ddb-support

[torn wraith]

Fellow DM here, Campaign is down same 504 Gateway Timeout

[short oak]

<c'mon - do something meme goes here>

Was just going to read up on some rules and sad trombone 😢

[hybrid stratus]

I can't even get the login screen to load right now

[bright copper]

For me the landing / main page and the character sheets are working. But I cannot look up any magic items.

[hybrid stratus]

finally did something, unfortunately it's just a 504 gameway timeout

[short oak]

Oddly Avrae can pull results though 🤔

[edgy oriole]

D&DBeyond site and (characters, campaigns and Maps) are pulling up fine for me.

[short oak]

Yep, seems to have resolved now. Blame it on the goblins kobolds!

[wooden prism]

I just bought the digital Explorer's guide to Wildemont but I can't find it on DnDB. I got an order confirmation to my email. Do I have to activate it somehow?

[dense viper]

?tag ddb missing

[loud sedge]

Missing Content?

If you can’t access a book or find an available character option, here’s some important things to check:

1. Are your Account Entitlements in sync? If not, you’ll see a button to let you manually trigger a sync.
2. Did you purchase the book yourself, or is it shared with you through one of your campaigns?

• If you purchased it, is it listed under Current Product Licenses?
• If it’s shared with you, is this character assigned to the campaign that’s sharing it?

3. Do you have the right checkboxes enabled in your character settings? The checkboxes at the top under “Sources” and “Partnered Content” control which options are available for your character. If in doubt, check them all.

• Are you using the right class? There are two versions of each core class: the 2024 one under "Core Rules" and the 2014 one under "2014 Core Rules". Options available for one might not be available for the other. For example, some options for Cleric (the 2024 class) might not be available for Cleric (the 2014 class) and vice versa.

[wooden prism]

My License page says everything is in sync but only the PHB, DMG and Monster Manual show up there. Not the Wildemont book.

[uneven lantern]

Was it maybe made as a gift purchase? If so, you should be able to find a key here to redeem:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/my-gifts

[wooden prism]

Thanks that is the problem right there 🙂 What do I do with the key?

Ok, solved it.

[torn wraith]

Issue reappeared for one of my players any one else get stuck again?

Im afraid to Refresh lol

[kind jewel]

yea all my players are stuck

im not but i dont want to refresh

[edgy oriole]

Things are indeed looking a bit slow - looks like the devs are looking into it right now

[crude breach]

Same problems, D&D beyond broke again. I don't get it, how do they continue to just break the website every day for the past like week?

[wind sedge]

I've been wondering the same thing honestly

[wanton comet]

Do we have a status on how long the site will be down? I have not seen any updates on this. Currently none of my players can accesses anything on the website or the app. Multiple browsers and phones

[edgy oriole]

Many users, weekend, lots of folks attempting to use it at the same time, a creaky old tech stack desperate for a overhaul (which they are working on doing).

[dapper gazelle]

My suspicion is they are trying to chase the gremlin and have not found the true cause yet. Some things just have a habit of not popping up until a larger sample size uses the code.

[edgy oriole]

No ETA on when things will be back up

The devs are actively investigating things - some stuff might be back up.

[robust iron]

Hey did Homebrew servers out for anyone else?

[edgy oriole]

There's currently some technical issues that the devs are investigating.

So services might be slow or not working right now

[robust iron]

Okay I felt so thx

[wanton comet]

The homepage seems to work, but the signin page does not work for most of the players

[pale crater]

Is this forr d&d beyond as well

[edgy oriole]

It's for D&DBeyonds's tools and services generally

[pale crater]

I can't get my campaign page to load

[edgy oriole]

As noted, there's some technical difficulties happening right now that may impact certain D&DBeyond tools and services.

Devs are looking into it

[pale crater]

okay thanks, and thats a bummer my game was tonight

thanks for the info

[wanton comet]

Same, game is tonight, took 3 months to finally get everyone together

[olive mural]

I was able to load up some stuff after a couple of tries. hopefully the issue is fixed soon

[uneven coral]

Myself and another player from my campaign are stuck, too. It logged me out, and won't let her access AVTT

[edgy oriole]

Some services seem to be really dragging right now. But as noted, devs are looking into it.

[violet fiber]

I can punch through, albeit slowly, to the forums, at least.

It just takes a few tries.

Testing Private Window now

[ruby zealot]

I'm now getting "504 Gateway Time-out" when trying to load the campaign page for my game that starts in 45 minutes.

[zenith jungle]

server issues - causing me such a headache. I've been refreshing for over an hour, get to one page, then the issue occurs again.. over and over. Has there been a commitment to when this will be resolved?

[edgy oriole]

No ETA but devs are currently looking into it

[ruby zealot]

Any ETR? Should we cancel our games? We can't play if we can't get to the Campaign page.

[edgy oriole]

As noted, no ETA yet

All I can say with certainty is devs are actively looking into things.

[ruby zealot]

Understood, and much appreciated.

[devout linden]

Okay so there's no issues going on with the website then.

[fallen torrent]

Website is still not working. Can't load Resources. "Internal Server Error"

[ruby zealot]

No issues with character sheets, but campaigns keep getting 504 errors.

[clever sapphire]

Whew, I’m glad it’s not just me
I can load characters but not my campaign on Chrome. Safari has been bad for maps for awhile.

[olive mural]

same here, I was able to access each of my player's character sheets through bookmarks.

[ruby zealot]

Got our game up and running. Campaign page seems to be working (a little slow, but working).

[grim warren]

Whole session ruined over this zzz

[ruby zealot]

Really odd dice behavior happening tonight.

[devout linden]

We were having issues with the campaigns and Maps. Dice rolls weren't working properly or showing up half the time either.

[clever sapphire]

Was just on prepping for tomorrows game, and it seems to be fine on Chrome. Safari still havong issues with MAPS

[unborn kraken]

We ran a 4 hour session with map for DM and single character sheets for each player (no character sheets open for DM), and no one used 3d dice on any of their devices.

In this mode, we were OK.

[dapper gazelle]

Thank you for this.... I have to run in a day or two and if we're having issues, at least I know what to get my players not to do.

[fallen torrent]

Hi, I just want to make sure I got this correct. Even though I have the Monsters of the Multiverse digitally, I can't add those species to my ddb character unless I also have the PHB 2024?

[edgy oriole]

I believe those species should work fine with 2014 classes (as the book was released before the 2024 updates).

So no, you don't need to own the 2024 PHB

[dapper gazelle]

Also, you can add those species to your 2024 character.

The trick to it, if we want to call it that, is you need to go to the Home tab of the character in the character creator and tick 2014 Expanded Rules. You will need to do this, i.e., specifically tick the 2014 one, irrespective of whether you are making a 2014 or 2024 character. If you do this, it should work for both.

[peak comet]

A druid level 3 has taken the acolyte BG and gotten a cleric feat as a result?

[fading bramble]

Magic Initiate (Cleric) is indeed part of the 2024 Acolyte background

[peak comet]

So that's ok for a druid to have?

[fading bramble]

yes. Its an Origin feat, you get Origin feats as part of your background

[peak comet]

I don't understand why it labeled as cleric if other classes can take it

[fading bramble]

Because the spell that version of hte feat gives you are from the cleric spell list

Sage gives MI (Wizard) and Outlander Magic Initiate (Druid)

Its totally fine for other classes to have those feats

[peak comet]

Ah ok thank you

[peak comet]

Just checking I understand, the feat gives spells you normally wouldn't be able to get

[covert marsh]

Good afternoon all, I am having issues with the content sharing feature. I am the DM, I have enabled content sharing, the PHB is definitely shared, and I have a Master subscription. When players create characters in my campaign, trying to view the PHB sends them to the store to buy it

[digital wolf]

Do you/they own the 2014 PHB or the 2024 PHB? And are they trying to view the 2014 or 2024 PHB?

[shadow plume]

So I am trying to make a homebrew trait. This trait allows you to take 2 out of 5 different other homebrew stuff within this one trait (like pick 2 out of the 5 characteristics/subtraits). How would I set that up in dndbeyond?

[covert marsh]

I was just about to follow up saying I figured it out, haha. The issue was indeed that trying to find the 2014 edition is a PITA

[digital wolf]

Glad you were able to resolve the issue!

[eternal bridge]

So weird thing, level 18 wizard says I get to choose a 1st and 2nd level spell in my spell book. I always have them prepared, and can cast them at first level without spending a spell slot
Issue is, they do not show up in the spell list of my dndbeyond sheet unless I prepare them manually, costing me two prepared spells

[pallid shale]

Does anyone happen to have a method to make a homebrew race with a size other than medium that appears in the DnDBeyond VTT (like the token will appear larger than other players)? I've seemingly exhausted all of my options. :c I've attempted to change the size in the homebrew race, tried adding a modifier to the size portion of the traits, tried giving the character a feat which only modifies their size to large. I've heard that enlarge/reduce works as a temporary solution though it seems rather bothersome to continually meddle with every time they wish to enter a new map.

[viral jungle]

I had my first time dming with my gf and did the lost mine of phandelver, we finished the first part and managed to gain the loyalty of 9 goblins and 2 wolves. How does one balance this

[edgy oriole]

Check with folks in #1029833015423143957 as this channel is for community technical support for D&DBeyond tools and services.

[viral jungle]

Ah okay ty

[buoyant elbow]

If anyone else is having the same VTT lag problems from four days ago (we’re still having them), I’ve found that if you run spectator view WITH the DM view in the same incognito window then it asks normally.

This allows you play, but the DM has the pause the session to move/add monsters without the players knowing.

I really hope DDB gets this lag problem fixed soon!

[fresh crest]

These lag and crash issues have probably cost a lot of people game time over this past weekend (I know it stopped us from being able to play) and it also seems to me that people that make a living off of pay2play games most likely lost a ton of money with these issues this weekend. The worst part is that there doesn't seem to be much communication about what's happening and if there are any updates on a fix ETA. Being someone that carries 5 subscriptions in our house for us to be able to play, it sucks incredibly that I've paid my subscription fees for the month and have not been able to access the content to be able to play. We completely abandoned playing pathfinder because Demiplane was incredibly glitchy and not user friendly. My kids are already getting impatient and looking for alternatives to D&D. It would be great to just get some updates.

[cerulean tulip]

I am having an issue where I am not getting digital dice show up an advantage/disadvantage is not transfering over to roll20. However, a custom roll (bottom left) will roll the dice).Thoughts?

[cerulean tulip]

Also, none of my rolls (except the custom roll) are showing up in my game log.

[violet fiber]

Beyond20 isn't WotC's creation.

You'd be better off talking to the extension's dev

[cerulean tulip]

ok thank you

[uneven lantern]

You’ll need to use the Options section. Set up each possible choice as its own Option. Inside, add anything that applies to that choice.

You’ll also need to set a field called Character Levels Where Options Known. Putting 1,1 there will give them two choices at level 1.

[uneven lantern]

That’s a known issue, and likely one that requires the updated Game Platform to support.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/en/roadmap

[pallid shale]

I still haven't found a solution, if anyone has any insight I would be greatly appreciative.

[dense viper]

As far as i know there isn't a way to change the token size.

Even choseing a species that is small from the devs gives them a medium token.

[buoyant elbow]

To the DDB tech team: I’m a software programmer IRL and have certain tools to help troubleshoot app performance and such.

Here is what I’ve learned if it helps you troubleshoot:

1. the problems affect all three major browsers (Firefox, Edge, Chrome) but I haven’t tested others like Brave or Safari

2. there is a massive memory leak that exists ONLY if you split the VTT session windows. For example, if you fire up the VTT session and try to split the DM browser window with a players browser window (how we normally play - I shove the players window over to a secondary game display on a large projector screen) then the memory leak immediately drains your computer of performance until it begins crawling. This happens both on PC and Mac - tested both.

3. if you keep the DM screen and player screen together in one single incognito window then the memory leak does NOT happen. The part that sucks here is that the players get access to see the DM screen and all the hidden creatures as well as the map and what is covered by the fog of war. We managed for our session last night because I just had the players look away when I needed to pull up the DM screen.

I really really hope you guys get this fixed soon! It makes playing unbearable.

[unborn kraken]

Thank you @vernal fractal I can report as of this morning, 0930 PST that just opening the VTT for me causes Chrome to slow WAY down and before very many minutes (10-15) the system fan kicks on. When I close the VTT, the fan drops off quickly and Chrome returns to normal. Just curious if you've got people testing it non-locally (from home, on home set ups?) in addition to us user-types reporting in? I ran 2 games yesterday in "VTT only for DM" and "No 3d dice for anyone" (players used dice buttons, but no one had 3d dice on for VTT or character sheets), and while Chrome ran much slower than usual, we were able to play games of 3 and 4 hours without crashing. I use a 2022 hp laptop 32gig of RAM on fiber wifi internet, Win11 Chrome (latest version).

[rigid birch]

I'm trying to give someone a +1 to a weapon but the math isn't mathing properly. I'm pretty sure I put in the correct modifiers but it isn't reflected on the character sheet

[uneven lantern]

That does look correct. How long ago did you add that? Homebrew edits can sometimes take up to 15 minutes to appear on the sheet.

[rigid birch]

Recently, lemme wait a little bit. Will I need to delete it and re-add it? Or does it update dynamically

Oh, figured out why!

Updated with attunement.

[vernal fractal]

We just released our first array of potential fixes for the dice performance issues. Can y'all help me test? Is dice performance working better now? The same? Worse?

cc @unborn kraken ^^^

[unborn kraken]

will test

[mint crypt]

When I create a homebrew background in DDB (e.g. Disciple of the Sovereign Host), and I base it on an **existing **2024 PHB background (e.g. Acolyte), the ability score increase choices aren't the same in the homebrew as they are the standard background. Is this expected behavior?

[uneven lantern]

Yes and no

Pretty sure the official background is just set up with a very well-disguised feat.

Us users don’t have direct access to that feat or the options used to create it.

So what you’re then seeing with your own background is effectively the default behavior.

You can create your own Ability Score Increase feat to use there, which should override that default behavior, but you won’t be able to hide it like they do.

[unborn kraken]

Testing In-Game (live with 2 players).

So far, dice are rolling and showing up on PCS and VTT, no slowing to Chrome, no fan spinning up.

So far, everything seems normal.

We are proceeding in-game in "normal" mode (3d dice on for PCS and VTT for all).

[unborn kraken]

I have 1 character sheet open for each PC, and CPU is in the 20% zone. No fan.

Looks and sounds very promising at this point.

[unborn kraken]

Thanks to all those who have gotten this fixed!! It's still working just fine. No issues at all.

[unborn kraken]

@vernal fractal -2 hours into live play test in Zoom/DDB game ... all 3d dice functioning normally, chrome running cool and fast, dice rolls on screen look fine, all is well (Win11, Chrome (up to date), 32gb ram).

[buoyant elbow]

What?!? The math ain’t mathin’?!? 😂😂

[pallid shale]

thank you

[balmy belfry]

Is there any way to use a public homebrew as the base for your own homebrew? I just wanted to tweak some things w/out going through the whole creation process

[edgy oriole]

Unfortunately no - you can only make homebrew copies off of your own homebrew or from official and published third-party materials. One big reason is copyright and permissions.

[fresh crest]

Still getting this error on safari website. Character sheet loads and then when I scroll on the page I get a crash and this message

[peak comet]

So this is probably been asked before but how do you get more races in Ddb? Would love tabaxi as well as the artificer class

Ty

[edgy oriole]

?books

[loud sedge]

Accessing Content on D&D Beyond

There are four ways to access content on D&D Beyond that you may have in your physical books:

1. Purchase the full digital book from the marketplace
2. Purchase a digital/physical bundle from the marketplace
3. Join a D&D Beyond campaign with someone who already owns the book where content sharing has been enabled
4. Use the homebrew tools to copy the content from your physical book into D&D Beyond (Note: Do not publish any content copied in this way; it is for personal use only)

[peak comet]

I was wondering like which books would have this

[edgy oriole]

You can look through https://marketplace.dndbeyond.com/ and see what books have the things you want/need.

[dense viper]

Artificer is in this book (https://marketplace.dndbeyond.com/root/DB5147000?pid=D5147000)

And tabaxi is in this book (https://marketplace.dndbeyond.com/category/mordenkainen-presents-monsters-of-the-multiverse?pid=SRC-00085&Digital%2FPhysical=Digital)

[peak comet]

It's not letting me sign in for some reason smh

[peak comet]

Ok nvm lol, ty

[vernal fractal]

will investigate.

[warped yoke]

Problems with The Beyond App Version 2.85 (218) on MacOS26.4
all of The book contents are all a Very very dark ultramarine blue text on a black page making them unreadable and hence unusable I can fiddle with no options selection within the app to deal with this to alter the book text and text background. It all works ok on either Safari Version 26.4 (21624.1.13.11.3) or Chrome Version 145.0.7632.117 (Official Build) (arm64) it is also ok with the ios26 version of the app

[edgy oriole]

This tends to be a app cache issue - see if re-installing the app helps clear it up.

[ocean yew]

Hey how do I infuse my lightning launcher as a artificer in ddb?

[dapper gazelle]

You don't? Once you are 3rd level and choose Artificer, it will appear.

If you mean to infuse the launcher with something else, it might be because even though there is some debate in rules circles as to whether this is the case, DDB may be on my side on this one in the belief that the Lightning Launcher is a magical weapon and thus not eligible for infusions.

From Infusion in TCE (emphasis mine):

At 2nd level, you gain the ability to imbue mundane items with certain magical infusions.

[peak comet]

I was reading 2024 tiefling and 2014 tiefling on Ddb, why does the 2024 tiefling not have the "viewed with mistrust" and why doesn't it say tiefling ages or anything

[peak comet]

*met with mistrust

[hybrid nova]

Because they removed those types of things to not dictate how things are in your setting. Ages are now described universally for most species, instead of spelling out essentially the same age range for almost all of them.

[peak comet]

Ohh okay that makes sense, wdym by ages are described universally tho?

[hybrid nova]

I think it says at the beginning of the species section, I can't check right now, though.

But somewhere in the book I think it states that most live around as long as IRL humans.

I believe exceptions are called out in the species that have them.

[dapper gazelle]

They also removed them because 2024 tries harder to not put species in to a box, I.E., that all members of this species are like this. They want the player to define the species, not to force how the species has to be.

While less so for Tieflings, some species in earlier editions had some potentially uglier stereotypes built in to them which somewhat goes against what we play here.

[viral cargo]

Question:
For what is the new Dungeon And Dragons "Brand Site" https://share.google/dWX6LEtWYQ8sEsqGk ?
And will it futurewise replace something at the DND Beyond Main Website or will it stay seperate with its own weblink ?

[waxen oasis]

Is there a way to share a link to my DnD Beyond character to post in chats for optimization assistance? Or is exporting to PDF the only way?

[peak comet]

Ty

[dire blade]

Yes. In the Home tab for the character, set it to Public and then anyone with that link can view it.

[waxen oasis]

Great thanks! And I assume obviously they can make any changes or edits 🤣

[dire blade]

They can't make changes to your character, no.

The only time another person can edit your character sheet is when it is in a campaign, the DM of that campaign can do so.

[lilac trout]

Could someone tell me why my Ritual Caster Spells aren't showing up?

https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/160943359

[honest otter]

Only wizards can ritual cast spells they don’t have prepared

Might have something to do with that

[near ember]

I suspect dnd beyond limitations

[lilac trout]

So Ritual Caster is useless then?

[near ember]

No it is bugged

[honest otter]

Ritual caster is supposed to let you get around that somewhat, but only for the spells you picked with the feat

[dire blade]

Ritual Caster doesn't add its spells to the spell list. It is a known bug, yes.

[dull fox]

is there any way to disable the game log?

[lilac trout]

So on top of Artificer just not working on D&D Beyond, Ritual Caster doesn't either...

[violet fiber]

2024 works, Artificer-wise.

Ritual Caster is a known bug.

[uneven lantern]

Ritual Caster requires the new Game Platform to be finished first.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/en/roadmap

[uneven lantern]

What issues are you having with Artificer, though?

[lilac trout]

I can't put the items into my inventory that I craft.

[dire blade]

They should be automatically created when you activate the infusion.

[uneven lantern]

Which artificer are you referring to?

or ?

And at what point are you getting stuck, specifically?

[dapper gazelle]

Artificer from the new Eberron Book will auto create the item once you activate it through your Replicate Magic Item feature. The steps there loosely are to select it as one of your class choices and then choose it from the Replicated section on your Inventory screen. This additional step is necessary because even at low levels, you might have chosen 4 , but you can only have 2 active at a time, so you have to specify which 2 are active. Once you do this, those items will appear in your Inventory and can be activated or attuned as needed.

If the problem is with a TCE Artificer, a common problem I help new Artificer folks with is not realizing that some of their infusions require Attunement. If you just create them, but don't attune to them, their benefits will not appear. To break it down though, with Tasha's Artificers, you need to go to your Inventory screen in the character, pick Infusions, then click on the Infusion in the list and you should get a screen like the below, where you need to select Choose, click Choose again on one of the choices in the next screen, and then click on Create Infusion. You may need to also go to Attunement and Attune the item if needed. Once that is done, you should see the results of your infusion reflected on the sheet assuming it is something that can be.

[dense viper]

There isnt a way to disable it.

[lilac trout]

The new one.

[uneven lantern]

And where are you getting stuck, exactly?

[lilac trout]

I'm just going back to pen and paper.

[vital prairie]

My content isnt shared anymore to my players. Well some, but not all. Is anyone else having this issue?

It was fine last night

[fading bramble]

Did someone cancel the content sharing/master tier?

[vital prairie]

No. And they are getting some of the books.

Like crooked moon book 1 but not 2

[dense viper]

?tag ddb missing

[loud sedge]

Missing Content?

If you can’t access a book or find an available character option, here’s some important things to check:

1. Are your Account Entitlements in sync? If not, you’ll see a button to let you manually trigger a sync.
2. Did you purchase the book yourself, or is it shared with you through one of your campaigns?

• If you purchased it, is it listed under Current Product Licenses?
• If it’s shared with you, is this character assigned to the campaign that’s sharing it?

3. Do you have the right checkboxes enabled in your character settings? The checkboxes at the top under “Sources” and “Partnered Content” control which options are available for your character. If in doubt, check them all.

• Are you using the right class? There are two versions of each core class: the 2024 one under "Core Rules" and the 2014 one under "2014 Core Rules". Options available for one might not be available for the other. For example, some options for Cleric (the 2024 class) might not be available for Cleric (the 2014 class) and vice versa.

[steel tusk]

I’m still having to reload the page just to roll 1 die on my iPad Pro via Safari. When it does roll it’s still very slow

[unborn kraken]

17:50 Pacific - I'm getting 504 errors on DDB again.

[midnight granite]

Same (504 Error) when trying to reach the forums

[torn crystal]

Hey all - we’re aware. Team’s looking into it

The status page will be updated if the issue gets worse.

[teal sentinel]

Looks to be working now

[unborn carbon]

Hi, I was wondering if there’s any way to revert the character sheet’s dice rolling feature to the previous version. I was using a custom theme so I could display it properly on my OBS screen, but it stopped working after the recent dice update.

[dire blade]

There is not.

[cosmic jasper]

Can I share the link to my character with a moderator? My monk character has a +6 on their attack rolls, which is confusing. Their Dex mod is 3 and their prof.bonus is 2, so it ought to only be +5.

[fading bramble]

you can just send it here. do you have any magic items that might increase it?

[cosmic jasper]

https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/92965666

[cosmic jasper]

No, I don't think so

[near ember]

Flurry gives a +1 to attack rolls (probably a bug)
I suggest that you make a bug report or ask in feedback

[lament dome]

Hey if i have say an aarakocra character, and I wanna make it a reborn (VRGtR), how would i make that? So i can keep the flying n stuff?

[dapper gazelle]

If it is that, it's also giving a +1 to damage because the Trident also seems to be +1 higher, but in the case of the Trident, it's both on the Attack and the Damage.

[dapper gazelle]

Can you check the boxes that are within the purple box in the image I have attached for both the Trident and the Unarmed Strike? If they are anything other than blank, clear them so that they are blank. That might fix the problem. Those boxes are effectively hidden to those of us viewing your character in this way and they could cause these types of offsets.

[near ember]

It is flurry (look at the video for proof)

[near ember]

Homebrew or manually add it (I can help but take long to respond)

[peak comet]

I really want to get the artificer class and prepare the Eberron book as it's cheaper and has species I want, the only thing is I read for 5.5e you have to use Tasha's artificer, is this true?

[uneven lantern]

Forge of the Artificer has the 5.5e version of Artificer.

[peak comet]

Oh brilliant! I wasn't sure if it was updated or not

[uneven lantern]

The TCOE version is the 5e one (which would still work in a 5.5e game.)

[peak comet]

Ah Google must have messed it up, tysm!

I wish I could get it physically as I prefer physical copies but I know you can't homebrew a whole class

[uneven lantern]

Correct, but you can buy the physical and digital together for a nice discount.

https://dndstore.wizards.com/uk/product/1245196/eberron-forge-of-the-artificer-ultimate-bundle

[north junco]

I can't close any "Reveal" I open. Am I the only one having this issue?

[cosmic escarp]

I encountered this issue last night. I found that pressing the escape button closed it. Still not sure why there wasn’t a clickable button to exit the reveals view

[north junco]

Oh, great. At least a workaround. Thanks a lot!

[dire blade]

@vernal fractal this is probably a pretty important bug fix to look into: #ddb-support message

[still nexus]

So Eldritch Adept wasn't adapted to 2024 and only has 2014 invocations. When picking it up in a 2024 class, it should allow you the 2024 invocations, but only shows the 2014 choices. Is there a fix for this?

[dire blade]

Not yet. The fix for that requires the character editor rebuild WOTC talked about in their recent DNDBeyond roadmap.

[uneven lantern]

I.E. the Game Platform described here:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/en/roadmap

In the meantime, I’d use a custom action or a homebrew feat.

[vernal fractal]

• @dire blade noted! Investigating. But yes - ESC in the mean time.

[vernal fractal]

• @dire blade We already have a fix for the reveals browser missing it's close button. It will likely ship tomorrow as part of our standard deployment.

[uneven lantern]

Fixed!
-# cc: @vast reef

[fallen veldt]

Awesome

[marble rune]

thanks... i was refreshing the entire VTT to close that thing...

[vernal fractal]

I lied. We did a hotfix deploy. The fix is live now.

• @marble rune ^^^

[north junco]

Verified. Works.
Thanks a lot!

[slim coral]

Howdy, I was given access to the Educator License for games at my local library. I have an email saying the license "allows" me to increase campaign's player capacity, but my players are still running into errors. Is there a toggle or switch I need to hit to increase my allowed player count?

[solemn solar]

Are there any ways to filter items by rarity (common, uncommon, rare, very rare, legendary) from your character sheet, when using the manage inventory and you browse for stuff?

[dire blade]

You probably need to open a support ticket for this one if the email you received didn't clarify this detail.

?tag ddb support

[loud sedge]

D&D Beyond customer support can be contacted at the link below. Requests are answered in the order they're received, during regular business hours. Submitting multiple requests for the same issue can result in a delayed response.
http://dndbeyond.link/SubmitTicket

[dire blade]

Nope. At that level, the only filters which exist are for source category, type, and a few checkboxes.

[solemn solar]

Thx for the answer 🙂 It's really something the developers should consider - especially in campaigns with MANY books available, it can be exhausting scrolling through miles and miles of items 😄

[dire blade]

The recent roadmap blog post mentions that search is a target area they want to improve, so I believe they are aware.

[uneven lantern]

What are you trying to add that has you scrolling through miles and miles of items?

[dire blade]

I'd recommend using Source Category to restrict the items list to only the book(s) you care about and then scrolling through the much more manageable ~30 items or so.

[random garnet]

why is a DM allowed to edit a player's character on Dndbeyond?

[dire blade]

Because it is a necessary function of DMing in a digital sense.

[solemn solar]

In this case I was making a character and looked for a weapon. I had yet to decide the specific weapon type, only that it was allowed by the DM as rarity up to "very rare". And with many books available, it was a long scroll before I even reached anything "purple" 😛

But for people who don't know every single item in general and are just looking. Even with "magical" enabled as seen here all common normal weapons was still shown

[dire blade]

You should use the Magic Items page of the website for this: https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items

Then once you have the item you want to add, you can search more smartly.

[solemn solar]

Oh thanks - that one had slipped my radar 😄

[random garnet]

Seems a bit intrusive. Like a DM could just delete or change your character completely without permission.

[dire blade]

They can't delete your character. They can edit it, yes, but you can also create a copy of the character for preservation if you want.

[uneven lantern]

Yeah, the filters there will let you find weapons of a given rarity.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items?filter-type=9&filter-rarity=1&filter-rarity=2&filter-rarity=3&filter-rarity=4

[violet fiber]

I did find something worth looking into.

A few variants of weapons are still missing G'hall'Shar'at variants(among others), despite having all of their 2014 variants
Boomerang
Double-Bladed Scimitar
Hoopak(Ranged & Normal)
3rd-party weapons
etc.
etc.

Is there some policy about only SRD weapons getting all of the variants the site can offer?

[dire blade]

Note also that this is part of the social contract of the game and is consistent with every other VTT or character sheet / campaign manager online.

[random garnet]

Fair enough. I was hoping for a setting to not allow DMs to change character sheets. Sort of like how you can prevent other players from seeing your character sheet completely.

[uneven lantern]

If you don’t want them to edit your sheet, don’t add it to their campaign. Just send them a read-only link.

(But also, if you don’t trust your DM to treat you and your character with respect, why are they your DM? 😅)

[dire blade]

I think if there is a real risk of them maliciously affecting your character sheet then you probably need to have an out-of-table conversation about it.

[spark jolt]

Hi, I’m having trouble with Arcane Armor and infusions on D&D Beyond.

I’m playing an Artificer (Armorer) using the 2014 rules, and I’m trying to apply Enhanced Defense to Studded Leather.

The problem is that when I go to Infusions → Infuse Item, it doesn’t let me select the armor — nothing appears in the list.

I’m confused about how Arcane Armor is actually declared on D&D Beyond. Do I need to manually set armor as Arcane Armor somewhere, or should it automatically count if it’s equipped?

Has anyone run into this before or knows what I might be missing?

[violet fiber]

Yeah, the 2014 Artificer got cooked when the 2024 one released.

A LOT of 3rd-level selectable options on 2014 content is having selection issues.

They're aware(or should be by now).

[dapper gazelle]

The short answer is Arcane Armour by itself doesn't do very much. Once you pick a model, instead of applying it to the Armour piece, it creates different things. For example, for Guardian, it will create a separate attack for the Lightning Launcher.

What are you expecting to see that isn't there once you pick an armour model?

[uneven lantern]

Shows up fine for me. 🤔

Do you still have 5e Expanded Rules enabled for that character?

[dire blade]

You also still need TCoE shared with you. It's possible to get into this configuration if you made the character an while it was shared with you but didn't select the options and then content sharing ended.

[uneven lantern]

TCOE or ERFTLW
-# Not ERFTLW

[violet fiber]

Armorer is Specifically TCoE

[uneven lantern]

Ah yeah, you’re right. 😅

[dire blade]

I was going to take Spam at face value because I don't have that book association memorized. 😛

[uneven lantern]

But yes, you’d need access to the book in order to select things from that book.

[dapper gazelle]

I must be misunderstanding but Armorer definitely exists for ERFTLW.
EDIT: should have said EFotA!
-# this case seems to be TCE though.

[dire blade]

Looking at the book, I see only Alchemist, Artillerist, and Battle Smith.

[uneven lantern]

Armorer was indeed added when they reprinted the class in TCOE.

(All other changes to the class and pre-existing subclasses were applied as errata to ERFTLW.)

[dapper gazelle]

Er, I meant in EFotA.

[dire blade]

Oh, yeah, though the context of the question above was

[dapper gazelle]

It was. I was responding to "Armorer is specifically TCE."

[violet fiber]

I was responding to Spam

[uneven lantern]

In the context of the issue we were discussing, Soda was right to correct me: access to ERFTLW would not help this user.

(And since they’re using the 5e class, neither would EFOTA.)

[maiden swift]

There seem to be some issues with the 2024 version of Obojima's Waxwork Rogue. A lot of the options without level prerequisites aren't able to be selected at level 3, and one of the options is listed separately from the rest as Homebrew for seemingly no reason.

[violet fiber]

I brought this up myself

Umbral Binder Rogue is also having issues.

I'd have the devs go over all of the newly compatible w/2024 content at this point.

[real pecan]

Anyone seeing this entry in their DNDB app (iOS)? Says March Dubscriber Perks 2026. Mine won’t download. Is this related to the March Map Pack perk? Anyone gotten it to download?

[uneven lantern]

It’s not meant to be shown there. There won’t be anything to download in the app.

[cosmic jasper]

I did both: report a bug and report in the feedback section on Discord

[marble rune]

so how do we see the march map pack -- its showing in my licenses, but I dont see anything in the vTT map browser

[gusty charm]

Did DDB have a UI update or something?

[uneven lantern]

Fixed! (This won’t show any more in the app.)

[uneven lantern]

I haven’t seen anything announced yet. Might still be a work in progress until then, or they might provide more info at that time.

[gusty charm]

I can't for the life of me find the "my homebrew creations" tab

Tried looking for it for a while :/

[uneven lantern]

I am seeing some menu changes on mobile. Haven’t had a chance to check my laptop yet.

I couldn’t figure out how to get to the subscriptions page either. 😅

[gusty charm]

Yeah, I'm on mobile too

Were you able to locate the "my homebrew creations" button?

[uneven lantern]

Looking now…

Nah, I don’t see it. :/

I do see this:

But the post it’s referring to doesn’t seem to be visible yet.

[uneven lantern]

You can reach it here for now, though:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/my-creations

On a positive note, the Library tab now shows your recent and favorite books! 🎉

[dapper gazelle]

So, I cannot guarantee you it is what happened, but I could never seem to access My Homebrew Creations in the Android app. Perhaps they just brought the iOS app in line and just removed it?

[gusty charm]

I never saw that option on the app

But I did see it (until now) when browsing the site through chrome

I'm on Android too

[uneven lantern]

Yeah, this a change to the site itself, not the app.

[dapper gazelle]

Same. I have only been able to access it through chrome as well. But ah, didn't realize it was the site. Doh.

[uneven lantern]

If I go to “Play D&D” > “Homebrew” on my laptop, there’s links at the top of that page to view my homebrew collection and creations.

But those buttons aren’t visible on that page in the mobile site…

In the Library menu, my “Recently Opened” is different between the two devices as well.

[vernal fractal]

• @uneven lantern yes! You found it pretty much nanoseconds after we released it. We will be posting a changelog and a what's new reddit post in a little while.

[soft field]

okay hmm... with options only allowing actions im struggling to have a homebrew feat be able to allow the user to pick any stat as a source for spells.

[dense viper]

Have you made a copy of say Magic Initiate. (Druid) to see how the devs did it?

[soft field]

when i create a coppy its blank

so basically the MI feats are covered by some backend we cant replicate

[uneven lantern]

Yeah, we users can’t create feats in that way.

You might consider creating a separate feat for each ability.

[spark jolt]

@dire blade the thing is I have both books but it's just not showing anything

[loud drift]

Problem with the new UI: I cannot find Party Wizard.

[uneven lantern]

You need TCOE.

Not XGTE.

[spark jolt]

also got

[spark jolt]

you can see what I have enabled on in there @uneven lantern

[uneven lantern]

Are your Account Entitlements in sync?
https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/licenses

[uneven lantern]

Yeah, I realized that after I asked, and deleted the message. Sorry. 😅

[spark jolt]

how would i know if they in sync?

[uneven lantern]

Open that link and check the Account Entitlements section.

If they’re in sync, it will say so.

If not, you’ll see a button that will sync them.

[spark jolt]

it is in sync

[peak comet]

My rogue has no gold or items

[near ember]

Did you just make it or did it have items before?

[spark jolt]

would it have to do with anything not being able to enable share content Lately i've given the option to do that for my players

[loud drift]

if it's your character and you own the books then sharing isn't needed, but if it's another persons books then yes sharing would need to be enabled

[spark jolt]

the thing is the ability to enable shared content has disappeared and I don't know why

[loud drift]

sharing requires a master tier subscriptin by someone in the campaign

[spark jolt]

HAVE

and it even shows up in the old campaigns but none in the new ones

FIX IT

[near ember]

Whit howmanny campaigns are you sharing

[spark jolt]

can't enable sharing content on more than like 2. or 3. campaigns

LOL

[near ember]

It is no more than 5 (if I remember right)

[loud drift]

how many campaigns have sharing enabled? the limit is 5

[spark jolt]

all working now

thank you for everyone's help

[peak comet]

Got it sorted! Ty

[desert pond]

Hello! I'm a new DM and a relatively new player and entirely new to using DNDBeyond. I have a player that is trying to run arcane trickster rogue and he wants to use booming blade at level 3 but I believe I have to purchase the Sword Coast adventurer's guide in order for the spell to be usable to my players in my campaign. I know the spell also exists in Tasha's Cauldron but I don't believe the spell would be accessible through Tasha's on DNDbeyond. Can anyone confirm or deny that a rogue would be able to use Booming Blade if I only purchase Tasha's? I really would rather have physical copies of both books but I'll take only having to purchase 1 book twice (phys and digital to use on VTT)

[loud drift]

as far as I can tell either book should work since it's listed as a wizard spell in both books

and note that the DDB marketplace offers a digital and physical bundle for Tasha's (great book, highly recommended) for a discounted price

[desert pond]

Thanks, the only reason I don't know if it'd be accessible through Tasha's digital is because on the Beyond App it didn't have that spell listed even though I know it should be in there

I've been seeing some deals on FB Mkt place for physical books but I've been holding off because I know I can't access the content on the VTT for my players who are too spread out to consistently play in person

I also think there ought to be a way to verify you own a book to use the VTT content appropriately on the website but that's a battle for another day

[loud drift]

RAW it should work, unfortunately I can't test it in the builder since I own both books. If for some reason it doesn't someone here might be able to help troubleshoot.

The single purchase thing has been brought up a lot, unfortunately WotC has yet to find a good way to handle it without shrink wrapping books or footing cost to the retailers. Both can ultimately negatively effect sales

[desert pond]

Yeah obviously it'll tank sales but the other options is to force honest people to pay twice for things, which is probably just as unfair IMO. Then on top of that sharing your digital content is behind a monthly subscription cost. Seems like it's doubling down on making the honest people pay more.

Either way, ty for the assistance I'm probably going to just buy Tasha's and double check if we get the content we need.

[unreal drift]

Hello! If I need help with a homebrew item I created in DDB that isn't working, do I ask about it here or in the homebrew channel?

[uneven lantern]

Those VRGTR species should be fixed! You may need to check that your Account Entitlements are in sync first:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/licenses
-# cc: @dense viper @violet fiber

[late mist]

yes their back thank you so much!
i should mention i sent in a support ticket that i thought clearly explained the situation too just to cover all my bases. their response was to buy the whole book. either they didnt read my ticket clearly or well....it came across kinda rude ngl.

[dense viper]

I can confirm that I can see and select them in the character builder now

[formal sinew]

Coming to the discord bc my original post on the support forum has yielded no results. Whenever I try and add creature or player tokens to a map on the VTT, they just don’t show up. Whether I click the plus button or drag and drop. They just don’t appear. But when I go to the combat encounter list and hit “add all tokens to encounter” everything shows up like normal despite not being on the map. If anyone has any suggestions on how to fix this please let me know, I’ve been dealing with this issue for 11 months now.

[uneven lantern]

Do you get the same issue in another browser or on another device?

[formal sinew]

I only have one device, but in every instance I’ve opened the VTT. It’s been the same issue regardless of browser

I’ll send a video showing what’s going on soon, I can’t record where I am right now.

[dense viper]

Just a couple questions.

• Do you use any extensions or vpns?
• Is the scale of your map corrrect? They could be there but just really small if your scale isnt right.

[formal sinew]

1. I don’t have any extensions or VPN’s active on my computer.
2. I’ve been using the basic/free maps for testing and they are all pretty small scale.

What I will say is that I’m currently at my school right now and they have restrictions on their Wi-Fi. So I’ll try again when I get home.

[frozen brook]

Me and my friend are having trouble with the 3d dice, i can see his but he cannot see mine, is there any way to fix this?

[orchid steppe]

Hello everyone,

I bought the "Grim Hollow Player’s Guide" on D&D Beyond. I really like the Heritage Traits in this book. In the book, I can choose my traits and use points to make them stronger.

But in the Character Creator, I cannot choose my traits. They are fixed. I cannot distribute points or pick traits freely like the book says.

Am I doing something wrong? How can I use the modular Heritage Traits in the D&D Beyond tool?

[violet fiber]

This is a known limitation of the current setup.

Character Builder 2.0 is in the roadmap that was announced, so I think it might still happen.

Just later

[grizzled helm]

one of my players last night, no matter how many times she clicked for rolls to be to everyone, it would instantly switch back to roll to self, not allowing me the dm to see them, or anyone for that matter. Also the lag is horrendous. is there any signs of updates coming out to fix these bugs?

[steel tusk]

Having zero luck loading any ddb pages on iOS safari, but seem to have no issues on macOS. Really difficult to have multiple devices running for my game however

[violet fiber]

It may take a flushing of site cookies & restarting your browser.

My setup is nearly perfect now that I've done that

[formal sinew]

Here’s the video. (Ignore the background audio)

Update: just opened the VTT at home. It works perfectly. So something in my schools Wi-Fi interferes with the VTT’s ability to display tokens.

[restive gust]

Anyone else missing some digital dice from their collection? I had a Black Opal one that is no longer in my dice set. I know I owned it because I've been using it for my character named Opal - I'm in session and its vanished 🙁

[violet fiber]

The gemstone dice didn't work with the latest dice update.

You should have recieved an email to that effect, as you would have got replacement(s)

[vernal fractal]

Do either of you have the enable 3d dice toggle disabled in the dice roller?

[restive gust]

I didn't 🙁 Oh well! Thank you for letting me know

[vernal fractal]

Check your spam? We emailed everyone who had gemstone dice with information.

[restive gust]

Checked my spam... it's probably in my alt email account!

[restive gust]

Yep it was in my alt email - thank you!

If there's ever a future in which you can bring a gemstone theme back to dice, put my name in the hat of supporters! Loved being able to roll my opal dice for Opal

[random garnet]

Apologies if my wording is difficult to understand. The "Agent of Augustine" background and the "Reborn" specie has their ASI choices active at the same time.

I can choose the ASI from the background. And then once again from the species.

[near ember]

Normally you can't do that (try turning off customise your origin

[random garnet]

It's already turned off

[near ember]

Oke

[random garnet]

Oooh. Oof. Wrong channel

[dire blade]

This is expected because you are mixing a 2024 background and a 2014 species. Simply don’t use both sets of ASIs if you’re going to do that.

[peak comet]

I'm on the website on my tablet and I can not for the life of me find where to make homebrew subclass

I can't even find the homebrew section 😢

Nvm it's under browse homebrew

[peak comet]

Does anyone have experience with making subclasses? I'm trying to add bladesinger so my wizard doesn't have to buy Tasha's thing but im really struggling with Ddb layout

[uneven lantern]

What have you got so far? Where exactly are you stuck?

Have you tried making a homebrew copy of an official subclass to see how it was set up?

[dry goblet]

Where do I find my homebrew collection in dndbeyond the ui jsut got changed out of the blue and done know where to find my creatures

[loud drift]

Under Play D&D

[wanton glade]

Do you own Tasha’s? You can share it with them

[marble rune]

Magic initiate states the level one spell you choose can be cast once per day (this is available in the spells action with a USE button), but also as a slotted spell -- but if the spell isnt otherwise prepared or even available to be prepared (arcance trickster with divine magic initiate), the cure wounds spell doesnt provide a "CAST" option, instead it must be manually marked as a slot used

[uneven lantern]

That’s a technical limitation in the current system. When a feature provides a specific spell, it will show both, but that’s not currently possible in cases where the player chooses the spell.

Hopefully the upcoming Game Platform will make that possible.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/en/roadmap

[jaunty cosmos]

Hello ! I’m new here! I have a slight question that hopefully I can get help from or possibly be told how to get help properly anyways, I woke up this morning and I got an email from dnd beyond saying I got a receipt for a subscription at 4am……I was asleep at 4am

And I also don’t have any payment methods saved on my account (good news, cause I’m just woke up and didn’t think to check my bank, so far I have not been given a charge) did anyone else receive this email too at some point ?

[loud drift]

If you visit https://www.dndbeyond.com/store/subscriptions/manage does it show an active subscription?

[wanton glade]

You should still be able to check off a spell slot when you use it this way. You don't have to hit the "Cast" button to check it off

[marble rune]

absolutely, just using the cast button is more intuitive and if you have a long spell list... the check boxes arent near the heal dice...

but also, since you can use a slot... it should also then appear at higher levels for the upcast -- this is even more cumbersome since it doesnt add as a castable spell

[wanton glade]

Near the heal dice?

[marble rune]

on the spell line the "cure wounds" has the 2d8+mod as a rollable... when you hit use... you can immediately click the 2d8+mod and complete the spell in no time... scrolling up to check the box is often forgotten...

[marble rune]

i did figure it was something like this... and you could "add it to the class list to fix it" as a homebrew but was hoping maybe its on the radar -- like you stated... new world backend -- should provide more flexible updates

[random garnet]

Other 2014 species don't have the same problem.

[loud drift]

no, it's a glitch or bug and it looks like Spam has reported it to the devs

[uneven lantern]

I have indeed!

[dry goblet]

Is there a way to revert to the old UI for Dndbeyond?

[loud drift]

there is not, but you can share what you'd like changed about the new UI in #ddb-feedback

[raw mortar]

One of the new characters I’m trying to make is set to 5e but it’s only showing 5.5e stuff

Specifically starting equipment

[loud drift]

you may have accidently created them using a 5.5e class, on the home tab in the character builder if the core rules and/or expanded rules are selected then the 5e stuff shows up lower in class list

[jolly magnet]

I cant find my homebrew subclass in the character creator

[dense marsh]

I am running into issues with error messages trying to level up my character. It's been happening all morning, I've tried clearing my cache etc. but still get an error message....

[jolly magnet]

also getting API error trying to use point buy

[dense marsh]

I think the whole thing is down I tried to just make a character to see and got the same thing

[vernal fractal]

• @jolly magnet what are your ddb usernames?

[dense marsh]

simplymemyselfandi

[jolly magnet]

Bowlerhatclan

[vernal fractal]

just saw a discussion thread and the team is already looking into it

Try now - they just took an action that should clear it up

[jolly magnet]

works

[dense marsh]

Works! THANK YOU

[vernal fractal]

sorry about that. Someone ran a query against a database that got a little over-eager...

[dense marsh]

Rolled a Nat 1, it happens!

[uneven lantern]

What icon does it show at the top of your subclass page? Did you pick the same icon in the character builder? A Bard subclass won’t work on Bard, or vice versa.

[jolly magnet]

oh yeah they are different you're right

[uneven lantern]

In that case, you’d need to either switch your character to the matching class, or rebuild the subclass for the other one.

[rancid moth]

I'm getting an issue with the mobile client - I noticed it yesterday when trying to look up monsters - I'd get an error message "We couldn't load data for this item". I tried searching for this string on the server but find nothing. Today monsters seem to be working, but spells are not - has anyone else seen this?
I have an active Master Tier subscription. IOS is up to date.

app_version: 2.85.1 (219)
system_version: iOS 26.3.1
device_model: iPhone14,7

[rancid moth]

I have resolved this. FWIW, here's what I did.

1. Previously had tried to restore purchases - but this did nothing
2. Logged out of the app
3. Removed the app from the phone (deleted data as well)
4. Downloaded app from app store
5. Signed in
6. Tried again - it prompted me to download the PHB content
   It is now working

[peak comet]

I don't unfortunately, I thought you could only share books if you had a master class tier

[peak comet]

I'm trying to choose a bg but it's giving me very little options

[uneven lantern]

Those are all the ones available in the D&D Beyond Basic Rules. Which background were you trying to select?

[soft field]

So uhh... having some troubles changing my subscription from annual renewal to monthly renewal.... its just doing an endless blue circling

[peak comet]

There's more backgrounds in phb so I'm a bit confused

[loud drift]

do you own the 2024 phb on d&d beyond?

[fading bramble]

do you have the phb owned/shared in dndbeyond

[uneven lantern]

Do you get the same issue in another browser or on another device?

[uneven lantern]

The free Basic Rules contain portions of the PHB, but not all of it. Purchasing the PHB will let you use all of its character options.
https://marketplace.dndbeyond.com/category/3709000?pid=DB3709000

[soft field]

yep its everywhere. i first tried on edge, for a while thier i couldnt modify my sub, had to try a cancel, then i reinstated. and now im back to square one whiere im looking at essentially:

im just trying to ensure the 54 dollars doesnt process tomorow cause i cant handle that budget wise rn

[uneven lantern]

Are you able to update it here instead?
https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/licenses

[soft field]

takes me back to this same page

[uneven lantern]

You may need to contact customer support, then.

?tag ddb support

[loud sedge]

D&D Beyond customer support can be contacted at the link below. Requests are answered in the order they're received, during regular business hours. Submitting multiple requests for the same issue can result in a delayed response.
http://dndbeyond.link/SubmitTicket

[soft field]

ive been doing tickets for 2 days with no reall response beyond one of them just reporting it for bug fixes which doesnt help me financially. i got 2 open tickets and none seeing movement :/

starting to think ill litterally have to cancel

[loud drift]

Don't start new tickets, it can slow down getting your problem fixed. Keep responding to the one who responded and they may be able to make the changes for you or escalate it to someone who can.

[soft field]

so i had one last night where they basically just did a bug report i replied and havent heard back. so i oppened ticket 2 to no reply at all

[loud drift]

unfortunately it can take time, but opening extra tickets can also put you at the back of the line so to speak, which makes it take longer to fix your problem

[fading bramble]

yeah, opening another ticket pushes you back

[soft field]

sofar its sounding like the most effective solution is to unsubscribe and resubscribe.

[fading bramble]

Just. Dont make more tickets and be patient

[soft field]

i have less then 24 hours to resolve this change before it consume so much of my money i cannot afford food. "just wait" isnt the most viable option.

[uneven lantern]

Agreed. If you’re able to unsubscribe, that will prevent it from charging the annual price. Once the existing sub has expired, you’ll then be able to start a new monthly one.

[dawn comet]

im trying to buy player’s handbook 5e on the marketplace but it keeps failing and show me this message. my card information is correct, what do I do

[fading bramble]

check your state/province (latter if youre in canada)

[peak comet]

I own the physical copy I'm just surprised they limit backgrounds honestly to whether you buy it on store or not

[peak comet]

Ah that's very frustrating tysm

[uneven lantern]

Simply put: it has no way of knowing who’s purchased the physical book or not.

[dawn comet]

im in NY, and i got the free intro to stormwreck isles using the same address for this one

i also tried to save my payment method before checkout but it just says error and nothing else

[uneven lantern]

But if you do have the physical book, you could use the site’s homebrew tools to recreate those backgrounds.

[dawn comet]

nevermind, because im currently out and using a different zip code from my debit card. it fixed after i put my original zip code. thanks 😅

[peak comet]

Ahhhh ok good to know, tysm

[wanton glade]

Buying the physical doesn’t provide you the digital tools.

It’s not like when companies provide for you the PDF for their book when you buy the physical (although I wished we did from D&D). This is more equivalent to when you buy other RPG materials like on Demiplane or Foundry or roll20 because you’re also buying access to their digital tools and not just the book.

[peak comet]

Ah ok that makes sense, Ty!

[wanton glade]

Anytime!

[jaunty cosmos]

It does actually! Which is why this is making me confused and worried

[edgy oriole]

Reach out to Customer Support

?tag ddb support

[loud sedge]

D&D Beyond customer support can be contacted at the link below. Requests are answered in the order they're received, during regular business hours. Submitting multiple requests for the same issue can result in a delayed response.
http://dndbeyond.link/SubmitTicket

[edgy oriole]

They can dig into whats happening

[jaunty cosmos]

Thank you just did it rn 🫡👍🏽

[fallow dirge]

Where do I raise an accessibility issue with dark mode on the app?

[uneven lantern]

You’re welcome to share it here or in #ddb-feedback, and we’ll get it passed along to the right people.

[fallow dirge]

Okay, on the Customise screen for an item in the inventory. The text on the fields for name, notes description is black on a grey background. The other override fields are fine

[desert pond]

how do i select an arcane trickster for my rogue subclass now? I'm only seeing expanded rules on the charcter builder

[desert pond]

This was after creating a new character, using an existing rogue in my campaigns character sheet it appears the PHB subclasses are available

[wanton glade]

Do you have 5E core enabled? Arcane Trickster is in the PHB

[desert pond]

Yes.

[spark cove]

Hey just wondering, with the new dice when they're rolled in a campaign they seem to roll for everyone. Which is a problem for one of my players as he's getting bombed with digital dice and his PC can't really deal with that very well. Is there anyway to disable that so he only sees his own dice on screen?

[dapper gazelle]

So, I know you said yes, but there are 2 most likely causes of this and what was suggested is one of them and I will also explain why:

The why first... If one of these 2 things were not the cause, you would at least be seeing 5E Core Thief and you are not.

There are 2 possible reasons I know of for this to happen.

1. You may have not ticked the 5E Core Rules checkbox in the Home screen of the character.

2. You may have picked 5.5E Rogue instead of 5E Rogue on your class tab. I just personally validated that accidentally doing this does exactly what you are seeing so you should go to your class tab in the character creator, remove all rogue levels and add back the class as a 5E Rogue. Note, you have to scroll down passed all the 5.5E classes to find the right one.

This should fix the problem to at least show Thief. I know you asked about Arcane Trickster, but if you sort this out, the only thing that should stop you from seeing Arcane Trickster after Thief is showing is if you have lost access to the 2014 PH.

This can also be fixed... It just would mean DDB is not recognizing you own the book or it was no longer shared with you but there is no point in starting in a problem that may not exist. We need to see Thief first.

[lethal timber]

Why cant I select the legacy base weapons when homebrewing? It only shows 5.5e or third party stuff

[hybrid nova]

Because the legacy base weapons are identical, so they were just moved forward. They did that so there wasn't two of things that didn't change at all.

[loud drift]

Do you own the 2014 PHB or have it shared with you through a campaign? If it's shared is this new rogue being created inside a campaign where it is being shared?

[grave turret]

Hi all, getting stuck here trying to login, my account is linked through twitch

[edgy oriole]

The Twicth login is deprecated. You may need to contact customer support to get either a Google, Apple, or Wizards of the Coast account connected to your D&DBeyond account and use one of those to login.

?tag ddb support

[loud sedge]

D&D Beyond customer support can be contacted at the link below. Requests are answered in the order they're received, during regular business hours. Submitting multiple requests for the same issue can result in a delayed response.
http://dndbeyond.link/SubmitTicket

[edgy oriole]

By deprecated I mean it can work but due to previous issues with Twitch's oAuth login setup, D&DBeyond has deprecated it in favor of Google, Apple, or Wizards of the Coast accounts

[grave turret]

Gotcha. Okay, thank you

[fervent aspen]

As I recall, the DDB site had a bunch of filters to use when doing a search. Can't seem to find them any more.

Ah, it's under Browse, now.

[desert pond]

I own “everything”, i’m the one sharing the content. I was checking on that booming blade we talked about yesterday. I bought tasha’s and it appears to have worked. I had all the rules checked maybe it was just a fluke but i’m not sure

[lost stag]

how do we go back to old layout? i need some retro assist here

who do we direct questions about the design change at? cuz ive got quite a bit to share

[vernal fractal]

There will be soon.

[dire blade]

You can't.

[dire blade]

You can post feedback in #ddb-feedback.

[fading bramble]

Is your account entitlements in sync

[uneven lantern]

?tag ddb entitlements

[loud sedge]

Account Entitlements

Account entitlements are how D&D Beyond identifies which content you can access. These are synced automatically in time, but if you're not seeing content you should have access to, visit Account > Licenses.

The Account Entitlements section at the top should ideally say "Your entitlements data is in sync!" If not, it will show a button to manually trigger the sync, after which your content should be available.

[dapper gazelle]

Did the class change I suggested work or never got tried?

[desert pond]

I didn’t try, i checked to see that i had all of the rules listed checked and i did. I was really only testing bc my players next session they’ll have a level up and he wants booming blade. I was testing on a new character after purchasing Tasha’s and I couldn’t get it to work but when i opened his character sheet it looked functional so i’m good for now.

[dapper gazelle]

Cool, cool. Just like to know what worked to make better suggestions to others. Glad to hear y'all are back to game and less fighting with DDB.

[random turtle]

My god the website is HORRIBLE now... how the hell do I find my campaigns now...

[fading bramble]

its under Play DnD... not a fan of the drop down

[uneven lantern]

It was always under that first menu — and still is.

[random turtle]

It's awful..

[lost yew]

So I'm trying to surprise my players by creating notebooks for them with their character sheets, but it doesn't seem like I can instantly download the sheets from ddb. Is there a way to copy their characters to my own account so I can download the PDFs?

[uneven lantern]

You can’t make a copy of someone else’s character, no.

[lost yew]

That makes surprising them a lot harder

:p

[uneven lantern]

But if those characters were assigned to your campaign, you’d have the same access to them as your players, including the ability to view their PDFs.

[lost yew]

Yeah. We're playing in person so I haven't created a campaign on DDB for this. But I'll figure something out.

[uncut moat]

how does one access the unearthed arcana from within the newly designed interface?

[fading bramble]

You have to go to the Library itself and search or Scroll to it

[uncut moat]

thank you, I found it

[wanton glade]

You have access to their sheet as a DM?

[violet fiber]

On Beyond campaigns? Yes, this is standard from my experience.

[loud drift]

FYI it's also listed under the Rules Tab without having to do the extra clicks and scrolls

[dapper gazelle]

Technically, the person who created the campaign has access to all of the sheets in the campaign to edit things. That may or may not be the DM. Other players in the campaign, can view and potentially roll from other characters, but they cannot edit anything. DDB has assumed that the creator of the campaign is also the DM which may or may not be true, and thus if the creator is not the DM, there can be weird access restrictions where a player may have more access to the other characters than their DM.

[wanton glade]

Yeah, I know that. I was just asking just to get a better sense of what permissions they may have and to suggested them about how they can get the PDF version of the character sheet, but that conversation has already been resolved. Thank you though!

[halcyon patrol]

Hey there, wanted to check if anyone have issues logging into DNDB using your Wizard credentials because the login button isn't working at all. Tested on two phones and each of them, 3 browsers (Brave, Edge, Chrome) and all three in both mobile and desktop view

[fiery marsh]

Can you guys tell me why some books can't be shared anymore???

some materials aren't showing in the content sharing options...

[dapper gazelle]

Do you have a specific item we could look in to?

[fiery marsh]

yeah, before the update of the website, I can use the Book Curse Of Strahd for my campaign and now it's gone..I can't find it anymore...

[dapper gazelle]

Was it shared with you or you owned it?

[fiery marsh]

it was shared with me..

is there any changes on the website?

[dapper gazelle]

So, I also get CoS throuigh it being shared with me and mine is working.

Cna you try this link?

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/cos/appendix-a-character-options

Can you read that page?

[random garnet]

I only see the Haunted One background

and Gothic Trinkets

[dapper gazelle]

One thing to check. Do you still have a character in the campaign where it was being shared? I have accidentally left a campaign not realizing that I was getting a share from that campaign and lost access to things.

[random garnet]

It might be shared

cause I dont think I ahve CoS

Yeah, I dont have the book.

[timid scroll]

I've made a couple Homebrew feats for an upcoming game. For some reason, they're both showing Adv on Death Saves. Why is the Adv on saves against being Frightened not showing up?

[random garnet]

You might have set it up incorrectlyy?

[dapper gazelle]

The person who is sharing it may have removed the share or you may no longer have a character in the campaign. From what I can tell, sharing of Curse of Strahd is still working. You might want to check in with them or double check in the campaign if it's still marked for sharing.

[timid scroll]

??

[random garnet]

looks right.

strange

[timid scroll]

It sure is.

Ok, now no effect is showing up at all. Both feats are active.

[random garnet]

Homebrew things sometimes don't update fast enough

[timid scroll]

Which makes sense why it was showing two Death Saves before - I copied the Death Saves one to make the Frightened Saves one, I guess it took a while to update. But it updated to showing nothing...

[random garnet]

give it like an hour at most

[fiery marsh]

owh so I need to set it up with the person who owned that book , right...

[tough haven]

Whenever i make a custom monster their image always ends up blurry in MapsVTT specificly

For extra info, the token in the token browser looks clear and so does the image in "reveal". Its only the token itself that is placed on the map which is blurry

[lost yew]

They sent me DDB links but we're not linked to a campaign.

[untold gyro]

When I make a character in Beyond, I can choose from 2014 and 2024 options, but no one in the group (content sharing is on) has the 5.5e core books. Is it using SRD content?

[real path]

yes, the 5.5e basic rules are avaliable for everyone for free

[covert kindle]

Question: If I purchased Astarion's BoH and Heroes of Faerūn, and I buy the Faerūn bundle at a later date, will the price be reduced to reflect that I already own those parts of the bundle?

[lament frigate]

I'm having an issue where a player's token photo isn't updating, both the player photo and the HP is showing his HP as if his character was level 1. (We're playing at 11th level).

also I have connected players even though the session isn't started, is there a way to manually disconnect them?

[vernal fractal]

hmm. That's the second issue I've heard about token images having odd behavior. Can you DM me some information:

• campaign ID (the numbers in the URL after /games/)
• the player's ddb username
• a screenshot of what's happening

[static parcel]

Hey quick question, any idea of why DnD Behind won’t allow me to use the 2014 version of polearm master and only lets me select the 2024 version?

[fading bramble]

Do you have the 2024 PHB on DnDBeyond

[glass acorn]

This is a wizard, why is cure wounds there? And what does that plus sign mean?

[fading bramble]

Does your character have Mark of Healing feat

[glass acorn]

No

[fading bramble]

oh, legacy, correction, are you a mark of healing halfling

because thats the only way to get that on there like that

[glass acorn]

This is a githyanki wizard

Necromancy

I’m making it as an NPC

[fading bramble]

Got no idea then. The + represents something being added to your spell list by another feature, like the mark of X

[glass acorn]

He has a strixhaven background, Witherbloom student

[static parcel]

I do

[fading bramble]

oh, that explains it. Witherbloom Student gets it

[glass acorn]

It says it’s from that

[fading bramble]

In addition, if you have the Spellcasting or Pact Magic feature, the spells on the Witherbloom Spells table are added to the spell list of your spellcasting class.

Cure Wounds is on it

[glass acorn]

I didn’t realize they did that. That is cool, and also won’t that get broken at level 17? Infinite healing and all

[fading bramble]

¯_(ツ)_/¯

[fading bramble]

are your entitlements in sync?

?tag ddb entitlements

[loud sedge]

Account Entitlements

Account entitlements are how D&D Beyond identifies which content you can access. These are synced automatically in time, but if you're not seeing content you should have access to, visit Account > Licenses.

The Account Entitlements section at the top should ideally say "Your entitlements data is in sync!" If not, it will show a button to manually trigger the sync, after which your content should be available.

[static parcel]

Can I access this on the mobile app or do I need the dashboard on the desktop?

[fading bramble]

you need the website version

[static parcel]

I shall attempt it shortly.

[random garnet]

Is there no reset for the "Object Intuition"?

[uneven lantern]

#third-party can help with GHPG rules questions.

[balmy belfry]

What is the recommended method for adding a Primal Companion from 2024 Beast Master Ranger so you can have a token to place on vtt?

[uneven lantern]

If all you’re worried about is an image, either add an existing monster with a suitable image, or create a homebrew monster with your preferred image.

[balmy belfry]

yea, it's more about giving the player the clickables for pet attacks etc as well as hp tracking in the sidebar

[uneven lantern]

Then you’d definitely need a homebrew monster.

You’ll need to calculate its stats based on their character.

[balmy belfry]

gotcha, i was hoping it would be as easy as the other summoned pets and such

[uneven lantern]

And then use the little calculator icon there in the toolbar to add rollables.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/homebrew-house-rules/106856-adding-rollable-tags-to-your-homebrew-monsters-for

Once you’ve got the monster made, then you can add it to Extras.

[dapper gazelle]

-# Actually, I find most pets are actually not in the system especially the 2024 ones that don't use a monster statblock any more but instead something built in to the spell, but I digress... Paladin steeds, Artificer Homunculus, Artificer Steel Defender, Beastmaster, Wild SHape, etc, etc. I remain hopeful that the new upgrades to DDB will handle some of these things, because it is quite the bit more common for DDB to not support anything involving another creature in 2024 / 5.5E

[balmy belfry]

looks like quite a few have added various homebrew "Beast of the Land/Sky/Sea" that i can dig through

[dapper gazelle]

Just verify it or clear it with the DM because some Homebrew implementations introduce things that we don't expect.

[balmy belfry]

i am the DM 🙂 i'm trying to make things easier on my player

[elfin minnow]

If I'm trying to homebrew a species on D&D Beyond, how would I give them something akin to Unarmored Defense with 13 + DEX, similar to Mage Armor?

I'm assuming it would be Modifiers, Set, Unarmored Armor Class, but I don't know what to do from there.

[near ember]

From there I think it is
set fixed value to 3 (or whatever you want the base number to be increased by)

[dry imp]

Barbarians at Level 2 get Primal Knowledge.

Is there a “switch” or easy mechanism to set those as Strength checks when raging?

Other than needing to manually switch those over in skills?

Rule: “[…] In addition, while your Rage is active, you can channel primal power when you attempt certain tasks; whenever you make an ability check using one of the following skills, you can make it as a Strength check even if it normally uses a different ability: Acrobatics, Intimidation, Perception, Stealth, or Survival.”

[dapper gazelle]

It does not seem to automatically do it. My guess is because it says you can, DDB may not be assuming your STR is higher than the original stat and thus not forcing it to use STR when Rage is activated.

You could suggest it in #ddb-feedback to see if they could add it anyway. Even if not right away, one would think it should get put on the list for implementation when the new engine for characters gets completed which is supposedly planned for some time soon.

[uneven lantern]

Yeah, that’s a current system limitation.

So it likely needs the upcoming Game Platform to be finished before they can do that.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/en/roadmap

In the meantime, I’d recommend adding custom skills that use STR instead.

[near ember]

You can replace the base ability score of a skill on a character sheet or add a custom skill

[dry imp]

How do you add Custom skills to a character sheet? Is there a tutorial for that?

[uneven lantern]

Click the little gear next to “Skills”.

Then you’ll see a Custom Skills section there in the sidebar.

[dense viper]

At the bottom of the skills list there should be a gear icon. (Its at the bottom if you are on PC)
Clicking that should bring up the skills on the side of the page.
At the bottom of the side bar you should see "Custom Skills"

-# Sorry Spam I was busy typing and didnt see that you had answered them.

[dry imp]

Ahh yep. Looks like it needs to be done on the web for iOS.

Thanks! That’s a usable workaround!

[dry imp]

Didn’t see that icon on the iOS app. But it’s available on the website on mobile browsers

[dense viper]

As far as I know there isnt a way to add custom skills on the app

[dapper gazelle]

It's not just iOS that missed out here. The Android app also lacks this functionality.

I don't know if iOS has it but Android has an open character on website option that can be quickly used to get to the website to use its functionality. Helps me not have to also open a browser to edit things like this (or deal with homebrew which Android also isn't supporting). That might help if it is also on iOS.

[uneven lantern]

Once you do add it on the site, it will then be visible in the app, at least.

[uneven lantern]

Fixed!
-# cc: @violet fiber

[maiden swift]

Thank you kindly!

[atomic laurel]

Sorry for the bother but I have been trying to use the New Shifter Species from Eberron: FotA and I can’t choose a Shifting Trait. I have tried resetting the window and clearing the cache and nothing is changed. What do I need to do?

[near ember]

Try the things below
?tag ddb missing

[loud sedge]

Missing Content?

If you can’t access a book or find an available character option, here’s some important things to check:

1. Are your Account Entitlements in sync? If not, you’ll see a button to let you manually trigger a sync.
2. Did you purchase the book yourself, or is it shared with you through one of your campaigns?

• If you purchased it, is it listed under Current Product Licenses?
• If it’s shared with you, is this character assigned to the campaign that’s sharing it?

3. Do you have the right checkboxes enabled in your character settings? The checkboxes at the top under “Sources” and “Partnered Content” control which options are available for your character. If in doubt, check them all.

• Are you using the right class? There are two versions of each core class: the 2024 one under "Core Rules" and the 2014 one under "2014 Core Rules". Options available for one might not be available for the other. For example, some options for Cleric (the 2024 class) might not be available for Cleric (the 2014 class) and vice versa.

[uneven lantern]

You currently need to make the choice on the sheet itself, when you activate the feature.

[atomic laurel]

Thank you. 🙏 I tried it and it worked but it is so weird that we have to do it that way. Thank you again for sharing this with me.

[earnest hill]

I have many unique languages in my world but now my players not able to add those languages to Thier Characters ... is thier a work around? ...Never Mind

But my world not have a common language but it always shows up anyways

[graceful juniper]

I need help with a homebrew subclass: I want to have it gain a free metamagic (Transmuted in this case) for one of the features, but I am not sure how to do that.

[empty wadi]

I might be stupid but why cant i add the sentinal feat on my level 4 paladin in dnd beyond as a variant human

[empty wadi]

Can someone please send me a weapon Shield loadout for paladin level 4 with splintmail and sentinal feat? (Pdf file from dndbeyond) it wont let me make it with sentinal even though its free. Thanks

[violet fiber]

If you could have a link to your character, it would help w/diagnosing your issue...

[empty wadi]

like the character link?

the the character sheet

[violet fiber]

Beyond-wise, on the chacracter sheet. Set the character to public in the builder, & I might be able to help

[empty wadi]

Sure lemme do that rq

should be public

trainerpoma level 4

also how to find public characters

[violet fiber]

Send me the link via DM

If you need help setting things to public, it's at the bottom of the first part of the character builder.

[verbal creek]

Spam.

[violet fiber]

I already helped them. They didn't own either PHB, & got Google Gemini'd

[dapper gazelle]

Gotcha. OK, deleted. Thanks!

[uneven lantern]

You’d need to recreate the available choices as Options.

[graceful juniper]

ah I see. So what is the best way to do that?

[dense viper]

When you make a subclass feature there should be a check box to say weather it has Options.

Then in the "Options know" bow you type how many optins they get a what level.

Like if they get 2 options at level 1 and anothe at level 5 you would type
1,1,5

Then you just have to add the metamagic options under the options tab

[wheat sentinel]

hi how do you write in the looking for dm thingy im too stupid to find out my self

[dapper gazelle]

Read #find-a-game . It tells you how to use looking-for channels.

[dense viper]

Also as of note for the future don't post your question in multiple channels like you did.

[wheat sentinel]

oh sorry

[harsh swift]

Anyone elses digital dice rolling really slow after the web change. Tried the normal stuff like clearing out browser history but nothing seems to work now.

[vital prairie]

Whats the best way to add a single use spell scroll to someones sheet?

I know you can add a scroll as equipment but it is just a scroll. I want my players to be able to click on it and activate the "spell"

[hybrid nova]

Make a homebrew copy of the item and attach the specific spell to it?

[vernal fractal]

What browser are you using?

[empty ledge]

Would anyone be willing to help me write a backstory for my character? I want to start playing and have figured out the characters actual stats, but I’m lacking inspiration/creativity for the backstory

[harsh swift]

Same one for five years now Google Chrome

[uneven lantern]

I’d create it as a Wondrous Item (so it can be equipped). Give it a single charge, and add a spell that uses that charge.

After you’ve done one, then the next time you can just make a copy of it and adjust the spell.

[uneven lantern]

#character-discussion can help!

(This channel is for getting help with D&D Beyond.)

[empty ledge]

Thank you, the channels confuse me 😭

[unique gulch]

yo hello

u there

[loud drift]

Spam seems to be offline, do you have a question?

[unique gulch]

id like to report smn

[loud drift]

#moderator-support

[empty wadi]

Created a homebrew character with the spell leveling feature but im level three and wont let me use any of the spells

[dense viper]

Did you make a subclass feature called spellcasting?

[empty wadi]

what is spellcasting

add it here?

[dense viper]

Yeah. For some reason if the main class you are making a subclass for doesn't have a spell casting feature you have to add it.

Some examples are the Rogue's Arcane Trickster and the Fighter's Eldritch Knight

[empty wadi]

Ok but how do i get the setting in the class feature that allows the spell casting

cuz i made the feature from there and named it spell casting but im not really sure how to allow it because all that does is make one of those thingys

[dense viper]

I would suggest making a copy of those subclasses to see how to do it

[dense viper]

Homebrew edits can take up to 15mins to show on the character sheet

[empty wadi]

no no i meant like thi

this

now i have this

[dense viper]

That should work.

[empty wadi]

so i just add?

[dense viper]

Yes but again you can make a copy of the subclass Arcane Trickster to see how the devs did it.
There isnt anything to add in from your 2nd picture
-# According to the copy of arcane trickster i just made

[empty wadi]

thanks for your help ill tcheck back in like 30 minutes to see if it work ty

[empty wadi]

it didnt work, also i dont own the BHG or whatever its called so i cant see the arcane trickster

[dense viper]

Its in the 2024 players handbook both of the ones i mentioned are

did you mark that your subclass can cast spells and give it a stat to use?

[empty wadi]

in the homebrew place?

[dense viper]

Looks like you only have access to the free basic rules.

[dense viper]

Yes

[empty wadi]

yeah

under spell casting?

[uneven lantern]

What class are you using?

[empty wadi]

paladin

homebrew

[uneven lantern]

Forget that Spellcasting feature.

How did you add the spells in your homebrew?

That first screenshot just looks like a text description.

[empty wadi]

it was in the description and after it showed up like this

[uneven lantern]

The Description field won’t add spells to your sheet.

That’s just the rules text.

[empty wadi]

and to this but it didnt work so i just removed it

[uneven lantern]

You need to use the Spells section seen here.

[empty wadi]

oh i was told i dont need that

[uneven lantern]

You were told wrong. 😅

[empty wadi]

ic

tysm ill just add that rq

[uneven lantern]

You’ll need to add each spell as its own entry there.

[empty wadi]

thanks

can i put multiple here

[uneven lantern]

Add the spell under Spell Name. Set Always Prepared to Yes. Set Use Spell Slot to Yes.

[uneven lantern]

Doing that would prompt the player to choose between those spells, which isn’t what you want here.

[empty wadi]

wait sorry im confused under "SPELLS" or "Additional Spell List

[uneven lantern]

You want Spells.

[empty wadi]

ight

[uneven lantern]

Additional Spell List gives them additional options when choosing spells from their class spell list.

[empty wadi]

something like this?

[uneven lantern]

Anyway, if you do want to see a working example here, you can make a homebrew copy of Oath of Devotion instead, which is the free Paladin subclass.

[uneven lantern]

Definitely get rid of Uses By Ability Modifier.

That means they can cast the spell a number of times equal to their CHA.

[empty wadi]

oh shoot read that wrong

[uneven lantern]

Get rid of Cast At Level, too, or they won’t be able to upcast.

[empty wadi]

got it

[uneven lantern]

Ability Score, Activation Type, and Spell Range Type only need to be set if you’re not using the default for the spell.

Set Counts As Known Spell to No, too, or it’ll eat up one of the spells they can prepare.

[empty wadi]

how can i use the default cant find that option

[uneven lantern]

Just leave those blank,

[empty wadi]

k

something like this?

[uneven lantern]

Unselect Activation Type.

[empty wadi]

ok

[uneven lantern]

That’s changing Shield from a Reaction to a “No Action”.

[empty wadi]

oh its a reaction?

[uneven lantern]

Ability Score is CHA by default. You could leave that blank. (But it’ll work as-is.)

[uneven lantern]

Normally, yes.

Again, just leave that blank unless you want to change the spell’s normal casting time.

[empty wadi]

alright

[uneven lantern]

Same for Ability Score and Spell Range Type.

It looks like you unselected Consumes Spell Slot, too. You want that to be Yes, or it’ll show up as “At Will” and let them cast it infinitely.

All you need set here is Spell, Consumes Spell Slot, and Always Prepared.

[empty wadi]

Ohhh i understand now

i should leave most blank right

[uneven lantern]

You only need Available At Character Level if these spells don’t unlock as soon as they get the appropriate spell slots.

[empty wadi]

except for the spell, consumes spell slot, always prepared, and the ability score sometimes

[uneven lantern]

You’d set the ability score only if you don’t want them to use the class’s normal spellcasting ability.

Which is CHA already.

[empty wadi]

oh

tysm

[mortal halo]

how would i make this actually be my proficiency bonus?

[dense viper]

Is that on a magic item?

[mortal halo]

yes

[dense viper]

Im fairly certain you cant do that with magic items

[safe tusk]

Hi there! Can someone point me to a guide, youtube, or your own setup for complete online play? I am looking to use DDB for character sheets, compendiums -- Maps VTT, Discord for chat, audio/video, images, and combat -- Google drive for DM notes, player journals, and anything else? Any help is appreciated!

I currently use Forge and Foundry VTT, which is nice but also looking to lower our costs. Thanks!

[uneven lantern]

If you’ve got any questions about DDB specifically, you’re in the right place!

Otherwise, the folks in #dm-discussion can surely help with that.

[loud drift]

or even #dnd-discussion for digital tools for the player side

[safe tusk]

Sorry.. is this the wrong place to ask then?

[uneven lantern]

If you’re looking for general advice from other DMs, #dm-discussion is the channel you want.

[safe tusk]

OK.. I asked in there thank you for your help!

[uneven lantern]

This channel’s focused specifically (and exclusively) on D&D Beyond.

[vernal fractal]

We also have #ddb-maps-vtt where we talk about Maps a lot. 🙂

[proper dagger]

Maps is doing weird things, showing -dis on every roll of the log

Doesn't show up on the character log

[vernal fractal]

We have a fix for this internally, we're shipping it out tomorrow.

[proper dagger]

ty!

[wanton glade]

It’s being passive aggressive, telling us to get good

[proper dagger]

lol

for real

[balmy belfry]

If I wanted to have a long spear, like an ashandarei, that could be used for slashing damage (granting Graze if mastery with Glaive), or bludgeoning damage (granting topple if master with quaterstaff) using the butt of the weapon... is this doable in a homebrew item? Having the worst time finding where to add topple.

[loud drift]

Spam can correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you can have a weapon set to do more than 1 damage type nor more than one mastery. The closest work around I can think of is to make 2 weapons and pretend that it's one.

If you can find a weapon on DDB that does similar to what you want, then another option is to make a copy of it to see how it was set up.

[balmy belfry]

Even cloning the Glaive i did not see anything that specified the characteristics of the glaive (slashing, heavy, reach, two-handed, graze, etc). I am guessing that these are "built-in" to the dropdown for base weapon.

[wanton glade]

Is there a way to rearrange the items/weapons/spells thats in the Action tab by chance? looks like it's alphabetical, but I was wondering if I can manually reorder it somehow?

[dapper gazelle]

I don't think there is. You could try suggesting it in #ddb-feedback .

[balmy belfry]

is there a published and up to date wiki on the homebrew items? something that goes over all the [spell] and those types of options?

[dire blade]

It's on the forums: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/homebrew-house-rules/9811-how-to-add-tooltips

[lament dome]

For DDB web version:

1. Why can I not find half of the Monsters in the listings? Like if I‘m searching for Haunt, I get like 2-3 monsters, while on Mobile I get 6. I have no filters or anything applied.

2. Is there a way i can look at the rulebooks I own as e-books like an actual book? Or pdf-ish at least?

[uneven lantern]

For the first, you probably need to open Advanced Filters and set Partnered Content to “Yes”.

For the second, I’m afraid not. The official books aren’t sold anywhere as PDFs.

[lament dome]

Ok great thanks so much😄

[balmy belfry]

there is no way on items to do dynamic values is there?

Was thinking of making an item that's bonus scaled with 1/2 proficiency (round down) but cant seem to find any examples of that

[dire blade]

Correct, that can't be done.

The homebrew system models the official rules, and nowhere in the official rules does something like that show up. As a result, it's not programmed into the system. There's no telling if this sort of thing will eventually be possible with the wider remake, but we do know they intend to work further on homebrew eventually in 2026.

[balmy belfry]

Gotcha... I remember when playing around with a sub-class I was able to define levels that values changed so wasn't sure if i was missing something

[dense viper]

Subclasses and feats can do it but not weapons or items

[earnest hill]

Any means to create a Homebrew Eldritch Invocation on dnd beyond?

[uneven lantern]

Not really, but you could leave the invocation unselected and add a custom action or homebrew feat instead.

[earnest hill]

I also wanted to creat a feat much like Fey Touched but not really able to do so ... Looking to create a feat that allows a Cleric with specific feat to add spells they can choose from .... but seems the only way would be to create a new spell that is tagged as a clerix spell but still have name of wizard only spell ...

Example: I have a Deity that in 2nd Edition who was able to grant Wall of Thorns as a spell but re-flavored Wall of Roses.

[dire blade]

Unfortunately Fey-Touched has elements of its implementation that are hidden from view for regular users. I strongly encourage you to not even base other homebrewed feats on it because it enforces certain unexplained rules that you can't disable if you do.

[earnest hill]

I tried and failed LOL

[uneven lantern]

There’s two parts of Fey-Touched that we users can’t do: let the player choose their spellcasting ability, and set it to use spell slots.

In this case, a Cleric would presumably just use WIS, so you could set it to that.

Whether or not the spell slot part is an issue is up to you to decide. 😅

If it is, you could make a homebrew copy of the subclass and add the spell there instead.

[earnest hill]

I was wanting to call a feat Choosen of Deity (or something like that) where you get +1 to Wisdom or one other stat, plus get choice of 1st level spell and set 2nd level spell ... but I not able to figure how best to do so.

But does Subclass allow chart for spells up to 6th level or higher?

[uneven lantern]

If “get” means it shows on their sheet as a once-per-long-rest cast, that’s doable.

If “get” means they can click the Cast button on their sheet to mark off a spell slot, then a feat won’t work.

[uneven lantern]

If that’s what you want it to do, yeah.

If you want to restrict the choice to a specific spell level, that’s doable, too.

[earnest hill]

Yeah meaning it shows up as pat of thier spells to select/prep.

[uneven lantern]

So nothing like Fey Touched, then.

[earnest hill]

Gads making a modified subclass seems like more work then just having a feat 🤣

[uneven lantern]

You mean something more like the Dragonmark feats?

Spells of the Mark. If you have the Spellcasting or Pact Magic class feature, the spells on the Mark of Detection Spells table are added to that feature’s spell list.

[uneven lantern]

Not really.

You’d just select the existing subclass as a template to get an exact copy.

Then adjust it as needed.

In this case: just adding another feature. You wouldn’t have to touch any of the existing features.

[earnest hill]

Can Mark of Detection be modified to say give Wall of Thorns to a cleric that has the modified Feat?

[uneven lantern]

No, I’m afraid that’s another dev-only option for feats. 😅

But that is the effect you’re going for, yes?

For that, you could use a homebrew subclass, species, or background.

Those all have an Additional Spell List option that’ll do the trick.

[earnest hill]

LOL gads ... my players like to select stuff that I made up but get flustered as the psuedo-feats I make not work because of deeper coding issues.

background ... will look into that as well as subclasses.

Wanted a feat like Fey Touched ... calling it Hag Lineage ... but oh well.

Let just say I have been gaming since 1st Edition and most of my stuff is on paper ... But newer players are very digital savy.

And want me to put my homebrew stuff on D&D Beyond.

If I was a great writer and typer I could have made Source Materials for the community. But as it is the only thing I did do for the D&D community was create the website called Shattered Fractine many decades ago and now copied to spelljammer.org

[uneven lantern]

If you really wanted to make it like Fey Touched (instead of Mark of Detection), you could do a homebrew feat that uses WIS and add a 1/LR free cast of each spell.

They’d just have to manually mark off their spell slots when they want to cast it with a slot.

(TBH, a feat that only lets them choose to prepare the spells instead would be underpowered compared to Fey Touched.)

You’d only need to go the subclass route if you want to also make using spell slots easier.

[compact hare]

I'm not sure if I'm in the right place to ask this, but I want to run Curse of Strahd and I'm looking at the digital version on D&D Beyond, however if at all possible, I would like to run the game on Foundry VTT, so I wanted to ask, if I buy the digital copy on D&D Beyond, can I then play it on Foundry? Is it allowed? Is it illegal? Is it frowned upon? Or all of the above?

[dire blade]

You can jank together this functionality with a homebrew background or subclass as well, but either way you're going to need to get creative for now. I hope that later 2026 revamps of homebrew improve the means by which we can access areas of the character sheet and set things up. There's a lot to gain here.

[dire blade]

This works sort of out of the box. There are DNDBeyond importers for Foundry VTT which can grab the things you have available and pull that content over. You'd likely get better support for this specific use-case (ie. what those modules are called) on the Foundry VTT Discord server, however.

[compact hare]

I've heard of it, but I kinda wanted to make sure I'm not breaking any rules by doing it this way

[dire blade]

Importers are fine, yep. You still have to pay for the content or have it shared with you via official means to use it, so all good.

[compact hare]

awesome, thank you

[dusty ruin]

Realised this message may be better placed in this channel than the feedback one, apologies for double posting.

I use the encounter builder for all combats and often use homebrewed monsters which often leads to a simple but frustrating issue. Because I have a large handful of sourcebooks to expand the available monster options, I have to filter the sources to only include sources I own which in all fairness, doesn't take too long but is annoying to do. But when I want to add homebrew monsters, I have to remove all my source filters so that homebrew creations can show up. I dont understand why homebrew isn't treated as a source itself. Anyone else face this issue or have any suggestions? I get it isnt a catastrophic issue but its annoying having to reselect all my sources every time I use homebrew monsters, which is a lot!

[dire blade]

Consider tagging your homebrew monsters with something (HMBW) in their names so they are easily searchable. The encounters tool is, according to recent developer commentary, probably the last tool that will get worked in 2026 and therefore won’t be seeing updates for a while.

My suspicions is it probably won’t get updated until 2027 given the roadmap.

[dusty ruin]

Tagging them does nothing to resolve my issue unfortunately. It is that because they aren't in any of my selected sources that they don't show up, not any name issues but thank you

[dire blade]

Right, you'd still have to unmark the sources for them to appear.

[dusty ruin]

Yeah its the unmarking and remarking of the sources that is my issue 🙂

[stuck charm]

where can i view new books that are released?

[dire blade]

For upcoming books, you probably want the release schedule: https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/2136-d-d-2026-calendar-release
For already released books, the Library: https://www.dndbeyond.com/en/library

[distant folio]

Did the newest update mess something up with legacy?

[edgy oriole]

I don't know - what issues are you seeing? Providing actual examples would be helpful.

[vernal fractal]

We released a new dice setting this afternoon. If anyone was still having massive slowdown problems in Firefox or Safari, Go ahead and turn off post processing in the dice settings menu for me. It's possible you'll have to refresh after you switch the setting. Let me know if that helps things.

[small zephyr]

Does anyone know a good website for monster stats

[dense viper]

This channel is for getting support with DnD Beyond's tools and services.
And the book for Monster Stats is the Monster Manual available for purchase at this link (https://marketplace.dndbeyond.com/category/3711000?pid=DB3711000&Digital%2FPhysical=Digital)

If you arent looking for 1st party websites then you will want to ask in #third-party .

[small zephyr]

What if Im broke 😭

[dense viper]

Then I cant help you based on this rule (#1133105265311490159 message)

[umbral rose]

I really appreciate that Italy is among the countries receiving translations; playing in our mother tongue makes a huge difference for us. I was wondering: is a translation for the D&D Beyond platform in the works for future updates? Also, will there be an option to use the Metric System (meters and kilograms) in the digital tools and translated content? It would be a huge quality-of-life improvement for European players!

[livid bough]

Beyond does have quite a few free monsters. See if that isnt enough.

[small zephyr]

Thanks

[dense viper]

Thank you I forgot about those that are available in the Free Rules. Located here (https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/br-2024)

[wanton glade]

Is there a way to assign someone as the DM in a D&D Beyond Campaign if you created the campaign?

[dense viper]

There is not.

[uneven lantern]

Whoever creates the campaign will be considered the DM.

[dire blade]

There's really no reason not to just have them remake the campaign as the DM, either. Anyone can turn on Content Sharing, so nothing is lost in doing so.

[limpid flume]

does anyone know why, as a pugilist, brass knuckles dont show up as a 1d8?

[dapper gazelle]

Is there any chance you are wearing armour heavier than Light or have equipped a shield?

.. and you are wearing Light or no armor and are not wielding a Shield.

It is possible DDB is not recognizing it as a pugilist weapon though even though it seemingly should.

You could try setting the character privacy to public and sharing a link though.

[hasty solstice]

Are iPad browsers supposed to be rolling double damage dice on their fist roll (i.e., like an attempt has been made to automate Savage Attacker)? I'm only seeing it on iPads, old and new, not on PC browsers or phones.

[limpid flume]

I do not, no.

@dapper gazelle not sure how to set character to public and send a link via mobile

Also to note - since it's a pugilist weapon, brass knuckles can work with the savage attacks from half orc and can work with the bonus action attacks/one two punch/haymaker, right?

Or at least should on paper?

https://www.dndbeyond.com/characters/162804636

[dapper gazelle]

Hrm. Yeah, that is a bug.

It looks like it has been reported in the Pugilist issues thread so hopefully it will be fixed soon. Some of those posts relating to this particular bug go back to at least early February.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/release-issues-support/235906-the-pugilist-class-issues-and-support-thread?page=2&srsltid=AfmBOor8HnKBv7cfzI5hW5RpuEHLOSYPSJMV13veQx7yq7oNyUW1v-Mq

You can remove the public for the character now. Thanks for that!

[limpid flume]

Thank you!

[dapper gazelle]

Also, to this ..
If the weapon is your brass knuckles, yes, but for your unarmed strike, no. Savage says you can roll one of the weapon damage die again and unarmed strikes are not weapons.
-# 5.5E which uses a feat instead has the same issue.

[limpid flume]

So the bonus action attacks I get, won't qualify for the half orc feature?

Even if I have brass knuckles equipped on both hands?

Game logic would dictate that my character removed them for the bonus action? I can't make the bonus action with pugilist weapons?

[dapper gazelle]

Not that bonus attack as it is restricted to unarmed strikes. Unarmed strikes don't automatically use things that are attached to your fists. In fact, unarmed strikes don't even need to be with hands. However, note that in both 5e and 5.5 e, there are options to use a bonus action attack with light weapons which the brass knuckles are. That set of attacks, including the bonus action for it, would qualify.

[limpid flume]

Yeah but it won't fall under the usage of my bonus attack from fisticuffs or the one two punch?

Is there a way to make it happen? It'd be a bit sad that I couldn't proc extra damage off my bonus attack crits

From a mechanical standpoint

[dapper gazelle]

https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dnd/basic-rules-2014/combat#TwoWeaponFighting

-# an equivalent rule exists in 5.5 with slightly different mechanics.

[dapper gazelle]

Fisticuffs applies.
One Two punch has to be unarmed strikes so does not.

But you could do action use brass knuckles, one-two punch as bonus action with unarmed strike. Savage would just only apply on the knuckles attack.

[limpid flume]

Yeah so I'd have one shot at it instead of 3...

Goddamnit

I thought I could come up with a sick plan

Maybe my DM will allow me to do it anyway

[dapper gazelle]

True true. Maybe look for another solution.

However, we are out of #ddb-support territory and in to #optimization or #character-discussion territory.

Probably should move the question there. 🙂

[limpid flume]

Yeah thanks

Will do

[rapid niche]

Hello everyone,

I brought today 3 books from DDB. Payment Taken but Books Not Added to My DDB Beyond Account... I have no idea what to do... as the support isnt answering. Thank you for any help.

[loud drift]

?tag DDB missing

[loud sedge]

Missing Content?

If you can’t access a book or find an available character option, here’s some important things to check:

1. Are your Account Entitlements in sync? If not, you’ll see a button to let you manually trigger a sync.
2. Did you purchase the book yourself, or is it shared with you through one of your campaigns?

• If you purchased it, is it listed under Current Product Licenses?
• If it’s shared with you, is this character assigned to the campaign that’s sharing it?

3. Do you have the right checkboxes enabled in your character settings? The checkboxes at the top under “Sources” and “Partnered Content” control which options are available for your character. If in doubt, check them all.

• Are you using the right class? There are two versions of each core class: the 2024 one under "Core Rules" and the 2014 one under "2014 Core Rules". Options available for one might not be available for the other. For example, some options for Cleric (the 2024 class) might not be available for Cleric (the 2014 class) and vice versa.

[rapid niche]

Just to mention, I did send a ticket to the submit ticket link and still no answers from them...

[violet fiber]

Tickets are answered in order they're submitted in.

[rapid niche]

75 dollars were payed to WOTC but no book in my library lol

[violet fiber]

Are your entitlements in sync /HQ

[rapid niche]

Yes:

[violet fiber]

Alright, then you need to wait for your ticket to come up in the cue.

It's not an instant thing. /gen

[rapid niche]

Thanks for your help and words. Since I didnt get any email from the support asking me to wait, I started to wonder if they trully care.

I will wait, I hope its quick tho, its already 18h...

[violet fiber]

I also advise that, if they give the same message you were initially given here & you need to file another ticket, to be VERY specific, including the answers to all 4 questions, what books you purchased, & proof of sale.

[golden wedge]

hello! I’m making a great old one warlock and already own the phb in dndbeyond. my spell list from that subclass does not show up on the list of spells I can learn from, even though I enabled all my settings to check if anything was blocked. is there any way to fix that?

[violet fiber]

Which PBH?

[golden wedge]

2014

[violet fiber]

Did you select the 2014 or the 2024 version of the class?

[golden wedge]

2014 warlock

[violet fiber]

It feels like either your entitlements are out of sync, or you selected the 2024 Warlock by accident.

What are the 2nd-Level features in the builder for you?

[dapper gazelle]

-# or if your subclass was chosen at 1 or 3.... 🙂

[violet fiber]

That too

[golden wedge]

I just checked my entitlements and they’re in sync as well as my licenses/purchases! I double checked and I am on 2014 warlock. I’m multiclassing, 2 levels rogue and 3 warlock, but have made sure those are both 2014! do you think since I only changed my allowed source settings afterwards, the bug just remained there? Like maybe I should remake the sheet?

[violet fiber]

Make 2 copies of the sheet, do one w/o multiclassing into rogue, & one with.

Make sure to do one with the setting you just mentioned turned on, & one off.

Delete the test copies after we're done testing this

[golden wedge]

ok! I’ll do that an get back to you asap, thanks for the help so far🙏

[violet fiber]

No problem!

[golden wedge]

ooo okay I’m back and no multiclass lets me see the subclass spells! when I add rogue levels it doesn’t show anymore. I also tested the settings and it didn’t affect anything

so strange😭

[violet fiber]

Ok, that's a bug.

Welp, at least we identified the problem.

[golden wedge]

yes! thank you for that suggestion:)

[violet fiber]

I like to help people troubleshoot

[golden wedge]

do you know if we can manually add learned spells so I can work with this bug in the meantime?

[violet fiber]

Various Magic Initiates can get you a few Cantrips and a 1st-level spell.

You can't repeat it, tho

At least, not w/2014 rules

[golden wedge]

ahh that sucks😭 I guess I’ll have to either commit to no multiclass or just make my sheet on paper. I appreciate you helping me figure it out though!!🙏✨

[violet fiber]

I think the bug is related to the order the multiclass is entered in.

It's RAW, but not RAI, 2014-wise in how it's programmed into Beyond

[golden wedge]

oohh I see! the first time I made it I did rogue first, and for the test copy I did rogue after, still no luck with the spells though💔

[violet fiber]

Do it Warlock first, see if it sticks.

[golden wedge]

ok! just did warlock first, even finished the sheet before going back and multiclassing into rogue, but the spells don’t show up :(

and what’s crazy too is I just removed the rogue levels and went back to check, and the spells still don’t show up on the fresh sheet!

so only if I do warlock with no multiclass will the spells show up properly 😔

[violet fiber]

My advice:When your support ticket comes back, & you likely need to file a new one, make sure to mention the multiclass issue as a second issue associated with the previous one

[golden wedge]

ok, I’ll do that, thanks so much!!:)

[grand forum]

Hello, I'm having trouble with the 2024 warlock invocations? I'm trying to pick Agonizing Blast for my booming blade, but it won't let me? It only says eldritch blast, and I don't even have that

[uneven lantern]

Are the books listed here under Current Product Licenses?
https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/licenses

Were they maybe bought as gifts instead?
https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/my-gifts

Did you buy it on the website or in the app?

[uneven lantern]

You’re using Warlock, then? Not Warlock?

Can you share a link to your sheet? Please make sure their Character Privacy setting is set to “Public”, too.

A screenshot of the issue would also help.

[uneven lantern]

That’s a current system limitation that should be solved with the upcoming Game Platform.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/en/roadmap

In the meantime, I’d just leave the invocation choice unselected. Then open your sheet, click the spell, and use the Customize menu in the sidebar to manually add that bonus.

[grand forum]

Excellent, thank you!

[edgy oriole]

@hasty solstice - This has been fixed - thank you for reporting!

[edgy oriole]

Currently D&DBeyond doesn't allow for weapons to have multiple damage types like that.
What you can do is create a custom action on the front-end of the sheet to represent the different damage types the weapon has.

Or you could homebrew two versions of the weapon to represent the different forms the weapon takes. But again each weapon would only allow one base damage type.

[rapid niche]

No not listed
No I didnt buy them as gift
I brought them on the website, I was on my desktop not my cellphone.

[uneven lantern]

Is the purchase here in your Order History?
https://marketplace.dndbeyond.com/account/orders

Is the transaction in your bank account still pending, or finalized?

[torn wraith]

Not trying to be that guy, but are we anticipating any crashes/downage this evening?

[loud drift]

No, but we never really anticipate outages outside of maintenance.

[crude venture]

I have a slight issue that I am hoping someone in here can resolve, I cannot find the sword of vengeance magic item in the DND beyond app to add to a character, nor can I add to a plus one short sword, the ability to make it necessary to be a tuned to

[dire blade]

?tag ddb missing

[loud sedge]

Missing Content?

If you can’t access a book or find an available character option, here’s some important things to check:

1. Are your Account Entitlements in sync? If not, you’ll see a button to let you manually trigger a sync.
2. Did you purchase the book yourself, or is it shared with you through one of your campaigns?

• If you purchased it, is it listed under Current Product Licenses?
• If it’s shared with you, is this character assigned to the campaign that’s sharing it?

3. Do you have the right checkboxes enabled in your character settings? The checkboxes at the top under “Sources” and “Partnered Content” control which options are available for your character. If in doubt, check them all.

• Are you using the right class? There are two versions of each core class: the 2024 one under "Core Rules" and the 2014 one under "2014 Core Rules". Options available for one might not be available for the other. For example, some options for Cleric (the 2024 class) might not be available for Cleric (the 2014 class) and vice versa.

[dire blade]

If something is missing that you think you should have then this checklist is what you should go down.

[crude venture]

The item in question is referenced in the 2024 DMG, which I have access to on DND beyond, I can search it in the library, but when I try to add it to my characters inventory, it is not accessible

Also, am I just missing the customization option to require a tune to an item? Where would I find that when adding to my players inventory?

[dire blade]

It’s one thing to have access to it on DDB, it’s another to have access to it on a character.

• If you own it yourself, you can add it to your characters.
• If you want to add it to another character in a campaign and you don’t own it, you need content sharing enabled in that campaign to add it to a PC’s sheet.
• If it is shared with you and you don’t own it, you can only add it to your characters in the campaign where it is shared with you.
  As you can see, just being able to open the DMG on the website doesn’t imply you can always add its contents to your characters.

Once you successfully add it to your character sheet, if you click it in your Equipment tab then you can customize a few of the item’s fields, yes.

[crude venture]

I understand completely sharing and ownership 🤔 I am the DM for the campaign and I can’t add or locate the item when trying to add it to any character 🤨 it is accessible in the books that I own and share and search on DND beyond but when I go to add it to the inventory, the item is not there.

[crude venture]

Where in the options for customization is the toggle for attunement? I cannot find that in the customization options.

[spark cove]

I can see it on mine when I search for vengeance but not sword of vengeance, because the nature of the item is any bladed weapon perhaps it's not registering "sword of" for whatever reason.

Try just putting vengeance in the item search bar

[crude venture]

I have 🤷 nothing shows up

[spark cove]

That is odd, sorry I couldn't be more help but I'm stumped lol.

Other than the rules on the sheet of course, but I assume you've got all the sources turned on in the campaign and on the character sheet.

[crude venture]

🤔 personally I just don’t think the item is in the database 🤷 in regards to the DND beyond app

Same thing happens when I try to search for a short sword of sharpness 🤔 I can find other weapons, i.e. great sword semimetal of sharpness, but no short sword 🤨

*scimitar

[spark cove]

It is in both the mobile app and website app for me, all of the vengeance weapons and +1 weapons, I'm not sure why its not showing for you.

[crude venture]

I am able to search it from the search tab on the app, but are you able to add it to a characters inventory on your app?

[spark cove]

Yeah I went to double check I could, tried it on two characters, one in the campaign I DM and content share for and one I'm a player in, worked on both sheets on site and phone app.

Not a fix or anything but maybe one of your players can try to add it to the party inventory then you could move it across, if it's some very specific bug with your account or something.

[crude venture]

I have tried adding it to the player character in question as well as an NPC that I personally created on my app 🤨 I will attempt to try in another campaign

[spark cove]

Fingers crossed for you homie, very weird bug.

[crude venture]

Thank you for the assistance 🙂 I will try to get a couple other players to attempted as well. 👍

[dire blade]

It's definitely in the database.

Once equipped, Attunement shows up as an option on the Attunement tab (or scroll down):

I realize you're pretty confident about ownership and sharing, but there are only a few ways that you could be missing this and those are a few of them.

• It sounds like you own the book from what you said above and that you have content sharing enabled for the campaign you're working in. Correct?
• Do you have the correct Core Rules (5e / 5.5e) enabled on the character that is being modified? If those are disabled on the character's Home tab, the sword won't show up.
• Are your entitlements in sync?

?tag ddb entitlements

[loud sedge]

Account Entitlements

Account entitlements are how D&D Beyond identifies which content you can access. These are synced automatically in time, but if you're not seeing content you should have access to, visit Account > Licenses.

The Account Entitlements section at the top should ideally say "Your entitlements data is in sync!" If not, it will show a button to manually trigger the sync, after which your content should be available.