I clicked on the "when is it for me" link and it still said Friday, guess that just did not get updated yet. I am looking forward to see what new features are coming to this great app.
I clicked on the "when is it for me" link and it still said Friday, guess that just did not get updated yet. I am looking forward to see what new features are coming to this great app.
In relation to the question of adding an offline desktop app dof use on laptops/tablets in areas where internet is problematic, how many people would you need to be wanting that feature for you to add that to the schedule?
Howdy folks - Mordenkainen disrupted the timeline again (Archmages and their spells, I tell ya!). Please note that the updated time and day for the stream is Wednesday 23rd May, starting at 1pm Pacific Time.
The time (and link to check what time it is for you based on where you are) have been updated in the original post. Hope to catch you all on the stream (even if all you get from me personally is the sound of me snoring at 4am on this side of the world)!
Howdy folks - Mordenkainen disrupted the timeline again (Archmages and their spells, I tell ya!). Please note that the updated time and day for the stream is Wednesday 23rd May, starting at 1pm Pacific Time.
The time (and link to check what time it is for you based on where you are) have been updated in the original post. Hope to catch you all on the stream (even if all you get from me personally is the sound of me snoring at 4am on this side of the world)!
So... 4pm EST, right? Hopefully I'm out of my meeting by then. :-/
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You don't OWN your books on DDB: WotC can change them any time. What do you think will happen when OneD&D comes out?
Are there any plans to make Battlemaster maneuvers more visible on the character sheet? Right now they're buried in the class features section and can hard to find if your don't no what to look.
Are there any plans to include the spell selection restrictions for Eldritch Knights and Arcane Tricksters? ie EKs needing to pick most of their spells from the Abjuration or Evocation schools, and ATs from Enchantment or Illusion.
Last time you mentioned that the character sheet revamp was focusing on the desktop experience rather tablet or mobile app experience first due to your site data telling you that most people used laptops. However, several people said wait no, desktop during the week but dnd session we use the tablet. This appeared to me like one of the dangers of data mining without feedback. Have you considered an area of the site where you can post theories based on the data you are gathering and get users to confirm if that hypothesis is true?
Also can you maybe schedule a update at a different time so those of us in different geos have a chance at winning the legendary bundles?
With the inclusion of critical role content will the Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting be added to dnd beyond digital content to buy?
Also please add some content for DMs soon they do so much for dnd sessions. Keep up the good work
I'll see about getting to the other questions during the stream, but I'm going to address the first one here since it will take too much time to explain.
Last time you mentioned that the character sheet revamp was focusing on the desktop experience rather tablet or mobile app experience first due to your site data telling you that most people used laptops. However, several people said wait no, desktop during the week but dnd session we use the tablet. This appeared to me like one of the dangers of data mining without feedback. Have you considered an area of the site where you can post theories based on the data you are gathering and get users to confirm if that hypothesis is true?
You're making several assumptions here that aren't actually true:
You refer to "several people said wait no" - there's really no way to quantify "several" in this case, and this is an opinion that 1) goes against your core argument that data should be understood within its context and 2) indicates that we don't have other ways to verify the data. You can't say "several people" or "everyone I know" or any variation of that and it be meaningful when weighed against the sheer scale of feedback that we process.
You also assume we have mined data without feedback, but I assure you that any data we use is fully vetted against the hundreds of thousands of points of feedback that we regularly consume, and we never use data in an agnostic way. For instance, we can actually pin down fairly confidently when people are playing instead of planning their characters within the context of a campaign based on the number of active users viewing their characters simultaneously within it (the likelihood that people are all theory-crafting at the same time is reasonably safe to exclude).
And lastly, I'll share a bit more about this during the stream from another question, but we will begin to allow feature submissions and community voting in the near future to get yet another point of feedback to add to the mix.
I apologize if any of that comes across as terse - definitely meant to give more information about our process and not to "argue." I'm also short on time since I've got to read through all these other questions right now. :)
For instance, we can actually pin down fairly confidently when people are playing instead of planning their characters within the context of a campaign based on the number of active users viewing their characters simultaneously within it (the likelihood that people are all theory-crafting at the same time is reasonably safe to exclude).
He knows when you've been planning, he knows when you partake, he knows if your character's been bad or good, so be good for goodness sake!
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"Most people are other people. Their thoughts are someone else's opinions, their lives a mimicry, their passions a quotation."
This was posted quite some time ago as a bug - can you advise how far down the roadmap this is going to be to implement (Sorce advised it would be looked at after the character sheet revamp)
Can we please have a change to the way that items which have once per day spells are implemented?
eg - an instrument of the bards (eg Cli Lyre) has seven spells that can each be cast once per day. However, the way it is implemented is that it has seven charges that can be utlilised however you want, implying that you can cast the same spell seven times.
Is is possible that an option for these types of items to have spells applied to the similar to how racial spells are applied (eg Drow magic gives one at-will cantrip and two once per rest spells) that have a Use/Used toggle. This would make it easier if an in-game day is split between multiple real life sessions - otherwise there is no way (without re-inventing the wheel by making a note of what spells you have used either in hard copy or in the notes field) of keeping a track of which spells have been used.
Within the context of the character sheet revamp - is any attention being given to the section that allows you to modify the AC calculation and bonuses? Currently in my opinion it's not very intuitive, with the first two options to customize both seeming to override the full AC calculation and no option that automatically adds your DEX modifier.
What would be really great would be to have radio buttons if you have multiple ways to calculate your AC (Mage Armor, Unarmored Defense, Default Calculation etc.) and a quick-access bonus AC box that could be changed on the fly for more temporary effects such as from Shield or Shield of Faith.
Within the context of the character sheet revamp - is any attention being given to the section that allows you to modify the AC calculation and bonuses? Currently in my opinion it's not very intuitive, with the first two options to customize both seeming to override the full AC calculation and no option that automatically adds your DEX modifier.
What would be really great would be to have radio buttons if you have multiple ways to calculate your AC (Mage Armor, Unarmored Defense, Default Calculation etc.) and a quick-access bonus AC box that could be changed on the fly for more temporary effects such as from Shield or Shield of Faith.
It's not particularly great right now but there are options to customise defenses. Just click the defenses button.
But my questions:
Can we have cards breakdown for backgrounds?
Can we have search optimisations? Currently, when I search, I almost always want to see cards first. So I either have to scroll or load another page as I click a filter. And, usually, when I play, I do it from a low power laptop so it takes a lot of time. I wish I could set default filters and sorts.
I also second some way for better visibility of class features. My main is a Monk (I consider that the most complicated non-caster) which I often forget some features of (A lot at level 13) and would really appreciate a better layout for features.
Last time you mentioned that the character sheet revamp was focusing on the desktop experience rather tablet or mobile app experience first due to your site data telling you that most people used laptops. However, several people said wait no, desktop during the week but dnd session we use the tablet. This appeared to me like one of the dangers of data mining without feedback. Have you considered an area of the site where you can post theories based on the data you are gathering and get users to confirm if that hypothesis is true?
Also can you maybe schedule a update at a different time so those of us in different geos have a chance at winning the legendary bundles?
With the inclusion of critical role content will the Critical Role: Tal'Dorei Campaign Setting be added to dnd beyond digital content to buy?
Also please add some content for DMs soon they do so much for dnd sessions. Keep up the good work
I'll see about getting to the other questions during the stream, but I'm going to address the first one here since it will take too much time to explain.
Last time you mentioned that the character sheet revamp was focusing on the desktop experience rather tablet or mobile app experience first due to your site data telling you that most people used laptops. However, several people said wait no, desktop during the week but dnd session we use the tablet. This appeared to me like one of the dangers of data mining without feedback. Have you considered an area of the site where you can post theories based on the data you are gathering and get users to confirm if that hypothesis is true?
You're making several assumptions here that aren't actually true:
You refer to "several people said wait no" - there's really no way to quantify "several" in this case, and this is an opinion that 1) goes against your core argument that data should be understood within its context and 2) indicates that we don't have other ways to verify the data. You can't say "several people" or "everyone I know" or any variation of that and it be meaningful when weighed against the sheer scale of feedback that we process.
You also assume we have mined data without feedback, but I assure you that any data we use is fully vetted against the hundreds of thousands of points of feedback that we regularly consume, and we never use data in an agnostic way. For instance, we can actually pin down fairly confidently when people are playing instead of planning their characters within the context of a campaign based on the number of active users viewing their characters simultaneously within it (the likelihood that people are all theory-crafting at the same time is reasonably safe to exclude).
And lastly, I'll share a bit more about this during the stream from another question, but we will begin to allow feature submissions and community voting in the near future to get yet another point of feedback to add to the mix.
I apologize if any of that comes across as terse - definitely meant to give more information about our process and not to "argue." I'm also short on time since I've got to read through all these other questions right now. :)
Thanks!
A bit of devil's advocate here just based on my experience: Half the people in my campaign don't use DDB during the session, because they currently find it too cumbersome (the hope is that the revamp will fix that). However, they've entered the character into DDB on my request, because I find it an excellent resource for when I'm planning sessions, and building things against their strengths and weaknesses. I can't speak for anyone else's experience, of course, but I can ask out of curiosity-- Would having 50% of a campaign active at one time constitute as "playing" or as "planning" for the purposes of your data?
I'll also say that as the DM I'm probably putting more strain onto DDB than my players, and I'll be using a laptop as a DM, not a tablet (and always a tablet as a player). I'll have all of their character sheets up, and set on an autorefresher while we play, so that I can see their ongoing details, and gauge how difficult I can make the encounter in response. Would this affect the datapoints at all, or would the refreshing laptop count as only 1 in total, and not 1 per sheet, or a larger 1 with the refreshing?
I obviously don't know how other DMs prepare, other than the one I play for and myself, but I wonder if DM's monitoring sheets during gameplay, on their laptop with their other adventure notes, is something you guys are already differentiating between, something that may be overlooked, or something that you have evidence is just something applicable to a small minority of us DMs running out of DDB.
Howdy folks - Mordenkainen disrupted the timeline again (Archmages and their spells, I tell ya!). Please note that the updated time and day for the stream is Wednesday 23rd May, starting at 1pm Pacific Time.
The time (and link to check what time it is for you based on where you are) have been updated in the original post. Hope to catch you all on the stream (even if all you get from me personally is the sound of me snoring at 4am on this side of the world)!
Ugh.... That's RIGHT during my commute.
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Thank you, meant Friday the 25th but made a typo.
I clicked on the "when is it for me" link and it still said Friday, guess that just did not get updated yet. I am looking forward to see what new features are coming to this great app.
In relation to the question of adding an offline desktop app dof use on laptops/tablets in areas where internet is problematic, how many people would you need to be wanting that feature for you to add that to the schedule?
Howdy folks - Mordenkainen disrupted the timeline again (Archmages and their spells, I tell ya!). Please note that the updated time and day for the stream is Wednesday 23rd May, starting at 1pm Pacific Time.
The time (and link to check what time it is for you based on where you are) have been updated in the original post. Hope to catch you all on the stream (even if all you get from me personally is the sound of me snoring at 4am on this side of the world)!
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Well, that just screws up everything for me.
You don't OWN your books on DDB: WotC can change them any time. What do you think will happen when OneD&D comes out?
Dang, that sucks. I overfilled my Wednesday with meetings so that I could catch the dev update on Thursday. :( Oh well!
When does the non-live version go up?
Are there any plans to make Battlemaster maneuvers more visible on the character sheet? Right now they're buried in the class features section and can hard to find if your don't no what to look.
Are there any plans to include the spell selection restrictions for Eldritch Knights and Arcane Tricksters? ie EKs needing to pick most of their spells from the Abjuration or Evocation schools, and ATs from Enchantment or Illusion.
I apologize if any of that comes across as terse - definitely meant to give more information about our process and not to "argue." I'm also short on time since I've got to read through all these other questions right now. :)
Thanks!
Can’t wait for the stream.
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This was posted quite some time ago as a bug - can you advise how far down the roadmap this is going to be to implement (Sorce advised it would be looked at after the character sheet revamp)
Can we please have a change to the way that items which have once per day spells are implemented?
eg - an instrument of the bards (eg Cli Lyre) has seven spells that can each be cast once per day. However, the way it is implemented is that it has seven charges that can be utlilised however you want, implying that you can cast the same spell seven times.
Is is possible that an option for these types of items to have spells applied to the similar to how racial spells are applied (eg Drow magic gives one at-will cantrip and two once per rest spells) that have a Use/Used toggle. This would make it easier if an in-game day is split between multiple real life sessions - otherwise there is no way (without re-inventing the wheel by making a note of what spells you have used either in hard copy or in the notes field) of keeping a track of which spells have been used.
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Within the context of the character sheet revamp - is any attention being given to the section that allows you to modify the AC calculation and bonuses? Currently in my opinion it's not very intuitive, with the first two options to customize both seeming to override the full AC calculation and no option that automatically adds your DEX modifier.
What would be really great would be to have radio buttons if you have multiple ways to calculate your AC (Mage Armor, Unarmored Defense, Default Calculation etc.) and a quick-access bonus AC box that could be changed on the fly for more temporary effects such as from Shield or Shield of Faith.
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Is there any plan to allow creation of race groups so we can group subraces for a homebrew race together?
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Software Engineer & Dungeon Master
"Do not meddle in the affairs of wizards, for they are subtle and quick to anger." - J. R. R. Tolkien
"Do not meddle in the affairs of dragons, for you are crunchy and taste good with ketchup" - Anonymous