Reddit Posts and Comments from WOTC Staff for the 2026-08-14 to 2026-08-22

Previous Week: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/243115-reddit-posts-and-comments-from-wotc-staff-for-the

Note, this post does not contain the elements from the AMA this week.

See this post for the AMA Roundup: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/243298-reddit-ama-with-brian-perry-ddb-team-members-on

Sources:

• https://www.reddit.com/user/WOTC_BrianPerry/
• https://www.reddit.com/user/WOTC_Zac/
• https://www.reddit.com/user/WOTC_Cody/
• https://www.reddit.com/user/WOTC_Randy/
• https://www.reddit.com/user/DnD_CommunityTeam/
• https://www.reddit.com/user/WOTC_Elliot/
• https://www.reddit.com/user/latiajacquise/
• https://www.reddit.com/user/GrandPyromania/
• https://www.reddit.com/user/WOTC_Adela/
• https://www.reddit.com/user/WOTC_LauraT/

Posts:

• https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vr2lej/whats_new_on_ddb_changelog_8172026_bloodieddead/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruapt/ddb_roadmap_whats_next_dd_beyond_deep_dive/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/onednd/comments/1vrvftb/ddb_roadmap_whats_next_dd_beyond_deep_dive/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vrub9i/ama_with_brian_perry_ddb_team_members_on_august/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/onednd/comments/1vsscoe/ama_with_brian_perry_ddb_team_members_on_august/
• https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vss7fw/take_the_dd_community_survey/

Comments:

Custom Uploads: Which Features Require Master Tier?

WOTC_BrianPerry: Uploading and storing custom images for stickers, reveals and tokens will work just like custom map uploads and require a Master Tier account.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vszgzf/comment/p4qfhoc/

Would it be possible to manually change the spectator view as the DM? I play in person but use a projector on a table to show players various battle maps, and it’s a chore having to move the camera for both me and my players

WOTC_Zac: It's on the quality of life backlog!

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vr2lej/comment/p4cd0jm/

No reveals for Heliana's Guide to Monster Hunting Part 2

WOTC_Zac: Sounds like this is probably a bug. Our team will look into it! Pay attention to the changelog for an update on when it's corrected - sorry about that!

Just kidding. It's already fixed. There might be a few thumbnails that are still broken, but that's getting sorted out as I type.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vrtvvz/comment/p4g7m43/

Constant map updates while character creation and sheets still don't work correctly has me strongly reconsidering my subscription.

WOTC_Zac:Check out the roadmap update video that just got posted an hour or two ago! We talk a lot about our new game engine we're building, which will replace the entire backend of character creation and character sheets.

Maps is able to do a lot very quickly because we're a very modern tech stack and built very intentionally. The rest of DDB is built on tech that's nearly 20 years old and was originally repurposed to do what it's doing today.

We've been hacking hacks on top of hacks for almost 10 years, and we hit a point where even doing very simple things that might take a day or two in a modern system would take a month or two in our system.

So! That's why we've been spending the last year+ rebuilding the entire backend!

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vr2lej/comment/p4ghp6s/

The only thing i'm unsure about is why tracked conditions icons don't show next to the token? It means I have to manually check each monster for a condition. Is there plans to have a little icon show around the main token? (Under the name perhaps)

WOTC_Zac:Coming soon. :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vr2lej/comment/p4ghq78/

(Bloodied/Dead Indicator) Does this work on player tokens aswell? For those designated healers who don't want to ask if people need healing every round.

WOTC_Zac: In an upcoming update!

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vr2lej/comment/p4r1lar/

Does the bloodied indicator apply to the initiative tracker and the Combat Tracker?

WOTC_Zac: Yup. :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vr2lej/comment/p4bfcyg/

 What about a toggle switch to go between them based on circumstances? (Worth noting, I don't use the VTT, this was just my first thought as I read through the comments.)

WOTC_Zac: We try to avoid putting toggles for every potential way someone might want something to work - that would lead to A LOT of toggles.

 https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vr2lej/comment/p4grbdw/

(On the non-specific nature of timelines and roadmaps)

WOTC_Zac: I absolutely appreciate your perspective. Just to be explicit - our answers are non-specific often because we either don't know (software engineering and product development is more of an art than a science!), because we're still experimenting and iterating and trying to get it right, or because it's far enough out that too many things can come up that might delay it:

Unknown unknowns, key personnel go on maternity leave or transfer to a new role, there's some urgent need and we need to reshuffle the team a little bit, etc etc.

There's so many unforeseeable things that can happen, we don't want to give you a date then miss it. So instead, we want to be transparent about what we're working on and show off what we can as early as we can to start getting feedback on it.

I know that's not as satsifying as "Here's a date." But we think it's the most honest path to take.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vr2lej/comment/p4gtjrc/

What I'd love to see next, and I'm willing to pay for this, is a way to add, for example, "12 commoners", and have the app apply unique tokens provided by WotC. I'd also like to be able to do this for monsters. For example, if the party goes to a goblin village, they should see lots of different looking goblins.

WOTC_Zac: Interesting idea! Might be tough - we have A LOT of monsters and that would be a lot of new art to source - but we can consider it!

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruamw/comment/p4lubn9/

They basically reestablished what Joe Starr did back before all the disasters.

WOTC_Zac: Joe is still around! He's been very focused on producing Dungeon Masters, our actual play series!

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruapt/comment/p4lxteb/

Completely missed that Player Journals were released. Odd that they don't have a place or even a link on the character sheet though. I guess that'll be part of the move to lift some parts of Maps out for easier use.

WOTC_Zac: Player Journals came out at the end of July, with collaborative editing available for Player Journals ready shortly.

The Maps team and the Character Tools team each have their own roadmaps and their own priorities. We try to make sure they're aligned as often as possible, but sometimes one team gets to something faster than another.

Rather than holding back the whole feature until it's ready everywhere, or not building it at all because they had other priorities, we decided to go ahead and launch it where we could now, and on other platforms when we can!

https://www.reddit.com/r/onednd/comments/1vrubl5/comment/p4r2jhm/

Ah, yes. The text box that can’t be turned into a graph or Venn diagram do shareholders to look at, and will almost certainly be ignored. At best, it’ll be a word web.

WOTC_Zac: Hi! I am not involved in this particular survey, but as a Product Manager I do a lot of user research. Both qualitative and quantitative feedback is important for guiding what we do.

The stories that come from open-ended questions are critical to getting the soul of something right (whether it's software or a new subclass), but also the bar-chart of how many people think X vs Y is important in making sure we understand something at a larger community level.

I'll add that the Community team absolutely shared lots of direct quotes from the open ended text boxes after previous surveys! So don't worry - we're hearing all of it. :)

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vss7fw/comment/p4r4hd4/

Disappointing to see that there's nothing on here to better flesh out homebrew features and customizability.

WOTC_Zac: u/WOTC_BrianPerry talks about this in his interview on NerdImmersion that came out today.

TL;DW: New and (drastically) improved homebrew tools are gated behind our new game engine.

GrandPyromania: It's largely because we're reliant on the game platform to be done, and that's a herculean effort. It's not so much that we're intentionally ignoring it - there's a lot of work we have to do before we can start working on it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/onednd/comments/1vrubl5/comment/p4r2zxk/
https://www.reddit.com/r/onednd/comments/1vrubl5/comment/p4ianmm/

What about homebrew? It still lacking basic features. Creation of items is limited. You can`t make weapons, classes, etc. You can`t make pets and stuff be included in subclass.

LaTiaJacquise: We've talked about this in previous updates, but updates to homebrew are one of the things locked behind the game platform rebuild. We know it's one of the most important things the community wants to see worked on once that's finished.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruapt/comment/p4hv8cy/

Ability to Reorder Maps

WOTC_Zac: You aren't going to have to wait long. We're covering this with the upcoming scene prep feature!

No folders with scene prep. I just saw an opportunity for a two-for-one and took it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vul7w6/comment/p5287sc/

(Spending Hit Dice on non-Short Rest actions cannot be ticked off in the Short Rest Window)

GrandPyromania: This is an unfortunate limitation of our existing rules system. That said, we're currently working on rebuilding it from the ground-up!

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vtgnhy/comment/p4uo16r/

Also talk about being able to use stuff outside Maps - does this include the Encounters (which currently aren't usable on a physical table).

GrandPyromania: Yes!

LaTiaJacquise: It does!

https://www.reddit.com/r/onednd/comments/1vrubl5/comment/p4iaba6/

Does the Beyond team just really like the Underdark?

GrandPyromania: We're quite partial to it! In fact, Dark Mode on the character sheet is called "Underdark Mode"!" :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruamw/comment/p4i90gg/

Question regarding Search. Will the improvement to Search on the website include the ability to limit the search to a particular title? This ability is available in the Mobile App, and I think would be very welcome on the website as well.

WOTC_Adela: Yes! we're adding source filters to advanced search, so you can filter results by a specific title.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruapt/comment/p4h74j1/

 

 In the linked companion article:

So, we decided to pivot the Rules Assistant work into revamping full site search instead.

Does this mean the Rules Assistant is cancelled or that the new full site search has been revamped AND there will be the Rules Assistant out soon and this was just a little detour?

LaTiaJacquise: The former. I feel like the community's been pretty clear that a functional site search is what they'd like to see.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruapt/comment/p4i6vd5/

One question for the search function. It mentions that you can show 5.5e, 5e, or both; will there be a way to show 5.5e and I updated 5e, but not legacy content (eg when I search Dragon seeing the updated dragons and Gem dragons from Fizban’s, but not old versions of updated monsters)?

WOTC_Adela: Yes, you will be able to leverage both a rule set and source book filters to get to the specific dragons you are looking for, so you could search for an Emerald dragon and filter specifically by Fizban's 5e.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruamw/comment/p4naz70/

(Regarding an error in searching) They've confirmed they're working on a new Search engine that is smarter. There might be some test in production shenanigans going on.

WOTC_Adela: Our search improvements are active development, so shenanigans abound.

While you're here... There also needs to be some sort of fix for when something is in multiple sources, Especially in the basic rules. I understand it's searching through everything, and i understand why the basic rules are the first result. But especially if we own the full PHB, it's kind of pointless to have as a source in the searches.

WOTC_Adela: We're improving the search results and ranking, minimizing source duplication and providing a book filter to help with this issue!

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vtb3nd/comment/p4wsaxk/
https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vtb3nd/comment/p4wrnrv/

(Regarding a 5.5E Overlay Extension)

WOTC_LauraT: This is very cool. I could go into all the reasons why DDB doesn't do this for you now, but that won't help you play the game today. All of these are on our mind as we build out the next generation of play tools.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vr41mf/comment/p4j4tw8/

Entity Component System **** yeah let's go!!! (I'm both a gaming and programming nerd

WOTC_LauraT: Then I bet you're really going to geek out over some of the upcoming blog posts. This is the system I've wanted to build for 25 years, and my team is killing it.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruamw/comment/p4j038q/

One request. Laura spoke of a sticker that's a chest that you can put loot in for players to open and get a reveal. And "add to Party Inventory" button would be great to auto drop into the party inventory.

LaTiaJacquise: That's a really good piece of feedback :D

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruapt/comment/p4gdz2u/

Regarding the group finder tool(s) u/latiajacquise , it looks like you're still leaning on Discord for online games. Discord posts aren't the most efficient way to find players/groups as it tends to scroll by quickly.

Are there plans to create a more custom experience for online groups? Something not completely dissimilar to the forum option, but a bit more easily findable and a little more custom tailored?

LaTiaJacquise: Hi! So yes, we understand that Discord is not the most intuitive for finding games as is. We're actively working on improvements to that, but I've pinged the person responsible for the group finder on the site to get some clarity on what's coming for the site.

https://www.reddit.com/r/onednd/comments/1vrubl5/comment/p4go0hv/

Not sure if this the right place to ask, but I would like to pre-order a digital-only version of the upcoming „Arcana Unleashed: Ultimate Bundle“. However, I only see a physical + digital version on DndBeyond. Is there no way to only buy the digital one?

LaTiaJacquise: Hi! This is intended. There is no digital bundle for Arcana Unleashed.

The only other multi-book digital bundle we've done was for the Forgotten Realms books, and there was no discount. It was just a one-click solution to buying everything digitally.

https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vrtah5/comment/p4hso05/

And yes, this will also include a refresh of the Encounter Builder!

So like...how much candy do yall think it'd take to bribe the team to put this at the front of the line?

 WOTC_Zac: Cheesecake is my favorite.

WOTC_Adela: I love sour gummies...

WOTC_LauraT: I'm a sucker for anything sour.

GrandPyromania: Yes.

LaTiaJacquise: I am partial to Hi-Chews, just sayin'.

 https://www.reddit.com/r/dndbeyond/comments/1vruamw/comment/p4glz4y/