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Is there any plans to add a roll function on the sheet for melee and range attacks and then a roll for damage like if I use chromatic orb press something that says range attack then if DM says I hit I can press damage???

Definitely planned. We will likely start development on that this year. We're still gathering and reviewing feedback in order to prioritize features, but this one has been consistently near the top.

Yeah, dice rolling makes sense (and the forum already has such functionality integrated), doesn't it?

I mean, I imagine a lot of people here prefer to use physical dice with their games (and the majority of them have impressive collections of such!), and there are a gajillion apps, web pages and whatnot that provide said functionality, but it's easy to do (relatively easy to do well, in any case :p ) and you can't really have a D&D toolset without having some way to roll dice integrated to it, even if few of the user base actually use it.

I imagine that's the reason it ranked so low at the "excitement" survey too. It's a given, why would we get overly excited about it? :p

Now, offline access to my tablet/phone without all those tedious loading times depending on the network? That I am excited about! :D

If your interested in dice you should look into Tale Spire that is currently under development. I'm looking forward to playing D&D with it. I didn't realize D&D Beyond was considering a VTT. That's interesting because I thought it was just going to be an online resource. 

A VTT, which DDB clearly is not and not meant to be, is higher on the list of people's priorities than a dice roller...

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Someone correct me if i'm wrong but I believe it was VTT integration, not it's own platform.

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A VTT, which DDB clearly is not and not meant to be, is higher on the list of people's priorities than a dice roller...

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What you just described is exactly what Tale Spire is. It has dice, minis with a specific color process to have a painted look, music, ambient sounds, tile sets for locations that snap together, the ability to load a new location, and a fog of war system. It also has Tale Weaver creation tools. You should take a look at the vids they have from their last stream. I hope wotc talks to the devs for d&d specific stuff like d&d beyond. Their vtt already looks amazing.

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Is there any plans to add a roll function on the sheet for melee and range attacks and then a roll for damage like if I use chromatic orb press something that says range attack then if DM says I hit I can press damage???

Definitely planned. We will likely start development on that this year. We're still gathering and reviewing feedback in order to prioritize features, but this one has been consistently near the top.

Out of curiousoty, have you and the team considered having a way for the community to upvote the list of things in development to give all of you a sense of what the community is looking for beyond having to comb through the forums. Something like Trello or occasional surveys?

I can imagine that comes with some downsides as a developer, so I'm wondering if the negative aspects outweigh the potential positives.

We actually ran a survey earlier in the beta that got thousands and thousands of responses that pretty much confirmed what we already had on the roadmap.

The results of said survey:

We will focus on things roughly in that order, as we have been communicating for some time. The only caveat is that something like dice rolling or stream integration is much easier to pull off than, say, combat tracking, so those are likely to get in first due to being lower-hanging fruit.

We will continue to survey and use any other means to gather feedback that's useful going forward.

Thanks!

 

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Someone correct me if i'm wrong but I believe it was VTT integration, not it's own platform.