Guess we know what the Dev Update this week is gonna be :)
Edit: Before anyone asks, there was a thread that had a D&D Beyond dark theme CSS script, that's why the page is in "dark mode". I don't know where it is though.
It's amusing that people have consistently lost their minds over the Life Cleric thing for so long.
It's less amusing that more and more D&D games are going in for automated rollers like the DDB Digi-Dice bot and the Avrae Discord system, neither of which tolerates exceptions at all. The DDB digital roller is especially bad for this, being completely and utterly unable to modify a basic roll at all. Examples: inability to handle adding Guidance or Bless to a roll, inability to handle adding the Genie warlock's once-a-round proficiency damage, inability to add damage from Hunter's Mark or Hex to an attack, so on and so forth.
Avrae is (slightly) better at handling exceptions, but it also resolves everything in a given action all at once, making it impossible to use reactions against triggers without telling Avrae to slow its goddamn roll, give you back whatever it took from you, and quit being so overzealous.
None of it's a dealbreaker, but it does slow games down and introduce a ton of friction compared to simply using a regular-ass basic dice bot that lets you specify exactly what to roll and doesn't try to muck with your sheet to do it. If I want to roll an Intimidation check using Strength instead of Charisma, with a d4 from Guidance? Both DDB's roller and Avrae just kinda seize up and have conniptions until you go through seventeen special commands' worth of jank, but the basic-ass Discord dice bot I use lets me enter "!roll 1d20+6+1d4", hit Enter, and boom - there's my number. Just about as quick and simple as physically collecting the dice needed to roll that on a physical table and huckin' them into a box.
It's why I absolutely detest Avrae and am lukewarm at best to DDB's roller. Our game's been using the DDB roller for a bit as an experiment, but it does sorely limit what we can roll and bites heavily into my artificer's ability to use Guidance. Nor do I see any good solutions, considering everybody's pushing harder and harder to just "one-click roll" all their shit in a predetermined, video-gamey manner for whatever reason.
None of it's a dealbreaker, but it does slow games down and introduce a ton of friction compared to simply using a regular-ass basic dice bot that lets you specify exactly what to roll and doesn't try to muck with your sheet to do it. If I want to roll an Intimidation check using Strength instead of Charisma, with a d4 from Guidance? Both DDB's roller and Avrae just kinda seize up and have conniptions until you go through seventeen special commands' worth of jank, but the basic-ass Discord dice bot I use lets me enter "!roll 1d20+6+1d4", hit Enter, and boom - there's my number. Just about as quick and simple as physically collecting the dice needed to roll that on a physical table and huckin' them into a box.
I've never had any issue with this stuff in Avrae. Avrae absolutely lets you roll 1d20+6+1d4 just as written, but even if you want to have it pull directly from your sheet, it's not hard. For your example, it's just !r intimidation str -b 1d4, and you can always write a snippet very easily so you only have to write "guidance" (or whatever else you want) so you don't have to remember the -b stuff.
I'm not ride or die for Avrae or DDB by any stretch of the imagination, but I've found Avrae to be super powerful and useful and quite easy to use, so I just think it's a shame if something's preventing you from taking advantage of it in a way that works for you.
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Guess we know what the Dev Update this week is gonna be :)
Edit: Before anyone asks, there was a thread that had a D&D Beyond dark theme CSS script, that's why the page is in "dark mode". I don't know where it is though.
It's amusing that people have consistently lost their minds over the Life Cleric thing for so long.
It's less amusing that more and more D&D games are going in for automated rollers like the DDB Digi-Dice bot and the Avrae Discord system, neither of which tolerates exceptions at all. The DDB digital roller is especially bad for this, being completely and utterly unable to modify a basic roll at all. Examples: inability to handle adding Guidance or Bless to a roll, inability to handle adding the Genie warlock's once-a-round proficiency damage, inability to add damage from Hunter's Mark or Hex to an attack, so on and so forth.
Avrae is (slightly) better at handling exceptions, but it also resolves everything in a given action all at once, making it impossible to use reactions against triggers without telling Avrae to slow its goddamn roll, give you back whatever it took from you, and quit being so overzealous.
None of it's a dealbreaker, but it does slow games down and introduce a ton of friction compared to simply using a regular-ass basic dice bot that lets you specify exactly what to roll and doesn't try to muck with your sheet to do it. If I want to roll an Intimidation check using Strength instead of Charisma, with a d4 from Guidance? Both DDB's roller and Avrae just kinda seize up and have conniptions until you go through seventeen special commands' worth of jank, but the basic-ass Discord dice bot I use lets me enter "!roll 1d20+6+1d4", hit Enter, and boom - there's my number. Just about as quick and simple as physically collecting the dice needed to roll that on a physical table and huckin' them into a box.
It's why I absolutely detest Avrae and am lukewarm at best to DDB's roller. Our game's been using the DDB roller for a bit as an experiment, but it does sorely limit what we can roll and bites heavily into my artificer's ability to use Guidance. Nor do I see any good solutions, considering everybody's pushing harder and harder to just "one-click roll" all their shit in a predetermined, video-gamey manner for whatever reason.
Blugh.
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I've never had any issue with this stuff in Avrae. Avrae absolutely lets you roll 1d20+6+1d4 just as written, but even if you want to have it pull directly from your sheet, it's not hard. For your example, it's just !r intimidation str -b 1d4, and you can always write a snippet very easily so you only have to write "guidance" (or whatever else you want) so you don't have to remember the -b stuff.
I'm not ride or die for Avrae or DDB by any stretch of the imagination, but I've found Avrae to be super powerful and useful and quite easy to use, so I just think it's a shame if something's preventing you from taking advantage of it in a way that works for you.