Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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I appreciate all the hard work to give us the new dice features, but I agree that the new dice take up too much of the screen, get cocked more often as a result, and stay on the screen way too long. I am sure you guys can resolve these issues, but just wanted to let you know. Thanks for all your hard work!
The performance issues have been resolved, but what bothers me most about the new dice is that they stay on the screen for too long. Every time I roll, I think to myself, "Can you just leave already?"
It’s not good. Overly large dice with no option to change size. Compounding this issue is that the die stay on screen too long. And if you roll more than one roll like in character creation it blocks the majority of the screen and bulks up with each roll unless you wait for every roll to disappear
The new giant dice are a pain in the a$$ +++
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Who really thought the dice roller needed updating?
Seriously point the finger on this one guys.
Dice rolling has been kind of mess since this change. Some people don't even get their own results but others see them. There needs to be a setting to let you see your own dice roll on your own character sheet but not see everyone's rolls too. Any time the GM asks all the players to roll something like perception, we don't get the opportunity to even see our own results with the cascade of dice popping up, loudly. I get that they want to make this feel more like being together at a table top, but if your own dice roll doesn't linger for you then it is more an annoyance than a help.
Lots of people were complaining that the VTT didn't show dice rolling across the screen. Point the finger at players.
Not sure which VTT you're talking about, we use FoundryVTT and Beyond20 extension in browsers, dice display on screen just fine. Or at least they did, until they updated the dice roller and mucked everything up. Now we've had to disable the extensions, and I need yet another window open to watch the gamelog in order to see the players' dice rolls (i'm the DM). Meanwhile the players have the annoyance of having everyone else's die rolls interfere with their own ability to roll whenever I ask for a group roll (and those on lower powered devices like laptops run into performance issues from all the dice their laptops now need to display on screen).
This is a serious mess. I'm all for new features, but this should have been left alone until properly tested.
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Have you checked it lately with the updates today? It's gotten a lot better.
New options. And they will be implementing a small dice size soon I believe. There was a reddit post about it in response to our feedback btw.
BTW if you are the DM of the campaign (or more specifically the campaign owner), you will always see "self" instead of "DM".
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Have played every version of the game since Basic (original Red Box Set), except that abomination sometimes called 4e.
Yeah, there was and should be three options for players, Self, DM and Everyone. From what I've seen whoever was working on it never used it/tested it as a player in a campaign (not the DM/campaign creator).
So much so I've seen them telling people that 'to self' never really existed for players. It was the equivalent of 'to dm' in their minds since they only saw it as the DM. And that clicking to clear completed dice was never a feature on player sheets. I don't think they realize player's of the campaign saw different things then the DM. Even after several people reporting it as missing features.
A little frustrating to be told it's our memory that's incorrect when it's both in their own previous feature release video (even in the thumbnail), and they can just set the new dice flag release flag to false to see that clicking used to clear completed dice rolls (start their clean up animation) themselves as a player still. It'd be fine if it was just that they chose to remove these features instead of not realizing they existed.
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i know exactly what you're talking about and it drives me insane. you literally have Devs in the discord trying to gaslight users into thinking features never existed
I'd love to get that clear on a click feature back.
I don't want to see everyone else's die roles. I just want to see the result as a player or DM. I don't want to see their graphics, I like to see my graphics.
Who ever asked to see everyone's die roles must be running a huge big screen with some ridiculously high resolution settings. Or was not thinking about everyone else.
Put some expand/reduce buttons on the equipment list for character sheets. When I move equipment from the party list I can't move up high enough to get top of my personal list. Or put the vertical slide on it.
Put the cheap navigation bar back on the top of the DDB entry screen.
Cut it out with all the graphics loading on the entry screen. Its slowing down my old cheep machines. Its just advertising for your new DDB internet stuff.
Remember often times less is more.
Then use the newly added option to turn others rolls off. You now have three options:
It's been an oft requested feature, since before Maps even came out and encounters were being run in the encounter tool.
This would be feedback better suited to its own thread where it'll actually get seen
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Didn't need the switch, didn't want the switch. Lost the best dice set cause they don't know what they're doing, someone needs to get their head out of their ass and stop breaking shit we pay for.
So another update, and I happily see a new setting in the dice roller: "Only my dice: only see your own rolls." Great! Perfect! ... and then I discovered that it means you can't see the result of other people's rolls in the log. I really need you to understand that many many people want to see what the rest of their party rolled, but not by having a handful of other people's dice block their access to their character sheet.
There are two things you need to do:
Disconnect the dice roller and log settings, so that you can stop seeing anyone else's 3D dice and yet still see the *result* in the logs.
Either make the popup from the log show what you actually roll, rather than just the total, so that you can see if you crit, or make the log window persistent so that it stays open when you click the dice roller. Preferably both, but at least one of those two.
Seriously, was this thing vibe coded? Because I can't believe anyone architected this out in such a broken fashion.
Works fine for me. Have someone else changed their rolls to "Only to DM"?
Hmm. Possible. I'll do some more testing next session. But the part where when I roll dice, the log popup (if the log is closed) only shows the total and not what numbers I rolled, unlike the former separate dice result box, is still absolutely true and annoying. And the fact that every time I click the dice roller the open log window closes, so I have to reopen it to see what I rolled, is still true. And terrible.