Ito...unfortunately they say the only companies that havent been hacked are the ones that havent found out they have been hacked yet. Nothing seems safe anymore.
My very fist though was, will there be an offline mode. The store we play at doesn't have wifi so while a lot of people would like to have this very few would actually have access.
Just throwing in my support for an app for this! I currently use several different apps to run my games, but it would be awesome to have it all in one place!
For those interested, this is what the DDB product lead for Course said on reddit:
D&D Beyond is a responsive web application that can work on any device - definitely not a desktop client or mobile app only available for iOS or Android.
I am happy to say we are working on a mobile app to go along with the website! We do not have any information beyond that to share yet. But offline is very important to us.
Excellent, the reveal video (and site text) did imply that mobile app(s) were planned/in development alongside the browser version, glad to hear that this is still planned. From what I've seen of the information so far, if the app is similar in functionality, it should be pretty high quality. I've personally used Curse for a while, for WoW addons and (slightly more recently) for Curse Voice for games like Smite, so I was hopeful for the quality of this proposed service, so far I'm heartened by the progress.
I'd like a mobile app as well, but please please please be cautious with the permissions on Android. I don't want you to access my camera, I don't want you to access my phone book, I don't want you to access my text messages. I will not install anything that asks for ridiculous permissions, and I really hope that this will not be the case.
I can't grant some permissions and block others, unfortunately my phone (at like three years old??) is too old for that.
I will pay for the app rather than letting companies see things on my phone.
At the Very least an Touch Friendly of this would be a blessing. The spells and the Monster Manual are pretty touch friendly but the rules list is really not
Ito...unfortunately they say the only companies that havent been hacked are the ones that havent found out they have been hacked yet. Nothing seems safe anymore.
I'm a software engineer and I've worked in a SOC for a Fortune 500 company; I'm aware.
That said, some targets are slightly more hardened than others. For example, while WotC would have sysadmins, they probably wouldn't build a SOC. Amazon, however, we know has substantial SOC resources and playbooks as part of AWS. (Hell, the recent AWS outage was an authorized engineer making a mistake when using an authorized command from an authorized playbook.)
That's not to say WotC would be willfully negligent, or that Amazon is bullet-proof - nothing is - but Amazon, Google and Microsoft are substantially harder targets. I'd perhaps lump Facebook in there too, but I'm not as sure on that one. Most other companies don't take it quite as seriously until they get hit. Banks and insurers are generally good now, but they got hit for a while.
More importantly, I would generally trust those three to be pretty on-the-ball about detecting and notifying users about a breach. It's actually why I like LastPass - LastPass has gotten hacked multiple times, but their notifications were fast and their measures bought time to mitigate things.
I can't get it to work on my kindle's browser. The page loads, but then nothing works and it won't let me sign in. Works fine on my iPhone 7 and desktop, just not the kindle. Anyone else have this problem?
- Mobile app is a definite, but I can't unveil a schedule for its release. The honest truth is we're working on it and we don't yet know how long it will take to get out. We've got a great mobile dev team that will deliver the goods though, and I'm excited to get to that point. And yes, the mobile app is central in our offline strategy - I don't think that's too big of a secret.
- As for timelines, the general window is we are launching this summer!
- We're very close to being able to reveal what's what with pricing. I could tell you parts that are confirmed, but I know the internet and know how partial information is absorbed and reacted to. I would rather wait (and I ask the community to wait) just a little longer to get the entire picture.
- And finally, this is such a small part of what we plan to deliver for DDB. For launch we'll have the compendium and listings, character management, homebrew, etc., but the future holds encounter and monster builders, combat/ initiative tracker, integrations with other licensed partners, all kinds of cool streaming stuff and the list goes on. I don't want to give the entire list here because the roadmap will be informed and prioritized based on what players want.
As I've said elsewhere, we're in this for the long run.
Looking forward to using an ios app for this. I like having my character sheet on me at all times, and my current app automates leveling for everything except the volo's races... which are what I want to play.
Ito...unfortunately they say the only companies that havent been hacked are the ones that havent found out they have been hacked yet. Nothing seems safe anymore.
Both Android and IOS? Windows? Chrome Apps?
My very fist though was, will there be an offline mode. The store we play at doesn't have wifi so while a lot of people would like to have this very few would actually have access.
Just throwing in my support for an app for this! I currently use several different apps to run my games, but it would be awesome to have it all in one place!
For those interested, this is what the DDB product lead for Course said on reddit:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Games/comments/5z0e8g/wizards_of_the_coast_is_releasing_an_official_app/devj5ej/?st=j0ieyiu7&sh=9d422796
I'd like a mobile app as well, but please please please be cautious with the permissions on Android. I don't want you to access my camera, I don't want you to access my phone book, I don't want you to access my text messages. I will not install anything that asks for ridiculous permissions, and I really hope that this will not be the case.
I can't grant some permissions and block others, unfortunately my phone (at like three years old??) is too old for that.
I will pay for the app rather than letting companies see things on my phone.
An app would make DMing for the first time soon so nice for me I can't wait
At the Very least an Touch Friendly of this would be a blessing. The spells and the Monster Manual are pretty touch friendly but the rules list is really not
I can't get it to work on my kindle's browser. The page loads, but then nothing works and it won't let me sign in. Works fine on my iPhone 7 and desktop, just not the kindle. Anyone else have this problem?
Please can we be sure to play fair to both Android and iPhone users and NOT favor one over the other like some "lone wolves" out there...
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D&D Beyond FoundersThanks for pulling that in subsistcyber.
Wanted to stop in and reiterate - mobile app is a definite and is central to our offline capability strategy.
Great to get the feedback that we're not just wasting our time developing it. :D
My day job is one as a QA tester, is there a way I can volunteer to help with that process for the app's eventual release?
Though, If it's going to be kept internal to WotC that's understandable.
Looking forward to using an ios app for this. I like having my character sheet on me at all times, and my current app automates leveling for everything except the volo's races... which are what I want to play.
Apologies for double post (see below)
Yes! Dedicated app, please!