Long term: DnD Beyond Maps connecting with the DnD 3D VTT so players with lesser systems are able to join games with players with powerhouse computers.
I know that's complicated, but anything you can do to help that would be amazing.
It might just need to be the same VTT app but a "light" or low-specs version of it, but the goal is letting everyone play.
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.
I've spent 20 minutes already going through book by book to try find the books I do not own (when you own almost every one - it gets hard to remember specifics). Then i have to manually add each book i dont own to the cart (again - one by one). Previously - i click 4 or 5 times and have every book i dont own in source or adventure in my cart with applied discounts. I've twice realised after the fact that I was about to buy digital content I ALREADY OWNED. Again - no immediate warning if you don't see the little "you already own" (which is not highlighted enough, is smaller font etc). The fact i could accidentally follow the prompts and COULD end up owning 2 sets of the same digital content as someone who worked in banking - is predatory. Something like a "Your cart contains items you already own" check box before purchase would solve this. Opt IN - not OPT OUT.
Why ADD minutiae and multiple new layers of difficulty to a previously near flawless system all because you changed the piecemeal options.
As someone who has faith that this will work out the right way (and not often/ever felt the need to post on forums) - this is a massive turnoff for someone who spends and convinces so many others to spend big with DDB. I may be one person - but i'm not the only "one person".
Going back to a la carte purchases, I see now that they also no longer prorate book prices if you had previously purchased content. So if you bought three spells from a source book, when that was an option, and you want to buy the rest of the content now you still have to pay full price.
Come on guys, please bring back the old marketplace. It really was the main reason I started running my games from DND Beyond. I like to purchase paper books to read them and place on my shelf, but I like to purchase options as I need them. I know I'm not the only one.
Looks like there are several threads already on this topic. I encourage everyone to visit them and drop a comment (politely) if want this feature back.
Please return the Marketplace back to the way it was where you could just buy pieces of a book. I am not a DM and never will be and there are many books I don't need but want just a subclass or spell or something. You are going to lose money with this change. I am never going to buy a whole book just for one subclass.
tbh this thread is very sad as situation of ddb, almost all of posts have logic and are reasonable, most of ideas don't require any fantastic job from programmers to be implemented. Aaaand Wotc make them cut down a la carte which no one really hated. Devs could:
finish encounters which is in beta for ages already?
make encounter builder support all alignement from statblocks (some like "any neutral alignement" just force encounter page to crash),
finishing item tab properly, guess everybody can talk alot about no ability to set price, no mundane item, not ability to make leveling items, no ability to make hb ammunition etc. If monsters tab is more/less ok overall item tab is meh
adjusting companion (or familliar) stuff in subclass (you can't add homebrewed companion to your subclass + giving link on familiar page not allows - so you just can't make complex public homebrew similar to eg spirit usher by kobold press (also just pointing that with non orthodox levels gaining many concepts similar to kobold press, ghostfire gaming, mage hand press etc never will be homebrewed on ddb because -This homebrew Subclass does not have the necessary class features with the correct required levels.)
talking about companion many third party publishers have companion leveling system which physically impossible to implement here, you will be forced to remade statblock each level up
make tooltips more rich - i get that i cant' (monster) (/monster) homebrewed one, but why i can't get rule tooltip for madness to not have sepate tab for it is just meh
content filtering- it's ******* macabre to undrestand what you own, what you don't own, and what you don't own but what shared with you .... the amount of filters is mess. and yeah in homebrew you can filter your creations by name, date of creation and views but not by version and ammount of adds
make all character sheets arts (backdrops) adjusted to window size, eg to fully see lego red dragon full screen browser is not enough because you make arts not centered -user will just see part of wing untill he zoom out sheet to 33, i kid you not 33% of initial web page size!
there is many other valid ranting points... most of 150 pages remain valid, hundreds upvoted options and feedback how to improve
ok you want money i get it - you could made copypaste bg3 themed adventure, or just put stuff from oldest subscriptions on market with overpriced tags, some newer players would buy them and it's not like old players would be enraged others could purchase content they already obtained 2 or more years ago for overprice
instead you just made your programmers do efforts to remove one of objectively good ddb things...
I've spent hundreds of dollars purchasing things ala carte on DDB. I'm sorry, but I will notpurchase a $50 book when I'm only interested in a single section of it. Even if I could afford to buy every whole book as it comes out, I would not. Instead of earning $2-15 from me every time I want something, you'll now be earning $0.
I may purchase physical copies of the 5.5 core books from my local game store. But only after they've been vetted by reliable third party sources. I will not purchase anything else through DDB until they bring back ala carte purchasing. & honestly, I kinda miss the pen & paper. So while I'll still use what I've previously purchased as a resource, I'll probably stop actively using DDB for games as well.
Undo your marketplace site redesign as it is functionally terrible (not that the previous was great mind you). Its like it was not designed with the customer/user in mind at all.
It no longer feels like a site I would buy anything on. Its not inviting, it has no character, and frankly its a total mess from navigation to buttons, to carousels etc....
If you're forcing me to buy a whole book, instead of a la carte, then I'd like the encounters in that book be be available and fully realised in the Encounters tab. At the moment, I have to recreate them manually, which is a light chore, but not if I'm paying top dollar for content. Whilst I'm at it, sort out the terrible implementation of Maps as well. Copying the page from the book isn't good enough. Again, I have to manually set them up, when I could do it better and quicker in Owlbear Rodeo.
You've totally screwed up the 50th Anniversary of a game I've been playing since 1979 - £300+ LEGO sets? Trainers? Put some effort in making the *game experience* better, rather than this nonsense!
The marketplace is even less user friendly than it was before. It just looks better and more confusing!
I can replace all subclasses/races I wanted to play with homebrew. Before I was willing to pay for bits and bobs but you'll never see me pay £30 for a book I already paid £15 for!
I want the reason I started using this website back!
When I first started playing D&D in 2019 I was a broke college student and couldn't even begin to afford a full price book. The a la Carte system allowed me to purchase the subrace and background I wanted to start playing my first character. Since then I've dropped nearly $200 dollars on this site (not including my subscription) as I've grown from a player into a DM. In that time I have never bought a full price book.
The decision to remove this system alienates new players and angers the veterans who have praised the site for years. You've got enough money from us. Bring it back.
Please bring back a la carte! I will purchase core rulebooks and modules still, but i honestly wont buy books that I dont need just to get access to one spell or monster or character option that might be nice. That doesnt make sense, guys.
Please finish Encounter Builder (do you even notice yourself that it is "in beta" since day one?).
Why is it so painful to bring a Map tool that at least has all the features Owlbear.rodeo has? This should be no rocket science. Why is the map tool not linked to the encounter tool to bring up statblocks?
Since Tasha's introduced proficiency swapping there needs to be a way to manually edit class proficiencies on the sheet. For example, if you make a Druid and want to swap out the Herbalist Kit for say Tinker's Tools you are able to manually add the Tinker's Tools but there is no way to remove Herbalist Kit. Your sheets should at least support all the character creation mechanics from the official books.
Publish more modules. Not vast campaigns, but one-two session adventures that are short and low cost. $5 for a weekly module seems like a great way to have repeat sales, and new players have a whole roster of "Let's just dive in" adventures, instead of having to commit to an entire campaign.
D&D used to sell tons of these in 3.0 and 3.5. Modules for Eberron, Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, etc, pumped out by the dozen, decent quality 'grab-and-go' products. And it was a good model.
And yes, you could say "Go to the DMs guild" but the DMs guild isn't D&D Beyond, and the PDFs are great but this is feedback for WOTC.
Matthew Colville (link) and Bob the World Builder (link) recently highlighted how the world has shifted to over to the Epic Campaign model instead of the older episodic or ad-hoc models. If D&D Beyond wants to offer easy to purchase content, short, 5-10 page dungeon or encounter modules that can be slotted into any group's progression would be a great way to provide official content, as well as get back to something that can be picked up easily.
The Dragon of Icespire Peak is a set of vaguely connected modules in an area. It's then followed by three $5 adventure modules. This is the new DM's introduction to how to run games. A bunch of independent episodic adventures with some loose connections.
Then all the later stuff is BIG GRAND CAMPAIGN like Tomb of Annihilation, or "Buy all the adventures or none" like Candlekeep Mysteries and Tales from the Yawning Portal. Bigger purchases where WOTC has to build grand narratives which take effort. As opposed to selling 5 room dungeons, or 3 act adventures, which can be laid out as a wide array of options.
If you're concerned that users of the OGL are 'stealing all your money', you'd be right, primarily because places like DMs Guild are hosting these adventure modules instead of you doing it yourself.
If you're forcing me to buy a whole book, instead of a la carte, then I'd like the encounters in that book be be available and fully realised in the Encounters tab.
100% this.
The encounters should be available as a selectable list of "Preset: Dragon of Icespire Peak Room E5" where it rolls up a new campaign encounter with the appropriate description, monsters, and treasure.
And the maps from every adventure, should take an Intern a day or two to add to the Map Browser.
NEW FEATURE REQUEST: A [DECEASED] spot on characters that we can sort on. I want to retain my dead characters, but don't want to sort them by name or level- just listed down at the bottom of my character's page.
NEW FEATURE REQUEST: A [DECEASED] spot on characters that we can sort on. I want to retain my dead characters, but don't want to sort them by name or level- just listed down at the bottom of my character's page.
Your best bet for now would probably be to just change the deceased characters' names. Prefixing them with "{DECEASED}" should do it, as the braces should then make them sort to the bottom of your list.
Long term: DnD Beyond Maps connecting with the DnD 3D VTT so players with lesser systems are able to join games with players with powerhouse computers.
I know that's complicated, but anything you can do to help that would be amazing.
It might just need to be the same VTT app but a "light" or low-specs version of it, but the goal is letting everyone play.
I've spent 20 minutes already going through book by book to try find the books I do not own (when you own almost every one - it gets hard to remember specifics). Then i have to manually add each book i dont own to the cart (again - one by one). Previously - i click 4 or 5 times and have every book i dont own in source or adventure in my cart with applied discounts. I've twice realised after the fact that I was about to buy digital content I ALREADY OWNED. Again - no immediate warning if you don't see the little "you already own" (which is not highlighted enough, is smaller font etc). The fact i could accidentally follow the prompts and COULD end up owning 2 sets of the same digital content as someone who worked in banking - is predatory. Something like a "Your cart contains items you already own" check box before purchase would solve this. Opt IN - not OPT OUT.
Why ADD minutiae and multiple new layers of difficulty to a previously near flawless system all because you changed the piecemeal options.
As someone who has faith that this will work out the right way (and not often/ever felt the need to post on forums) - this is a massive turnoff for someone who spends and convinces so many others to spend big with DDB. I may be one person - but i'm not the only "one person".
Going back to a la carte purchases, I see now that they also no longer prorate book prices if you had previously purchased content. So if you bought three spells from a source book, when that was an option, and you want to buy the rest of the content now you still have to pay full price.
Come on guys, please bring back the old marketplace. It really was the main reason I started running my games from DND Beyond. I like to purchase paper books to read them and place on my shelf, but I like to purchase options as I need them. I know I'm not the only one.
Looks like there are several threads already on this topic. I encourage everyone to visit them and drop a comment (politely) if want this feature back.
Please return the Marketplace back to the way it was where you could just buy pieces of a book. I am not a DM and never will be and there are many books I don't need but want just a subclass or spell or something. You are going to lose money with this change. I am never going to buy a whole book just for one subclass.
tbh this thread is very sad as situation of ddb, almost all of posts have logic and are reasonable, most of ideas don't require any fantastic job from programmers to be implemented. Aaaand Wotc make them cut down a la carte which no one really hated. Devs could:
finish encounters which is in beta for ages already?
make encounter builder support all alignement from statblocks (some like "any neutral alignement" just force encounter page to crash),
finishing item tab properly, guess everybody can talk alot about no ability to set price, no mundane item, not ability to make leveling items, no ability to make hb ammunition etc. If monsters tab is more/less ok overall item tab is meh
adjusting companion (or familliar) stuff in subclass (you can't add homebrewed companion to your subclass + giving link on familiar page not allows - so you just can't make complex public homebrew similar to eg spirit usher by kobold press (also just pointing that with non orthodox levels gaining many concepts similar to kobold press, ghostfire gaming, mage hand press etc never will be homebrewed on ddb because -This homebrew Subclass does not have the necessary class features with the correct required levels.)
talking about companion many third party publishers have companion leveling system which physically impossible to implement here, you will be forced to remade statblock each level up
make tooltips more rich - i get that i cant' (monster) (/monster) homebrewed one, but why i can't get rule tooltip for madness to not have sepate tab for it is just meh
content filtering- it's ******* macabre to undrestand what you own, what you don't own, and what you don't own but what shared with you .... the amount of filters is mess. and yeah in homebrew you can filter your creations by name, date of creation and views but not by version and ammount of adds
make all character sheets arts (backdrops) adjusted to window size, eg to fully see lego red dragon full screen browser is not enough because you make arts not centered -user will just see part of wing untill he zoom out sheet to 33, i kid you not 33% of initial web page size!
there is many other valid ranting points... most of 150 pages remain valid, hundreds upvoted options and feedback how to improve
ok you want money i get it - you could made copypaste bg3 themed adventure, or just put stuff from oldest subscriptions on market with overpriced tags, some newer players would buy them and it's not like old players would be enraged others could purchase content they already obtained 2 or more years ago for overprice
instead you just made your programmers do efforts to remove one of objectively good ddb things...
Bring back a la carte purchases, you greedy hacks
I've spent hundreds of dollars purchasing things ala carte on DDB. I'm sorry, but I will not purchase a $50 book when I'm only interested in a single section of it. Even if I could afford to buy every whole book as it comes out, I would not. Instead of earning $2-15 from me every time I want something, you'll now be earning $0.
I may purchase physical copies of the 5.5 core books from my local game store. But only after they've been vetted by reliable third party sources. I will not purchase anything else through DDB until they bring back ala carte purchasing. & honestly, I kinda miss the pen & paper. So while I'll still use what I've previously purchased as a resource, I'll probably stop actively using DDB for games as well.
bring back al la cart and bundles.
Undo your marketplace site redesign as it is functionally terrible (not that the previous was great mind you). Its like it was not designed with the customer/user in mind at all.
It no longer feels like a site I would buy anything on. Its not inviting, it has no character, and frankly its a total mess from navigation to buttons, to carousels etc....
If you're forcing me to buy a whole book, instead of a la carte, then I'd like the encounters in that book be be available and fully realised in the Encounters tab. At the moment, I have to recreate them manually, which is a light chore, but not if I'm paying top dollar for content. Whilst I'm at it, sort out the terrible implementation of Maps as well. Copying the page from the book isn't good enough. Again, I have to manually set them up, when I could do it better and quicker in Owlbear Rodeo.
You've totally screwed up the 50th Anniversary of a game I've been playing since 1979 - £300+ LEGO sets? Trainers? Put some effort in making the *game experience* better, rather than this nonsense!
CUSTOM HOMEBREW CLASSES not just subclasses. Also cleaning up all the repeat homebrew selections that multiple people submit
Bring back al la cart and bundles
The marketplace is even less user friendly than it was before. It just looks better and more confusing!
I can replace all subclasses/races I wanted to play with homebrew. Before I was willing to pay for bits and bobs but you'll never see me pay £30 for a book I already paid £15 for!
I want the reason I started using this website back!
When I first started playing D&D in 2019 I was a broke college student and couldn't even begin to afford a full price book. The a la Carte system allowed me to purchase the subrace and background I wanted to start playing my first character. Since then I've dropped nearly $200 dollars on this site (not including my subscription) as I've grown from a player into a DM. In that time I have never bought a full price book.
The decision to remove this system alienates new players and angers the veterans who have praised the site for years. You've got enough money from us. Bring it back.
I would like to see a la carte purchasing return. I don't want to buy a whole book for a paragraph worth of content.
Please bring back a la carte! I will purchase core rulebooks and modules still, but i honestly wont buy books that I dont need just to get access to one spell or monster or character option that might be nice. That doesnt make sense, guys.
Please finish Encounter Builder (do you even notice yourself that it is "in beta" since day one?).
Why is it so painful to bring a Map tool that at least has all the features Owlbear.rodeo has? This should be no rocket science. Why is the map tool not linked to the encounter tool to bring up statblocks?
Since Tasha's introduced proficiency swapping there needs to be a way to manually edit class proficiencies on the sheet. For example, if you make a Druid and want to swap out the Herbalist Kit for say Tinker's Tools you are able to manually add the Tinker's Tools but there is no way to remove Herbalist Kit. Your sheets should at least support all the character creation mechanics from the official books.
Fix the stuff that hasn't worked or was requested since 2018. That would be a good start. Then allow piecemeal purchases again..
Publish more modules. Not vast campaigns, but one-two session adventures that are short and low cost. $5 for a weekly module seems like a great way to have repeat sales, and new players have a whole roster of "Let's just dive in" adventures, instead of having to commit to an entire campaign.
D&D used to sell tons of these in 3.0 and 3.5. Modules for Eberron, Forgotten Realms, Greyhawk, etc, pumped out by the dozen, decent quality 'grab-and-go' products. And it was a good model.
And yes, you could say "Go to the DMs guild" but the DMs guild isn't D&D Beyond, and the PDFs are great but this is feedback for WOTC.
Matthew Colville (link) and Bob the World Builder (link) recently highlighted how the world has shifted to over to the Epic Campaign model instead of the older episodic or ad-hoc models. If D&D Beyond wants to offer easy to purchase content, short, 5-10 page dungeon or encounter modules that can be slotted into any group's progression would be a great way to provide official content, as well as get back to something that can be picked up easily.
The Dragon of Icespire Peak is a set of vaguely connected modules in an area. It's then followed by three $5 adventure modules. This is the new DM's introduction to how to run games. A bunch of independent episodic adventures with some loose connections.
Then all the later stuff is BIG GRAND CAMPAIGN like Tomb of Annihilation, or "Buy all the adventures or none" like Candlekeep Mysteries and Tales from the Yawning Portal. Bigger purchases where WOTC has to build grand narratives which take effort. As opposed to selling 5 room dungeons, or 3 act adventures, which can be laid out as a wide array of options.
If you're concerned that users of the OGL are 'stealing all your money', you'd be right, primarily because places like DMs Guild are hosting these adventure modules instead of you doing it yourself.
100% this.
The encounters should be available as a selectable list of "Preset: Dragon of Icespire Peak Room E5" where it rolls up a new campaign encounter with the appropriate description, monsters, and treasure.
And the maps from every adventure, should take an Intern a day or two to add to the Map Browser.
NEW FEATURE REQUEST:
A [DECEASED] spot on characters that we can sort on. I want to retain my dead characters, but don't want to sort them by name or level- just listed down at the bottom of my character's page.
Your best bet for now would probably be to just change the deceased characters' names. Prefixing them with "{DECEASED}" should do it, as the braces should then make them sort to the bottom of your list.
Sterling - V. Human Bard 3 (College of Art) - [Pic] - [Traits] - in Bards: Dragon Heist (w/ Mansion) - Jasper's [Pic] - Sterling's [Sigil]
Tooltips Post (2024 PHB updates) - incl. General Rules
>> New FOW threat & treasure tables: fow-advanced-threat-tables.pdf fow-advanced-treasure-table.pdf