Until very recently, DDB allowed DMs to add unlimited text to the Description, Private Notes, and Public Notes sections of My Campaigns. Without announcement, DDB has limited text input in these boxes to 2048 characters (roughly 7.5 tweets). For those who have exceeded that limit, you cannot save new changes to those text boxes without deleting what you have previously written.
DMs, in your utilization of DDB campaign pages, how much space would you like provided to type up your notes?
I don't think I've ever written anything in those private or public notes boxes, and it didn't really occur to me that anyone would ever put a huge amount of text in there, but it does seem pretty awful to have put a limit like that on them without warning anyone in advance.
I don't understand their actions here. They've done so much to build campaign tools and trackers into the toolset so that you can fully run and plan your campaign in DDB, so why limit people's ability to world build and track progress in their online campaigns?
Honestly, I suspect they did not realize anyone was using those fields for this kind of thing to this extent. I think the vast majority of people running campaigns on D&D Beyond do not put a significant amount of text in these fields and use other, more feature-rich tools for managing this stuff. Certainly they should've checked for this beforehand, though, and dropping it without warning was obviously a mistake.
FYI they've since rolled back the change (see here).
Thanks for the rollback. Pit in my stomach cleared.
I do use campaign notes to a great extent. Every session (I DM at least five a week) might lead to just a paragraph-long recap of 1000 characters or so, but they turn into sprawling epics that the dozens of players I invite to join me on DDB have as a testament to their adventures. To make things simpler for my players (I teach a lot of kids how to play), I try to stick to just DDB, a simple VTT and our video platform. I recently migrated one campaign from that VTT to Maps and was considering on migrating the rest.
Super usage of campaign notes is a sign of dedication to DDB, and I appreciate seeing that reciprocated, not punished.
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Until very recently, DDB allowed DMs to add unlimited text to the Description, Private Notes, and Public Notes sections of My Campaigns. Without announcement, DDB has limited text input in these boxes to 2048 characters (roughly 7.5 tweets). For those who have exceeded that limit, you cannot save new changes to those text boxes without deleting what you have previously written.
DMs, in your utilization of DDB campaign pages, how much space would you like provided to type up your notes?
I don't think I've ever written anything in those private or public notes boxes, and it didn't really occur to me that anyone would ever put a huge amount of text in there, but it does seem pretty awful to have put a limit like that on them without warning anyone in advance.
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I don't understand their actions here. They've done so much to build campaign tools and trackers into the toolset so that you can fully run and plan your campaign in DDB, so why limit people's ability to world build and track progress in their online campaigns?
Honestly, I suspect they did not realize anyone was using those fields for this kind of thing to this extent. I think the vast majority of people running campaigns on D&D Beyond do not put a significant amount of text in these fields and use other, more feature-rich tools for managing this stuff. Certainly they should've checked for this beforehand, though, and dropping it without warning was obviously a mistake.
FYI they've since rolled back the change (see here).
pronouns: he/she/they
Thanks for the rollback. Pit in my stomach cleared.
I do use campaign notes to a great extent. Every session (I DM at least five a week) might lead to just a paragraph-long recap of 1000 characters or so, but they turn into sprawling epics that the dozens of players I invite to join me on DDB have as a testament to their adventures. To make things simpler for my players (I teach a lot of kids how to play), I try to stick to just DDB, a simple VTT and our video platform. I recently migrated one campaign from that VTT to Maps and was considering on migrating the rest.
Super usage of campaign notes is a sign of dedication to DDB, and I appreciate seeing that reciprocated, not punished.