I have been using D&D Beyond for nearly 2 years now and I've been loving almost every second of it. However, there is one thing that has always kind of bothered me. As a DM using this site as a way to keep track of my NPCs has been a godsend but my main problem comes when I need to open all of my NPC's sheets and keep them open in separate tabs throughout a game session. If I don't, I have to open My Characters and scroll through nearly 30 character sheets to find the one character I need. Another thing is that not all of my characters are created for the same reason. I have 3 to 4 characters that I made because I thought that they were cool ideas for me to play in the future, however, because I thought of these characters at different points in time they are interspersed between characters NPCs from my campaign. It gets really annoying trying to find at what point in time I made a specific character.
I think that the filter system that was implemented a while ago is a step in the right direction, but I don't want to have to search up every character I need one after another. I think it just wastes time at that point.
My solution to this would be to implement a folders system where you could create and dedicate folders for specific characters. One folder could be for characters from your campaign and then you could have another dedicated to characters that you would want to play yourself one day, and finally, you could have a folder for character ideas that you would want to flesh out sometime in the future. It would fix a lot of the problems that I and several of my friends have and it would assist in making my characters look a lot more organised.
Thank you for reading and I hope you take what I have written into consideration.
I hope this planned feature will also extend to other homebrewed content? I dont use D&D beyond for characters, but rather for monsters and my collection is becoming ungainly to navigate. In particular any monster I've published and since had to change, leaving me with additional copies. I understand the reasoning behind why I cant delete the outdated version, but an option to either put them in their seperate folder out of the way or perhaps an option to, by default, hide them from my interface would be great.
I was thinking it would be nice to have an "archive" command for characters, to make them hidden from the main page; and then you can only actually delete things from the archive... this would help prevent people from accidentally deleting characters. (I assume there's no way to retrieve them once deleted?) But adding folders for character management can serve a similar purpose for people who are at least trying to be careful about that.
There is now a functioning "Create Folder" button. Was that there yesterday? I hadn't noticed it.
It does work, except that for the moment, it creates a text box for naming the folder right in the same page (to the left), which may be partially hidden by your characters. Making the page wider makes it visible. You can then add characters to the folder you create. Again, when you add, it creates a dropdown box with all character names, to the left.
I'm not seeing that, but I am on mobile and don't have a sub. I also didn't see character management moved to WIP on roadmap.
Do you use any plugins? There are several that add folders.
Oh! Yes. I use the DM's Toolkit and Beyond Help, so it's probably one of those! Anyway, it works nicely except for the fact I mentioned that the controls it uses are a bit hard to see if you don't have a large enough window open.
It’s Beyond Help that does the folders. They are both Chrome extensions, which unfortunately (due to Chrome restrictions) don’t work on mobile versions of Chrome. (I know you likely know that, SturmTrouper, just commenting for others who come across this thread)
I have been using D&D Beyond for nearly 2 years now and I've been loving almost every second of it. However, there is one thing that has always kind of bothered me. As a DM using this site as a way to keep track of my NPCs has been a godsend but my main problem comes when I need to open all of my NPC's sheets and keep them open in separate tabs throughout a game session. If I don't, I have to open My Characters and scroll through nearly 30 character sheets to find the one character I need. Another thing is that not all of my characters are created for the same reason. I have 3 to 4 characters that I made because I thought that they were cool ideas for me to play in the future, however, because I thought of these characters at different points in time they are interspersed between characters NPCs from my campaign. It gets really annoying trying to find at what point in time I made a specific character.
I think that the filter system that was implemented a while ago is a step in the right direction, but I don't want to have to search up every character I need one after another. I think it just wastes time at that point.
My solution to this would be to implement a folders system where you could create and dedicate folders for specific characters. One folder could be for characters from your campaign and then you could have another dedicated to characters that you would want to play yourself one day, and finally, you could have a folder for character ideas that you would want to flesh out sometime in the future. It would fix a lot of the problems that I and several of my friends have and it would assist in making my characters look a lot more organised.
Thank you for reading and I hope you take what I have written into consideration.
It is planned. It is even on the short term plans, so we should start seeing that in the next few months.
Ah, that's a relief! Is there any way I can see the plans that they have besides from the hour-long youtube videos they have?
https://trello.com/b/vIKxuEs8/dd-beyond-feature-roadmap
I hope this planned feature will also extend to other homebrewed content? I dont use D&D beyond for characters, but rather for monsters and my collection is becoming ungainly to navigate. In particular any monster I've published and since had to change, leaving me with additional copies. I understand the reasoning behind why I cant delete the outdated version, but an option to either put them in their seperate folder out of the way or perhaps an option to, by default, hide them from my interface would be great.
I was thinking it would be nice to have an "archive" command for characters, to make them hidden from the main page; and then you can only actually delete things from the archive... this would help prevent people from accidentally deleting characters. (I assume there's no way to retrieve them once deleted?) But adding folders for character management can serve a similar purpose for people who are at least trying to be careful about that.
You can contact support to retrieve recently deleted characters (pretty sure).
Yeah, I imagine. I guess if it happened often enough to be an issue for their support team, they'd implement a feature to deal with it.
There is now a functioning "Create Folder" button. Was that there yesterday? I hadn't noticed it.
It does work, except that for the moment, it creates a text box for naming the folder right in the same page (to the left), which may be partially hidden by your characters. Making the page wider makes it visible. You can then add characters to the folder you create. Again, when you add, it creates a dropdown box with all character names, to the left.
I'm not seeing that, but I am on mobile and don't have a sub. I also didn't see character management moved to WIP on roadmap.
Do you use any plugins? There are several that add folders.
Oh! Yes. I use the DM's Toolkit and Beyond Help, so it's probably one of those! Anyway, it works nicely except for the fact I mentioned that the controls it uses are a bit hard to see if you don't have a large enough window open.
It’s Beyond Help that does the folders. They are both Chrome extensions, which unfortunately (due to Chrome restrictions) don’t work on mobile versions of Chrome. (I know you likely know that, SturmTrouper, just commenting for others who come across this thread)
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