Enjoying the site so far. There are so many forum threads, I don't know if this is redundant:
I think it would be very helpful to flesh out the "how to use abilities" (and therefore skills) sections. For instance, the common use of Strength (athletics) and Dex (acrobatics) in grapple competitions. Use of Constitution for concentration. Standard skill competitions (Deception vs Insight, Stealth/Sleight of hand vs Perception). Rules of long jumping and high jumping ought to be under Strength *or* linked to the appropriate rules pages. These are all common and standard uses of the ability scores and skills, and this is a great opportunity to put them all together and to list some useful standard DCs! Thanks.
Why isn't 'Difficult terrain' linked to the rules to tell me what that means?
The spells have *some* of these things with hover effects, but that is a big miss. It means I have to go somewhere else to find out what 'Difficult Terrain' means, and in a hypertext medium, that's a missed opportunity.
LINK ALL THE THINGS.
Thanks for the feedback - we will end up linking anything that makes sense to link over time.
Wouldn't call it a miss since we've yet to take a swing - we decided to hit a home run with the spells, magic items, monsters, conditions, etc. in our first at bat. The next time we head to the plate we'll crush out something else. :D
Enjoying the site so far. There are so many forum threads, I don't know if this is redundant:
I think it would be very helpful to flesh out the "how to use abilities" (and therefore skills) sections. For instance, the common use of Strength (athletics) and Dex (acrobatics) in grapple competitions. Use of Constitution for concentration. Standard skill competitions (Deception vs Insight, Stealth/Sleight of hand vs Perception). Rules of long jumping and high jumping ought to be under Strength *or* linked to the appropriate rules pages. These are all common and standard uses of the ability scores and skills, and this is a great opportunity to put them all together and to list some useful standard DCs! Thanks.
You can find all those information here:
http://www.dndbeyond.com/compendium/rules/basic-rules
True - however, my post is advocating for their linkage or inclusion with ability scores, in the spirit of offering feedback to the beta.
I believe one of the developers said that in the future the rules will be more linked.
Good feedback, it would be very useful if they were closer linked. Fortunately, like filcat says, they have indeed spoken of more!
I'll post a quote below from the project lead (from this recent thread - http://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/beta-testing-feedback/2084-link-more-things )
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