1. hello I am very new to online table top roleplaying games. I am not new to D&D 5e however and I was wondering as a player if I were to use roll20 would it be better to by the source books on DDB and then use beyond20 or just buy them on roll20. I would like to be able to print them for when I do play in person
2. I have a 2017 MacBook Pro would beyond 20 and/or roll20 cause it overheat or crash
Things will be more streamlined if you buy them on Roll20. If you use something like Beyond20 there's basically more instances where something can break, and it could easily be Beyond20, which isn't supported by any of the people you actually gave money to.
I have the same computer, and it works fine with Roll20. It hates Foundry.
a macbook? damn, rough. Roll20 might be slow but I doubt it will make your computer crash. Will likely start getting hot tho if you use it for like 3 hours or more straight. Particularly if you have dynamic lighting or very big maps with lots of tokens. Beyond20 will be fine tho lol, I have the unfortunate circumstance of using a chromebook from like 2016 and my shit's fine. I only run on r20 and i use beyond20 and i run/play in like.....~6 games a week on it that last ~4 hours each that use roll20 and some beyond20. Perfectly usable, man.
EDIT: As for your soucebook question, You likely won't be able to print the books from either one, as that is not their service and would probs go against the contracts both platforms have with WotC.
Don't buy on roll20, buy on DDB, roll20's interface for the charactermancer and books is ******* trash. Don't buy shit on there other than maps and tokens. Or stuff from a system that doesn't have a DDB and beyond20 equivalent.
I've used their books for the Call of Cthulhu game (most recent edition, there's a bunch idk which number they're on) because the Keeper owned them. It wasn't a good user experience.
The charactermancer always ******* breaks, and when you level up stuff like switching out infusions for the artificer on level up, switching spells on level up, doesn't ******* work sometimes. Like it just doesn't give you the option so you instead have to change stuff by hand.
1. hello I am very new to online table top roleplaying games. I am not new to D&D 5e however and I was wondering as a player if I were to use roll20 would it be better to by the source books on DDB and then use beyond20 or just buy them on roll20. I would like to be able to print them for when I do play in person
2. I have a 2017 MacBook Pro would beyond 20 and/or roll20 cause it overheat or crash
Things will be more streamlined if you buy them on Roll20. If you use something like Beyond20 there's basically more instances where something can break, and it could easily be Beyond20, which isn't supported by any of the people you actually gave money to.
I have the same computer, and it works fine with Roll20. It hates Foundry.
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a macbook? damn, rough. Roll20 might be slow but I doubt it will make your computer crash. Will likely start getting hot tho if you use it for like 3 hours or more straight. Particularly if you have dynamic lighting or very big maps with lots of tokens. Beyond20 will be fine tho lol, I have the unfortunate circumstance of using a chromebook from like 2016 and my shit's fine. I only run on r20 and i use beyond20 and i run/play in like.....~6 games a week on it that last ~4 hours each that use roll20 and some beyond20. Perfectly usable, man.
EDIT: As for your soucebook question, You likely won't be able to print the books from either one, as that is not their service and would probs go against the contracts both platforms have with WotC.
Don't buy on roll20, buy on DDB, roll20's interface for the charactermancer and books is ******* trash. Don't buy shit on there other than maps and tokens. Or stuff from a system that doesn't have a DDB and beyond20 equivalent.
I've used their books for the Call of Cthulhu game (most recent edition, there's a bunch idk which number they're on) because the Keeper owned them. It wasn't a good user experience.
The charactermancer always ******* breaks, and when you level up stuff like switching out infusions for the artificer on level up, switching spells on level up, doesn't ******* work sometimes. Like it just doesn't give you the option so you instead have to change stuff by hand.
Just use DDB, will save you hella headaches.
Oh, and every thing is cheaper on DDB too.
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Thank you very much for the advice will do