Dev Update Summary for Jan 21st 2021

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#1 Jan 22, 2021
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Here's the summary of the Dev Update for January 21st 2021

Watch the Update here: https://youtu.be/8jMeWD6iZK8

Watch the Q&A here: https://youtu.be/qbqyG5tMqbM

Transcript of the video:

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

and thank you for joining me

for this week's development update

and community Q&A session.

We are going to have a fun time today

looking at the latest updates, what's upcoming

and then questions at the end,

and we've got a very exciting demo

of our shared dice rolling functionality

that we're gonna get in with everybody today as well.

Let's jump right in.

So Latest updates, oh, and we have a data update too,

from some Tasha's Cauldron of Everything subclasses,

so keep your eyes peeled for that.

Latest updates, we have now put in a quality of life fix

for the character sheet, where you can lower ability scores

past the three minimum, that was in place

all along here on D&D Beyond.

So in the character builder you can't do that,

because hopefully that makes sense to everyone,

you can't create a character with a lower score than that.

But in the sheet, spells like feeble mind,

and so on, you can update that

and that will be properly reflected,

now you can override that on the sheet.

You can do it with negative modifiers

and that kind of thing in other places,

but all of that focused on the sheet during play,

if you're subjected to an effect that your ability score

lowers below three, then you're able to do that now.

We are still diligently working

on some of the class feature, additional feats.

So things like combat, oh what is it called?

Marshall adept, is that, am I thinking of that one right?

I can't remember the names of these feats,

there are so many these days.

I know exactly what they do,

because I choose the most of the time.

But all of those class feature feats are,

we're working on those, hopefully it's not gonna be

too much longer before you'll be able to do that.

This is important for me,

because pretty much any spell caster I pick up,

if I have an available feat, I'm going to get eldritch adept

if I'm saying the right feat name there.

The one that lets me get agonizing blast as an invocation

with my eldritch blast, so yeah,

all of that, hopefully soon, we'll let you know.

You can pre-order Candlekeep Mysteries,

the very exciting new product that is coming

from Wizards of the Coast on March the 16th.

You can pre-order that now on D&D Beyond.

We will reveal some pre-order bonuses

as soon as we are able to,

but they will be in line with what you've seen before.

And so ultimately with this one,

very excited about this product,

because especially if you are a new DM,

this is going to be a really perfect time to jump in

with these bite sized adventures to try your hand

at dungeon mastering, and also for any veterans out there,

we always need little adventurous to kind of

stick into transitional periods in campaigns and so on.

And all of that is something that we will also,

you know, have available when this product releases,

so very cool concept and grab that on D&D Beyond

as a pre-order, where you'll be good to go,

midnight Eastern, on the day of release.

And then work in progress, the team is working very hard

on some shared dice rolling.

So we're gonna take a second now to actually show everyone

some things with shared dice rolling.

So ultimately with shared dice rolling,

I've got some friends helping me here in our campaign,

so joining a campaign, these are folks from.

Let me actually refresh this, just in case,

you know, something needs to be reset.

So ultimately with this, these are all of the

D&D Beyond team members who have joined my campaign here.

So it's full, so I'm sure people are trying to screenshot

my campaign URL, you can't get in, it's full.

So ultimately with this, you've got a game log button

that will be on the campaign now.

And you're able to click this and you will see,

so everybody on the team, you can have at it,

start rolling all you want to.

So you'll start seeing roles come in,

there are probably too many roles coming in right now,

'cause we've got 12 people just going to town.

But these are gonna start coming into a game log here

and you'll be able to see this from the campaign screen.

Another thing that you can do, if I can get everybody,

there's going to be a little bit of a streaming delay here.

If I can get everybody to stop rolling for just a second,

on the team, if you're listening to me.

Stop rolling for just a little while,

I'm gonna try to show off a little bit

of the real time here.

So I've got another character here,

Aurilanax is up here and so let's say

that I'm going to have, somebody's just not listening.

Somebody's not listening to me.

I mean this is just so typical, like, I mean it's like,

I'm just screaming things till I'm blue in the face,

no, I'm just joking, all right, I think we're good now.

All right so, we're gonna roll with Aurilanax,

we're gonna roll for initiative.

Let's see how Aurilanax does, not bad on initiative,

and you see that that comes over here,

you know, immediately, into the game log.

So any of the players that are using,

you know, any of the shared dice here,

are gonna see that in the game log very,

very quickly and easily.

Be sure to, everybody can start rolling again, by the way.

Go to go to town now, go to town.

So one of the things to note is when you're using this,

and people are rolling,

you will actually see notifications pop up here,

in this button near the campaign on the character sheet,

so you'll know when people are rolling.

And then once you click this, you can go in

and let's see, I'm having some,

oh, I'm in the wrong view for that, that's what it is.

Let's see, let's scoot out, see if I can get this to pop,

there we go, so you will probably want to lock your sidebar.

It's going to be, you know, a pretty important thing

for you to do there as well.

So game log, locked, unlocked.

So if it's unlocked, it's gonna go away,

but if you lock it out here

then it's going to stay up while you're playing,

now obviously I'm kind of crunching things on the screen

right now, but if you're on a typical laptop or whatever,

you'll likely have room for that to stay

unlocked over there at all times.

If you want to dig into what people are rolling,

let me find a better one here.

Let's see, fireball damage, come here fireball.

All right, here we go.

Oh, too many things coming in at once.

So fireball damage, you can click in here

and get more details about what was rolled.

You're seeing the dice sets

that people are using here as well.

So all with real-time messaging, this should be really,

really handy, as we're going in to, you know,

any of the things I'm in a weird, no man's land,

with the size of my screen here again.

But ultimately this game log is going to really,

really change things quite a bit for the better I think,

for a lot of groups out there that are playing remotely.

It's not virtual tabletop kind of functionality yet,

but I think it's easy to see, this is definitely on the road

to that and some of the first steps.

And so yeah, hopefully this is going to really,

really help your game, and we will be, I think,

I saw a few people using a special secret dice set

that's not quite ready, so I'll let people, you know,

think through, look through that and everything too.

You can see the notifications are gonna continue

to come in, even if the sidebar is collapsed here

on the game log, and like I said, you can lock that here.

It's gonna stay up forever.

So let me know if you have any questions about this,

feel free to ask those in chat, and that'll be that.

All right, let's see.

Do we have a problem with our Stream Heroes?

Are we good, is it working?

Okay, we're, I just don't see it today,

so I don't know what's happening,

so I don't know if people are winning or what.

Alright, so let's see what's coming back here,

latest updates, so then let's look at data update,

most popular Tasha's subclasses.

So this one was pretty interesting,

not too many surprises on here for me.

But you can see that Tasha's has been out

for a little while here.

Things are relatively neck and neck also here.

So it's not like one of the subclasses just really,

really takes it away.

But rune night, very popular class,

we have seen lots of people playing that.

Fighter is the most popular class, and it always is.

And so I think that, you know, that being the case,

it makes sense that it might have

one of the more popular subclasses.

Twilight domain has been very popular since it released,

initially in UA and the genie I've seen a lot of buzz about.

So again, no surprises there.

Aberrant mind is a very nice addition for the sorcerer,

you know, add some spell casting oomph,

that maybe some of the other subclasses,

I've heard people talk,

they think that they're missing that kind of thing.

So yeah, you can see the full list

of Tasha's subclasses, most popular.

These are characters being created with this

for people who own Tasha's Cauldron of Everything.

So it is always so interesting

that we have this kind of data at our disposal.

And it's really fascinating to look

at what people are choosing out there,

and what people are gravitating towards.

All right, upcoming, general features system,

we've talked about this one a little bit,

new rules coverage, it's going to allow us to do,

it's gonna set us up for the future very, very well,

to cover a lot of, you know, the gaps

that for some of these kind of ancillary systems

in D&D that we haven't been able to cover yet,

the character sheet updates, things like life domain,

cleric, healing bonuses, and all of that

is a priority for us, as we're in Q1 now.

And then simplified character data,

I talked about this one a little bit last time,

but this is requirement for combat tracker updates

where we don't bring down our database with the millions

of characters that people we're using here.

We've kind of tested that out before

and it got close to doing that.

So we've got to refactor some things

and simplify that character data, where that is optimized.

So those are the things that are kind of on deck

and much more to come this year as well,

and we will share more as soon as we have the news.

(gentle music)

English (United States)

UPDATES:

Character Sheet Ability Score Minimums - In the Character Sheet you can Override an ability score all the way to 1!

Work in Progress - Class Feature Feats (Infusions, Invocations, Maneuvers, ect) being worked on and should be updated soon!

Pre-Order Candlekeep Mysteries now on D&D Beyond!

Game Log - Adam showed off the details about the upcoming Shared Dice Rolling, where those in a campaign can see each other’s dice rolls including what dice sets you are using.

UPCOMING:

General Features System - Setting us up to cover all the ancillary rules and features

Character Sheet Updates - Updates to Life Domain Cleric bonuses is a priority

Simplified Character Data - Continued work to present characters in a condensed format, which is a foundation for the Combat Tracker.

BONUS CONTENT:

Most Popular Tasha’s Cauldron of Everything Subclasses

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#2 Jan 22, 2021
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Adam said that Custom origin should be available in Character Builder, any idea when the rest of us will get that?

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Quote from Tyrannus_Stormraven >>

Adam said that Custom origin should be available in Character Builder, any idea when the rest of us will get that?

We're still working out Custom Lineage, sorry for the delay. I don't have any ETAs to share, but we'll announce as soon as it's ready and it'll be updated in our Tasha's Cauldron of Everything support thread (https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/bugs-support/87774-tashas-cauldron-of-everything-issues-and-support)

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I this is a VERY future state roadmap comment but it would be really cool if players had the option break out the dice log into a separate window. Just the log and nothing else as an alternative to locking the side screen pop out thing. A separate window would be a means to keep the log in a static location if the user needs to navigate to another page but still be able to see the rolls.

Very excited about the future of DnDbeyond!

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Regarding shared rolls - are you looking at having rolls populate the combat tracker automatically - initiative, hit, damage, hp e t c?

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#6 Jan 24, 2021
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So, are custom classes still on the roadmap at all? I appreciate the hard work you guys do, but honestly this has and will continue to be a showstopper for me and I can't really fathom why the toolkit wasn't designed with this need in mind to begin with.

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Wow, I love the game log - BUT - just one small change could make it much more powerful. If there were a way to just add text notes to add context. The extra utility allowing small text notes would provide would be AMAZING.

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Quote from einlanzer >>

So, are custom classes still on the roadmap at all? I appreciate the hard work you guys do, but honestly this has and will continue to be a showstopper for me and I can't really fathom why the toolkit wasn't designed with this need in mind to begin with.

There are so many classes and subclasses available that the amount of work that would be required to allow homebrew classes would probably be better directed at adding more useful features to DDB.

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Can’t wait for sidekicks to be properly implemented. :D

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Quote from Ross_Kuma_ken >>

Can’t wait for sidekicks to be properly implemented. :D

Ditto

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I love the game log, but would really love it if we could have some rolls whispered. I don't want my party auto-seeing death saves :)

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