Quote from MadScientist76 >>

I am a subscriber. Why can I only see the Beta combat tracker?

 you access the combat tracker from the encounter builder:  there should be “run” buttons by each of the encounters you have made.

Is there currently a way to plug in characters manually if everyone does not have their stuff up on DnD Beyond with the alpha? 

My wish list as condensed as possible.

• PC Stats on click similar to NPCs
• Track conditions and effects
• Roll for NPC HP
• Sidekicks and companions and conjured creatures - oh my!
• Dex Tie break
• Grey out or disable NPCs at 0 and skip turn
• An End Combat button that auto-calculates or awards XP to the players.

Great work so far!

Quote from Wolfmind77 >>

 

Just wanted to point out, for #3) is not a RAW, although your DM may want to adjudicate ties broken by DEX bonus (house rule), in fact the RAW states:

If a tie occurs, the DM decides the order among tied DM-controlled creatures, and the players decide the order among their tied characters. The DM can decide the order if the tie is between a monster and a player character. Optionally, the DM can have the tied characters and monsters each roll a d20 to determine the order, highest roll going first.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/basic-rules/combat#Initiative

Fair enough! Though I would still not expect ties to be interleaved like they are, it seems my request should instead be directed at having the ability to adjudicate ties manually (or based on common/user-defined rules).

Quote from GundarStruck >>

Looks very nice so far!

 

1. Is it possible to remove PCs who are not at the table but part of the campaign from the order?

2. An "End Combat" button for when things finish up.

3. When clicking next, if the HP=0 on a monster, skip monster. 

 

 When setting up your encounter, you can click "Manage Characters" and then hide characters from the encounter calculation. This also removes them from the combat tracker.

2) The rules say "The DM makes one roll for an entire group of identical creatures, so each member of the group acts at the same time." If I've added three monsters that are the same, they should receive the same automatic roll value.

With the encounter builder, you increase the number of identical monsters with the + button instead of adding that monster manually a second time. This fixes that scenario.

Awesome! This looks like a really good start, but I feel it's lacking some features I need during combat. I understand that this is just the beginning of the alpha though, and not all features are finalised yet.

The following would be crucial features for me to run an encounter.

• Remove (dead) creatures, preferably manually with a button. (Imagine a fight against 20 goblins and 6 summoned animals after 2-3 rounds and a well placed fireball...)
• Adjust monster's max HP, or allow to automatically roll instead of taking the average. (I prefer if the players can't always predict how many hits they need to take out a goblin.)
• Add monsters/PCs to a running encounter from the DB, so they will have their stat blocks accessible from the CT.
• See the players' HP entries. Possibly even adjust it.
• Condition tracking, or at least condition toggling.
• Save encounter state cause sometimes we don't have time to finish a battle. I assume this is more likely to be looked into somewhere around the end of the alpha, when the data to store is more defined.

The following ones would be very handy, although not as crucial as the previous ones.

• Let the HP box accept modifier values instead of just plain numbers; i.e. if I write -5 or +6 in the box, it would decrease the current value by 5 or increase it by 6 instead of setting it to -5 or +6 (and still setting to exact value when no prefix is used). This would help to reduce the math during the heat of the battle.
• Being able to adjust other values for combatants (changing AC when they drop their shield, or adjusting stats to recalculate attack bonuses when they get hit by a STR reducing effect)
• Being able to add quick notes for the combatants. (This could be used temporarily for condition tracking or the value adjustments too.)

I hope these will be added to the combat tracker eventually, so it will become a useful and helpful tool to run combats.

 I'm a member in a subscriber's game(though i run more than he does) will I have access to the combat tracker?

No, content sharing will have no influence on the availability of the combat tracker.

I have an encounter with 3 Frost Giants.  I want to have each one of them have their own initiative.  I can do that, but they're not labeled (A, B, C or whatever).  I think this has already been mentioned but it's definitely an issue with me too.

Quote from MrQuickLine>>

I second this suggestion. Less math is good. Being able to submit damage or healing and let the tool do the math would be awesome. 

It looks good and I haven't encountered any bugs in testing it so far. That being said a few features I think would improve it:

• Limited Ability Tracking - being able to tick off spell slots, recharge abilities etc. from enemies would keep all the focus on the initiative tracker instead of having to go back and forth between tracking health on the initiative tracker and tracking other aspects of monsters in other ways.
• DM and Player view - having players see a less detailed version of the encounter (no health on monsters etc.) would be a useful feature. Additionally, having players be able to adjust their sheet via the tracker (or at least their health) may be useful.
• Adjusting Monsters - being able to adjust monster HP instead of using the average would allow for buffs/debuffs of existing creatures. Additionally, having the option to have each creature be given a rolled health value would be good too. 
• Add-in rather than take-out campaign characters - In my campaigns I have players/characters that drop in and out as guests, and players that make theory-craft characters in the campaign to have access to all our options. Having the initiative tracker/difficulty calculator work on an add-in function (i.e. choose a campaign then choose the characters from that campaign), rather than a take-out (i.e. adding all characters in a campaign automatically then having to hide the ones not relevant) feels more efficient.
• Effect Markers - being able to mark creatures/players with effects markers like Concentration, Poisoned, Stunned etc. would be useful as a reminder in the initiative tracker.
• Altering Initiative - being able to alter initiative on the fly would be useful for moments where combat briefly halts and initiative has to be rerolled without losing all the damage already dealt. Either being able to change initiative individually and/or having a total reroll option would work. 

It's built into the Encounter Builder.  Build an encounter, then you're given the option to "run" it.

I think you mentioned that you were working on this, but I would really love to be able to split groups of monsters and assign each individual one their own initiative!

And spell durations...

Same; had a monster with a +2 to initiative roll a 1 for initiative.. 

Nice. 

Now I just need to be able to save my player's names to the encounter, so they show up on the tracker. 

Not so much the combat tracker than the encounter builder, but when trying to add characters from the campaign, only 20 shows up. Had to deactivate some. This was on the iPad. 

Looking great so far. This is going to be something I can't DM without in the future. 

I would like to see buttons like (+10 +5 +1, -1, -5, -10) next to the monster HP for quick adjustments. For some reason it is easier for me to know that 17 points of damage is clicking a +10, +5, +1 +1 instead of doing subtraction. Yes, the subtraction is simple, but when I'm keeping up with combat pace the faster I can go the better the experience for my players. 

Quote from Alch3myst >>

Looking great so far. This is going to be something I can't DM without in the future. 

I would like to see buttons like (+10 +5 +1, -1, -5, -10) next to the monster HP for quick adjustments. For some reason it is easier for me to know that 17 points of damage is clicking a +10, +5, +1 +1 instead of doing subtraction. Yes, the subtraction is simple, but when I'm keeping up with combat pace the faster I can go the better the experience for my players. 

 For me, having to translate a 17 to a 10, 5, 1, 1 is just more math, especially since to make sure that I have not pressed too many times, I would have to do the original subtraction that you try to avoid with the buttons anyway.