I don't use D&D beyond, and won't until WoTC decides to give cross media discounts to people who have purchased their content in both places (Big ones, I mean 50% off in addition to the legendary discount.) I understand wanting to get their piece of the pie, but expecting someone to buy 2 or more copies of it at full price is silly/stupid/greedy/insulting.
That being said, I have run CoS and I don't think it would be exceptionally hard to run the story either way. I recommend that you take a look at keeping multiple tabs open on your screen. Likely, one of your problems is that you are spending a lot of time doing the lookup/jumping around DnD Beyond itself, when you have 3-4 places where you want to be at all times (the MM, The DMG for rules questions, your players character sheets and maybe the campaign page. It's the same thing you'd do with a physical copy of the book. You're just marking pages so that you can find them later. That's all it is.
P.S. Sean McGovern's guide to CoS over on DM guild adds a lot of really good notes, and I highly recommend picking it up. I *think* you can pick it up for free, but it's really worth the $2.00 he's asking for it.
I ran my last campaign using DDB. I started with my laptop and iPad. Both easier to haul to gaming night than a box full of books, but it got to where it was easy to run it all off my iPad. Like the previous post stated, I got really good at multiple tabs.
As a fairly new DM, I found DDB much easier to search than the books. I still like having both, but if I had to choose, it would be DDB.
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I'm running Curse of Strahd via discord and my copy of the book along with some notes but my player character sheets are all on DnDbeyond.
Has anyone run COS through the books AND through the site/service?How does the site compare?
Its kind of annoying having to refer to the book and back to my screen to look at character sheets or look something up.
I’m a first time DM as well so I’m still learning as I go.
I don't use D&D beyond, and won't until WoTC decides to give cross media discounts to people who have purchased their content in both places (Big ones, I mean 50% off in addition to the legendary discount.) I understand wanting to get their piece of the pie, but expecting someone to buy 2 or more copies of it at full price is silly/stupid/greedy/insulting.
That being said, I have run CoS and I don't think it would be exceptionally hard to run the story either way. I recommend that you take a look at keeping multiple tabs open on your screen. Likely, one of your problems is that you are spending a lot of time doing the lookup/jumping around DnD Beyond itself, when you have 3-4 places where you want to be at all times (the MM, The DMG for rules questions, your players character sheets and maybe the campaign page. It's the same thing you'd do with a physical copy of the book. You're just marking pages so that you can find them later. That's all it is.
P.S. Sean McGovern's guide to CoS over on DM guild adds a lot of really good notes, and I highly recommend picking it up. I *think* you can pick it up for free, but it's really worth the $2.00 he's asking for it.
http://www.dmsguild.com/product/189372/A-Guide-to-Curse-of-Strahd
I ran my last campaign using DDB. I started with my laptop and iPad. Both easier to haul to gaming night than a box full of books, but it got to where it was easy to run it all off my iPad. Like the previous post stated, I got really good at multiple tabs.
As a fairly new DM, I found DDB much easier to search than the books. I still like having both, but if I had to choose, it would be DDB.