Does your character have proficiency in heavy armor?
If by 'Heavy Armor Master' you mean Heavily Armored, i.e. the "gain proficiency in heavy armor" feat...does your character have proficiency in medium armor?
Do you own the Player's Handbook, and/or have you bought access to the feat for use in the character builder?
It works for me. Pick Variant Human, pick the Fighter class, go back to race to select a feat: they're all there, including Heavy Armor Master. Are your entitlements in sync? You can check this by going to your account and in your account to the tab marketplace (not the marketplace where you can buy stuff, the tab "marketplace" in your account - the second one from the right). It'll tell you at the top of that tab whether your data are in sync or not. If that's not the issue, maybe link us your character sheet so we can take a closer look.
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I see, so they hide feats until you have bought everything, when really you have to go forward to picking the class and then go back to picking the feats.
I'm so sick of everything being hidden and you don't know what source book, what option, what bizarre order you need to do things to reveal it.
I guess its to try to persuade you to just spend the $500 and buy everything (and even then you need a magic order of selection).
I see, so they hide feats until you have bought everything, when really you have to go forward to picking the class and then go back to picking the feats.
I'm so sick of everything being hidden and you don't know what source book, what option, what bizarre order you need to do things to reveal it.
I guess its to try to persuade you to just spend the $500 and buy everything (and even then you need a magic order of selection).
WOW, they don't hide it for know reason, if they just gave it you without you buying it, they could sewed for thousands of dollars.
They don't even care for profit, beyond the minimum needed to run and improve the site, and they get enough from just following the law and their agreements.
And here's the reason you need to pick fighter first:you need heavy armor profiency for the feat.
Your making Dumb, thoughtless insults based off tiny data points because your mildly, everything we explained is perfectly reasonable and logical, and dndbeyond is not greedy at all.
I see, so they hide feats until you have bought everything, when really you have to go forward to picking the class and then go back to picking the feats.
I'm so sick of everything being hidden and you don't know what source book, what option, what bizarre order you need to do things to reveal it.
I guess its to try to persuade you to just spend the $500 and buy everything (and even then you need a magic order of selection).
Heavy Armor Master requires proficiency with heavy armor. You get armor proficiencies from your class. So yes, you obviously have to go forward and pick your class first. Which, not to put too fine a point on it, you said you did ("I click fighter, choose human, lots of feats but no heavy armor master."). It has nothing to do with having to buy everything.
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I don't fully understand what you are referring to. If you were to search what you are looking for in the search bar at the top of the page, it tells you what book said thing is in (alphabetically by book). There are also several guides that walk you through most of the character creation process within the character sheet builder itself. There is a literal button that says 'Show help tips' every time you go to make a new character.
Did you purchase the content on this account or did someone else purchase it and put you in a campaign? If some else else purchased it and enabled content sharing with you you need to be making the character in within their campaign to get access to it. You must also purchase the content on Dnd beyond to get access to it. A lot of people don't realize that.
Lastly, and this is more a personal point, why would you spend over $800 on something that you have no idea how to use/play? Giving that information to us gives me the feeling that you are trolling. I'm not accusing you of anything, but I just want to make it known to you that the way you have presented this makes it really difficult to take your issue seriously.
I see, so they hide feats until you have bought everything, when really you have to go forward to picking the class and then go back to picking the feats.
I'm so sick of everything being hidden and you don't know what source book, what option, what bizarre order you need to do things to reveal it.
I guess its to try to persuade you to just spend the $500 and buy everything (and even then you need a magic order of selection).
WOW, they don't hide it for know reason, if they just gave it you without you buying it, they could sewed for thousands of dollars.
Nope, fandom (the people who run dndbeyond) Have pretty much forgotten about this site, and don't really care about the money they get from it, they pretty much present everything at as little cost to you as they can manage without dropping the site.
They only get a small percentage of money from sales, so they would get very little for getting you to buy, if they even wanted to.Enticing you to buy all the books would probally lose them money, and close the site down, so shut up.
I see, so they hide feats until you have bought everything, when really you have to go forward to picking the class and then go back to picking the feats.
I'm so sick of everything being hidden and you don't know what source book, what option, what bizarre order you need to do things to reveal it.
I guess its to try to persuade you to just spend the $500 and buy everything (and even then you need a magic order of selection).
Heavy Armor Master requires proficiency with heavy armor. You get armor proficiencies from your class. So yes, you obviously have to go forward and pick your class first. Which, not to put too fine a point on it, you said you did ("I click fighter, choose human, lots of feats but no heavy armor master."). It has nothing to do with having to buy everything.
I see, so they hide feats until you have bought everything, when really you have to go forward to picking the class and then go back to picking the feats.
I'm so sick of everything being hidden and you don't know what source book, what option, what bizarre order you need to do things to reveal it.
I guess its to try to persuade you to just spend the $500 and buy everything (and even then you need a magic order of selection).
Heavy Armor Master requires proficiency with heavy armor. You get armor proficiencies from your class. So yes, you obviously have to go forward and pick your class first. Which, not to put too fine a point on it, you said you did ("I click fighter, choose human, lots of feats but no heavy armor master."). It has nothing to do with having to buy everything.
Class is #2 after race #1 so he didn't click class first, I meant click we
a) bought everything
b ) clicked add character
c) selected Variant Human - which has a drop down of Feat, that drop down has hidden options you might not have paid for (who can guess) or that in THIS case, have paid for, but you have to go to the next section, find the right class, then return.
would it *really* be that hard to, in principal, show all the classes (like Death Cleric for which you need to purchase the DMG) that are hidden, and why they are hidden,
or show all the feats and why they are missing?
instead of making it incredibly hard to find things, and *even* if you find it, then it is incredibly hard to buy it.
Nope, fandom (the people who run dndbeyond) Have pretty much forgotten about this site, and don't really care about the money they get from it, they pretty much present everything at as little cost to you as they can manage without dropping the site.
They only get a small percentage of money from sales, so they would get very little for getting you to buy, if they even wanted to.Enticing you to buy all the books would probally lose them money, and close the site down, so shut up.
They made a quarter of a billion dollars in sales from DDB, earning them tens of millions. Just because they spent minimal money on the website doesn't mean they love the profits.
It's a common mistake but the DDB people and the WoTC people aren't the same. DDB sells WoTC's stuff but the two aren't connected (like how a factory might make a lot of money but the clothing store who sells what the factory makes might not be making as much money).
It'd be kind of weird if you selected feats and were given the complete list of like 500 when you might only be able to use 3 (especially if you don't own any sourcebooks on DDB). DDB assumes that before you select a feat in the character builder you already have a understanding of that feat and it's prerequisites.
Edit: So viewing feats you don't have access to is set to off on default because of the above. On your character sheet in manage feats there's a category for "Unavailable Feats", and as Yurei point out below, on the character builder there's a slider for having access to all feats regardless of prerequisites.
Unless you turn the option off in the character builder, you have to meet a feat's prerequisites before you can select the feat. Heavy Armor Master has the prerequisite "proficiency with heavy armor." If you are not proficient in heavy armor, usually because you have not selected a class yet or your class does not offer that proficiency, you cannot select a feat that requires you to have proficiency in heavy armor.
To avoid this, and to tamp down the vitriol some...there is an option you can toggle in your character sheet that turns off all feat prerequisites. You may then select Heavy Armor Master despite not being proficient with heavy armor, or any othjer feat with a prereq without meeting that feat's prerequisite. Please note that doing so means you will have feats available in your feat list that will not function for you, depending on what you've bought, because this also allows you to assign feats that require features you do not have, such as giving your variant human character tiefling or halfling species feats from Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
In general, I recommend trying to learn the system well enough to know which feats have prerequisites and which ones do not. That can alleviate issues such as this for the future.
This site and its inner workings aren’t always very intuitive, I’ll agree to that, but that’s not about making you buy stuff. I actually have a completely opposite experience: seeing absolutely every option and getting redirected to the Marketplace whenever you try to open something you don’t own, that’s about getting you to buy stuff.
The thing about building a character is that everybody does it differently. I don’t even do it the same way every time. The order that’s suggested by the tool is just that, a suggestion - and the various steps all potentially have some decisions that might affect choices from other steps. Feats might need a proficiency, which depending on your choices you could get from race, from class or from background. You could get that feat from race or from class to begin with, or maybe you have a DM who gives all characters extra feats beyond what the normal rules allow. When you start to add your equipment you might realize you lack proficiency with that one weapon you really want to use, or that you forgot a minimum Str of 15 is required to use heavy armor. Looking at backgrounds you might think something looks interesting but your stats aren’t quite right for it or you already have the proficiencies the background adds from your class or race. In short, it’s not possible to create a character builder in a format tailored for everyone since not everyone uses it the same way, and you’re likely to be jumping back and forth between the different steps of building a character anyway. So, take a breath, try to understand the process first (just try it a few times and you’ll get the hang of it) and things will be fine. If not, just ask for help. Nothing wrong with that (and it certainly beats giving yourself an aneurysm out of frustration).
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So I'm am rules lawyer and money is just a big cover up on how the rules work(not saying DND beyond is not ran well) The race feat you choose has a list of feats you can choose from. For example you can not choose Elvin accuracy you aren't an elf. Did you get heavy armor proficiency from your race no, so you don't have access to heavy armor master. The work around is choose class first but technically you shouldn't be able to use that feat from your race feat ability. Use the feat most no one uses it.
we figured out why you can't pick the death cleric after an hour.
but why can't we pcik the Heavy Armor master.
what a waste of money
Does your character have proficiency in heavy armor?
If by 'Heavy Armor Master' you mean Heavily Armored, i.e. the "gain proficiency in heavy armor" feat...does your character have proficiency in medium armor?
Do you own the Player's Handbook, and/or have you bought access to the feat for use in the character builder?
Please do not contact or message me.
Maybe because you don't have the feat purchased on the site, so you're litterally not wasting a single dollar.
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We bought everything, all the books, DMG, PHB and many more.
I click fighter, choose human, lots of feats but no heavy armor master.
It works for me. Pick Variant Human, pick the Fighter class, go back to race to select a feat: they're all there, including Heavy Armor Master. Are your entitlements in sync? You can check this by going to your account and in your account to the tab marketplace (not the marketplace where you can buy stuff, the tab "marketplace" in your account - the second one from the right). It'll tell you at the top of that tab whether your data are in sync or not. If that's not the issue, maybe link us your character sheet so we can take a closer look.
Want to start playing but don't have anyone to play with? You can try these options: [link].
I see, so they hide feats until you have bought everything, when really you have to go forward to picking the class and then go back to picking the feats.
I'm so sick of everything being hidden and you don't know what source book, what option, what bizarre order you need to do things to reveal it.
I guess its to try to persuade you to just spend the $500 and buy everything (and even then you need a magic order of selection).
WOW, they don't hide it for know reason, if they just gave it you without you buying it, they could sewed for thousands of dollars.
They don't even care for profit, beyond the minimum needed to run and improve the site, and they get enough from just following the law and their agreements.
And here's the reason you need to pick fighter first:you need heavy armor profiency for the feat.
Your making Dumb, thoughtless insults based off tiny data points because your mildly, everything we explained is perfectly reasonable and logical, and dndbeyond is not greedy at all.
My homebrew content: Monsters, subclasses, Magic items, Feats, spells, races, backgrounds
Heavy Armor Master requires proficiency with heavy armor. You get armor proficiencies from your class. So yes, you obviously have to go forward and pick your class first. Which, not to put too fine a point on it, you said you did ("I click fighter, choose human, lots of feats but no heavy armor master."). It has nothing to do with having to buy everything.
Want to start playing but don't have anyone to play with? You can try these options: [link].
I don't fully understand what you are referring to. If you were to search what you are looking for in the search bar at the top of the page, it tells you what book said thing is in (alphabetically by book). There are also several guides that walk you through most of the character creation process within the character sheet builder itself. There is a literal button that says 'Show help tips' every time you go to make a new character.
Did you purchase the content on this account or did someone else purchase it and put you in a campaign? If some else else purchased it and enabled content sharing with you you need to be making the character in within their campaign to get access to it. You must also purchase the content on Dnd beyond to get access to it. A lot of people don't realize that.
Lastly, and this is more a personal point, why would you spend over $800 on something that you have no idea how to use/play? Giving that information to us gives me the feeling that you are trolling. I'm not accusing you of anything, but I just want to make it known to you that the way you have presented this makes it really difficult to take your issue seriously.
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They don't care for profits? R u joking?
Nope, fandom (the people who run dndbeyond) Have pretty much forgotten about this site, and don't really care about the money they get from it, they pretty much present everything at as little cost to you as they can manage without dropping the site.
They only get a small percentage of money from sales, so they would get very little for getting you to buy, if they even wanted to.Enticing you to buy all the books would probally lose them money, and close the site down, so shut up.
My homebrew content: Monsters, subclasses, Magic items, Feats, spells, races, backgrounds
Class is #2 after race #1 so he didn't click class first, I meant click we
a) bought everything
b ) clicked add character
c) selected Variant Human - which has a drop down of Feat, that drop down has hidden options you might not have paid for (who can guess) or that in THIS case, have paid for, but you have to go to the next section, find the right class, then return.
would it *really* be that hard to, in principal, show all the classes (like Death Cleric for which you need to purchase the DMG) that are hidden, and why they are hidden,
or show all the feats and why they are missing?
instead of making it incredibly hard to find things, and *even* if you find it, then it is incredibly hard to buy it.
you fan boys are just that.
They made a quarter of a billion dollars in sales from DDB, earning them tens of millions. Just because they spent minimal money on the website doesn't mean they love the profits.
Some notes:
It's a common mistake but the DDB people and the WoTC people aren't the same. DDB sells WoTC's stuff but the two aren't connected (like how a factory might make a lot of money but the clothing store who sells what the factory makes might not be making as much money).
It'd be kind of weird if you selected feats and were given the complete list of like 500 when you might only be able to use 3 (especially if you don't own any sourcebooks on DDB). DDB assumes that before you select a feat in the character builder you already have a understanding of that feat and it's prerequisites.
Edit: So viewing feats you don't have access to is set to off on default because of the above. On your character sheet in manage feats there's a category for "Unavailable Feats", and as Yurei point out below, on the character builder there's a slider for having access to all feats regardless of prerequisites.
if I edit a message, most of the time it's because of grammar. The rest of the time I'll put "Edit:" at the bottom.
Bulk.
Calm.
Unless you turn the option off in the character builder, you have to meet a feat's prerequisites before you can select the feat. Heavy Armor Master has the prerequisite "proficiency with heavy armor." If you are not proficient in heavy armor, usually because you have not selected a class yet or your class does not offer that proficiency, you cannot select a feat that requires you to have proficiency in heavy armor.
To avoid this, and to tamp down the vitriol some...there is an option you can toggle in your character sheet that turns off all feat prerequisites. You may then select Heavy Armor Master despite not being proficient with heavy armor, or any othjer feat with a prereq without meeting that feat's prerequisite. Please note that doing so means you will have feats available in your feat list that will not function for you, depending on what you've bought, because this also allows you to assign feats that require features you do not have, such as giving your variant human character tiefling or halfling species feats from Xanathar's Guide to Everything.
In general, I recommend trying to learn the system well enough to know which feats have prerequisites and which ones do not. That can alleviate issues such as this for the future.
Please do not contact or message me.
This site and its inner workings aren’t always very intuitive, I’ll agree to that, but that’s not about making you buy stuff. I actually have a completely opposite experience: seeing absolutely every option and getting redirected to the Marketplace whenever you try to open something you don’t own, that’s about getting you to buy stuff.
The thing about building a character is that everybody does it differently. I don’t even do it the same way every time. The order that’s suggested by the tool is just that, a suggestion - and the various steps all potentially have some decisions that might affect choices from other steps. Feats might need a proficiency, which depending on your choices you could get from race, from class or from background. You could get that feat from race or from class to begin with, or maybe you have a DM who gives all characters extra feats beyond what the normal rules allow. When you start to add your equipment you might realize you lack proficiency with that one weapon you really want to use, or that you forgot a minimum Str of 15 is required to use heavy armor. Looking at backgrounds you might think something looks interesting but your stats aren’t quite right for it or you already have the proficiencies the background adds from your class or race. In short, it’s not possible to create a character builder in a format tailored for everyone since not everyone uses it the same way, and you’re likely to be jumping back and forth between the different steps of building a character anyway. So, take a breath, try to understand the process first (just try it a few times and you’ll get the hang of it) and things will be fine. If not, just ask for help. Nothing wrong with that (and it certainly beats giving yourself an aneurysm out of frustration).
Want to start playing but don't have anyone to play with? You can try these options: [link].
So I'm am rules lawyer and money is just a big cover up on how the rules work(not saying DND beyond is not ran well) The race feat you choose has a list of feats you can choose from. For example you can not choose Elvin accuracy you aren't an elf. Did you get heavy armor proficiency from your race no, so you don't have access to heavy armor master. The work around is choose class first but technically you shouldn't be able to use that feat from your race feat ability. Use the feat most no one uses it.
So instead of asking here first you just panicked and purchased everything when you could not find what you wanted?
Always ask first.