I'd really like to have a change log for character sheets: changing spells, items, money, features, experience, and class levels. Saving it as a text log and maybe only keeping the last 20 entries wouldn't take much space.
I'm not certain how the space usage is different from the near-infinite notes one can make in several Note categories on their character sheets. (My Other and Backstory instructions in the notes can get quite exhaustive.)
Automating the "note-taking" process for currency bookkeeping seems more of a programmatic (is that the right word?) issue than a space issue.
There is a reason to not do it regardless. Since someone (player or DM) must put a description for each transaction (EDIT: or else, the transaction doesn't really help much with just the time/date), I don't see enough of a benefit over manually making a note in one of the Note categories. (I already include historical stuff like rolled character stats per-dice during creation in the Other Notes. 4d6-top3-total for abilities. 𝓃d𝓃 for other rolled stuff like non-fixed hitpoints when leveling, etc.)
I'd put this on a might-be-nice-to-have low-priority investigate-further pile, but I doubt it would happen.
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I think the note fields have a character limit, plus they must be manually entered creating a natural data volume limit per user. This feature would (presumably, otherwise what's the point) populate automatically each and every time a user increases or decreases their gold. This would happen a lot
Ha! I'm talking pages and pages in both Backstory and Other Notes. Things that nobody else in their right mind would bother to read. It's just instructions and records for me but very detailed. Never reached any character limit. (Don't bother to export them. Totally illegible when exported. :D)
I have an assumption on how people use the Other category - probably barely anything there for most people if I'm correct. Keeping a manual (EDIT: to be clear, not automatic) ledger there shouldn't be too much of an issue and would be a good roleplay quirk for the niche accountant roleplayer. Not really something that would be new-feature-worthy in my opinion.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
There are lots of options really, store the last X entries, and allow a dump into a comma'd text file so people can then dump that straight into a spreadsheet.
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Is it possible to get a way to log the gold we received and have spent? Can be too easy to miss something.
The same would be cool for XP as well
This would be a great feature to add. I could track and restore if I make a mistake or go back and see if I added XP or gold from our last session.
My one concern as a developer would be the amount of data this would generate, even in the most low density format.
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It could be possible to use a file held on a cloud drive, which would offload the data from Beyond's servers.
I'd really like to have a change log for character sheets: changing spells, items, money, features, experience, and class levels. Saving it as a text log and maybe only keeping the last 20 entries wouldn't take much space.
Beyond would have to pay for cloud space then, which doesn't fix the problem just moves it over.
No, as you can give apps access your own private cloud space normally
Oh, you were suggesting DDB offload the log data onto our cloud space. I thought you were suggesting they rent server space from a storage company.
Exposing character sheet data to the users through their own personal cloud storage seems like a bad idea.
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I'm not certain how the space usage is different from the near-infinite notes one can make in several Note categories on their character sheets. (My Other and Backstory instructions in the notes can get quite exhaustive.)
Automating the "note-taking" process for currency bookkeeping seems more of a programmatic (is that the right word?) issue than a space issue.
There is a reason to not do it regardless. Since someone (player or DM) must put a description for each transaction (EDIT: or else, the transaction doesn't really help much with just the time/date), I don't see enough of a benefit over manually making a note in one of the Note categories. (I already include historical stuff like rolled character stats per-dice during creation in the Other Notes. 4d6-top3-total for abilities. 𝓃d𝓃 for other rolled stuff like non-fixed hitpoints when leveling, etc.)
I'd put this on a might-be-nice-to-have low-priority investigate-further pile, but I doubt it would happen.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I think the note fields have a character limit, plus they must be manually entered creating a natural data volume limit per user. This feature would (presumably, otherwise what's the point) populate automatically each and every time a user increases or decreases their gold. This would happen a lot
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
Ha! I'm talking pages and pages in both Backstory and Other Notes. Things that nobody else in their right mind would bother to read. It's just instructions and records for me but very detailed. Never reached any character limit. (Don't bother to export them. Totally illegible when exported. :D)
I have an assumption on how people use the Other category - probably barely anything there for most people if I'm correct. Keeping a manual (EDIT: to be clear, not automatic) ledger there shouldn't be too much of an issue and would be a good roleplay quirk for the niche accountant roleplayer. Not really something that would be new-feature-worthy in my opinion.
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
There are lots of options really, store the last X entries, and allow a dump into a comma'd text file so people can then dump that straight into a spreadsheet.