is the encounter builder still be work on? I see that the feedback forum appears as “discountinued”. am i missing something? it worries me, because is the only reason why i have a master account and now started to buy books here (i have all my books physical)
Looking forward to one day have / be able to:
- renamed enemies from A,B,C…. to either color or numbers. All my minis are painted either color coded or numbered. Will be GREAT if i can ID as such.
- death monster stop showing. Able to change number of monster mid encounter. (e.g. if reinforcement appear)
and some other minor stuff, but those would be gold.
I second this, I honestly would prefer a better encounter builder over maps, my group uses Roll20 for maps and Dndbeyonds is just not on par with that yet.
Similar to Houndy being able to add a monster mid encounter would be huge, the second for my group would be the ability to have friendly NPCs in the encounter, currently running allied statblocks is a nightmare in the current builder.
yea… i truely hope that they are still working on encounters and no that it is going to be in eternal beta version. Encounter is such a great feature, and one that I havent found another platform that work well at.
Oh yea! friendly npc would be great. So far i just add them as enemies, i take note of difficulty and XP before adding them and then add them ignoring the change in diff and such that they produce. and the ability to organized the encounters.. i run 3 campaign… let me tell you.. having a list of 12+ encounters no divided by any cathegory … :/
Something that I think would be really beneficial, and would likely boost sales significantly, would be a microtransaction feature for the Marketplace. For example, say someone just wants to buy access to a digital feature, like, a spell, feat, magic item, race, etc., then they could purchase just that feature, rather than the entire digital book.
Implementing this idea would mean that you could turn $0 from people who either can't or won't spend $60 for an entiredigital book for access to a few digital features, into an actual paying customer! Please think of this bit of business advice as a gratuitous microtransaction; however, I will require a substantial fee for future profit-boosting nuggets of wisdom.
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“A foole and his money be soone at debate: which after with sorow repents him too late.”
It would be awesome if we could filter the FEATS (https://www.dndbeyond.com/feats) by Feats (Half Feats) that give a +1 to certain Ability Scores. For example, if I wanted to find any Feat that gave a +1 to Charisma I could somehow filter that table for those types of Feats. I don't see a way to currently do that unless I am missing something.
Maybe all those get a tag like Half Feat then there is some kind of drop down where you can filter by what Ability Score you are looking to increase by +1.
Something that I think would be really beneficial, and would likely boost sales significantly, would be a microtransaction feature for the Marketplace. For example, say someone just wants to buy access to a digital feature, like, a spell, feat, magic item, race, etc., then they could purchase just that feature, rather than the entire digital book.
Implementing this idea would mean that you could turn $0 from people who either can't or won't spend $60 for an entiredigital book for access to a few digital features, into an actual paying customer! Please think of this bit of business advice as a gratuitous microtransaction; however, I will require a substantial fee for future profit-boosting nuggets of wisdom.
I didn't realize they stopped doing this, it needs to be brought back! I used this options dozens of times, it was one of the best features of DND Beyond.
They did that before, but now they make you buy the whole thing.
They're going to lose money on me. I won't buy a whole book for one or two options and I recommend no one do that. Most options can be recreated as a homebrew. It's easier to just spend the $2 bucks (a price I'm willing to spend to support DND Beyond) but if that is no longer on the table then I'll take the free workaround.
I have a few things I would like to see to make it easier to organize content in D&DBeyond.
Folders to group/organize characters As suggested by others before; folders on the characters page to be able to organize and group several characters. I play in several campaigns including two west marches style campaigns where I have several different characters at various levels. I also like to play around with character creation to try out new concepts. As a result I have a lot of characters. I would love if I could have a folder for each campaign where I have both active characters in the campaign as well as back-up characters. I would like to have folders for character concepts ready to go into any campaign and folders for concepts I am just playing around with.
An alternative could be to add tags so that I can tag the character with some custom tag and then make it possible to group or filter them according to those tags.
Better access control to homebrew A third category other than Private and Published for homebrew. At the moment private homebrew from other campaigns as well as private homebrew I am playing around with show up in all campaigns I am in. I would like to restrict access to private homebrew that is for me to toy around with and semi-private homebrew that can be used in a campaign but isn't published for all to see.
I suggest you use the same three categories used for character sheet visibility; Private, Campaign, Public/Published. Or take a different route and make private truly private (i.e. my playground) and then add a targeted publish option where you can publish content to a specific campaign you are in without making it visible to the general public.
Before I realized that my private content is visible to players in campaigns I am in I mistakenly published content to make it available to them. Turns out I didn't have to spam everyone with half-baked homebrew in need of balancing since they could already access it and much much more.
A Catalogue of what is contained within each Sources setting I have suggested this before and I will keep doing it. It is very very unclear what the different sources enable for content. I would like a curated list where we can see which source books or parts of source books are enabled by each toggle. Whenever new content is added to D&DBeyond the list should be updated to reflect the changes introduced to existing sources by adding a new bool, or what's included in the new source.
I would love to see more third party content added to the marketplace. I was thrilled to see Hit Point Press and Kobold Press added, but love to see more. I have been attempting to utilize the homebrew options for some other third party content for my players, but I am severely limited in some of those options. Most recently, I have been attempting to add Lott Tavern content to my private homebrew, but the lack of options allowing me to add a new class, limits what I can make available to my players. We use DDB often to help maintain characters and game materials, so it would be nice to see other creators like Loot Tavern, added to the market place.
We could resort to good ol' fashioned pen and paper if we had to, but DDB makes it easier to maintain all the craziness that comes with the nature of the game.
On another note, there are limitations to the Homebrew options and i would like to see more added. It would also be nice to have a kind of tab system for homebrew content that you create or save. That way it's not all in one giant list, but grouped together in a way.
For Character sheets: the ability to transfer (give) stuff (equipment, items, containers, currency, etc) from one character to another so long as all are within the same campaign.
For Marketplace: A filter to remove items I have purchased.
please add dark mode to all parts of the site. thank you.
is the encounter builder still be work on? I see that the feedback forum appears as “discountinued”. am i missing something? it worries me, because is the only reason why i have a master account and now started to buy books here (i have all my books physical)
Looking forward to one day have / be able to:
- renamed enemies from A,B,C…. to either color or numbers. All my minis are painted either color coded or numbered. Will be GREAT if i can ID as such.
- death monster stop showing. Able to change number of monster mid encounter. (e.g. if reinforcement appear)
and some other minor stuff, but those would be gold.
I agree with this.
I know that Maps is the new thing, but think that Encounter needs a few more things added.
Most important for me :
Add a monster to the battle mid encounter. (Full stats proper linked monster, not just the quick add)
I second this, I honestly would prefer a better encounter builder over maps, my group uses Roll20 for maps and Dndbeyonds is just not on par with that yet.
Similar to Houndy being able to add a monster mid encounter would be huge, the second for my group would be the ability to have friendly NPCs in the encounter, currently running allied statblocks is a nightmare in the current builder.
Please add markdown support in the Notes section of the character sheet.
yea… i truely hope that they are still working on encounters and no that it is going to be in eternal beta version. Encounter is such a great feature, and one that I havent found another platform that work well at.
Oh yea! friendly npc would be great. So far i just add them as enemies, i take note of difficulty and XP before adding them and then add them ignoring the change in diff and such that they produce.
and the ability to organized the encounters.. i run 3 campaign… let me tell you.. having a list of 12+ encounters no divided by any cathegory … :/
I would love to see a feature where you can sort the tokens for the VTT by creature type, to make it easier to populate a map with, say, humanoids.
I really want more homebrew options
Something that I think would be really beneficial, and would likely boost sales significantly, would be a microtransaction feature for the Marketplace. For example, say someone just wants to buy access to a digital feature, like, a spell, feat, magic item, race, etc., then they could purchase just that feature, rather than the entire digital book.
Implementing this idea would mean that you could turn $0 from people who either can't or won't spend $60 for an entire digital book for access to a few digital features, into an actual paying customer! Please think of this bit of business advice as a gratuitous microtransaction; however, I will require a substantial fee for future profit-boosting nuggets of wisdom.
“A foole and his money be soone at debate: which after with sorow repents him too late.”
They did that before, but now they make you buy the whole thing.
D&D since 1984
It would be awesome if we could filter the FEATS (https://www.dndbeyond.com/feats) by Feats (Half Feats) that give a +1 to certain Ability Scores. For example, if I wanted to find any Feat that gave a +1 to Charisma I could somehow filter that table for those types of Feats. I don't see a way to currently do that unless I am missing something.
Maybe all those get a tag like Half Feat then there is some kind of drop down where you can filter by what Ability Score you are looking to increase by +1.
Just a thought/suggestion.
I didn't realize they stopped doing this, it needs to be brought back! I used this options dozens of times, it was one of the best features of DND Beyond.
They're going to lose money on me. I won't buy a whole book for one or two options and I recommend no one do that. Most options can be recreated as a homebrew. It's easier to just spend the $2 bucks (a price I'm willing to spend to support DND Beyond) but if that is no longer on the table then I'll take the free workaround.
Please, bring back individual purchase items. I can't afford to buy whole books every time I want a subclass/monster etc.
"Big sword, bigger brain"
-BigBrainGoblin
Bring back piecemeal purchases you hacks
Bring back the ala carte purchases.
Add more standard dice options.
Please adjust "Extras" stats have, so the statblocks that can be rolled for summons/etc.
I have a few things I would like to see to make it easier to organize content in D&DBeyond.
Folders to group/organize characters
As suggested by others before; folders on the characters page to be able to organize and group several characters. I play in several campaigns including two west marches style campaigns where I have several different characters at various levels. I also like to play around with character creation to try out new concepts. As a result I have a lot of characters. I would love if I could have a folder for each campaign where I have both active characters in the campaign as well as back-up characters. I would like to have folders for character concepts ready to go into any campaign and folders for concepts I am just playing around with.
An alternative could be to add tags so that I can tag the character with some custom tag and then make it possible to group or filter them according to those tags.
Better access control to homebrew
A third category other than Private and Published for homebrew. At the moment private homebrew from other campaigns as well as private homebrew I am playing around with show up in all campaigns I am in. I would like to restrict access to private homebrew that is for me to toy around with and semi-private homebrew that can be used in a campaign but isn't published for all to see.
I suggest you use the same three categories used for character sheet visibility; Private, Campaign, Public/Published. Or take a different route and make private truly private (i.e. my playground) and then add a targeted publish option where you can publish content to a specific campaign you are in without making it visible to the general public.
Before I realized that my private content is visible to players in campaigns I am in I mistakenly published content to make it available to them. Turns out I didn't have to spam everyone with half-baked homebrew in need of balancing since they could already access it and much much more.
A Catalogue of what is contained within each Sources setting
I have suggested this before and I will keep doing it. It is very very unclear what the different sources enable for content. I would like a curated list where we can see which source books or parts of source books are enabled by each toggle. Whenever new content is added to D&DBeyond the list should be updated to reflect the changes introduced to existing sources by adding a new bool, or what's included in the new source.
I would love to see more third party content added to the marketplace. I was thrilled to see Hit Point Press and Kobold Press added, but love to see more. I have been attempting to utilize the homebrew options for some other third party content for my players, but I am severely limited in some of those options. Most recently, I have been attempting to add Lott Tavern content to my private homebrew, but the lack of options allowing me to add a new class, limits what I can make available to my players. We use DDB often to help maintain characters and game materials, so it would be nice to see other creators like Loot Tavern, added to the market place.
We could resort to good ol' fashioned pen and paper if we had to, but DDB makes it easier to maintain all the craziness that comes with the nature of the game.
On another note, there are limitations to the Homebrew options and i would like to see more added. It would also be nice to have a kind of tab system for homebrew content that you create or save. That way it's not all in one giant list, but grouped together in a way.
For Character sheets: the ability to transfer (give) stuff (equipment, items, containers, currency, etc) from one character to another so long as all are within the same campaign.
For Marketplace: A filter to remove items I have purchased.
More title options:
such as a title for buying all digital dice, or a option to buy special titles in the Marketplace.
"Big sword, bigger brain"
-BigBrainGoblin