Dev Update Summary November 19th 2020

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#1 Nov 20, 2020
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Here's the basic summary of the Dev Update for November 19th, 2020.
Watch the Update here: https://youtu.be/o3QhD-0tX_0 
Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/tHpiPBJ8154 

Transcript of the Update portion:

- Hello everyone I'm Adam with D&D Beyond.

Thank you for joining me for this week's development update

and community Q&A session.

I really do appreciate everyone joining all these weeks

hearing what the latest updates are for D&D Beyond.

What is upcoming.

And then of course asking me questions.

So we're going to try to get to as many of those questions

as we possibly can, never can get to them all.

So I apologize about that.

If you ever have a question that doesn't get answered here.

I do my best to try to keep up as much as I can on Twitter.

We've got Discord,

there all kinds of places

that you can get those questions answered.

And I will try to personally do that as much as I can.

And if I can't, we've got a great team

of people who are ready to assist.

So please keep that in mind.

If you have a question for today, type it in chat

prefaced by the word question.

And again, we'll try to get to as many of them as we can.

I think, is everything working with the Stream Heroes?

So we've got people attacking and going there.

So good luck to everyone out there

trying to down the boss today, we'll see what happens.

I've already gone through what today's lineup is.

So latest updates.

If you weren't aware of it,

if you've been living under a rock someplace,

which would be a great fantasy adventure actually.

Everybody always uses that expression

about living under a rock.

I think it would be a pretty

interesting campaign to actually play those people

that are living under a rock somewhere.

So you're welcome for that.

I'd like to see reports of that little one-shot

or mini campaign that everybody does out there.

But Tasha's Cauldron of Everything landed this last week

and it has been a doozy.

So lots and lots that the team has been working with.

We have the Compendium live

where of course you can read all the content of the book,

customizing your origin,

Class Feature Options, New Subclasses.

These are the elements that we got a little bit of

a sneak peek into not just through Playtest Content.

'Cause there were a lot of changes from that,

but got a sneak peek

at and preview of those a couple of months ago.

So the team's been working on finalizing that and

we slid in under the door,

Indie Jones style grabbed our hat there.

So I appreciate the patience and everything on,

well, that would have been Tuesday when

all of that was coming out.

But yeah, lots and lots of happy Ranger players

out there I've noticed.

So congratulations on all of the new updates there.

We are still working on some Artificer or Infusion Updates

that we were not aware of far enough in advance

and then Class Feature Feats.

Those feats that are providing

indications maneuvers, et cetera, to other classes.

And then naturally we've got some other things

that are road mapped

like sidekicks that we're gonna get to

as soon as we're able to.

And some of those elements that

we didn't have enough of a window

into seeing what the final versions of those would be.

So I appreciate the patience there, but very happy

that the team has put in this much work to get

the bulk of what was really being introduced in this book.

Those Class Feature options, all those New Subclasses.

And I hope everybody enjoys playing

with those new options too, because there are many

many of them I've already personally probably made five

or six characters, and I'm not just talking about

in a throwaway fashion that I will never play.

These are characters that are probably gonna play.

So I hope everybody's enjoying them.

So a Dice Alpha for Subscribers is being submitted

to the App stores any time now.

And so hopefully we're gonna see that pretty soon

for subscribers as well.

And then Errata updates.

Tasha's Cauldron of Everything carried with it

some updates to some older books.

'Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide'

'Eberron: Rising from the Last War'

Those will be updated in the next couple of weeks.

Now that the game content team has entered

everything that's needed for Tasha's.

Upcoming general features system.

So new rules coverage.

So this is, we've been talking about this for some time.

So as new rules come in, some of these rules

change things to the point where we have realized

and by the way, this has been in the concept phase

and us figuring it out for some time.

But we hope to start looking at this

general feature system where we can start covering

some of these rules, like, a smaller less used rules

like Epic Boons, those kinds of things in the future.

And we're gonna be setting up

a pretty flexible system that can do that.

And the plan would be over time to allow that,

to give that to you and the power to you,

to also make some of those things in Homebrew

character builder, dice rolling for ability scores.

We've talked about this one for a while

but it's been paused

due to the Tasha's scramble that we've been doing.

And so we're gonna get back to that.

That's kinda in that on deck status.

Character Sheet updates, special rules and exceptions.

Life domain cleric all of this has been

road mapped as well for now

that the Tasha's push has kind of finalized here

and then shared dice rolling in the game log.

We've teased that a couple of times really, really excited

about where that is going.

There's actually also been a hackathon going on

for our company the last couple of days,

and seeing lot of fun stuff come out of that.

That I'm sure will make it to the roadmap as well.

So not quite time to talk about those things yet,

but it is important

that our teams can take a deep breath sometimes

and innovate a little bit.

And so really excited to see that too.

- [Narrator] Tasha's Cauldron of Everything

is available now on D&D Beyond.

Purchase before January 5th

to unlock the cauldron dice set

as well as character sheet backdrops, themes, and frames.

LATEST UPDATES:

Tasha's Cauldron of Everything updates -

The Compendium, Customizing origins, class feature options and new subclasses are all live!

Please keep an eye on the TCoE Issues and Support Thread for info on things that have been fixed, and where to post if you have issues: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/bugs-support/87774-tashas-cauldron-of-everything-issues-and-support

Artificer Infusion updates and many of the class feature feats are still being worked on. Sidekicks and some other elements are on the longer term roadmap.

Thank you for your patience as we get everything from this book working!

Soon subscribers will have access to more options in the Dice Alpha in the mobile app!

Errata updates to Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide and Eberron Rising From the Last War are being updated now!

UPCOMMING:

General Features System - working on new rules coverage to get things like Epic Boons working.

Dice rolling for ability scores in the character builder has been paused as we work on TCoE, but will get back to it very soon.

Character Sheet Update - Special rules and exceptions ( for example life domain cleric bonuses) has been roadmaped and is being worked on.

Shared Dice Rolling - The previously teased Game Log work has continued, including a recent internal Hackathon working on this.
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Thank you guys so much for posting the transcript in your dev update posts now! It makes a WORLD of difference. It's hugely appreciated.

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Thanks Lauren! You're awesome!

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I like the blank verse layout. I'm picturing some shadowy basement club, bunch of beatniks in turtlenecks and tight black jeans...

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I thought it was already available as Alpha for subscribers?

I have been using dice in the Player App for a few weeks.

Quote from OboeLauren >>

Soon subscribers will have access to Dice Alpha in the mobile app!

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Quote from Dramacius >>

I thought it was already available as Alpha for subscribers?

I have been using dice in the Player App for a few weeks.

Quote from OboeLauren >>

Soon subscribers will have access to Dice Alpha in the mobile app!

I should have been more clear that there are MORE updates coming to the Alpha...I've gone ahead and fixed that! Thanks!

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Quote from OboeLauren >>

Quote from Dramacius >>

I thought it was already available as Alpha for subscribers?

I have been using dice in the Player App for a few weeks.

Quote from OboeLauren >>

Soon subscribers will have access to Dice Alpha in the mobile app!

I should have been more clear that there are MORE updates coming to the Alpha...I've gone ahead and fixed that! Thanks!

Awesome, I wasn't trying to be pedantic just got confused.

I look forward to seeing what is coming ;)

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“And then naturally we've got some other things

that are road mapped

like sidekicks that we're gonna get to

as soon as we're able to.“

Is there any information on the rough timeframe for the sidekick tools to be released? Is this something that’s 1 month out, 6 months out, 2 years out?

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Quote from Kandoruus >>

“And then naturally we've got some other things

that are road mapped

like sidekicks that we're gonna get to

as soon as we're able to.“

Is there any information on the rough timeframe for the sidekick tools to be released? Is this something that’s 1 month out, 6 months out, 2 years out?

They never offer timeframes or ETAs

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