Many people would like to get the DDB versions of content they've already bought for free, but it's not going to happen. DDB is part of Fandom, and WotC is part of Hasbro; they're separate companies. The official D&D 5e books also don't have any unique identifier indicating a specific copy of a physical book, so they wouldn't be able to verify that people had actually bought the book even if they did work out an agreement. And even if they added one in the future, they'd have to shrink-wrap books so people didn't just steal codes without buying the product, and booksellers don't like that because it increases sales to let people flip through books before buying.
If you don't want to buy the D&D Beyond versions of the content, you can manually add any of the content from the books you own physically as private homebrew. DDB mods and staff have even explicitly said this is allowed - you just can't publish it publicly, obviously.
Alternately, you could buy just the individual parts of a book (that you want to use in DDB's character builder or monster/spell listings, etc.) a la carte in the marketplace; then, if you decide to get the full book later, the price of the book is discounted by the amount you've already paid for content from that book.
I personally would like to see a feature that enables you to access content you have already purchased in physical book form.
There's multiple threads talking about why this will not be a thing.
WoTC is the company who publishes D&D. DnD Beyond is not owned by WoTC. DnD Beyond is a separate retailer owned by a different company. If you bought a digital copy of a book from DnD Beyond, would you expect to be able to got to Barnes&Nobels and expect them to give you a free hardback copy of the book if you showed them your receipt?
I wish there was a way to add a summoned familiar or other creature to an area on your character profile. So essentially, if I cast Find Familiar, and choose Owl, I can add somewhere the Owl specs, hit points, movement, abilities etc - appears so we can more easily track that creature. Similarly, if I Summon a Hound of Ill Omen which is a variant of the Dire Wolf, if that was also added somewhere to help you track it.
> Gold Medal for "Outstanding Book of the Year" in 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards > National Indie Excellence Book Award finalist > A Greater Monster named a "Top 10 Book of 2012" by Common Ills blog > Listed in "10 Hot Chicago Reads for Chilly Nights" on Refinery29.com
I wish there was a way to add a summoned familiar or other creature to an area on your character profile. So essentially, if I cast Find Familiar, and choose Owl, I can add somewhere the Owl specs, hit points, movement, abilities etc - appears so we can more easily track that creature. Similarly, if I Summon a Hound of Ill Omen which is a variant of the Dire Wolf, if that was also added somewhere to help you track it.
The extras tab on your character sheet serves this very purpose.
I wish there was a way to add a summoned familiar or other creature to an area on your character profile. So essentially, if I cast Find Familiar, and choose Owl, I can add somewhere the Owl specs, hit points, movement, abilities etc - appears so we can more easily track that creature. Similarly, if I Summon a Hound of Ill Omen which is a variant of the Dire Wolf, if that was also added somewhere to help you track it.
The extras tab on your character sheet serves this very purpose.
> Gold Medal for "Outstanding Book of the Year" in 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards > National Indie Excellence Book Award finalist > A Greater Monster named a "Top 10 Book of 2012" by Common Ills blog > Listed in "10 Hot Chicago Reads for Chilly Nights" on Refinery29.com
I wish there was a way to add a summoned familiar or other creature to an area on your character profile. So essentially, if I cast Find Familiar, and choose Owl, I can add somewhere the Owl specs, hit points, movement, abilities etc - appears so we can more easily track that creature. Similarly, if I Summon a Hound of Ill Omen which is a variant of the Dire Wolf, if that was also added somewhere to help you track it.
The extras tab on your character sheet serves this very purpose.
Got it to work for the Familiar but it looks like the Sorcerer power Hound of Ill Omen doesn't show up as an option.
> Gold Medal for "Outstanding Book of the Year" in 2012 Independent Publisher Book Awards > National Indie Excellence Book Award finalist > A Greater Monster named a "Top 10 Book of 2012" by Common Ills blog > Listed in "10 Hot Chicago Reads for Chilly Nights" on Refinery29.com
How about a way to keep specific Homebrew stuff from being available in a campaign?
I think that in general, there needs to be a way for the DM to add character creation restrictions - allowing certain options while disallowing others. Then maybe characters would be prevented from choosing them in the character builder when making a new character in that campaign, or a warning/error message could be displayed below a character that violates those restrictions. That would also cover things like "AL character validation" that's on the short-term roadmap - https://ddb.ac/feature-roadmap - in addition to your idea of allowing certain homebrew but disallowing others.
Though making a clean interface to manage all the options might be tricky, in terms of avoiding clutter. Perhaps there could be an interface for managing restrictions that only actually lists the restricted/disallowed options (unlike the compendium content sharing management options, which currently show every single book with a slider to enable or disable sharing), though the interface for choosing specific content to restrict would allow any official option or any homebrew option that the group has access to to be chosen as disallowed. And similarly, the interface could allow the DM to broadly "ban" all content from a specific book, or all homebrew, or all Eberron/Crit Role/Ravnica content, etc. (EDIT: This could also account for things like encumbrance rules, requiring a certain ability score generation method, etc.)
I was wondering if it would be possible to add the ability to create folders in the My Characters tab. Especially for The Dungeon Master Tier. It would make it easier to organize NPCs
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I usually use the Character Creator to create the NPC then "Re-create" as a homebrew monster. You can then append them to an encounter by campaign and with a custom name for the encounter (Say Jimmy's tavern) description for such.. A little extra work, but this way it doesn't count against your character count and it makes it easy to track them later on.
Any way to link, have hover tabs, or just a short description for item infusions with the Artificer? It would be a great quality of life help instead of having to cycle through multiple windows to get information about each of the items in the drop down menu.
I love the website but I like to export my character sheet and print it out for games. This is my preference because everyone looking at a laptop or a phone leads to lots of distractions and a lack of engagement.
I think the exported character sheet could use a little love. Depending on the character, you might see both redundant and missing information.
Not sure how easy it would be to fix but it would sure be appreciated!
He there. I was trying to create a bundle of special arrows for one of the players in the campaign I DM, but the homebrew creator wouldn’t let me select “ammunition” as a valid weapon type. Is that something we can ever expect in future?
He there. I was trying to create a bundle of special arrows for one of the players in the campaign I DM, but the homebrew creator wouldn’t let me select “ammunition” as a valid weapon type. Is that something we can ever expect in future?
Ammunition isn't a weapon.
That said, homebrew ammunition isn't currently possible. Hopefully it'll be implemented with the homebrew revamp: https://ddb.ac/feature-roadmap
I didn’t think it would be a weapon, but when I tried to base it off of Arrows, +1 the “BASE ITEM TYPE” was already pre-set to “Weapon” so I figured....
I would like to be able to change things on the vehicles for example I created a living ship that is made and controlled by a dryad, but I cant adjust any of the stats.
and you cant really do anything at all with the land vehicles. just my thoughts
So I don't know if this has been brought up before or if I am just a crazy person. But is there any plans of changing the content sharing toggle from inside the campaign to the campaign page?
So when needing to change content sharing to a new campaign instead of...
Enter campaign, Toggle, back, Enter, Toggle.
it would be
Toggle, Toggle.
Even with multi tabs this still has a lot more steps rather then just toggling in the campaign screen.
If this has been considered and turned down, what is the reasoning behind it... Imo it makes the user experience way better... though as aforementioned I might just be a crazy person.
There doesn't seem to be a way to add homebrew eldritch invocations or battle master maneuvers or other such class specific choices. Am I missing how to do this, or is this just not available at this time?
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ModeratorI'd suggest reading this post: D&D Beyond vs Physical Books: An Explanation
Many people would like to get the DDB versions of content they've already bought for free, but it's not going to happen. DDB is part of Fandom, and WotC is part of Hasbro; they're separate companies. The official D&D 5e books also don't have any unique identifier indicating a specific copy of a physical book, so they wouldn't be able to verify that people had actually bought the book even if they did work out an agreement. And even if they added one in the future, they'd have to shrink-wrap books so people didn't just steal codes without buying the product, and booksellers don't like that because it increases sales to let people flip through books before buying.
If you don't want to buy the D&D Beyond versions of the content, you can manually add any of the content from the books you own physically as private homebrew. DDB mods and staff have even explicitly said this is allowed - you just can't publish it publicly, obviously.
Alternately, you could buy just the individual parts of a book (that you want to use in DDB's character builder or monster/spell listings, etc.) a la carte in the marketplace; then, if you decide to get the full book later, the price of the book is discounted by the amount you've already paid for content from that book.
WoTC is the company who publishes D&D. DnD Beyond is not owned by WoTC. DnD Beyond is a separate retailer owned by a different company. If you bought a digital copy of a book from DnD Beyond, would you expect to be able to got to Barnes&Nobels and expect them to give you a free hardback copy of the book if you showed them your receipt?
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I'd like a filter option to only show content I have access to.
I wish there was a way to add a summoned familiar or other creature to an area on your character profile. So essentially, if I cast Find Familiar, and choose Owl, I can add somewhere the Owl specs, hit points, movement, abilities etc - appears so we can more easily track that creature. Similarly, if I Summon a Hound of Ill Omen which is a variant of the Dire Wolf, if that was also added somewhere to help you track it.
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> Listed in "10 Hot Chicago Reads for Chilly Nights" on Refinery29.com
The extras tab on your character sheet serves this very purpose.
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Brilliant. You have enlightened me!
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> A Greater Monster named a "Top 10 Book of 2012" by Common Ills blog
> Listed in "10 Hot Chicago Reads for Chilly Nights" on Refinery29.com
Got it to work for the Familiar but it looks like the Sorcerer power Hound of Ill Omen doesn't show up as an option.
Join my homebrew campaign!
A Greater Monster, The Kickstarter Letters & Death by Zamboni
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My art store on Etsy
> National Indie Excellence Book Award finalist
> A Greater Monster named a "Top 10 Book of 2012" by Common Ills blog
> Listed in "10 Hot Chicago Reads for Chilly Nights" on Refinery29.com
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ModeratorI think that in general, there needs to be a way for the DM to add character creation restrictions - allowing certain options while disallowing others. Then maybe characters would be prevented from choosing them in the character builder when making a new character in that campaign, or a warning/error message could be displayed below a character that violates those restrictions. That would also cover things like "AL character validation" that's on the short-term roadmap - https://ddb.ac/feature-roadmap - in addition to your idea of allowing certain homebrew but disallowing others.
Though making a clean interface to manage all the options might be tricky, in terms of avoiding clutter. Perhaps there could be an interface for managing restrictions that only actually lists the restricted/disallowed options (unlike the compendium content sharing management options, which currently show every single book with a slider to enable or disable sharing), though the interface for choosing specific content to restrict would allow any official option or any homebrew option that the group has access to to be chosen as disallowed. And similarly, the interface could allow the DM to broadly "ban" all content from a specific book, or all homebrew, or all Eberron/Crit Role/Ravnica content, etc. (EDIT: This could also account for things like encumbrance rules, requiring a certain ability score generation method, etc.)
Hmm. This actually seems like a good idea. Might be worth me posting on https://ddb.ac/feature-requests later :)
EDIT: Seems there are at least 4 related FRs there already, which I upvoted and commented on (and linked to each other):
Is there a way to set it so only the player and dm can see character sheets
I believe if you set your character sheet to private, that will be the case.
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I usually use the Character Creator to create the NPC then "Re-create" as a homebrew monster. You can then append them to an encounter by campaign and with a custom name for the encounter (Say Jimmy's tavern) description for such.. A little extra work, but this way it doesn't count against your character count and it makes it easy to track them later on.
Any way to link, have hover tabs, or just a short description for item infusions with the Artificer? It would be a great quality of life help instead of having to cycle through multiple windows to get information about each of the items in the drop down menu.
Hi there,
I love the website but I like to export my character sheet and print it out for games. This is my preference because everyone looking at a laptop or a phone leads to lots of distractions and a lack of engagement.
I think the exported character sheet could use a little love. Depending on the character, you might see both redundant and missing information.
Not sure how easy it would be to fix but it would sure be appreciated!
Thanks,
Enzer
He there. I was trying to create a bundle of special arrows for one of the players in the campaign I DM, but the homebrew creator wouldn’t let me select “ammunition” as a valid weapon type. Is that something we can ever expect in future?
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ModeratorAmmunition isn't a weapon.
That said, homebrew ammunition isn't currently possible. Hopefully it'll be implemented with the homebrew revamp: https://ddb.ac/feature-roadmap
There's a feature request for it here: https://dndbeyond.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360020657154-Create-homebrew-magic-ammunition
Thanks!!
I didn’t think it would be a weapon, but when I tried to base it off of Arrows, +1 the “BASE ITEM TYPE” was already pre-set to “Weapon” so I figured....
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
DDB Buyers' Guide
Hardcovers, DDB & You
Content Troubleshooting
I would like to be able to change things on the vehicles for example I created a living ship that is made and controlled by a dryad, but I cant adjust any of the stats.
and you cant really do anything at all with the land vehicles. just my thoughts
So I don't know if this has been brought up before or if I am just a crazy person.
But is there any plans of changing the content sharing toggle from inside the campaign to the campaign page?
So when needing to change content sharing to a new campaign instead of...
Enter campaign, Toggle, back, Enter, Toggle.
it would be
Toggle, Toggle.
Even with multi tabs this still has a lot more steps rather then just toggling in the campaign screen.
If this has been considered and turned down, what is the reasoning behind it... Imo it makes the user experience way better... though as aforementioned I might just be a crazy person.
There doesn't seem to be a way to add homebrew eldritch invocations or battle master maneuvers or other such class specific choices. Am I missing how to do this, or is this just not available at this time?