I'm aware that they share initiative, I'm purely talking about grouping entries for the sake of streamlining the tracking. Just an option to choose if you want to group mobs or not. Having to run a combat with a large number of disposable mobs like zombies is frustrating when they just clog up the tracker with individual entries. Why not have it that if you want individual entries you enter them as such but if you want to you can enter zombie x5 and it'll automatically group them in the tracker? 

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I'm aware that they share initiative, I'm purely talking about grouping entries for the sake of streamlining the tracking. Just an option to choose if you want to group mobs or not. Having to run a combat with a large number of disposable mobs like zombies is frustrating when they just clog up the tracker with individual entries. Why not have it that if you want individual entries you enter them as such but if you want to you can enter zombie x5 and it'll automatically group them in the tracker? 

 While I do believe (or hope) grouping entries is planned for later as a convenience feature, there are higher priority features that come first. Also, as I said, grouping them into one entry would complicate tracking current HP and (hopefully upcoming) condition tracking / manual notes, adding new participants to the group, or removing individual entries as they are defeated.

I do believe the ability to remove entries during combat would be a higher desired feature, as the main problem for me is that the dead monsters still taking space in the list...

I'll be honest if I'm throwing dozens of mobs at my players I'm probably not that stressed about tracking said mobs hp, probably going to stick with the minion rule. But even so there would be no reason I can see that they couldn't include the individual hp of a group of mobs. Either in a drop down or as a part of the entry. Again, I'm more interested in the streamlining of the tracker; removing dead enemies sort of addresses it but it doesn't prevent the initial encounter being a mess of 20+ entries. At the moment for large encounters sticking with pen and paper is easier. 

Would it be possible to have a way to denote if someone is holding their action? Maybe with a short write in area specifying the trigger?

Im not sure why you have to deselect characters from your campaign. It would make more sense to select characters it's just clunky to have to go through and deselect characters you don't want to be in the encounter. 

Are we supposed to see the PC hit points? On my screen it just says 0/0, and only my monsters show any hit points. This seems like a bug. Is there a place I should report it?

when using multiples of the same monster, having them numbered instead of lettered would be a great option

Hey guys ! Amazing tool, really nice UI so very simple to use ! Just one problem for me is that the characters from a campaign don't automatically update, each time they level up I have to go there, eliminate the characters, save and then go back to the list. And only then can I change it so it updates.

I hope you understood what I meant but if you didn't I can record a video so you could understand better. Thank you very much and once again props to you guys for a amazing tool even if it's only in beta it's already really cool tool.

Best regards !

If one of my characters has a familiar that can attack or an animal companion such as a Blink Dog, there is no way to add them to the encounter.  Is that something that might be planned for the future? This also sort of applies to NPC who are fighting with your party (although I can make a character to act as them.)

Hey I don't know if anyone sayit already but I created alot of encounters but I didnt created inside of a campaing. Now I want to add but opens a error when i try to save.

Anyways just warning up and I liked a lot of the Encounter Builder. Thx for everything.

When I start up an encounter and we are into initiative, if I click from a homebrew monster to a RAW monster the encounter and page will error out. I can't back out. the screen reads "report feedback". Sending a report too just to double the eyes on this,

I have not subscribed. I have only purchased content. I can build encounters and link them to my campaign but there is no "run encounter" button where tutorials show there should be one. Is that because I don't have a subscrition?

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I have not subscribed. I have only purchased content. I can build encounters and link them to my campaign but there is no "run encounter" button where tutorials show there should be one. Is that because I don't have a subscrition?

 In short: yes.
In longer words: running the encounters is part of the "Combat tracker" section, and the article at https://www.dndbeyond.com/changelog/733-combat-tracker-alpha-change-log says it's available for subscribers only.

Thanks I have subscribed and am able to use the combat tracker. It is certainly better than keeping track on a piece of scratch paper. A few issues though. I figured out how to give the players their hit points by overiding max hp (otherwise it gives the 0/0). I think it would be good to link to the hp that is currently accounted for for each character.  I don't know what is involved in linking the players to the combat tracker but it doesn't seem like it is an impossible thing to also port in their hit points too.

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Thanks I have subscribed and am able to use the combat tracker. It is certainly better than keeping track on a piece of scratch paper. A few issues though. I figured out how to give the players their hit points by overiding max hp (otherwise it gives the 0/0). I think it would be good to link to the hp that is currently accounted for for each character.  I don't know what is involved in linking the players to the combat tracker but it doesn't seem like it is an impossible thing to also port in their hit points too.

 Linking player hit points is more work than it seems, because it can be modified by the players. When you run the combat tracker, the effective work is happening on your computer in your browser, and the changes are "sent" to ddb so it can store it. If your players' hp would also be tracked, then any changes in your browser would need to be sent to all of their active browser tabs opened at their character sheet, and all their changes would have to be sent to your browser running the combat.

Yes, it is possible, but it's waaaaay lot of work for a very small effect.

Good day, I ran into a small issue when creating my encounters.   Had one character loaded into all the encounters and right before running, player changed to a different character.  This was fine as the levels were the same for difficulty, but nothing else was the same on the character and I had to manually change every encounter to go "out of the campaign", then pull from the characters "In" the campaign again to properly show the correct character.  I had pre-created a couple dozen encounters when I was in a location that had a faster connection.  But I was running in a rural location on my phones cellular hotspot, which made doing these individually...a bit of a laggy pain in the butt...:)

Also wanted to ask if there's a way to alter the initiatives once combat's started...like delays and holding actions, but that's more of the combat tracker I think.

Other than that, so far I'm loving it...:)

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Thanks I have subscribed and am able to use the combat tracker. It is certainly better than keeping track on a piece of scratch paper. A few issues though. I figured out how to give the players their hit points by overiding max hp (otherwise it gives the 0/0). I think it would be good to link to the hp that is currently accounted for for each character.  I don't know what is involved in linking the players to the combat tracker but it doesn't seem like it is an impossible thing to also port in their hit points too.

 Linking player hit points is more work than it seems, because it can be modified by the players. When you run the combat tracker, the effective work is happening on your computer in your browser, and the changes are "sent" to ddb so it can store it. If your players' hp would also be tracked, then any changes in your browser would need to be sent to all of their active browser tabs opened at their character sheet, and all their changes would have to be sent to your browser running the combat.

Yes, it is possible, but it's waaaaay lot of work for a very small effect.

It's maybe not extremely easy, but it might not be as much work as you think since some of the framework is already there. Dice rolls and the game log are already shared between browsers, in much the same way as hit point changes could be. And I would disagree with it being a very small effect.

At the very least, even without updating hit points, pre-loading the tracker with character hp when the encounter starts would be very nice.

Hey, how tricky would it be to add status effects into the combat tracker per npc/player/monster? 

Apparently super tricky however a comment box noxt to each person in initiative could serve well. you still have to manually calculate everything but at least you can keep track of which person has what condition.

If you have a battle with 15. goblins you have to write all that stuff down on a separate piece of paper to keep track. let us make little notes in a text field so I can throw that piece of scrap away. otherwise the combat tracker is pretty useless because I still have to manually write down what's happening. I might as well just right hp on that paper too and then I don't even need the comat tracker at all.

The point is to use one or the other not a combination of the two because now you have to keep up with two things. To me, that's not helpful at all.

Can we get a feature to organize the encounters in sub folders? I run 2 different campaigns, and i can sort for that, but i cant sort for every area in each campaign. I would like to sort each campaign encounters into either areas or chapters or individual adventures in each campaign.