Encounter Builder Alpha (updates) Sep 9th, 2019

Monday, Sept 9th, 2019

Additions:

Professional Pass (removed cats)

Fixes:

More bug and accessibility issue fixes.

Thursday, Aug 8th, 2019

Additions:

Hombrew is now available

Fixes:

Mobile functionality improvements

More bug and accessibility issue fixes.

Thursday, July 11th, 2019

Additions:

All official content and new release content monster are now available to search and add..

Fixes:

Responsive design first pass has been implemented for Mobile functionality.

More bug and accessibility issue fixes.

Thursday, June 27th, 2019

Additions:

You are now able to Sort and Search your encounters on the My Encounters page.

Fixes:

More bug and accessibility issue fixes

Thursday, June 6th, 2019

Additions:

You are now able to add your own text to Summary, Description and Treasure & Rewards fields

Fixes:

More accessibility issue fixes

Friday, May 24th, 2019

As we iterate through comments, suggestions and recommendations we will be posting weekly change logs to keep you up to date on the newest additions, fixes.

Additions:

Column Sorting (you can now sort by column in the encounter builder (Name, Type, Size, CR, Difficulty)

Fixes:

Improved Search (search is now more intelligent)

Saturday, May 18th, 2019

The DDB Encounter Builder ALPHA is available now for subscribers!

Let your voice be heard - try out the feature in this early, unfinished state and provide feedback that will help us create what the community needs.

Access the encounter builder here: www.dndbeyond.com/encounter-builder

What Is Available in the Alpha

The alpha currently has the following features:

Name your Encounter
Select Character(s) Composition
Determine Individual Threshold
Determine Party Threshold
Total Monster XP
Modify Total Monster XP for Multiples
Compare Party vs. Monster XP
Categorize XP Threshold
Calculate Daily Budget
Modify Encounter Difficulty

What is NOT Available in the Alpha

The alpha does not yet have the following features, but they are planned:

Optimized Mobile Views
Campaign Integration/Selection for Party Composition
Encounters for Published Adventures
Sharing Encounters Publicly
Randomize Monsters by Difficult Setting
Expanded Filter Options
Expanded Encounter Details, Images, Maps, etc.
Modified Difficulty by Location
Running an Encounter
- Initiative Tracking
- Monster HP/Status Tracking
- PC HP/Status Tracking

How to Provide Feedback

As always, your feedback is valued as a huge driving force behind what we do at D&D Beyond. After you give the encounter builder a try, you can share your feedback in four different ways:

The Encounter Builder Feedback forum
The #ddb-feedback channel in Discord
The 'Feedback' button on each page of the Encounter Builder
Taking the Alpha Survey by clicking on the button near the encounter name on the builder page

Thanks again for your help - we look forward to the alpha and the updates to come!

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Posted Jul 14, 2019
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Awesome as this is, it's been over six months since we've had any significant updates to the character sheet, which has to be core to the DDB experience for the majority of users.

Can you please indicate when can we expect to see more progress there?

It's indicated in the feature road map that that'll go into development sometime after the character sheet beta comes to the mobile app, which is soon(Character sheet updates are: Character Builder Overhaul, General Features System, and in the longer term Inventory Management Enhancements and Temporary Effects System). The full feature roadmap is here: https://trello.com/b/vIKxuEs8/dd-beyond-feature-roadmap. To stay up to date on Development, there's a Dev Update stream every Thursday 9 am PT on their Twitch channel(https://www.twitch.tv/dndbeyond). Hope this helps!

Thanks for that. I was hoping they’d have work happening concurrently and we’d at least have some minor updates to the character sheet while the big features creep along. Some fixes should only take a matter of hours eg. advantage/disadvantage on skills, adding in the missing customizations on attacks, the missing filters on spells etc etc

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Awesome as this is, it's been over six months since we've had any significant updates to the character sheet, which has to be core to the DDB experience for the majority of users.

Can you please indicate when can we expect to see more progress there?

It's indicated in the feature road map that that'll go into development sometime after the character sheet beta comes to the mobile app, which is soon(Character sheet updates are: Character Builder Overhaul, General Features System, and in the longer term Inventory Management Enhancements and Temporary Effects System). The full feature roadmap is here: https://trello.com/b/vIKxuEs8/dd-beyond-feature-roadmap. To stay up to date on Development, there's a Dev Update stream every Thursday 9 am PT on their Twitch channel(https://www.twitch.tv/dndbeyond). Hope this helps!

Thanks for that. I was hoping they’d have work happening concurrently and we’d at least have some minor updates to the character sheet while the big features creep along. Some fixes should only take a matter of hours eg. advantage/disadvantage on skills, adding in the missing customizations on attacks, the missing filters on spells etc etc

A lot of these(advantage/disadvantage on skills, adding in the missing customizations on attacks, the missing filters on spells) fall under General Features System and Temporary Effects System, and a decent chunk of new coding is necessary to implement it, making it impractical for them to try to be adding tiny pieces over time while working on something else instead of just doing it all at once.

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