How does hiding your information work on D&DB? Its the internet and having anonymity seems to me a necessity. If something goes wrong, I like knowing that I can abandon the account without many consequences. This would change though if I decide to make an account purchase, which in turn makes me hesitate to make an account purchase. 

As it stands, I'm pretty new to DnD, like a few months new. So I haven't been around my communities long enough to form deep friendships and so on. At the moment, I don't really need the resources provided, but as I want to run my own games and homebrew... May have to.

On a side note, I want to build a leviathan race/ dragonkin variant and  snake charmer sorcerer. If anyone has resources on how to make 'fair' racial traits and abilities, it would be appreciated. Its easy to write a background, but making something that works in combat and exploration is where the magic is.

I mean, none of your personal information is public facing unless you make it. And if you delete your account, other users won't be able to access anything there was in the first place.

For your other question, I'd just reskin dragonborn and draconic bloodline sorcerer respectively, rather than making a whole new race/subclass

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How does hiding your information work on D&DB? Its the internet and having anonymity seems to me a necessity. If something goes wrong, I like knowing that I can abandon the account without many consequences. This would change though if I decide to make an account purchase, which in turn makes me hesitate to make an account purchase. 

Well, looking at your profile right now, all I know is your displayed Name (JenniTimewarp), how long you have been registered (5 days, 15 hours), you were active 2 hours ago (at this writing), and the only post you have made is this one, which is the only thread you have contributed.  You have 0 followers, 1 total post, and 0 Thanks.

I don't see your name, email, if you use a twitch or google account.  I also don't see if you have ever sent or received private messages. 

If you needed to change your forum name, I believe the moderators can do that in the support forum on request.

So, unless you expose more (like name, location, or put stuff in a signature.) you are currently pretty anonymous.  

I hope that helps.

I see. Well if I create a character and post it somewhere, that's all I want them to see. I wouldn't want (JenniTimewarp) attached to each character. 

I get the feeling that there would be a way to find out what your doing in other DnD games if the account's username is visible. 

I see. Well if I create a character and post it somewhere, that's all I want them to see. I wouldn't want (JenniTimewarp) attached to each character. 

You can verify this yourself by copying a share character link and opening it in an incognito window, where you'll see no username information. For example, here's one of my character: https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/14122379/UmmLpw

I get the feeling that there would be a way to find out what your doing in other DnD games if the account's username is visible. 

What do you mean by 'other DnD games'? Campaigns are completely private and can only be accessed through a DM controlled URL.

When a character is in a campaign - the player list of that campaign can be visible in a link in the top right of the character sheet - and it will show the usernames of the characters.

That said - you won't be able find out any more information about that campaign or go beyond that campaign to find out if the user has any other characters without actually having links to those characters.
Essentially you will only end up sharing what you want to share.

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When a character is in a campaign - the player list of that campaign can be visible in a link in the top right of the character sheet - and it will show the usernames of the characters.

That said - you won't be able find out any more information about that campaign or go beyond that campaign to find out if the user has any other characters without actually having links to those characters.
Essentially you will only end up sharing what you want to share.

To add to this,  on the DM side, they of course can see all the character sheets, but the only "personal" information they see is the player name (like JenniTimeWarp) that is attached to the character.  You cannot see if that player is in another campaign at all (unless that DM was running multiple campaigns you were a member of). 

Finally, if the sheet is exported to PDF, they player name is the listed name on the site, again "JenniTimeWarp."  Nothing else.

Not much is revealed on the site; unless you do so on a forum post or a private message basically. 

Again, hope it helps.

Yeah, if you're as concerned about privacy as you seem to be, I'd assume you're not using the same username across multiple services, so that being visible here would likely be a moot point, right?

I only have one account on DnD so what other user name would I use across multiple servers? 

That's kinda the point. Its a parent-child relationship between a character sheet and the account its under. If you have the child, you look up the parent and through that the other children.

Except you can’t find the characters without a link to them. Just knowing the username won’t help anyone trying to find your characters because your character list isn’t public.

The only way anyone could find them is if they were all in the same campaign and you linked one of them publicly.

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I only have one account on DnD so what other user name would I use across multiple servers? 

That's kinda the point. Its a parent-child relationship between a character sheet and the account its under. If you have the child, you look up the parent and through that the other children.

As far as the code and data, what you describe is technically accurate.  But Emmote has it correct that for the public, as a player and DM, there is no index or method for looking at a specific character and using that to find any other character of that player.  And even that assumes the character is marked as public.  If it is private, I think only yourself and a DM in a campaign could look at it.  And even if you could say look at a character that I have, this is their public link (sorry for rehashing Davedamon's post)

https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/346991/Rytq2S   <-- there is nothing in the URL that maps it back to a player profile.  Nothing on that sheet has my profile name "Nthal" on it.  

While if you look at a your own links to your character list, which I imagine is:

https://www.dndbeyond.com/profile/JenniTimewarp/characters/   <-- I actually get redirected to my own profile and character list.   I can't see your current characters, or even if you have no characters.  The only ones that might be able to are Developers or perhaps Moderators of DnDBeyond.  So unless you make something public in a profile or a note on a character sheet, we don't know anything about you.

But perhaps we are misunderstanding something:  " user name would I use across multiple servers"   Why do you want multiple usernames, and what servers are we talking about?

What about homebrew content you use on your characters?

When you add public homebrew to your catalogue - all that happens is the 'added' counter goes up by 1. Nobody knows who adds it - except maybe devs and mods.

And if you make homebrew - again - nobody can see anything except the stuff you make public.

It is very private here at DDB, which is one of the reasons I like it. It is nothing like facebook or twitter at all, both of which I do use but nothing like that is here.

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If you have the child, you look up the parent and through that the other children.

There's an option in the character builder, on the first screen, where you can toggle this on and off.  When building a character, you decide the state of "public" or "private".  You can then go back and edit it later, just like any other aspect of the character, should you so choose.

Is DDB the only one of its kind? How does it stack up against others?

I know most people use roll20 for the board and I've not actually seen many people use it in light of other options. So far I'm actually the one one who's used it in my games.

On a side note, building a map in roll20 is a hellish nightmare. Like DDB's one text box for race description style, it seems to have everything going through one tool which does not allow for parallel thinking. Things like that are difficult to work with since psychic ram is limited and prone to failure if you try to hold everything at once.

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Is DDB the only one of its kind? How does it stack up against others?

I know most people use roll20 for the board and I've not actually seen many people use it in light of other options. So far I'm actually the one one who's used it in my games.

On a side note, building a map in roll20 is a hellish nightmare. Like DDB's one text box for race description style, it seems to have everything going through one tool which does not allow for parallel thinking. Things like that are difficult to work with since psychic ram is limited and prone to failure if you try to hold everything at once.

As I understand it, there is some overlap in services between what DDB offers and services like Roll20 and Fantasy grounds.  But the particular combination of tools available here is—as far as I know—unique, and in that sense is the only one of it’s kind.

Unlike Roll 20 and Fantasy Grounds, DDB does not provide a virtual table top (also known as a VTT).  Or, more precisely, not yet.  They apparently have plans to add something along those lines sometime in the (far?) future.  As I understand it, DDB was first conceived of as digital tools for in-person games, although it is used for play by post games and games on Discord, Roll 20, Fantasy Grounds, etc. As well.  

The main components of DDB are:

• Digital character builder and sheet
• Digital Compendium (digital versions of the books, extensively tool-tipped and linked)
• Listings (found under Game Rules): A way to search, sort, and filter monsters, magic items, spells, etc., using a number of parameters
• Campaigns: allows DMs to access character sheets, allows for the sharing of purchased content with a Master Tier subscription; tools here are very rudimentary, but will be expanded as time goes on
• Encounter Builder-In alpha, currently available to subscribers only, will eventually be available to everyone; lets you create encounters, see xp budgets etc.  Eventually will be expanded to run encounters as well, but that’s not a current feature

Not sure if this question goes here but I’m lost on mobile and it’s 3am so I am tired.

I have a few questions I would like answered.

1) Since a Grapple is a special attack and takes an attack action to do, can your Opportunity Attack also grant you a chance to grapple since OA allows you to do an attack action again.

2) So let’s say I have a foe grappled and a rope in my free hand. We have one free use to use something in a environment before we need to take the Use Object action, does that mean I can try to tie the foe up for free or take an action to tie them up.

1. Opportunity Attacks only allow you to make a melee attack against the provoking creature (unless you have a feat that specifies otherwise). Grappling is not a melee attack, it's a special attack
2. The rules on typing knots and tying things up are, to quote Xanathar's Guide to Everything "purposely open-ended concerning mundane tasks like tying knots". But it's a fair assumption you need two hands to effectively tie up an unwilling person. So I'm pretty sure tying someone up whom you have grappled is pretty unrealistic an expectation, even as an action. That's why the Rope of Entanglement, which does just that (restrains a creature as an action) is a rare item that still requires a skill check.