I love D&D Beyond, and it keeps D&D several steps ahead of other games for me because of the convenience it provides for new and old players alike. I've maintained a DM Grade subscription for a long time and have never felt it was money wasted.
The amount of content in the system has become immense. Searching needs to be cleaned up. It needs ways to exclude certain sources. It needs a way to set your search preferences so you don't constantly have to enable certain toggles with every new search. The default exclusion of third-party content in a lot of searches is also pretty sad considering how much great variety their inclusion has brought into the service.
Tools for generating treasure from across all your sources would be neat as well.
MAPS!
Let me start by saying, that we play D&D at a table, that is how I prefer it, I enjoy the social connection. We have a TV set built into our table and everyone has tablets or laptops. We use a combination of physical dice, digital dice, and sometimes miniatures, but often just tokens on the digital maps.
Please please keep developing maps. Project Sigil is neat, but after playing around with the Beta I just can't see our group using it a lot. It doesn't present as a tool that you can easily have a 'spectator' mode for, and not every table or device is going to be able to run it. Not to mention I doubt it is going to be able to run in a browser.
An easier way to create custom tokens in maps. Creating a whole homebrew monster just to get a token into the map is a bit of a pain.
The ability to project auras from tokens, turn them off and on, etc.
I'd love to see symbols/rings for conditions that you can attach to tokens.
Monster token look-up cannot filter or tell which are updated monsters, and their source if they are legacy... it can be a real pain to make sure you are loading in the correct thing.
A marker for elevation would be lovely. This can be hard to track.
Dynamic lighting and/or animated maps would also be cool, but I realize that is a big ask and likely a long way off.
Thanks for taking the time to look at my thoughts, I'm sure none of them are unique but I wanted to pass along the feedback.
Keep up the great work.
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I love D&D Beyond, and it keeps D&D several steps ahead of other games for me because of the convenience it provides for new and old players alike. I've maintained a DM Grade subscription for a long time and have never felt it was money wasted.
The amount of content in the system has become immense. Searching needs to be cleaned up. It needs ways to exclude certain sources. It needs a way to set your search preferences so you don't constantly have to enable certain toggles with every new search. The default exclusion of third-party content in a lot of searches is also pretty sad considering how much great variety their inclusion has brought into the service.
Tools for generating treasure from across all your sources would be neat as well.
MAPS!
Let me start by saying, that we play D&D at a table, that is how I prefer it, I enjoy the social connection. We have a TV set built into our table and everyone has tablets or laptops. We use a combination of physical dice, digital dice, and sometimes miniatures, but often just tokens on the digital maps.
Please please keep developing maps. Project Sigil is neat, but after playing around with the Beta I just can't see our group using it a lot. It doesn't present as a tool that you can easily have a 'spectator' mode for, and not every table or device is going to be able to run it. Not to mention I doubt it is going to be able to run in a browser.
An easier way to create custom tokens in maps. Creating a whole homebrew monster just to get a token into the map is a bit of a pain.
The ability to project auras from tokens, turn them off and on, etc.
I'd love to see symbols/rings for conditions that you can attach to tokens.
Monster token look-up cannot filter or tell which are updated monsters, and their source if they are legacy... it can be a real pain to make sure you are loading in the correct thing.
A marker for elevation would be lovely. This can be hard to track.
Dynamic lighting and/or animated maps would also be cool, but I realize that is a big ask and likely a long way off.
Thanks for taking the time to look at my thoughts, I'm sure none of them are unique but I wanted to pass along the feedback.
Keep up the great work.