I like to find images of characters, places and items and use them as inspiration for creating backstory as well as customizing items.
It would be really awesome if it was possible to attach these images to the character, either as a part of the description text or in a separate media tab.
Any chance this could be implemented? :)
Edit: This could also simply be solved by using this rich text editor for text fields in the character sheets
Yes, I'm not talking about a single picture for the character, but perhaps one picture of the character, one picture of how i imagine his/her sword looks, perhaps a picture of the wizards spell book, a picture of the characters pet turtle etc.
It's much easier than having to describe all this in words
That's not something character sheets (physical) have ever really offered, that's stuff that players add themselves. Your best bet, if you're playing online, is to create a pinterest board of all the images that reflect your character; I don't think DDB is about to become an image hosting site.
A way to do this currently is to make homebrew items. You can attach photos to them. Same with homebrew creatures. So your homebrew wizard book could have a pic, your homebrew armor could show your character wearing it, etc. Takes a bit of time, but if all you're doing is just using the current items as templates and attaching photos it's a quick process.
That's not a terrible idea, though I'd still like to see it implemented as a feature. It can be as simple as giving us this Rich Text editor from the forum
It's a cool idea creatively but, alas, I agree with Davedamon that it is unlikely that DDB would want to host that many images. Adam has spoken about infrastructure scaling challenges before just in relation to the number of characters that users are creating, potentially adding multiple images to each one would be a big undertaking. I think at this point they are much more focused on mobile character sheets, finishing the encounter builder, improving the campaign manager, etc.
The rich text editor used in the forum does not host images, it just accepts a url to an image hosted somewhere else.
It's by no means the most important feature we're waiting for, but changing a simple textarea to a rich text edit (which is implemented here in the forum so hopefully most of the code could be reused) and updating how the text is rendered in the character sheet to allow formatting should (hopefully) not be something that takes a very long time. Unless of course there is a lot of spaghetti code :/
A rich text editor within the character sheet is also unlikely as the fields within the character have to work in a variety of ways (desktop, mobile, export to PDF). That's why they remove all formatting, to avoid breaking the character sheet.
There are plenty of tools to convert html to pdf, and I'm pretty sure they already use that since they are able to convert the entire character sheet to a pdf document. Desktop/mobile is not a problem since this is 2019 and not 2004 😉
Let's leave it up to the devs at dndbeyond to say if it's possible or not. I'm just saying I want it.
There are plenty of tools to convert html to pdf, and I'm pretty sure they already use that since they are able to convert the entire character sheet to a pdf document. Desktop/mobile is not a problem since this is 2019 and not 2004 😉
Let's leave it up to the devs at dndbeyond to say if it's possible or not. I'm just saying I want it.
Considering this site is lacking features that were comonplace in 2004, I'm not so sure.
To address the technical issues, the sheet could have, not an open-ended rich text capability, but just a few "boxes" available to import an image. The current character portrait box could be duplicated say, 4 times and enlarged a bit. Certainly not the overriding issue given all the other challenges for text/data, but I think that would be a relatively easy change. Maybe in the "other" category, so we can see what your sidekick, pet, spell-book, etc., looks like.
As a dev who deals with a user-input rich text editor on a regular basis, the benefits of adding one would not nearly outweigh the costs of implementation and maintenance. As Dave said originally, this is not functionality character sheets have ever had natively. There are many easy ways to do this:
if you use a VTT, most of them have folders you can fill with images
if you use a messaging app like Slack or Discord you can post images there when relevant
you can have a shared Google Drive folder
you can make homebrew versions of all your items and upload an image with each
use one of those sites that lets you print pics onto clothing and wear your gear IRL like a boss
I like to find images of characters, places and items and use them as inspiration for creating backstory as well as customizing items.
It would be really awesome if it was possible to attach these images to the character, either as a part of the description text or in a separate media tab.
Any chance this could be implemented? :)
Edit: This could also simply be solved by using this rich text editor for text fields in the character sheets
You can upload it as a portrait.
I think they mean some kind of pintrest style album thing for every image they might associate with their character.
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Yes, I'm not talking about a single picture for the character, but perhaps one picture of the character, one picture of how i imagine his/her sword looks, perhaps a picture of the wizards spell book, a picture of the characters pet turtle etc.
It's much easier than having to describe all this in words
That's not something character sheets (physical) have ever really offered, that's stuff that players add themselves. Your best bet, if you're playing online, is to create a pinterest board of all the images that reflect your character; I don't think DDB is about to become an image hosting site.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
A way to do this currently is to make homebrew items. You can attach photos to them. Same with homebrew creatures. So your homebrew wizard book could have a pic, your homebrew armor could show your character wearing it, etc. Takes a bit of time, but if all you're doing is just using the current items as templates and attaching photos it's a quick process.
That's not a terrible idea, though I'd still like to see it implemented as a feature. It can be as simple as giving us this Rich Text editor from the forum
This could be my wizards spell book
It's a cool idea creatively but, alas, I agree with Davedamon that it is unlikely that DDB would want to host that many images. Adam has spoken about infrastructure scaling challenges before just in relation to the number of characters that users are creating, potentially adding multiple images to each one would be a big undertaking. I think at this point they are much more focused on mobile character sheets, finishing the encounter builder, improving the campaign manager, etc.
The rich text editor used in the forum does not host images, it just accepts a url to an image hosted somewhere else.
It's by no means the most important feature we're waiting for, but changing a simple textarea to a rich text edit (which is implemented here in the forum so hopefully most of the code could be reused) and updating how the text is rendered in the character sheet to allow formatting should (hopefully) not be something that takes a very long time. Unless of course there is a lot of spaghetti code :/
A rich text editor within the character sheet is also unlikely as the fields within the character have to work in a variety of ways (desktop, mobile, export to PDF). That's why they remove all formatting, to avoid breaking the character sheet.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
There are plenty of tools to convert html to pdf, and I'm pretty sure they already use that since they are able to convert the entire character sheet to a pdf document. Desktop/mobile is not a problem since this is 2019 and not 2004 😉
Let's leave it up to the devs at dndbeyond to say if it's possible or not. I'm just saying I want it.
Considering this site is lacking features that were comonplace in 2004, I'm not so sure.
@TheFloppey Never said it was possible or not, I said it was unlikely based on all the nonsense rich text in the character sheet fields would cause.
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To address the technical issues, the sheet could have, not an open-ended rich text capability, but just a few "boxes" available to import an image. The current character portrait box could be duplicated say, 4 times and enlarged a bit. Certainly not the overriding issue given all the other challenges for text/data, but I think that would be a relatively easy change. Maybe in the "other" category, so we can see what your sidekick, pet, spell-book, etc., looks like.
As a dev who deals with a user-input rich text editor on a regular basis, the benefits of adding one would not nearly outweigh the costs of implementation and maintenance. As Dave said originally, this is not functionality character sheets have ever had natively. There are many easy ways to do this:
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