Not everyone will use these but with the following categories, there is almost something for everyone:
Game Expectations
Travel Planner
NPC Tracker
Settlement Tracker
Campaign Journal
DM's Character Tracker
Campaign Conflicts
Magic Item Tracker
Bastion Tracker
Obviously, WotC know that we are not going to take our new DMG to the local Copy Center, break the binding trying to lay the book flat, and make photo copies of these from the book, so I'm glad that they are making them available to everyone, but am a little surprised that they are making them available to those that did not buy the new 2024 DMG, but good for them :)
Cheers!
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Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
Tracking Sheets would be useful if they created printer-friendly versions. Having downloaded them, I'm flabbergasted that each page takes up 4–10 MB and is incredibly slow to load when opening or scrolling the PDF.
The rendering is just as bad as the Peril in Pinebrook PDF, which was an unplayable adventure until I figured out how to compress and flatten the layers to halve the file size and reduce loading time.
Sadly, these latest PDFs feel like half-finished amateur work. An indication of how crippledHasbro has left WotC after layoffs?
Tracking Sheets would be useful if they created printer-friendly versions. Having downloaded them, I'm flabbergasted that each page takes up 4–10 MB and is incredibly slow to load when opening or scrolling the PDF.
The rendering is just as bad as the Peril in Pinebrook PDF, which was an unplayable adventure until I figured out how to compress and flatten the layers to halve the file size and reduce loading time.
Sadly, these latest PDFs feel like half-finished amateur work. An indication of how crippledHasbro has left WotC after layoffs?
Greetings SortKaffe,
I'm not sure what you are referring to, as these functioned fine on my end, are printer friendly and there is absolutely zero lag when viewing or navigating the PDF. Granted, I used the individual PDF Download button below each image on the page opposed to the "Download Combined" or "Download All" buttons.
If you used one of those top buttons, try the individual buttons.
The Layout of these seems simple, yet thought out, and the art is complimentary and not overwhelming which is a good design choice. I would not refer to these as "half-finished amateur work", but that is just me as someone that enjoys D&D.
Hopefully you can figure out the issue you are having with the PDF as these are helpful to new and old players alike.
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
As a long time DM of the game the visual clutter on the sheets are unnecessary and eat valuable real-estate that is better for information, and serves no purpose in actually identifying the relevant document.
The graphics also serve to conflate the size of the documents to unreasonably large amounts of unnecessarily wasted space that eats up valuable cloud space.
A simpler version, without the visual clutter would be preferred as a means of reducing the overhead of the space needed and the overall speed at which they could be downloaded and copied.
Greetings ThievesGuildMaster,
With Tracking Sheets like this not being provided in the past, the fact that any form of a Tracking Sheet is included in the new DMG is a great addition, and the fact that the sheets have bene provided as individual PDFs is great, even if not everyone likes the art they added or will use this exact version of the sheets.
As always everyone is open to create their own version of the sheets for those that think they would be helpful and want to take the time to create the exact same thing without the art. I'm sure that if you created the exact same documents without the Art, the file size would be smaller, for those that are worried about that kind of thing.
Cheers!
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
I'm not sure what you are referring to, as these functioned fine on my end, are printer friendly and there is absolutely zero lag when viewing or navigating the PDF. Granted, I used the individual PDF Download button below each image on the page opposed to the "Download Combined" or "Download All" buttons.
If you used one of those top buttons, try the individual buttons.
The Layout of these seems simple, yet thought out, and the art is complimentary and not overwhelming which is a good design choice. I would not refer to these as "half-finished amateur work", but that is just me as someone that enjoys D&D.
Hopefully you can figure out the issue you are having with the PDF as these are helpful to new and old players alike.
Downloading via the individual buttons doesn’t change anything, but I’m glad they at least work fine for you. My expensive laptop (HP EliteBook 840 G7) performs very well when processing huge datasets, but perhaps the lack of a dedicated graphics card, like those in gaming PCs, hampers its performance in this case.
Bottom line: these PDFs are too slow to be functional for me. Even when I open a single sheet, it loads slowly, and it’s even slower to load the second half of the page when I scroll down (regardless of the PDF viewer). I’ll have to wait and see if they’re included in SRD 5.2, which could either directly provide a printer-friendly form (without unnecessary graphics that take up space, MB, and RAM), or at least grant permission for other creators to distribute simplified versions of the layout—similar to the Adventure Worksheet by the Dungeon Dudes, which is only 53 KB.
Bottom line: these PDFs are too slow to be functional for me. Even when I open a single sheet, it loads slowly, and it’s even slower to load the second half of the page when I scroll down (regardless of the PDF viewer). I’ll have to wait and see if they’re included in SRD 5.2, which could either directly provide a printer-friendly form (without unnecessary graphics that take up space, MB, and RAM), or at least grant permission for other creators to distribute simplified versions of the layout—similar to the Adventure Worksheet by the Dungeon Dudes, which is only 53 KB.
It appears you can just drag the image off the page, maybe that'll work better for you?
As a person using an older asus gaming laptop, the graphics are the reason why the sheets are so slow, it eats a lot of wasted processing and productivity time and would be much better if a version with simpler graphics and more efficient use of visual space for data storage was created.
It’s a matter of making the DM’s job easier, not harder by adding in unwieldy graphics that has a tendency to be difficult to work.
As a long time DM of the game the visual clutter on the sheets are unnecessary and eat valuable real-estate that is better for information, and serves no purpose in actually identifying the relevant document.
The graphics also serve to conflate the size of the documents to unreasonably large amounts of unnecessarily wasted space that eats up valuable cloud space.
A simpler version, without the visual clutter would be preferred as a means of reducing the overhead of the space needed and the overall speed at which they could be downloaded and copied.
Greetings ThievesGuildMaster,
With Tracking Sheets like this not being provided in the past, the fact that any form of a Tracking Sheet is included in the new DMG is a great addition, and the fact that the sheets have bene provided as individual PDFs is great, even if not everyone likes the art they added or will use this exact version of the sheets.
As always everyone is open to create their own version of the sheets for those that think they would be helpful and want to take the time to create the exact same thing without the art. I'm sure that if you created the exact same documents without the Art, the file size would be smaller, for those that are worried about that kind of thing.
Cheers!
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
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Greetings D&D Beyond,
With the new 2024 Dungeon Master's Guide coming out, D&D Beyond has made the new "Tracking Sheets" that are contained in the book available for free to users on DDB.
Not everyone will use these but with the following categories, there is almost something for everyone:
Obviously, WotC know that we are not going to take our new DMG to the local Copy Center, break the binding trying to lay the book flat, and make photo copies of these from the book, so I'm glad that they are making them available to everyone, but am a little surprised that they are making them available to those that did not buy the new 2024 DMG, but good for them :)
Cheers!
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
Tracking Sheets would be useful if they created printer-friendly versions. Having downloaded them, I'm flabbergasted that each page takes up 4–10 MB and is incredibly slow to load when opening or scrolling the PDF.
The rendering is just as bad as the Peril in Pinebrook PDF, which was an unplayable adventure until I figured out how to compress and flatten the layers to halve the file size and reduce loading time.
Sadly, these latest PDFs feel like half-finished amateur work. An indication of how crippled Hasbro has left WotC after layoffs?
Greetings SortKaffe,
I'm not sure what you are referring to, as these functioned fine on my end, are printer friendly and there is absolutely zero lag when viewing or navigating the PDF.
Granted, I used the individual PDF Download button below each image on the page opposed to the "Download Combined" or "Download All" buttons.
If you used one of those top buttons, try the individual buttons.
The Layout of these seems simple, yet thought out, and the art is complimentary and not overwhelming which is a good design choice.
I would not refer to these as "half-finished amateur work", but that is just me as someone that enjoys D&D.
Hopefully you can figure out the issue you are having with the PDF as these are helpful to new and old players alike.
Cheers!
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
Greetings ThievesGuildMaster,
With Tracking Sheets like this not being provided in the past, the fact that any form of a Tracking Sheet is included in the new DMG is a great addition, and the fact that the sheets have bene provided as individual PDFs is great, even if not everyone likes the art they added or will use this exact version of the sheets.
As always everyone is open to create their own version of the sheets for those that think they would be helpful and want to take the time to create the exact same thing without the art.
I'm sure that if you created the exact same documents without the Art, the file size would be smaller, for those that are worried about that kind of thing.
Cheers!
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
Downloading via the individual buttons doesn’t change anything, but I’m glad they at least work fine for you. My expensive laptop (HP EliteBook 840 G7) performs very well when processing huge datasets, but perhaps the lack of a dedicated graphics card, like those in gaming PCs, hampers its performance in this case.
Bottom line: these PDFs are too slow to be functional for me. Even when I open a single sheet, it loads slowly, and it’s even slower to load the second half of the page when I scroll down (regardless of the PDF viewer). I’ll have to wait and see if they’re included in SRD 5.2, which could either directly provide a printer-friendly form (without unnecessary graphics that take up space, MB, and RAM), or at least grant permission for other creators to distribute simplified versions of the layout—similar to the Adventure Worksheet by the Dungeon Dudes, which is only 53 KB.
It appears you can just drag the image off the page, maybe that'll work better for you?
Greetings ADHDivergent_Barbarian,
As stated above...
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.