in our own campaigns is 100% free other than our time learning and using the tools (which again I agree is rough). Regardless of what we pay for and what time investment learning the tools is I would love better homebrew tools and I'm sure the employees/the entire community using them would too.
This is my point, I am part of the community, and I cannot really use these things. So not the entire community.
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Too technical? Most of the homebrew helpers out there tell you what screen to be on, what field to set, and what to set it to.
Yes, the tool sucks. I'm sorry you don't have the patience to figure it out.
When multiple people say the same thing and you continue to spout falsehoods, of course I'm going to try and get your attention that you're wrong.
You can use other people's homebrew if they have a character in the same campaign as you for free. You can't add community shared homebrew to your collection, this is one of the subscriber features that you pay for. You can create, share with people that have a character in any campaign you also have a character in, and publish to the community for anyone (with a subscription) can add to their collection, all for free.
Look, I don't know how else to help you learn how to use the tool. The tool sucks. There's years worth of threads on this forum trying to figure out how to do things. Sometimes the mods, or even the devs, have chimed in on how to do something. But if any tutorial I, Jay_Lane, IamSposta, naruhoodie, Cyb3rM1nd, Haravikk, or any of the other brilliant and generous people out there that have committed the time and effort into learning this tool are not able to help you, then I'm not sure what anyone can do for you.
im a front end developper , UX stuff is my job , and my current experience with this UI is making me want to send my resumee to WOTC , fix this terrible UI and then gve my 2 weeks notice once its done
Tbf it works fine for creating magic items & monsters...but making a subclass, race or subrace is a shitshow. If you edit it too many times, whole paragraphs will disappear, and not be visible on the display page, and you usually need to edit it a few times if you intend to publish it, because the automated flag system has to register you have features at all the right levels before it even gives you the option. Its literally easier to make an NPC monster that represents the subclass you're trying to create, & then put the subclass features in the monster description, then it is to make a subclass in the subclass section
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Too technical? Most of the homebrew helpers out there tell you what screen to be on, what field to set, and what to set it to.
Yes, the tool sucks. I'm sorry you don't have the patience to figure it out.
When multiple people say the same thing and you continue to spout falsehoods, of course I'm going to try and get your attention that you're wrong.
You can use other people's homebrew if they have a character in the same campaign as you for free. You can't add community shared homebrew to your collection, this is one of the subscriber features that you pay for. You can create, share with people that have a character in any campaign you also have a character in, and publish to the community for anyone (with a subscription) can add to their collection, all for free.
Look, I don't know how else to help you learn how to use the tool. The tool sucks. There's years worth of threads on this forum trying to figure out how to do things. Sometimes the mods, or even the devs, have chimed in on how to do something. But if any tutorial I, Jay_Lane, IamSposta, naruhoodie, Cyb3rM1nd, Haravikk, or any of the other brilliant and generous people out there that have committed the time and effort into learning this tool are not able to help you, then I'm not sure what anyone can do for you.
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im a front end developper , UX stuff is my job , and my current experience with this UI is making me want to send my resumee to WOTC , fix this terrible UI and then gve my 2 weeks notice once its done
Tbf it works fine for creating magic items & monsters...but making a subclass, race or subrace is a shitshow. If you edit it too many times, whole paragraphs will disappear, and not be visible on the display page, and you usually need to edit it a few times if you intend to publish it, because the automated flag system has to register you have features at all the right levels before it even gives you the option. Its literally easier to make an NPC monster that represents the subclass you're trying to create, & then put the subclass features in the monster description, then it is to make a subclass in the subclass section