Just got my notification that Beyond is going to be making a “game-changing” announcement tomorrow. However, as I am an impatient sort and often succumb to speculation and fan theories, I want to discuss what the possibilities are.
My thoughts go along the lines of character sheets finally coming to the mobile app or the encounter builder coming forward as a final version to be incorporated amongst the DM tools for campaign. Hopefully with an initiative tracker.
Just curious what you all thought the announcement might entail.
I can understand the need for a random number generator. But all of that animation is less than necessary, and probably soaked up a metric whackton of development time. Meanwhile there are tons of unaddressed requests in the feedback forum that have been repeated by a multitude of users, some of them going back more than 2 years! How long have people been asking them to allow us to change the number of/type of damage dice a weapon uses in the homebrew creator? Or to fix the “5/5 ft.” range issue when adding the “thrown” weapon property? Years?
I can download literally dozens of dice roller apps. People have been using [ roll ]xdx[/ roll ] in the forums for how long? Did we need all of that animation? Even if I ever use the dice roller, I would turn off the animations, and if I couldn’t turn off the animations I would never use it.
And once the novelty has worn off after about 20 minutes, we still will be posting in the feedback forum about how we wish the homebrewe creator worked better. Hopefully not for another 2+ years.... 🙄
I cannot help but be reminded of “bread and circuses.”
if your still wondering its Combat Tracker its live right now in the encounter builder open it and select an encounter to run auto rolls enemy initiatives
Just got my notification that Beyond is going to be making a “game-changing” announcement tomorrow. However, as I am an impatient sort and often succumb to speculation and fan theories, I want to discuss what the possibilities are.
My thoughts go along the lines of character sheets finally coming to the mobile app or the encounter builder coming forward as a final version to be incorporated amongst the DM tools for campaign. Hopefully with an initiative tracker.
Just curious what you all thought the announcement might entail.
tip if you dont want it to give same initiative to multiples of same monster add them seprately dont just up quantity add 3 different abyssal chicken for example lol
This is incredibly underwhelming. The initiative rolling doesn't roll per-creature, and I get no hit point totals on the characters for my campaign. It also includes backup / unassigned characters in the CR calculation and the initiative tracker, unless I manually remove them for each encounter.
I really hope that the announcement is something better than this.
Hmm...apparently you guys are seeing something I'm not. The encounter builder still looks the same as it did when I joined the site. I'll try restarting the computer and see if that refreshes settings or something for the webpage.
This is incredibly underwhelming. The initiative rolling doesn't roll per-creature, and I get no hit point totals on the characters for my campaign. It also includes backup / unassigned characters in the CR calculation and the initiative tracker, unless I manually remove them for each encounter.
I really hope that the announcement is something better than this.
That's what they mean when they say it's in Alpha. Alpha stage is likely to be buggy as hell, and will probably change significantly based on Alpha-testing feedback before it gets to general Beta and then to official public release.
Well that was disappointing. It doesn’t track monster spell slots. It doesn’t pull info from the character sheets, it won’t even let me view the character sheets. It does... nothing. I have been running encounters on paper for almost 30 years, and this does less?!? What gives? If I accidentally touched a spell tooltip it took me out of the encounter, and when I touched the back carrot it reset the encounter to 0! WTF?!?
But I can see the same illustration of the goblin that I don’t need, so that’s a... thing.
they're introducing the d7.
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Combat Tracker for this Friday use please.
Some of us need the dice roller... remote players isn’t as uncommon as it used to be.
I can understand the need for a random number generator. But all of that animation is less than necessary, and probably soaked up a metric whackton of development time. Meanwhile there are tons of unaddressed requests in the feedback forum that have been repeated by a multitude of users, some of them going back more than 2 years! How long have people been asking them to allow us to change the number of/type of damage dice a weapon uses in the homebrew creator? Or to fix the “5/5 ft.” range issue when adding the “thrown” weapon property? Years?
I can download literally dozens of dice roller apps. People have been using [ roll ]xdx[/ roll ] in the forums for how long? Did we need all of that animation? Even if I ever use the dice roller, I would turn off the animations, and if I couldn’t turn off the animations I would never use it.
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Gee - I thought those dice animations looked super fun on screen.
And once the novelty has worn off after about 20 minutes, we still will be posting in the feedback forum about how we wish the homebrewe creator worked better. Hopefully not for another 2+ years.... 🙄
I cannot help but be reminded of “bread and circuses.”
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its combat tracker its live right now for subscribers open the encounter and select run
it is just run your encounter and youll see the pleasant surprise
OMG - Mind Blown. I feel really dumb, how did I miss this. LOL.
i didnt even notice it till i went to try and prep for my campaign lol
Going to play around with this for a while, pass the time waiting for the actual announcement.
if your still wondering its Combat Tracker its live right now in the encounter builder open it and select an encounter to run auto rolls enemy initiatives
Click “manual entry” put in something like “fog” with no stats, “add” it and check out the picture!
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combat tracker now live
lol kitty
tip if you dont want it to give same initiative to multiples of same monster add them seprately dont just up quantity add 3 different abyssal chicken for example lol
This is incredibly underwhelming. The initiative rolling doesn't roll per-creature, and I get no hit point totals on the characters for my campaign. It also includes backup / unassigned characters in the CR calculation and the initiative tracker, unless I manually remove them for each encounter.
I really hope that the announcement is something better than this.
Hmm...apparently you guys are seeing something I'm not. The encounter builder still looks the same as it did when I joined the site. I'll try restarting the computer and see if that refreshes settings or something for the webpage.
That's what they mean when they say it's in Alpha. Alpha stage is likely to be buggy as hell, and will probably change significantly based on Alpha-testing feedback before it gets to general Beta and then to official public release.
Well that was disappointing. It doesn’t track monster spell slots. It doesn’t pull info from the character sheets, it won’t even let me view the character sheets. It does... nothing. I have been running encounters on paper for almost 30 years, and this does less?!? What gives? If I accidentally touched a spell tooltip it took me out of the encounter, and when I touched the back carrot it reset the encounter to 0! WTF?!?
But I can see the same illustration of the goblin that I don’t need, so that’s a... thing.
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