The integration between DND Beyond and Foundry VTT is 100% the reason why I have bought a lot of content and renewed my DND Beyond subscription. The important feature of being able to import my characters’ data into my VTT games is critical to my ongoing use and support DND Beyond.
I too was just recently drawn to D&D Beyond solely because of the advantage of the JSON endpoint and the possibilities it provided to me and my gamers. I just moved all of my campaigns from Roll20 to Foundry (and D&DB) and a big part of the decision was that I can use a better platform and still offer official purchased source material for my players and use it to make virtual roleplaying as effortles as it can be. The possibility for my players to keep their characters updated in D&D Beyond and then being able to import their characters into the game platform itself is integral part of this and it is not possible without the endpoint. As a gamemaster I have brought all of my players with me to use D&D Beyond and can see it happening in the future for a lot of gamemasters and their players out there. Would hate to see all of these possibilities washed away because of the end of JSON endpoint.
Especially in times like these when in person roleplaying is not as possible as it used to be, roleplaying virtually using services like D&D Beyond, Foundry VTT and Roll20 have made a lot of people's restricted lives a lot more enjoyable. Please continue to support JSON and make a lot of your users very happy!
I own a hard copy of every 5e book published today, those that have a Limited Edition Cover, I have two: standard and LE. I got into Fantasy Grounds for a bit and their upcoming Fantasy Grounds Unity update had me excited, so I once again purchased very book available there as well as part of their Legendary Bundle assuming I would use FG classic a bit and get a little use out of them, but then get a LOT of use once FGU came out. I backed the FGU kickstarter for $100 and when their beta came about I was HIGHLY disappointed as they didnt actually fix any of the problems Fantasy Grounds had, they just made it look slightly prettier. That's about the time I found Atropo's Foundry. This was the VTT I had been looking for and the fact that it was html/css and full stack javascript via nodeJS meant that an entire community sprung up offering customization options and integrations left and right. Now I already had 1 or two books on beyond, and maintain a DM subscription for my players as other members of the group have purchased a book or two for sharing, but I was just about ready to purchawse the Legendary Bundle on D&D Beyond when I heard the VTTA functionality had been broken by the removal of the JSON character sheet endpoint.
While I work for AWS and understand what changes like this sometimes need to be made, I would implore the folks at D&D Beyond to continue to make a concerted effort to allow for access to end points like this moving forward. The D&D community/fandom worldwide, is comprised of geeks and nerds. For decades we have been discovering, creating, innovating, and tweaking various aspects of the hobby and the game play. From the pewter minis in emptied out pool tables that my father was using in the early 1980s, to DM Scotty, Black Magic Craft, Wylock, and the papercrafters, to Dungeon Forge, Dragonlock and Dungeon Stone, to the innovation of 3d printers and places like 3dPrintedTabletop, Fat Dragon games, and Dungeon Torch, to liveplay streams like Critical Role; Dice, Camera, Action, Sirens of the Realms, Land between two Rivers, Save or Dice, The Chain or High Rollers, to WebDM, Nerdarchy, Dungeon Dudes, Taking20 and the likes, the D&D community will take everything it can get its hands on and do exactly what they are intended to do with it.... CREATE. Then factor in the exposure and celebrity endorsement we've seen in recent years with the likes of Vin Diesel, Joe Mangienello, Matt Mercer, Terry Crews, Stephen Colbert the community has a wider reach than ever before and more creative minds ready to pioneer, innovate, and create not only new characters and worlds, but new tools, applications, arts, crafts and methods of playing, than ever before.
So while I understand the need to protect copyrights and intellectual property, I would like to challenge D&D Beyond AND WOTC (understanding they are two separate companies) to continue to support as much open source opportunity as possible while not enabling violation of said copyrights and intellectual property. Developer APIs and the JSON endpoints enable a whole new world of development and functionality not seen on this level in our industry before and really opens doorways for the future of the hobby. So I'm here representing the community asking "Please help us innovate this hobby to the next level. If x doesn't work due to (whatever the reason), is there a y or a z option we can use instead?"
That said I am sure, there are bad apples out there, (just like in crowds of protestors or precincts of cops, or class rooms of kids... they exist everywhere) who will be looking for ways to exploit this and steal data/products. The VAST majority of us are not and we would like to work with you to facilitate what we're trying to do while also putting measures in place to protect the integrity of D&D Beyond and the property rights of WOTC.
All we're asking for RIGHT NOW, is some communication.
I also am a VTT Foundry recent convert and was making use of the /json endpoint. RESTful api's are common in many useful tools, though I understand your desire to protect your system and services. Please consider making the /json endpoint pay-bundle subscriber only rather than just remove the option completely? Thank you!
I use FoundryVTT and this functionality helps make it so much better. Please continue to support a JSON endpoint as it helps make your product more enjoyable for users like myself. I really enjoy the combination of D&D Beyond and Foundry VTT, and it is one of the big reasons I decided to begin using DNDBeyond for my campaign. However, the JSON export is a big part of it. Please continue to offer that feature.
The only reason I purchased all of the available content on DNDBeyond was so that I would be able to create characters for my players and then we could have programmatic access to those character sheets for use in our VTT games.
Exactly my thoughts as well. I'm $700 in here between both bundles and have just gotten all my players in two games on-board with using dndbeyond to manage and level their characters and now the importers for the two virtual tabletops we use are useless. This is not my favorite news of the day.
The only reason I purchased all of the available content on DNDBeyond was so that I would be able to create characters for my players and then we could have programmatic access to those character sheets for use in our VTT games.
Exactly my thoughts as well. I'm $700 in here between both bundles and have just gotten all my players in two games on-board with using dndbeyond to manage and level their characters and now the importers for the two virtual tabletops we use are useless. This is not my favorite news of the day.
I am here for the same reason - without the JSON feature or an API replacement I have little reason to use the ~$500 spent at D&D beyond, please help here!
I only own the sourcebook bundle (who needs predesigned adventures anyways? :)) and a subsciption, but I am, too, interested in official data apis. These provide third party applications the means to interface safely and legally with the site.
My understand was always that D&D Beyond is focused foremost on player comfort. Being able to import characters from Beyond into my favourite VTT apps has been tremendously helpful for guiding new players into the hobby.
Please have your legal team draft up licensing terms, your technicians create an easy to use json endpoint and your community managers educate us on how to use them.
It is very disappointing to see even an unofficial feature removed with no replacement released - especially since it is so readily used and beloved of the community. The availability of data for easy integration with 3rd party applications is way up there on the list of selling points for D&D Beyond - after all, what good is phenomenal UEX if they can't use the results anywhere? I was this close to starting to pile money into D&D Beyond and take the next steps on my journey in this hobby - I certainly won't consider investing in D&D Beyond as a platform until they resolve this fundamental issue.
Hi dnd beyond is a fantastic tool but one thing it does not have is a platform to play the game, sorry guys your dice and encounters are great but compared to vttfoundry well there is none. Great thing too it encourages community engagement through mods. Now there is a mass exodus to foundry from roll20 but beyond still plays an important roll if the modders can link the characters and resources to foundry. If that breaks then I loose the need for beyond please keep the json aspect alive so I can continue to use both products together. Thanks.
Master subscriber here. Just wanted to add my voice to say the ability to import my character and other items using VTTA is the sole reason I have spent over $200 on D&D Beyond in the past month alone. PLEASE reinstate this functionality as it is of huge benefit to your customers, and (if I'm anything to go by) a truly effective way of upselling more content from D&D Beyond. Thanks!
Same again. Master sub and all content, and disappointed. Pretty sure dndb can see exactly how much use the endpoints get so it not being documented isn't particularly relevent tbh. Really looking forward to a proper response, that recognises how important third party integration is to your users.
FWIW, I'm moving all of my DND related content away from R20 to towards DNDB *because* of VTTAssets.com and Foundry. DNDB is my "groundtruth" and I really won't want to pick a new workflow since I finally found one so nice.
I'm here for the same reason everyone else is. Glad I read the update notes before buying some books this morning. Currently I own hard copies of most of the books and being able to use my purchased content in FoundryVTT is critical.
With that said, it will be great to have an official API endpoint in the future!
@DnDBeyond: I too have bought content here to support my 5E on FoundryVTT. I too use VTTA to connect DndBeyond to my players in FoundryVTT. I too have ushered my players to DNDBeyond.com to manage their characters (kudos on your 5E character creation). I too aim(ed?) to go Legendary with your content to support my 5E group. I too would pay for a subscription to share with my group once I had the content.
I was frustrated waiting for your next Legendary sale day. Should I instead be glad that (even with Covid-19), you are not offering Legendary for sale?
Whether you are going keep or kill JSON VTTA/FoundryVTT support, please make yourself clear ASAP, and certainly before you offer Legendary again. We all need to let our players know whether DnDBeyond.com is useful for our purposes, and I don’t want to have any doubts about the usability of DnDBeyond.com going forward.
Owner of all the physical source books and most modules; in addition, I’m another Legendary Bundle owner and Master subscriber. I have no intentions of being a Roll20 subscriber nor Fantasy Grounds user. I support VTTA and FoundryVTT for its fantastic extensibility. Not permitting users access to a JSON endpoint nor an officially supported API endpoint is disheartening. Hoping for a positive solution from the great DND Beyond team.
The updated version of VTTA Beyond Integration (Version 3.0.7) does work. Sebastian was very quick to implement a work around. I think the biggest worry and issue here is that the endpoint was removed with very little notice and everyone is worried the new one will also be removed... Myself included. I will be holding of on any purchases until there is something official said about it.
I too am a DM who uses D&D beyond for 3 separate campaigns because it integrates well with foundry through VTTA. If that stopped being true, I would plan on moving all of my players over to just use Foundry and wouldn't see a need for purchasing content on D&D beyond or maintaining my subscription anymore. I'd love to see an official response on this issue.
Hi DndBeyond, please consider revisiting this change. Using dndbeyond character sheets in foundry VTT has been the reason I’ve subscribed to dndbeyond and have been using foundry during lockdown to keep in touch with my friends. Repurchase everything on Roll20 is not a viable option to me and I want to continue to easily enjoy D&D with my friends.
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The integration between DND Beyond and Foundry VTT is 100% the reason why I have bought a lot of content and renewed my DND Beyond subscription. The important feature of being able to import my characters’ data into my VTT games is critical to my ongoing use and support DND Beyond.
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I too was just recently drawn to D&D Beyond solely because of the advantage of the JSON endpoint and the possibilities it provided to me and my gamers. I just moved all of my campaigns from Roll20 to Foundry (and D&DB) and a big part of the decision was that I can use a better platform and still offer official purchased source material for my players and use it to make virtual roleplaying as effortles as it can be. The possibility for my players to keep their characters updated in D&D Beyond and then being able to import their characters into the game platform itself is integral part of this and it is not possible without the endpoint. As a gamemaster I have brought all of my players with me to use D&D Beyond and can see it happening in the future for a lot of gamemasters and their players out there. Would hate to see all of these possibilities washed away because of the end of JSON endpoint.
Especially in times like these when in person roleplaying is not as possible as it used to be, roleplaying virtually using services like D&D Beyond, Foundry VTT and Roll20 have made a lot of people's restricted lives a lot more enjoyable. Please continue to support JSON and make a lot of your users very happy!
Another Legendary bundle holder here to say please make the characters accessible to the community.
Thank you.
Personally:
I own a hard copy of every 5e book published today, those that have a Limited Edition Cover, I have two: standard and LE. I got into Fantasy Grounds for a bit and their upcoming Fantasy Grounds Unity update had me excited, so I once again purchased very book available there as well as part of their Legendary Bundle assuming I would use FG classic a bit and get a little use out of them, but then get a LOT of use once FGU came out. I backed the FGU kickstarter for $100 and when their beta came about I was HIGHLY disappointed as they didnt actually fix any of the problems Fantasy Grounds had, they just made it look slightly prettier. That's about the time I found Atropo's Foundry. This was the VTT I had been looking for and the fact that it was html/css and full stack javascript via nodeJS meant that an entire community sprung up offering customization options and integrations left and right. Now I already had 1 or two books on beyond, and maintain a DM subscription for my players as other members of the group have purchased a book or two for sharing, but I was just about ready to purchawse the Legendary Bundle on D&D Beyond when I heard the VTTA functionality had been broken by the removal of the JSON character sheet endpoint.
While I work for AWS and understand what changes like this sometimes need to be made, I would implore the folks at D&D Beyond to continue to make a concerted effort to allow for access to end points like this moving forward. The D&D community/fandom worldwide, is comprised of geeks and nerds. For decades we have been discovering, creating, innovating, and tweaking various aspects of the hobby and the game play. From the pewter minis in emptied out pool tables that my father was using in the early 1980s, to DM Scotty, Black Magic Craft, Wylock, and the papercrafters, to Dungeon Forge, Dragonlock and Dungeon Stone, to the innovation of 3d printers and places like 3dPrintedTabletop, Fat Dragon games, and Dungeon Torch, to liveplay streams like Critical Role; Dice, Camera, Action, Sirens of the Realms, Land between two Rivers, Save or Dice, The Chain or High Rollers, to WebDM, Nerdarchy, Dungeon Dudes, Taking20 and the likes, the D&D community will take everything it can get its hands on and do exactly what they are intended to do with it.... CREATE. Then factor in the exposure and celebrity endorsement we've seen in recent years with the likes of Vin Diesel, Joe Mangienello, Matt Mercer, Terry Crews, Stephen Colbert the community has a wider reach than ever before and more creative minds ready to pioneer, innovate, and create not only new characters and worlds, but new tools, applications, arts, crafts and methods of playing, than ever before.
So while I understand the need to protect copyrights and intellectual property, I would like to challenge D&D Beyond AND WOTC (understanding they are two separate companies) to continue to support as much open source opportunity as possible while not enabling violation of said copyrights and intellectual property. Developer APIs and the JSON endpoints enable a whole new world of development and functionality not seen on this level in our industry before and really opens doorways for the future of the hobby. So I'm here representing the community asking "Please help us innovate this hobby to the next level. If x doesn't work due to (whatever the reason), is there a y or a z option we can use instead?"
That said I am sure, there are bad apples out there, (just like in crowds of protestors or precincts of cops, or class rooms of kids... they exist everywhere) who will be looking for ways to exploit this and steal data/products. The VAST majority of us are not and we would like to work with you to facilitate what we're trying to do while also putting measures in place to protect the integrity of D&D Beyond and the property rights of WOTC.
All we're asking for RIGHT NOW, is some communication.
I also am a VTT Foundry recent convert and was making use of the /json endpoint. RESTful api's are common in many useful tools, though I understand your desire to protect your system and services. Please consider making the /json endpoint pay-bundle subscriber only rather than just remove the option completely? Thank you!
I use FoundryVTT and this functionality helps make it so much better. Please continue to support a JSON endpoint as it helps make your product more enjoyable for users like myself. I really enjoy the combination of D&D Beyond and Foundry VTT, and it is one of the big reasons I decided to begin using DNDBeyond for my campaign. However, the JSON export is a big part of it. Please continue to offer that feature.
Exactly my thoughts as well. I'm $700 in here between both bundles and have just gotten all my players in two games on-board with using dndbeyond to manage and level their characters and now the importers for the two virtual tabletops we use are useless. This is not my favorite news of the day.
I am here for the same reason - without the JSON feature or an API replacement I have little reason to use the ~$500 spent at D&D beyond, please help here!
I only own the sourcebook bundle (who needs predesigned adventures anyways? :)) and a subsciption, but I am, too, interested in official data apis. These provide third party applications the means to interface safely and legally with the site.
My understand was always that D&D Beyond is focused foremost on player comfort. Being able to import characters from Beyond into my favourite VTT apps has been tremendously helpful for guiding new players into the hobby.
Please have your legal team draft up licensing terms, your technicians create an easy to use json endpoint and your community managers educate us on how to use them.
Thank you!
It is very disappointing to see even an unofficial feature removed with no replacement released - especially since it is so readily used and beloved of the community. The availability of data for easy integration with 3rd party applications is way up there on the list of selling points for D&D Beyond - after all, what good is phenomenal UEX if they can't use the results anywhere? I was this close to starting to pile money into D&D Beyond and take the next steps on my journey in this hobby - I certainly won't consider investing in D&D Beyond as a platform until they resolve this fundamental issue.
Hi dnd beyond is a fantastic tool but one thing it does not have is a platform to play the game, sorry guys your dice and encounters are great but compared to vttfoundry well there is none. Great thing too it encourages community engagement through mods. Now there is a mass exodus to foundry from roll20 but beyond still plays an important roll if the modders can link the characters and resources to foundry. If that breaks then I loose the need for beyond please keep the json aspect alive so I can continue to use both products together. Thanks.
Master subscriber here. Just wanted to add my voice to say the ability to import my character and other items using VTTA is the sole reason I have spent over $200 on D&D Beyond in the past month alone. PLEASE reinstate this functionality as it is of huge benefit to your customers, and (if I'm anything to go by) a truly effective way of upselling more content from D&D Beyond. Thanks!
Same again. Master sub and all content, and disappointed. Pretty sure dndb can see exactly how much use the endpoints get so it not being documented isn't particularly relevent tbh. Really looking forward to a proper response, that recognises how important third party integration is to your users.
FWIW, I'm moving all of my DND related content away from R20 to towards DNDB *because* of VTTAssets.com and Foundry. DNDB is my "groundtruth" and I really won't want to pick a new workflow since I finally found one so nice.
Much appreciated.
I'm here for the same reason everyone else is. Glad I read the update notes before buying some books this morning. Currently I own hard copies of most of the books and being able to use my purchased content in FoundryVTT is critical.
With that said, it will be great to have an official API endpoint in the future!
FYI: New API endpoint (https://character-service.dndbeyond.com/character/v3/character/number/) does not work.
@DnDBeyond: I too have bought content here to support my 5E on FoundryVTT. I too use VTTA to connect DndBeyond to my players in FoundryVTT. I too have ushered my players to DNDBeyond.com to manage their characters (kudos on your 5E character creation). I too aim(ed?) to go Legendary with your content to support my 5E group. I too would pay for a subscription to share with my group once I had the content.
I was frustrated waiting for your next Legendary sale day. Should I instead be glad that (even with Covid-19), you are not offering Legendary for sale?
Whether you are going keep or kill JSON VTTA/FoundryVTT support, please make yourself clear ASAP, and certainly before you offer Legendary again. We all need to let our players know whether DnDBeyond.com is useful for our purposes, and I don’t want to have any doubts about the usability of DnDBeyond.com going forward.
Thank you.
Owner of all the physical source books and most modules; in addition, I’m another Legendary Bundle owner and Master subscriber. I have no intentions of being a Roll20 subscriber nor Fantasy Grounds user. I support VTTA and FoundryVTT for its fantastic extensibility. Not permitting users access to a JSON endpoint nor an officially supported API endpoint is disheartening. Hoping for a positive solution from the great DND Beyond team.
Cheers.
The updated version of VTTA Beyond Integration (Version 3.0.7) does work. Sebastian was very quick to implement a work around. I think the biggest worry and issue here is that the endpoint was removed with very little notice and everyone is worried the new one will also be removed... Myself included. I will be holding of on any purchases until there is something official said about it.
I too am a DM who uses D&D beyond for 3 separate campaigns because it integrates well with foundry through VTTA. If that stopped being true, I would plan on moving all of my players over to just use Foundry and wouldn't see a need for purchasing content on D&D beyond or maintaining my subscription anymore. I'd love to see an official response on this issue.
Hi DndBeyond, please consider revisiting this change. Using dndbeyond character sheets in foundry VTT has been the reason I’ve subscribed to dndbeyond and have been using foundry during lockdown to keep in touch with my friends. Repurchase everything on Roll20 is not a viable option to me and I want to continue to easily enjoy D&D with my friends.