Hello everyone, I'm Adam with D And D Beyond and thank you for joining me for this week's development update and community Q and A session. We're gonna jump right in.
Today's lineup, Latest Updates as always, Upcoming and then ask me anything. So if you have questions go ahead and start asking those, preface by the word question, I'll get to as many of those as I can at the end of our time here today.
So latest updates, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. So all of the work that is involved in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. The team is working very hard on that everything and as soon as that releases on D and D Beyond we're gonna be covering all of those bases right there that we're listing lots and lots of content in this product and really, really excited to see all of that be live.
Also wanted to share thankfully that we are going to have gifting in place ahead of the holiday season this year. So gifting to another account is going to be possible.
Do we still have, do we not have a boss? Do we not have a boss going? Oh, the boss is going, all right, excellent. The boss is there, so good luck. Good luck on downing this protean scourge. Hope everybody wins today.
All right, so we are going to be allowing you to gift to other accounts. You'll be able to pick up product keys and send those product keys to others. So more details on that very soon but we're really excited to be able to offer that ahead of holidays this time.
Player tools, mobile app, we also will be adding the ability to roll dice in the app for subscribers as an alpha to start with and really this is just for us to verify that everything is working properly. So that's why we're kind of labeling this as alpha in the mobile app but we're gonna be getting all of that together for subscribers very soon as well.
And then I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago but the Avrae Alias Workshop is now live. And this is actually really, really impressive and interesting and people are making some killer things out there. So I am going to provide a little bit of a look at the Avrae Alias Workshops. So first of all, Avrae is our discord bot that is the most used discord bot in the world for Dungeons and Dragons. And it is just every single time that I use it I am more and more impressed with what is happening here, the team and Andrew Zhu you know, and all the community developers are doing some incredible things here. So really, really awesome and useful tool especially if you play using discords. So if you use discords for your games and you haven't tried out Avrae I really encourage you to do so.
But we're gonna look right now at let's see, let me see if I can get out. Why is it not escaping? Get out of here, there we go. All right, so the Avrae Alias Workshop is available. If you go to Avrae.IO, you're gonna come to this page. And just in case you haven't seen it before the commands section of this page is going to give you a crib sheet for everything that you would want to know about what you can do with Avrae. But there's so much here that you can dig into. But then if you go to your dashboard this is where you will be able to find the alias workshop. And I'm going to kind of explore a few of these here today. And so you see this is the most popular as of the last week we've got Verbose character tools, map utilities, I called this one out a couple of weeks ago. This map utilities one is actually really, really impressive, player utilities. One of the ones, the way that this works is you add these collections of these aliases to your account. And so I'm gonna use one here created by Zhu, that is Familiars. And so down here you have an option to add your personal collection. You can add it to a server or you can get more details about it.
So we will look at some more details here about Familiars. So Familiars is going to allow you to set up a familiar for a spellcaster character and then that familiar will be available for you to execute commands with. So you can do skill checks and saving throws and so on for those familiar characters. But this is more engine. So you can subscribe here to that right there. And again like when you come to this this is going to show you everything that you can do with aliases. So we have things for the Blood Hunter in here. We have things for the artificer. All of the classes I've seen I believe are represented here, ammunition tracking. So all of this is incredibly powerful and it might seem a little bit overwhelming at first but the whole point of these aliases is it actually makes it incredibly easier for you to manage and track a lot of these things through discord. So I encourage you to check these out.
But we're now going to go to discord itself. So I have loaded up one of my characters, a character I just played on a stream a few days ago. Alias Canebreak or you want to ring master, warlock. And so he's loaded up and he actually has a mongoose familiar named Fang Carver. And so this mongoose familiar we're going to set this up now. So doing this, let's see, I think this will. Yeah, so we've got a familiar. And so it tells me that I have no familiar set yet and then it walks me through how I would do that. So right now for our lists and for Fang Carver as a mongoose, we don't have stats for mongoose. So I'm going to actually use a cat here. So familiar set cat and that is going to set my creature type as a cat. So we're just going to base off of a cat for that mongoose seems kind of similar. Maybe we could have gone with a weasel. I didn't think about that but ultimately setting that as a cat and then I can set its name here. So familiar name, we're gonna go with Fang Carver. And then it's going to tell me that it is set to Fang Carver. You can set an image here. You can remove the familiar and start over if you've got a different configuration you're wanting to do. But then now if I wanted Fang Carver to make an acrobatics check because of course Fang Carver is going to need to do that then we can make that check right there and Fang Carver rolled a 19. So I think Fang Carver is doing pretty, pretty well here. So that's what, that's what this familiars thing is going to do.
I also wanted to show off while I am here as always, we can do monster lookups here and well, I chose a beholder. It's way too long for the screen here but it's going on with discord. It's really, really easy to see this and use this but then also if you're using VTTs you can generate monster tokens here as well. So now that has generated a token that is really, really useful that you can download and save there that you can use in tabletop programs. So lots and lots going on with the discord bot. Remember, you can link your discord account to your D and D Beyond account and that is going to allow any of the content that you've unlocked on the D and D Beyond to be usable right here inside Avrae. So again check out what is going on with this Alias Workshop. There is so much to dig into and so much convenience and we're excited that the community is able to develop these mods and these aliases that are going to enhance the Avrae experience even more. So definitely check all of that out.
All right, so let's talk about upcoming. So we do have Compendium Quality of Life Updates. This happened for Curse of Strahd very recently. We know that a lot of people are going to be running some Halloween themed Curse of Strahd this year. I am one of those people. I'm gonna run this with my two sisters and my kids and their husbands. So I'm looking forward to that next week. But we have tales from the yawning portal up next in the queue for that. So excited about that as well.
A character builder with scores, hope to be able to show that off very soon but Tasha's has kind of taken the spotlight and we're making sure that we're covering all our bases there. So character sheet updates, special rules and exceptions. I've talked about that before.
And then shared dice rolling in a game log. We mentioned this very briefly last time. I'm gonna mention it very briefly here again today. But I believe in our special Halloween themed episodes. So next week you might get a first sneak peek at what's going on with shared dice rolling in this game log, so looking forward to that.
All right, it looks like we have, oh, who is this? So that was Hayato bot. Looks like maybe killed our protean scourge. And it looks like with that pesky neck romancer is always here. Tune in for the Halloween special also next week because we will have another boss. I appreciate everyone helping us test a stream heroes in alpha but I think we're gonna change things up a little bit next week. We'll also have a special guest next week but that's a surprise.
Hello everyone, I'm Adam with D And D Beyond and thank you for joining me for this week's development update and community Q and A session. We're gonna jump right in.
Today's lineup, Latest Updates as always, Upcoming and then ask me anything. So if you have questions go ahead and start asking those, preface by the word question, I'll get to as many of those as I can at the end of our time here today.
So latest updates, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. So all of the work that is involved in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. The team is working very hard on that everything and as soon as that releases on D and D Beyond we're gonna be covering all of those bases right there that we're listing lots and lots of content in this product and really, really excited to see all of that be live.
Also wanted to share thankfully that we are going to have gifting in place ahead of the holiday season this year. So gifting to another account is going to be possible.
Do we still have, do we not have a boss? Do we not have a boss going? Oh, the boss is going, all right, excellent. The boss is there, so good luck. Good luck on downing this protean scourge. Hope everybody wins today.
All right, so we are going to be allowing you to gift to other accounts. You'll be able to pick up product keys and send those product keys to others. So more details on that very soon but we're really excited to be able to offer that ahead of holidays this time.
Player tools, mobile app, we also will be adding the ability to roll dice in the app for subscribers as an alpha to start with and really this is just for us to verify that everything is working properly. So that's why we're kind of labeling this as alpha in the mobile app but we're gonna be getting all of that together for subscribers very soon as well.
And then I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago but the Avrae Alias Workshop is now live. And this is actually really, really impressive and interesting and people are making some killer things out there. So I am going to provide a little bit of a look at the Avrae Alias Workshops. So first of all, Avrae is our discord bot that is the most used discord bot in the world for Dungeons and Dragons. And it is just every single time that I use it I am more and more impressed with what is happening here, the team and Andrew Zhu you know, and all the community developers are doing some incredible things here. So really, really awesome and useful tool especially if you play using discords. So if you use discords for your games and you haven't tried out Avrae I really encourage you to do so.
But we're gonna look right now at let's see, let me see if I can get out. Why is it not escaping? Get out of here, there we go. All right, so the Avrae Alias Workshop is available. If you go to Avrae.IO, you're gonna come to this page. And just in case you haven't seen it before the commands section of this page is going to give you a crib sheet for everything that you would want to know about what you can do with Avrae. But there's so much here that you can dig into. But then if you go to your dashboard this is where you will be able to find the alias workshop. And I'm going to kind of explore a few of these here today. And so you see this is the most popular as of the last week we've got Verbose character tools, map utilities, I called this one out a couple of weeks ago. This map utilities one is actually really, really impressive, player utilities. One of the ones, the way that this works is you add these collections of these aliases to your account. And so I'm gonna use one here created by Zhu, that is Familiars. And so down here you have an option to add your personal collection. You can add it to a server or you can get more details about it.
So we will look at some more details here about Familiars. So Familiars is going to allow you to set up a familiar for a spellcaster character and then that familiar will be available for you to execute commands with. So you can do skill checks and saving throws and so on for those familiar characters. But this is more engine. So you can subscribe here to that right there. And again like when you come to this this is going to show you everything that you can do with aliases. So we have things for the Blood Hunter in here. We have things for the artificer. All of the classes I've seen I believe are represented here, ammunition tracking. So all of this is incredibly powerful and it might seem a little bit overwhelming at first but the whole point of these aliases is it actually makes it incredibly easier for you to manage and track a lot of these things through discord. So I encourage you to check these out.
But we're now going to go to discord itself. So I have loaded up one of my characters, a character I just played on a stream a few days ago. Alias Canebreak or you want to ring master, warlock. And so he's loaded up and he actually has a mongoose familiar named Fang Carver. And so this mongoose familiar we're going to set this up now. So doing this, let's see, I think this will. Yeah, so we've got a familiar. And so it tells me that I have no familiar set yet and then it walks me through how I would do that. So right now for our lists and for Fang Carver as a mongoose, we don't have stats for mongoose. So I'm going to actually use a cat here. So familiar set cat and that is going to set my creature type as a cat. So we're just going to base off of a cat for that mongoose seems kind of similar. Maybe we could have gone with a weasel. I didn't think about that but ultimately setting that as a cat and then I can set its name here. So familiar name, we're gonna go with Fang Carver. And then it's going to tell me that it is set to Fang Carver. You can set an image here. You can remove the familiar and start over if you've got a different configuration you're wanting to do. But then now if I wanted Fang Carver to make an acrobatics check because of course Fang Carver is going to need to do that then we can make that check right there and Fang Carver rolled a 19. So I think Fang Carver is doing pretty, pretty well here. So that's what, that's what this familiars thing is going to do.
I also wanted to show off while I am here as always, we can do monster lookups here and well, I chose a beholder. It's way too long for the screen here but it's going on with discord. It's really, really easy to see this and use this but then also if you're using VTTs you can generate monster tokens here as well. So now that has generated a token that is really, really useful that you can download and save there that you can use in tabletop programs. So lots and lots going on with the discord bot. Remember, you can link your discord account to your D and D Beyond account and that is going to allow any of the content that you've unlocked on the D and D Beyond to be usable right here inside Avrae. So again check out what is going on with this Alias Workshop. There is so much to dig into and so much convenience and we're excited that the community is able to develop these mods and these aliases that are going to enhance the Avrae experience even more. So definitely check all of that out.
All right, so let's talk about upcoming. So we do have Compendium Quality of Life Updates. This happened for Curse of Strahd very recently. We know that a lot of people are going to be running some Halloween themed Curse of Strahd this year. I am one of those people. I'm gonna run this with my two sisters and my kids and their husbands. So I'm looking forward to that next week. But we have tales from the yawning portal up next in the queue for that. So excited about that as well.
A character builder with scores, hope to be able to show that off very soon but Tasha's has kind of taken the spotlight and we're making sure that we're covering all our bases there. So character sheet updates, special rules and exceptions. I've talked about that before.
And then shared dice rolling in a game log. We mentioned this very briefly last time. I'm gonna mention it very briefly here again today. But I believe in our special Halloween themed episodes. So next week you might get a first sneak peek at what's going on with shared dice rolling in this game log, so looking forward to that.
All right, it looks like we have, oh, who is this? So that was Hayato bot. Looks like maybe killed our protean scourge. And it looks like with that pesky neck romancer is always here. Tune in for the Halloween special also next week because we will have another boss. I appreciate everyone helping us test a stream heroes in alpha but I think we're gonna change things up a little bit next week. We'll also have a special guest next week but that's a surprise.
Thank you so much for, again, doing more to make the update clear than the people who are paid to do this.
The official post didn't even have a link to the video this time, let alone one hidden next to the bottom part of each post that everyone skips.
Hello everyone, I'm Adam with D And D Beyond and thank you for joining me for this week's development update and community Q and A session. We're gonna jump right in.
Today's lineup, Latest Updates as always, Upcoming and then ask me anything. So if you have questions go ahead and start asking those, preface by the word question, I'll get to as many of those as I can at the end of our time here today.
So latest updates, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. So all of the work that is involved in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. The team is working very hard on that everything and as soon as that releases on D and D Beyond we're gonna be covering all of those bases right there that we're listing lots and lots of content in this product and really, really excited to see all of that be live.
Also wanted to share thankfully that we are going to have gifting in place ahead of the holiday season this year. So gifting to another account is going to be possible.
Do we still have, do we not have a boss? Do we not have a boss going? Oh, the boss is going, all right, excellent. The boss is there, so good luck. Good luck on downing this protean scourge. Hope everybody wins today.
All right, so we are going to be allowing you to gift to other accounts. You'll be able to pick up product keys and send those product keys to others. So more details on that very soon but we're really excited to be able to offer that ahead of holidays this time.
Player tools, mobile app, we also will be adding the ability to roll dice in the app for subscribers as an alpha to start with and really this is just for us to verify that everything is working properly. So that's why we're kind of labeling this as alpha in the mobile app but we're gonna be getting all of that together for subscribers very soon as well.
And then I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago but the Avrae Alias Workshop is now live. And this is actually really, really impressive and interesting and people are making some killer things out there. So I am going to provide a little bit of a look at the Avrae Alias Workshops. So first of all, Avrae is our discord bot that is the most used discord bot in the world for Dungeons and Dragons. And it is just every single time that I use it I am more and more impressed with what is happening here, the team and Andrew Zhu you know, and all the community developers are doing some incredible things here. So really, really awesome and useful tool especially if you play using discords. So if you use discords for your games and you haven't tried out Avrae I really encourage you to do so.
But we're gonna look right now at let's see, let me see if I can get out. Why is it not escaping? Get out of here, there we go. All right, so the Avrae Alias Workshop is available. If you go to Avrae.IO, you're gonna come to this page. And just in case you haven't seen it before the commands section of this page is going to give you a crib sheet for everything that you would want to know about what you can do with Avrae. But there's so much here that you can dig into. But then if you go to your dashboard this is where you will be able to find the alias workshop. And I'm going to kind of explore a few of these here today. And so you see this is the most popular as of the last week we've got Verbose character tools, map utilities, I called this one out a couple of weeks ago. This map utilities one is actually really, really impressive, player utilities. One of the ones, the way that this works is you add these collections of these aliases to your account. And so I'm gonna use one here created by Zhu, that is Familiars. And so down here you have an option to add your personal collection. You can add it to a server or you can get more details about it.
So we will look at some more details here about Familiars. So Familiars is going to allow you to set up a familiar for a spellcaster character and then that familiar will be available for you to execute commands with. So you can do skill checks and saving throws and so on for those familiar characters. But this is more engine. So you can subscribe here to that right there. And again like when you come to this this is going to show you everything that you can do with aliases. So we have things for the Blood Hunter in here. We have things for the artificer. All of the classes I've seen I believe are represented here, ammunition tracking. So all of this is incredibly powerful and it might seem a little bit overwhelming at first but the whole point of these aliases is it actually makes it incredibly easier for you to manage and track a lot of these things through discord. So I encourage you to check these out.
But we're now going to go to discord itself. So I have loaded up one of my characters, a character I just played on a stream a few days ago. Alias Canebreak or you want to ring master, warlock. And so he's loaded up and he actually has a mongoose familiar named Fang Carver. And so this mongoose familiar we're going to set this up now. So doing this, let's see, I think this will. Yeah, so we've got a familiar. And so it tells me that I have no familiar set yet and then it walks me through how I would do that. So right now for our lists and for Fang Carver as a mongoose, we don't have stats for mongoose. So I'm going to actually use a cat here. So familiar set cat and that is going to set my creature type as a cat. So we're just going to base off of a cat for that mongoose seems kind of similar. Maybe we could have gone with a weasel. I didn't think about that but ultimately setting that as a cat and then I can set its name here. So familiar name, we're gonna go with Fang Carver. And then it's going to tell me that it is set to Fang Carver. You can set an image here. You can remove the familiar and start over if you've got a different configuration you're wanting to do. But then now if I wanted Fang Carver to make an acrobatics check because of course Fang Carver is going to need to do that then we can make that check right there and Fang Carver rolled a 19. So I think Fang Carver is doing pretty, pretty well here. So that's what, that's what this familiars thing is going to do.
I also wanted to show off while I am here as always, we can do monster lookups here and well, I chose a beholder. It's way too long for the screen here but it's going on with discord. It's really, really easy to see this and use this but then also if you're using VTTs you can generate monster tokens here as well. So now that has generated a token that is really, really useful that you can download and save there that you can use in tabletop programs. So lots and lots going on with the discord bot. Remember, you can link your discord account to your D and D Beyond account and that is going to allow any of the content that you've unlocked on the D and D Beyond to be usable right here inside Avrae. So again check out what is going on with this Alias Workshop. There is so much to dig into and so much convenience and we're excited that the community is able to develop these mods and these aliases that are going to enhance the Avrae experience even more. So definitely check all of that out.
All right, so let's talk about upcoming. So we do have Compendium Quality of Life Updates. This happened for Curse of Strahd very recently. We know that a lot of people are going to be running some Halloween themed Curse of Strahd this year. I am one of those people. I'm gonna run this with my two sisters and my kids and their husbands. So I'm looking forward to that next week. But we have tales from the yawning portal up next in the queue for that. So excited about that as well.
A character builder with scores, hope to be able to show that off very soon but Tasha's has kind of taken the spotlight and we're making sure that we're covering all our bases there. So character sheet updates, special rules and exceptions. I've talked about that before.
And then shared dice rolling in a game log. We mentioned this very briefly last time. I'm gonna mention it very briefly here again today. But I believe in our special Halloween themed episodes. So next week you might get a first sneak peek at what's going on with shared dice rolling in this game log, so looking forward to that.
All right, it looks like we have, oh, who is this? So that was Hayato bot. Looks like maybe killed our protean scourge. And it looks like with that pesky neck romancer is always here. Tune in for the Halloween special also next week because we will have another boss. I appreciate everyone helping us test a stream heroes in alpha but I think we're gonna change things up a little bit next week. We'll also have a special guest next week but that's a surprise.
Thank you so much for, again, doing more to make the update clear than the people who are paid to do this.
The official post didn't even have a link to the video this time, let alone one hidden next to the bottom part of each post that everyone skips.
"paid to do this"
Well if their job was exactly what Jesse_DND is doing they wouldn't be doing their job would they? However I have a sneaking inkling that that is not on their job list so therefore - no one is paid to do that.
Hello everyone, I'm Adam with D And D Beyond and thank you for joining me for this week's development update and community Q and A session. We're gonna jump right in.
Today's lineup, Latest Updates as always, Upcoming and then ask me anything. So if you have questions go ahead and start asking those, preface by the word question, I'll get to as many of those as I can at the end of our time here today.
So latest updates, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. So all of the work that is involved in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. The team is working very hard on that everything and as soon as that releases on D and D Beyond we're gonna be covering all of those bases right there that we're listing lots and lots of content in this product and really, really excited to see all of that be live.
Also wanted to share thankfully that we are going to have gifting in place ahead of the holiday season this year. So gifting to another account is going to be possible.
Do we still have, do we not have a boss? Do we not have a boss going? Oh, the boss is going, all right, excellent. The boss is there, so good luck. Good luck on downing this protean scourge. Hope everybody wins today.
All right, so we are going to be allowing you to gift to other accounts. You'll be able to pick up product keys and send those product keys to others. So more details on that very soon but we're really excited to be able to offer that ahead of holidays this time.
Player tools, mobile app, we also will be adding the ability to roll dice in the app for subscribers as an alpha to start with and really this is just for us to verify that everything is working properly. So that's why we're kind of labeling this as alpha in the mobile app but we're gonna be getting all of that together for subscribers very soon as well.
And then I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago but the Avrae Alias Workshop is now live. And this is actually really, really impressive and interesting and people are making some killer things out there. So I am going to provide a little bit of a look at the Avrae Alias Workshops. So first of all, Avrae is our discord bot that is the most used discord bot in the world for Dungeons and Dragons. And it is just every single time that I use it I am more and more impressed with what is happening here, the team and Andrew Zhu you know, and all the community developers are doing some incredible things here. So really, really awesome and useful tool especially if you play using discords. So if you use discords for your games and you haven't tried out Avrae I really encourage you to do so.
But we're gonna look right now at let's see, let me see if I can get out. Why is it not escaping? Get out of here, there we go. All right, so the Avrae Alias Workshop is available. If you go to Avrae.IO, you're gonna come to this page. And just in case you haven't seen it before the commands section of this page is going to give you a crib sheet for everything that you would want to know about what you can do with Avrae. But there's so much here that you can dig into. But then if you go to your dashboard this is where you will be able to find the alias workshop. And I'm going to kind of explore a few of these here today. And so you see this is the most popular as of the last week we've got Verbose character tools, map utilities, I called this one out a couple of weeks ago. This map utilities one is actually really, really impressive, player utilities. One of the ones, the way that this works is you add these collections of these aliases to your account. And so I'm gonna use one here created by Zhu, that is Familiars. And so down here you have an option to add your personal collection. You can add it to a server or you can get more details about it.
So we will look at some more details here about Familiars. So Familiars is going to allow you to set up a familiar for a spellcaster character and then that familiar will be available for you to execute commands with. So you can do skill checks and saving throws and so on for those familiar characters. But this is more engine. So you can subscribe here to that right there. And again like when you come to this this is going to show you everything that you can do with aliases. So we have things for the Blood Hunter in here. We have things for the artificer. All of the classes I've seen I believe are represented here, ammunition tracking. So all of this is incredibly powerful and it might seem a little bit overwhelming at first but the whole point of these aliases is it actually makes it incredibly easier for you to manage and track a lot of these things through discord. So I encourage you to check these out.
But we're now going to go to discord itself. So I have loaded up one of my characters, a character I just played on a stream a few days ago. Alias Canebreak or you want to ring master, warlock. And so he's loaded up and he actually has a mongoose familiar named Fang Carver. And so this mongoose familiar we're going to set this up now. So doing this, let's see, I think this will. Yeah, so we've got a familiar. And so it tells me that I have no familiar set yet and then it walks me through how I would do that. So right now for our lists and for Fang Carver as a mongoose, we don't have stats for mongoose. So I'm going to actually use a cat here. So familiar set cat and that is going to set my creature type as a cat. So we're just going to base off of a cat for that mongoose seems kind of similar. Maybe we could have gone with a weasel. I didn't think about that but ultimately setting that as a cat and then I can set its name here. So familiar name, we're gonna go with Fang Carver. And then it's going to tell me that it is set to Fang Carver. You can set an image here. You can remove the familiar and start over if you've got a different configuration you're wanting to do. But then now if I wanted Fang Carver to make an acrobatics check because of course Fang Carver is going to need to do that then we can make that check right there and Fang Carver rolled a 19. So I think Fang Carver is doing pretty, pretty well here. So that's what, that's what this familiars thing is going to do.
I also wanted to show off while I am here as always, we can do monster lookups here and well, I chose a beholder. It's way too long for the screen here but it's going on with discord. It's really, really easy to see this and use this but then also if you're using VTTs you can generate monster tokens here as well. So now that has generated a token that is really, really useful that you can download and save there that you can use in tabletop programs. So lots and lots going on with the discord bot. Remember, you can link your discord account to your D and D Beyond account and that is going to allow any of the content that you've unlocked on the D and D Beyond to be usable right here inside Avrae. So again check out what is going on with this Alias Workshop. There is so much to dig into and so much convenience and we're excited that the community is able to develop these mods and these aliases that are going to enhance the Avrae experience even more. So definitely check all of that out.
All right, so let's talk about upcoming. So we do have Compendium Quality of Life Updates. This happened for Curse of Strahd very recently. We know that a lot of people are going to be running some Halloween themed Curse of Strahd this year. I am one of those people. I'm gonna run this with my two sisters and my kids and their husbands. So I'm looking forward to that next week. But we have tales from the yawning portal up next in the queue for that. So excited about that as well.
A character builder with scores, hope to be able to show that off very soon but Tasha's has kind of taken the spotlight and we're making sure that we're covering all our bases there. So character sheet updates, special rules and exceptions. I've talked about that before.
And then shared dice rolling in a game log. We mentioned this very briefly last time. I'm gonna mention it very briefly here again today. But I believe in our special Halloween themed episodes. So next week you might get a first sneak peek at what's going on with shared dice rolling in this game log, so looking forward to that.
All right, it looks like we have, oh, who is this? So that was Hayato bot. Looks like maybe killed our protean scourge. And it looks like with that pesky neck romancer is always here. Tune in for the Halloween special also next week because we will have another boss. I appreciate everyone helping us test a stream heroes in alpha but I think we're gonna change things up a little bit next week. We'll also have a special guest next week but that's a surprise.
Thank you so much for, again, doing more to make the update clear than the people who are paid to do this.
The official post didn't even have a link to the video this time, let alone one hidden next to the bottom part of each post that everyone skips.
"paid to do this"
Well if their job was exactly what Jesse_DND is doing they wouldn't be doing their job would they? However I have a sneaking inkling that that is not on their job list so therefore - no one is paid to do that.
Most likely. I mean, if they were being paid to do it, they would.
I mean, they’re posting the update. This particular person has been posting the update for years. Prior updates had more information. This is a suggestion that it is this persons “job” to post the update. If you’re a Customer Support Specialist at D&D Beyond, and this is the only front facing post you make on a weekly basis anymore, wouldn’t you want it to be good? There are over 10k account active on this site at any given time. Surely you want the post at the forum located at the top, in the thread at the top to be informative?
Firehawk has been wonderful in posting the slides and basic info quickly on the forums to help those who might have missed the Dev Update and just want the bullet points. Usually the day after the livestream (Friday), the full video is posted on YouTube and promoted on our social media in both link and clip format. Firehawk puts up this post shortly after the livestream on Thursday, so they don't have a YouTube link or transcript to offer. Since this is not their job, they do this because they are wonderful and just trying to help by getting the basic info out to you quickly, I would be happy to jump in and edit the post the next day with the YouTube links when those go live.
Firehawk has been wonderful in posting the slides and basic info quickly on the forums to help those who might have missed the Dev Update and just want the bullet points. Usually the day after the livestream (Friday), the full video is posted on YouTube and promoted on our social media in both link and clip format. Firehawk puts up this post shortly after the livestream on Thursday, so they don't have a YouTube link or transcript to offer. Since this is not their job, they do this because they are wonderful and just trying to help by getting the basic info out to you quickly, I would be happy to jump in and edit the post the next day with the YouTube links when those go live.
Thanks everyone!
So what about getting more comprehensive information on the forums in these threads then? If it isn’t this persons job, and they have been doing this just because it needs to be done, then of course that is commendable to that person but it doesn’t change the fact that the updates given on these forums, where our content that we purchase is located, should be more comprehensive.
I also understand that most of the updates being given on days are just “Hey, still workin on it”, and that’s fine, but judging the engagement of YouTube and social media versus the activity on the forums? This is obviously the focal point where most people come to get this information. It just seems like a complete and total miss that these updates are so non helpful, and I don’t want it to seem like I’m bullying one specific person, I’m not. I just feel passionately that this is a miss by D&D Beyond, to it’s customers and our players. I just want it to be the best it can be, not only as someone who has invested over a thousand dollars into this website, but as a fan of what D&D Beyond has done for my game!
All right, it looks like we have, oh, who is this? So that was Hayato bot. Looks like maybe killed our protean scourge. And it looks like with that pesky neck romancer is always here. Tune in for the Halloween special also next week because we will have another boss. I appreciate everyone helping us test a stream heroes in alpha but I think we're gonna change things up a little bit next week. We'll also have a special guest next week but that's a surprise.
You heard it here first. Next class to be released is the Neck Romancer. Don't you forget it.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll start adding the Twitch VoD link to the initial post, and as soon as we have the YouTube as well as a transcript with more details I'll update with that information. It usually take a day to get everything sorted, but I'll try to get that posted asap.
Thanks for the feedback. We'll start adding the Twitch VoD link to the initial post, and as soon as we have the YouTube as well as a transcript with more details I'll update with that information. It usually take a day to get everything sorted, but I'll try to get that posted asap.
Thanks!
Thank you, truly, for the attention on this matter and working with the community to develop a resolution.
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Transcript pulled from YouTube of the dev update:
Hello everyone, I'm Adam with D And D Beyond and thank you for joining me for this week's development update and community Q and A session. We're gonna jump right in.
Today's lineup, Latest Updates as always, Upcoming and then ask me anything. So if you have questions go ahead and start asking those, preface by the word question, I'll get to as many of those as I can at the end of our time here today.
So latest updates, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. So all of the work that is involved in Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. The team is working very hard on that everything and as soon as that releases on D and D Beyond we're gonna be covering all of those bases right there that we're listing lots and lots of content in this product and really, really excited to see all of that be live.
Also wanted to share thankfully that we are going to have gifting in place ahead of the holiday season this year. So gifting to another account is going to be possible.
Do we still have, do we not have a boss? Do we not have a boss going? Oh, the boss is going, all right, excellent. The boss is there, so good luck. Good luck on downing this protean scourge. Hope everybody wins today.
All right, so we are going to be allowing you to gift to other accounts. You'll be able to pick up product keys and send those product keys to others. So more details on that very soon but we're really excited to be able to offer that ahead of holidays this time.
Player tools, mobile app, we also will be adding the ability to roll dice in the app for subscribers as an alpha to start with and really this is just for us to verify that everything is working properly. So that's why we're kind of labeling this as alpha in the mobile app but we're gonna be getting all of that together for subscribers very soon as well.
And then I mentioned this a couple of weeks ago but the Avrae Alias Workshop is now live. And this is actually really, really impressive and interesting and people are making some killer things out there. So I am going to provide a little bit of a look at the Avrae Alias Workshops. So first of all, Avrae is our discord bot that is the most used discord bot in the world for Dungeons and Dragons. And it is just every single time that I use it I am more and more impressed with what is happening here, the team and Andrew Zhu you know, and all the community developers are doing some incredible things here. So really, really awesome and useful tool especially if you play using discords. So if you use discords for your games and you haven't tried out Avrae I really encourage you to do so.
But we're gonna look right now at let's see, let me see if I can get out. Why is it not escaping? Get out of here, there we go. All right, so the Avrae Alias Workshop is available. If you go to Avrae.IO, you're gonna come to this page. And just in case you haven't seen it before the commands section of this page is going to give you a crib sheet for everything that you would want to know about what you can do with Avrae. But there's so much here that you can dig into. But then if you go to your dashboard this is where you will be able to find the alias workshop. And I'm going to kind of explore a few of these here today. And so you see this is the most popular as of the last week we've got Verbose character tools, map utilities, I called this one out a couple of weeks ago. This map utilities one is actually really, really impressive, player utilities. One of the ones, the way that this works is you add these collections of these aliases to your account. And so I'm gonna use one here created by Zhu, that is Familiars. And so down here you have an option to add your personal collection. You can add it to a server or you can get more details about it.
So we will look at some more details here about Familiars. So Familiars is going to allow you to set up a familiar for a spellcaster character and then that familiar will be available for you to execute commands with. So you can do skill checks and saving throws and so on for those familiar characters. But this is more engine. So you can subscribe here to that right there. And again like when you come to this this is going to show you everything that you can do with aliases. So we have things for the Blood Hunter in here. We have things for the artificer. All of the classes I've seen I believe are represented here, ammunition tracking. So all of this is incredibly powerful and it might seem a little bit overwhelming at first but the whole point of these aliases is it actually makes it incredibly easier for you to manage and track a lot of these things through discord. So I encourage you to check these out.
But we're now going to go to discord itself. So I have loaded up one of my characters, a character I just played on a stream a few days ago. Alias Canebreak or you want to ring master, warlock. And so he's loaded up and he actually has a mongoose familiar named Fang Carver. And so this mongoose familiar we're going to set this up now. So doing this, let's see, I think this will. Yeah, so we've got a familiar. And so it tells me that I have no familiar set yet and then it walks me through how I would do that. So right now for our lists and for Fang Carver as a mongoose, we don't have stats for mongoose. So I'm going to actually use a cat here. So familiar set cat and that is going to set my creature type as a cat. So we're just going to base off of a cat for that mongoose seems kind of similar. Maybe we could have gone with a weasel. I didn't think about that but ultimately setting that as a cat and then I can set its name here. So familiar name, we're gonna go with Fang Carver. And then it's going to tell me that it is set to Fang Carver. You can set an image here. You can remove the familiar and start over if you've got a different configuration you're wanting to do. But then now if I wanted Fang Carver to make an acrobatics check because of course Fang Carver is going to need to do that then we can make that check right there and Fang Carver rolled a 19. So I think Fang Carver is doing pretty, pretty well here. So that's what, that's what this familiars thing is going to do.
I also wanted to show off while I am here as always, we can do monster lookups here and well, I chose a beholder. It's way too long for the screen here but it's going on with discord. It's really, really easy to see this and use this but then also if you're using VTTs you can generate monster tokens here as well. So now that has generated a token that is really, really useful that you can download and save there that you can use in tabletop programs. So lots and lots going on with the discord bot. Remember, you can link your discord account to your D and D Beyond account and that is going to allow any of the content that you've unlocked on the D and D Beyond to be usable right here inside Avrae. So again check out what is going on with this Alias Workshop. There is so much to dig into and so much convenience and we're excited that the community is able to develop these mods and these aliases that are going to enhance the Avrae experience even more. So definitely check all of that out.
All right, so let's talk about upcoming. So we do have Compendium Quality of Life Updates. This happened for Curse of Strahd very recently. We know that a lot of people are going to be running some Halloween themed Curse of Strahd this year. I am one of those people. I'm gonna run this with my two sisters and my kids and their husbands. So I'm looking forward to that next week. But we have tales from the yawning portal up next in the queue for that. So excited about that as well.
A character builder with scores, hope to be able to show that off very soon but Tasha's has kind of taken the spotlight and we're making sure that we're covering all our bases there. So character sheet updates, special rules and exceptions. I've talked about that before.
And then shared dice rolling in a game log. We mentioned this very briefly last time. I'm gonna mention it very briefly here again today. But I believe in our special Halloween themed episodes. So next week you might get a first sneak peek at what's going on with shared dice rolling in this game log, so looking forward to that.
All right, it looks like we have, oh, who is this? So that was Hayato bot. Looks like maybe killed our protean scourge. And it looks like with that pesky neck romancer is always here. Tune in for the Halloween special also next week because we will have another boss. I appreciate everyone helping us test a stream heroes in alpha but I think we're gonna change things up a little bit next week. We'll also have a special guest next week but that's a surprise.
Thank you so much for, again, doing more to make the update clear than the people who are paid to do this.
The official post didn't even have a link to the video this time, let alone one hidden next to the bottom part of each post that everyone skips.
At last, gifting is coming!!! :-D
I plan on checking out Avrae later tonight. Thank you! :-)
"paid to do this"
Well if their job was exactly what Jesse_DND is doing they wouldn't be doing their job would they? However I have a sneaking inkling that that is not on their job list so therefore - no one is paid to do that.
Most likely. I mean, if they were being paid to do it, they would.
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I mean, they’re posting the update. This particular person has been posting the update for years. Prior updates had more information. This is a suggestion that it is this persons “job” to post the update. If you’re a Customer Support Specialist at D&D Beyond, and this is the only front facing post you make on a weekly basis anymore, wouldn’t you want it to be good? There are over 10k account active on this site at any given time. Surely you want the post at the forum located at the top, in the thread at the top to be informative?
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InsiderFirehawk has been wonderful in posting the slides and basic info quickly on the forums to help those who might have missed the Dev Update and just want the bullet points. Usually the day after the livestream (Friday), the full video is posted on YouTube and promoted on our social media in both link and clip format. Firehawk puts up this post shortly after the livestream on Thursday, so they don't have a YouTube link or transcript to offer. Since this is not their job, they do this because they are wonderful and just trying to help by getting the basic info out to you quickly, I would be happy to jump in and edit the post the next day with the YouTube links when those go live.
Thanks everyone!
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So what about getting more comprehensive information on the forums in these threads then? If it isn’t this persons job, and they have been doing this just because it needs to be done, then of course that is commendable to that person but it doesn’t change the fact that the updates given on these forums, where our content that we purchase is located, should be more comprehensive.
I also understand that most of the updates being given on days are just “Hey, still workin on it”, and that’s fine, but judging the engagement of YouTube and social media versus the activity on the forums? This is obviously the focal point where most people come to get this information. It just seems like a complete and total miss that these updates are so non helpful, and I don’t want it to seem like I’m bullying one specific person, I’m not. I just feel passionately that this is a miss by D&D Beyond, to it’s customers and our players. I just want it to be the best it can be, not only as someone who has invested over a thousand dollars into this website, but as a fan of what D&D Beyond has done for my game!
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InsiderThanks for the feedback. We'll start adding the Twitch VoD link to the initial post, and as soon as we have the YouTube as well as a transcript with more details I'll update with that information. It usually take a day to get everything sorted, but I'll try to get that posted asap.
Thanks!
Find me on Twitter: @OboeLauren
Thank you, truly, for the attention on this matter and working with the community to develop a resolution.