I've been a pretty heavy user of D&D Beyond for quite some time now, and I find the site immensely helpful. I use it in three (four?) campaigns, along with everyone in those campaigns - we all love it. That said, we've all noticed a handful of frustrating things in the site's design, which has inspired me to make a chrome extension to enhance those things.
I've been working on this for a few weeks, with the goal of making simple tweaks to the site that speed up my interactions. My intentions is not to add features, but more to enhance the things that are already there. There are a handful of other extensions that add nice things like encounter builders or dice rollers - my hope is that BES will fill the gap between those extensions by making the existing site just a bit more useful.
As of now, BES does the following things:
My Available Sources: Includes a new option in the Source filter input called "My Available Sources", which pre-fills all of the sources that you own (or has access to otherwise).
One-Click Character Links: Adds a list of all of your characters to the Creations dropdown, so that you can load a character sheet with a single click.
Infinite Scroll: Paginated lists (ie: monsters, spells, etc.) will automatically load more content as you scroll, instead of requiring the you to load new pages.
Scroll to Top: Adds a scroll-to-top button to all long pages, if a similar button doesn't already exist for that page. Most notably adds these for filterable lists like monsters, magic items, spells, etc.
I'm still looking around for other ideas to help enhance D&D Beyond - I'd love your feedback and ideas! BES is also open source, so I'd be happy to collaborate on things with you!
My Available Sources: Includes a new option in the Source filter input called "My Available Sources", which pre-fills all of the sources that you own (or has access to otherwise).
I have the legendary bundle, so I dont think this does anything for me.
One-Click Character Links: Adds a list of all of your characters to the Creations dropdown, so that you can load a character sheet with a single click.
My favorite of your enhancements. I get a little annoyed at how many clicks it takes to open up my test character when glitch hunting.
Infinite Scroll: Paginated lists (ie: monsters, spells, etc.) will automatically load more content as you scroll, instead of requiring the you to load new pages.
Sounds useful, I think I'd like that.
Scroll to Top: Adds a scroll-to-top button to all long pages, if a similar button doesn't already exist for that page. Most notably adds these for filterable lists like monsters, magic items, spells, etc.
Another useful one for those who don't know about the home key.
I just want to point out that the only guy that commented. Said that he will not use this extension and hasn't tried it, and the proceeded to give no constructive criticism what so ever. Just comments on how useful it will be to him specifically.
All of those seem like a fantastic addition. I assume the reason there isn't a filter for available content is marketing, but the other features could really find a home with the site.
I just want to point out that the only guy that commented. Said that he will not use this extension and hasn't tried it, and the proceeded to give no constructive criticism what so ever. Just comments on how useful it will be to him specifically.
All of those seem like a fantastic addition. I assume the reason there isn't a filter for available content is marketing, but the other features could really find a home with the site.
Yeah, and you gave an even less useful comment 2 years late. What's your point?
I don't know why DDB doesn't have an easier way to find your purchases...
There hasn't been any official statement that 2014 rules will no longer be supported.
This extension wasn't an official tool anyway, just an enthusiast who wanted to add some user-friendly features. If they want to keep supporting the extension they probably can, but in 5+ years who knows what kind of life event stuff has popped up that might have pulled them away.
As for the Chrome Web Store, Google is changing the way Chrome extensions work (which affects Edge and Firefox because everyone uses the same standards right now) to make it harder for adblocking extensions to work, since they cut into Google's ad revenue stream. When they move the Chrome Web Store over to the new extension standards model, extensions that still adhere to the current standards will get blocked in Chrome.
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G'day Adventurers!
I've been a pretty heavy user of D&D Beyond for quite some time now, and I find the site immensely helpful. I use it in three (four?) campaigns, along with everyone in those campaigns - we all love it. That said, we've all noticed a handful of frustrating things in the site's design, which has inspired me to make a chrome extension to enhance those things.
Here it is! Beyond Enhancement Suite
I've been working on this for a few weeks, with the goal of making simple tweaks to the site that speed up my interactions. My intentions is not to add features, but more to enhance the things that are already there. There are a handful of other extensions that add nice things like encounter builders or dice rollers - my hope is that BES will fill the gap between those extensions by making the existing site just a bit more useful.
As of now, BES does the following things:
I'm still looking around for other ideas to help enhance D&D Beyond - I'd love your feedback and ideas! BES is also open source, so I'd be happy to collaborate on things with you!
Happy Adventuring!
I don't use DDB on my computer except when I DM, and I haven't (and probably won't, no offense) tried your extension.
But I figured I'd comment on your features since I can.
I have the legendary bundle, so I dont think this does anything for me.
My favorite of your enhancements. I get a little annoyed at how many clicks it takes to open up my test character when glitch hunting.
Sounds useful, I think I'd like that.
Another useful one for those who don't know about the home key.
I just want to point out that the only guy that commented. Said that he will not use this extension and hasn't tried it, and the proceeded to give no constructive criticism what so ever. Just comments on how useful it will be to him specifically.
All of those seem like a fantastic addition. I assume the reason there isn't a filter for available content is marketing, but the other features could really find a home with the site.
Yeah, and you gave an even less useful comment 2 years late. What's your point?
I don't know why DDB doesn't have an easier way to find your purchases...
My comment wasn't meant to be useful to OP. It was meant to be appreciative for his work to make peoples lives easier.
Hey there, wanted to know if the Extension will not be supported anymore, as the Chrome Web Store says it might get removed or something?
I really like this extension, I have it on basically every profile I use, and would like to see it continue to exist
There hasn't been any official statement that 2014 rules will no longer be supported.
This extension wasn't an official tool anyway, just an enthusiast who wanted to add some user-friendly features. If they want to keep supporting the extension they probably can, but in 5+ years who knows what kind of life event stuff has popped up that might have pulled them away.
As for the Chrome Web Store, Google is changing the way Chrome extensions work (which affects Edge and Firefox because everyone uses the same standards right now) to make it harder for adblocking extensions to work, since they cut into Google's ad revenue stream. When they move the Chrome Web Store over to the new extension standards model, extensions that still adhere to the current standards will get blocked in Chrome.