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digital wolf
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The homebrew Necromancer class you're referencing isn't a wizard subclass.

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There is, however, an actual School of Necromancy wizard subclass in the PHB.

onyx arch
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That's what I'm using now, yes.

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Forgive me, I'll restate what my intentions are. I'm trying to add necromancer to my campaign by any means. I don't really care which subclass I need to use.

digital wolf
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Ah, okay. In that case, I can help

solid kestrel
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yeah there's just the Necromancy arcane tradition (subclass) for Wizard, right in the PHB

digital wolf
onyx arch
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Wait it was for sale the entire time?

digital wolf
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(Subscriptions don't grant access to official content, only the other benefits listed on the Subscribe page.)

onyx arch
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yeah I know that, but I had thought there was no official necromancer.

digital wolf
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Sorry, I thought you were trying to use that homebrew necromancer class specifically, not the official Necromancy wizard subclass

onyx arch
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I was told there was no official necromancer

digital wolf
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Ah, I'm not sure who told you that

onyx arch
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well, I really appreciate you helping me with that. This will certainly save me a lot of time.

digital wolf
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Of course! Happy to help

onyx arch
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Someone who didn't know what they were talking about it seems.

digital wolf
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Before you buy, just a quick explanation of how it works:
You can buy the Player's Handbook as a whole, and it'll grant you access to all the official character options in the PHB.
Alternately, you can scroll down on that page and buy just the specific things you want from the book (e.g. just the School of Necromancy wizard subclass, specific spells, etc.). If you do that, then if you decide to get the full book later, the price of the full book will be discounted by the amount you've already paid for the parts of the book you've already bought.

onyx arch
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Oh interesting, that would have been good to know before. I'm okay with that though, the books I bought so far have been very helpful.

digital wolf
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Happy to help!

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The PHB's definitely a good first book to get (whether you're a DM or a player) 🙂

onyx arch
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I will, though the first book I got was the dungeon masters guide.

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Went in the wrong order

digital wolf
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Haha, well, that's definitely in the top 3! The PHB, DMG, and Monster Manual are the 3 core books. The DMG has some great guidance on building your own world, modifying the rules, etc.

solid kestrel
onyx arch
little plume
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I will not be able to use the cool special dices? After i cancel the subscription..

minor apex
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Who should I direct a question to about log in?
I'm logged in via PC, and mobile, but when I try to link a campaign via mobile it gives me the login screen with 3 options. If I click gmail (same thing I'm log into via two sources already) it asks for security codes and keeps saying they are incorrect.

If I log in via Twitch, it just takes me to a different version of the app, likely something I signed up near day 1.
I was able to link the campaign when I got back to the PC, but it was frustrating not being able to do it form my phone. What's the fix here?

desert meadow
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Had a player add a pre-existing character to my campaign on ddb and I don't have 'DM Access' to their sheet like others. Any tips? Some stuff work most doesn't

solid kestrel
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look into it from the campaign

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my campaigns, (campaign), that character

little plume
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If I buy the adventure book i still get the monsters, spells, itens, etc., from the book?

dawn egret
little plume
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Nice.

solid kestrel
desert meadow
solid kestrel
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I think that's a setting?

desert meadow
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For other players for sure, the DM can always see their sheets and customizations. It's some sort of bug because from the campaign screen the VIEW is even linking to a different type of URL then the other 3.

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Removing them and getting them to rejoin seems to have fixed it.

copper vapor
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if someone in a campaign I'm in has a master tier subscription and is sharing with the campaign, can I only use that new content in that campaign, or can I use it anywhere?

lime gulch
onyx wasp
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Make a homebrew copy of Eldritch Adept. This copies the 'black magic'. Don't make a feat from scratch in this case.

copper vapor
willow vessel
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how to pull json file from character page?

modest pelican
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D&D Beyond has no official support for pulling json information or any other such data scraping. Such action can violate DDB terms of service

willow vessel
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then how can i put character sheet in to astral tabletop

modest pelican
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D&D Beyond does not support connectivity to any third party virtual tabletop or other service

willow vessel
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ok nice thank you

lime gulch
humble eagle
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Hi all, i have a question about how to create /amend something.
My games Barbarian picked up an Oversized Greataxe which he wants to wield, and to add it in on DNDBeyond, I can't seem to change the damage rolls from 1d12 to 2d12, anyone know if there a way to do so?
I thought i'll make a magic item instead, which I've done, but I can't seem to make it change to a 2d12 slashing, tried loads of things but no change, I'm not sure if there has but it's not updated back onto the character sheet or not, but looking for some help. Thanks

modest pelican
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Your best bet would be to make a custom weapon attack action directly on the character sheet

humble eagle
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Thanks @modest pelican , Thought that be what I need to do

little plume
wanton shard
little plume
modest pelican
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You're not buying the dice, they're a perk for subscribers
If you want to buy dice that are yours regardless of subscription, check out the marketplace

placid plank
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Stupid question but I am on iPad how do I use push to talk

modest pelican
uneven lantern
uneven lantern
little plume
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Im sure I've asked it like few months ago but i forgot, if you buy, let's say "Armorer" subclass, do you get the Artificer class for free?

modest pelican
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If you purchase any of the artificer subclasses, you get the base class too

little plume
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  • are there any coupons active? ZYD
naive lodge
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Any sales will be announced with a banner on the site and across social media.

uneven lantern
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But there's not an active sale at the moment, no.

remote salmon
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Is anyone having an issue with the Bloodhunter page under the Game Rules tab? When I open that page (and only that page), my browser starts refreshing it rapidly

stark thicket
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Hi, I'm buffing the mage stat block and I'm giving them a Staff of Power. Is there a possibility to link the staff into the statblock like I can do with spells or conditions using the commands [spell]fly[/spell]?

uneven lantern
uneven lantern
remote salmon
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@uneven lantern just chrome actually but I'm not changing browsers just for a single page haha. So weird

modest pelican
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@remote salmon Do you get the same issue when opening the page in chrome in an in private window?

remote salmon
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actually

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i don't

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how strange

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is it a cookies thing then

modest pelican
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That sounds like an extension is reading something on the Blood Hunter page and triggering a refresh

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Cookies can't trigger page refresh

uneven lantern
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If you disable all your extensions, it should stop.

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Then you could try turning them back on one by one to find the culprit.

fierce gazelle
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I've been trying to get my Redeemable code to work for ages. Do I need the dashes? I've already read through the help page. There's quite a few I's and I dont know if they're uppercase i's or lowercase L's. Does anyone have any idea of what i could do on this? Brute forcing isn't working. And the QR code doesn't automatically input the code so that doesn't work either.

remote salmon
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Looks like it's Beyond 20 that's causing it

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I can't live without that so ah well

stark thicket
uneven lantern
fierce gazelle
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Thats what i've read through. But it doesn't help me brute force the code. Is there a way to automatically input it?

uneven lantern
fierce gazelle
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Yep

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The code just has a bunch of Lowercase L's and/or Uppercase i's Making it virtually impossible to guess what is what.

remote salmon
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is it on paper or digital

fierce gazelle
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The codes are written on paper.

remote salmon
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damn that's garbage

uneven lantern
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Contacting customer support might be your best option, then. Please include a picture of the code(s) you are having issues with, to better help the Support Representative locate your code.
<https://dndbeyond.link/SubmitTicket >

fierce gazelle
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How long should it take to get a response once submitted?

modest pelican
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@fierce gazelle let me PM you, I might be able to help

fierce gazelle
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Alright then. Thankyou

little plume
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Is there a way to change the base damage and range of a homebrew magic weapon? For example, creating a magic dagger that does 1d6 instead of 1d4, and has a thrown range of 30(70) instead of the normal 20(60)?

uncut charm
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Question: In the Character Builder, on the Abilities tab, what affects the number that shows up in the "Other Modifiers" row?

uneven lantern
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Bonuses from feats or magic items, typically.

uncut charm
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my level 4 human light cleric has a -1 to str, dex, int, and cha. +1 to con. 0 to wis. no feats, and no magic items. i'm just trying to figure out what is doing that, because i never noticed it before. 🙂

uneven lantern
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Can you share a link to the character?

uncut charm
uneven lantern
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You should be able to just click in there and delete it.

idle arch
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@bitter ledge to add a custom tool proficiency

unknown.png
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Then enter its name

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little plume
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Can you make homebrew infusions?

idle arch
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I am fairly sure DDB does not have tools for that, unfortunately. Infusions, Invocations, Metamagics, Maneuvers, and Fighting Styles would all be great things to be able to homebrew, but they are are not currently possible, as far as I am aware

little plume
idle arch
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yeah, making a homebrew magic item, and just marking off an infusion slot is probably the best way to do it

rough grotto
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After making use of the owlfolk I’m getting a large number of authentication check fails when I try and access my characters, any reason behind that?

opal pelican
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When you made your character did you assign ability scores and a class?

digital wolf
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This is correct.

onyx arch
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Sorry to bother you guys, but would you know how long it takes for D&DBeyond updates when you purchase new content?

wanton shard
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It shouldn't take too long, perhaps ~15–20 minutes at most for the average user. How long ago did you purchase something new?

onyx arch
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huh.. been waiting a bit longer than that.

wanton shard
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If you go to the page here: https://www.dndbeyond.com/account/marketplace
... you can check whether your accounts entitlement data are in sync. If not, there will be a button to press that will sync them. You should also see your purchase history and current product licenses. Does anything seem amiss there?

onyx arch
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Oh I see, I purchased the 15 dollar map pack.

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Didn't know there was going to be a download link stuffed in there.

wanton shard
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Ah, yes. That's one of the only exceptions, I believe. Due to the nature of what the map pack is (downloadable maps)

onyx arch
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I also didn't know that a 15 dollar map pack would only have 20 maps.. I feel I should have looked at all the content before purchasing this.

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thought I'd get a bit more variety.

wanton shard
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They are very high quality, and great for both online play and hi-res professional printing. And the full product description is on the page:

This purchase unlocks all 20 tactical maps in high-resolution JPG image files that you can download and use online, to print, or in other image applications.
As well as listing the individual maps included in the pack, on the product page.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/marketplace/maps/tactical-maps-reincarnated

onyx arch
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These ones dynamic lighting enabled?

wanton shard
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There is nothing automatically enabled, they are high-resolution JPG images

onyx arch
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Mkay

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I'm going to see if I can find some dungeon maps. Do they have a specific type of name? Battle Map or something?

modest pelican
onyx arch
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Right, well. Thank you.

wanton gorge
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Quick question was wondering if anyone knows if the pre order digital dice for wild beyond the witchlight have been previewed? I did some light searching but havent seen anything on their twitter or anything like there usually is

wanton shard
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Nothing so far has been shown, no

slender whale
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Ok so question is it possible to keep everything you have on ddb but change the Google account it's on?

uneven lantern
slender whale
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Thanks

grand hatch
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How do find my Cobalt ID?

modest pelican
grand hatch
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Foundry integration, but I think it's more a question for the foundy side as all that is not something D&DBeyond is ijnstituting?

modest pelican
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D&D Beyond does not support convectivity to any third party vtt or similar service

grand hatch
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Right, gotcha

verbal pasture
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so can you run 2 games inthe same server or wil it confuse avrie bot

naive lodge
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Yes, you can.

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It uses channels for init.

verbal pasture
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caone moemnt

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@astral vessel is my bot master @naive lodge and wer not sure how

astral vessel
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So the issue is you can't import multiple characters from what I can see. It only stores one at a time

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So you'd have to swap imports every time you post in the other game

naive lodge
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Yes, same as if you were switching servers.

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It only has one active character.

astral vessel
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Okay that's what I thought. That was our confusion on if there was another way to do it

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Thanks

verbal pasture
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it wuld be cool if you could have more but i understand that mite be to hard

uneven lantern
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You only have to import them once each.

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Then you can use !char <name> to switch between them.

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But you do have to manually switch as needed.

soft minnow
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hi, I'm creating a Warlock with the Dao Genie patron, but I'm seeing Fireball and Fire Shield as optional Warlock spells - I think this is a bug since I don't have The Fiend or Efreeti Genie patron selected. Unless I'm missing something?

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That's weird - it says in the text "the Fiend" but obviously below it I have "The Genie" selected

uneven lantern
wanton shard
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The Genie warlock currently has no way separating the different types of Genie, as per the Tasha's issues & support thread:

THE GENIE - Expanded Spell List. Currently we are adding all of the spells in this feature to the spell list of your Genie warlock - please reference the rules for which spells you are allowed to select for your chosen genie patron. This is due to a limitation in the tools that prevents us from being able to specifically set the spells based on your choice of genie kind. It's something that is on the list for resolution however.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/bugs-support/87774-tashas-cauldron-of-everything-issues-and-support?comment=1

soft minnow
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ah okay, thanks!

boreal jasper
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I’m not sure if this is the right place to ask this or not, but here we go. I’m working on a 3d VTT built in a game engine. I’d like for players to be able to use their own dndbeyond account in the game using a custom in game web browser. It would use VTT data from dndbeyond but would roll dice in game. Would that cause legal troubles or would it be kosher since players would still be purchasing dndbeyond content?

modest pelican
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We cannot advise on the legalities of using D&D Beyond in such a fashion. Your best bet would be to submit a customer service request to see if it can be escalated to someone who can answer your query. Until you get an official answer, I would advise against using D&D Beyond in such a manner

boreal jasper
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Thank you, I have followed your advice to reach out through that method. I had thought that there may be some official dndbeyond persons here with some knowledge on the topic.

fierce needle
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I know it has to be right in front of my face, but how do I print my character sheet? I swear I've generated and printed a PDF before, but I'm not seeing it.

thorn sandal
fierce needle
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sigh thanks so much!

wanton shard
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You can also find it at the bottom of the character sheet preferences pane (from clicking on the character name or the ⚙️ next to it)

sweet quail
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having an issue with dnd beyond every time i try to join a campaign. i always get the same error message 500. every time. no matter what. i change computer. same message. i change device. same message. i change provider. same message. change server. same message. what can i do so that i can play games on dnd beyond

wanton shard
sweet quail
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i click a link to join a campaign. no problem. i get to the place where can create a character for the campaign. when i click on create character, that message comes up

wanton shard
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So changing computers/devices etc. makes it sound unlikely to be an extension issue... beholderthink

near lynx
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so I was planning to buy players handbook but my bank card is national and it seems I cant pay with it is there a way to pay with my national card to buy?

thorn sandal
naive lodge
near lynx
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paypal is banned in my country unfortunetly

sweet quail
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yeah, i do. i dont have any characters in dndbeyond at the moment

naive lodge
near lynx
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hmm I see so I cant pay without paypal with my national mastercard then?

sweet quail
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if i try to build a character without being part of a campaign, it works fine. but anything else and i get that error message

naive lodge
naive lodge
sweet quail
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how would i find out about extensions

naive lodge
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It would depend on the browser you use. Each one is different.

sweet quail
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currently using googlechrome

naive lodge
sweet quail
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well, that dont help. because of the issues, not part of something now. will have to wait to see how it goes once can try again

uneven lantern
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How many different campaigns have you tried to join? I wonder if it’s an issue with the campaign itself.

sweet quail
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four

uneven lantern
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Welp. That rules that out.

sweet quail
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yeah, thought maybe they dont like me or something

naive lodge
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The usual cause on a campaign's side would be a blank name for the campaign or one of the characters setup really badly. Given they're unique campaigns that does limit it.

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If you create a campaign and use the invite link from it with yourself do you run into the same error?

sweet quail
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i have had no problem joining campaigns on roll20. but dndbeyond has not been able to do so. i dont know. did not know that worked

uneven lantern
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When exactly does the 500 happen? As soon as you visit the invite link?

sweet quail
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banging head in frustration. it came up with the same error message

uneven lantern
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Or only once you do something on that page?

sweet quail
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once try to do something on that page

uneven lantern
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Are you trying to “Create a character” or “Join with this character”?

sweet quail
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create a character

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one shows up now saying it is there, but only after going through the whole error message. and, i cant access it to build a character

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when try to access the character sheet after seeing the error code 500, i get a page cant be found, error 404

uneven lantern
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Hmm…

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You did say you were able to create a character from the My Characters page, no? If you create them there, are you able to “Join with this character” instead?

sweet quail
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let me see, now that i have a created one to play with.

uneven lantern
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Either way, I’d suggest contacting customer support about the 500s. They should be able to look under the hood and see what’s going on.
https://dndbeyond.link/SubmitTicket

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But hopefully you’ll be able to join with an existing character, so you’ll be able to start playing while they investigate.

sweet quail
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finished the character. viewed it. went to figure out how to try and move it. came up with error 404 cant be found

uneven lantern
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Dang 😞

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Then yeah, customer service is your best option at this point.

wanton shard
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The support team is great. Inspiration

final trellis
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Hello - I am great! 😛

final trellis
sweet quail
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thank you for trying to help me. i sent a request for help.

final trellis
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Ahhh yes, I was right - give me two secs and Ill reply to the ticket

sweet quail
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my user name shows John Journey. or i hope that is what you are looking for. that is what i see in the upper right corner and in the profile

final trellis
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Refresh and retry - usernames cant have spaces so I've replaced it with an underscore

sweet quail
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i see the change. i will try again and let you know what happens

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thank you. that worked.

near lynx
solid bronze
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hellooo
so i tried getting into DnD Beyond, into my old account- i used the password i always use and it didnt work for some reason, so i just tried making a new account and it didnt work. what do i do?

naive lodge
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D&D Beyond doesn't have passwords. Depending on the age of the DDB account you would have only the option of logging in with Twitch or as Google and Apple were added later.

solid bronze
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yeah i used Google to log in. It asked for my password for my google account and i know that like the back of my hand and it still didnt work for some reason

naive lodge
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Are you able to login to the Google account at all? If not you'll need to contact Google. If you are then make sure you have third party cookies enabled in your browser as they're required for authentication.

steep vine
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I bought the essentials kit and put the key into D&d beyond. I have the product license for it via key, but Idk how to open it

naive lodge
verbal pasture
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how do i add acustem ablatie to my sheet

icy ledge
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What are you asking?

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If you're asking for a 'custom ability' then I don't believe it's possible, the only custom stuff is skills, languages, and tools to my knowledge

stone birch
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Hey, where can I get a good resource for how to put the homebrew in better like for subclass abilities

uneven lantern
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You can also do custom actions (by clicking “Manage Custom” on the Actions tab) and custom ability checks (by clicking the gear icon in the Skills section).

stone birch
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Yeah but doesn't that only work for that character

uneven lantern
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That was in response to Kaitlin.

stone birch
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Oh sorry

uneven lantern
wanton shard
# stone birch Hey, where can I get a good resource for how to put the homebrew in better like ...

This also steps through just about every bit of the homebrew builder: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/homebrew-house-rules/76031-demystifying-homebrew-updated-with-feats

And this shows how to write snippet codes, to get quick and consolidated information: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/homebrew-house-rules/25930-using-snippet-codes-in-your-homebrew

icy ledge
uneven lantern
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You can add your own ability checks to your character sheet.

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I typically add rolls for tool proficiencies to mine.

stone birch
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Thanks you two

uneven lantern
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For example…

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My renamed vehicles (water) and navigator’s tools proficiencies.

icy ledge
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Oh, I just called those custom skills, I thought you were talking about something different

uneven lantern
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I pulled the name of that section from memory and remembered wrong, I guess. 😅

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But technically they are ability checks anyway, so… 😜

digital wolf
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Storm Lord’s Wrath (level 7-9), Sleeping Dragon’s Wake (level 9-11), and Divine Contention (level 11-13)

mental arch
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With the master tier subscription, do all your players get access to homebrew content to create their characters, or do they require a hero tier subscription? Is it only the books that you can share?

icy ledge
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I believe they get any homebrew that you have from others, since it counts as 'your' homebrew for the purpose of sharing

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So they won't get access to any content that you don't have and wouldn't have access to every piece of homebrew

mental arch
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To own it I have to create it? I run a Humblewood campaign and other members have created the new races already. So do I have to recreate them again to “own” it or do I somehow add it to my “material”.

icy ledge
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Other members of the campaign? If other members of the campaign have created it and as long as they're all in a campaign, then it doesn't matter if they have a subscription

mental arch
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From the community

icy ledge
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Then you just need to add it to your collection

raven dust
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how do I join a campaign (also hi im new)

mental arch
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Thanks, Cheese.

digital wolf
uneven lantern
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Specifically, anything in your My Homebrew Collection is shared automatically, including public homebrew that you’ve added with your subscription.

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On the flip side, any homebrew of your own creation is not shared if it’s removed from your My Homebrew Collection. (You’ll find it in My Homebrew Creations instead.)

uneven lantern
fierce skiff
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crazy question if you buy content with a discount code does it credit your account for full price or purchase price towards future content

solid kestrel
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I think it's purchase price?

Take with a grain of salt I don't have a degree in DDB store mechanics

fierce skiff
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thanks hoping an employee answers

modest pelican
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Any credit added to your account, either towards a full book when purchasing piecemeal options, or a bundle when purchasing a book, is based on money spent, not current or future price

fierce skiff
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I figured just wanted to makesure

modest pelican
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This means if you purchase a book that's normally $29.99 on sale for $24.99, you'll get $24.99 credit towards any bundle that book is in

fierce skiff
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thank you so much

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for those of us on a tight budget it makes the micro transaction more appealing. but does this work in reverse if I say pay full price for 13 of the $1.99 items from a single book could I then get the book for cost if it went on sale for cheaper then 25 doll hairs

final trellis
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You would still need to "buy" the book - and our minimum transaction price is 1.99

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you wouldn't auto get the book

fierce skiff
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so if I qualify for a "free" book would it be 1.99 if I also bought something else in the same check out?

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like another book

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@final trellis

modest pelican
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No, you'd have to buy compendium of that book for $1.99
Everything we offer in the marketplace has a heuristic $1.99 minimum cost
If you were to purchase 13 things for $1.99 from a book, you'd still need to pay $1.99 to purchase the license that tells the system you own the full book

fierce skiff
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thank you but not sure of your use of the word heuristic in this case "enabling someone to discover or learn something for themselves" probably an auto correct error

modest pelican
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Heuristic in this case means "more than just the sum of its parts" or "applied for a reason beyond the constituent components"

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I just means there are some backend/marketplace reasons that a change needs to be applied, sorry to throw jargon at you 😛

fierce skiff
lone void
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In one of my campaigns, when I click on the campaign button on a character sheet, one of the characters is not displayed. The specific missing character is newer than the others, but they are in the campaign according to "Collections -> My Campaigns" view.
The campaign view on this character's sheet shows the other four PCs, and the player can roll as their character in the campaign game log.
It isn't a massive issue, but wondered if anyone had seen something similar or had any advice

final trellis
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This should to a hard reset on the character sheet cache to make it show in the campaign sidebar

lone void
uneven timber
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Is there a way to give the monk's "Use dex or strength for unarmed strikes" as part of a feat using the homebrew tools?

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I know I can set unarmed damage die to a d4, then I guess the best option is just to add a separate action that does the same attack but with dex?

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And specify that it is affected by martial arts (even though the whole point is basically to take a feat instead of a monk multi)

little plume
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I have a wildfire druid in my game. Hes using the archived version with fireball as we started the campaign before tashas released.

Today during our game, his Fireball spell disappeared from his character sheet for some reason and we didn't know what caused it or why. Was wondering if anyone else has experienced this or spoken of this

final trellis
modest pelican
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@fierce skiff Just had it pointed out to me that I mean holistic, not heuristic. Apologies for the confusion

pale hemlock
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is dndbeyond down?

modest pelican
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Regular daily maintenance window

pale hemlock
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oh no how long is that?

modest pelican
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15-20 minutes if that normally

royal tiger
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Oh that explains why i cant look at my characters.. fair enough 🙂

pale hemlock
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i believe it just went back up. thank you

sturdy kraken
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Hi, does anybody know why player characters from dosent have health value in combat tracker? Is any way to fix this?

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modest pelican
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Because important PC data into the combat tracker isn't yet implemented. It's pending a restructuring of character sheet data to make it more easily accessible

sturdy kraken
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thanks for quick answer 😉

modest pelican
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No worries

strong stirrup
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Is there a way to view some important stats of of everyone in the party?

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and by important stats I mean mainly HP

wanton shard
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Not at the moment, no, outside of opening their character sheets from the campaign page. But in past Dev Updates it has been mentioned that they plan to add a DM "screen" of sorts — a page with all of that relevant information, as well as other important stuff (passive scores, etc.)

scenic grove
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I wanna have a few characters as unassigned in the campaign I made but I kinda stumbled into the first unassigned character and I can't seem to find how to put this second one in the campaign let alone get him in there unassigned.

wanton shard
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Copy the campaign invite link, and paste it into the URL bar / navigate to that page. You will be prompted with the ability to create a new character or join with an existing character. Once you've put the character in the campaign using either method, underneath the character in the campaign page will be the option to Unassign the character

scenic grove
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thank you 👍🏿

uneven lantern
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You can also just click "Create Unassigned Character" at the bottom of your campaign page.

scenic grove
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had that the first time. don't have it now.

uneven lantern
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Do you still have an available character slot for your account?

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Non-subscribers can create up to six characters. I wonder if that button goes away if you've got six already.

scenic grove
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I feel like it was gone before I made my sixth, but in fairness I did delete one to make space for my current sixth, so I probably just didn't check back before making him the standard way.

wanton shard
strong stirrup
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And is there a way I could make a script that gets the data for the characters/gets just their hp or is that against ToS?

naive lodge
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Scraping is against the ToS.

uneven lantern
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You agree not to:

  • Use any robot, spider, site search and/or retrieval application, or other device to scrape, extract, retrieve or index any portion of the content;
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However, they are currently asking for feedback on possible changes for the campaign page, including making that info readily available.

ocean field
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Does anyone else have an issue that if you copy a character in order to experiment with leveling them up, the "Ability Score Improvement" choices are always (a l w a y s) reset to blank, and you have to manually go through any that might appear in your Class page and try and remember what choices you made previously and re-apply them?

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All I've done is copy the character and then gone to "edit"... Ability Scores are all reset.

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modest pelican
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That's a known issue with copying characters

little plume
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I have a wildfire druid in my game. Hes using the archived version with fireball as we started the campaign before tashas released.

Today during our game, his Fireball spell disappeared from his character sheet for some reason and we didn't know what caused it or why. Was wondering if anyone else has experienced this or spoken of this

ocean field
stone birch
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can you put dice in dndbeyond snippets

icy ledge
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You can do (<strong>XdX</strong>) to get that nice bold effect, but I don't think there's any rolling automation

stone birch
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ty

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{{characterlevel+modifier:cha+1d10}}

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this work

modest pelican
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It won't express correctly, no

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You'd have to put the 1d10 outside the snippet

uneven lantern
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I'd do <strong>1d10{{characterlevel+modifier:cha}}</strong>

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Which will come out as something like 1d10+7.

stone birch
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aight

quick silo
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How do you make attack spells?

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I’ve been trying but failing

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Or maybe it just didn’t reset

uneven lantern
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The best thing I can suggest is to make a homebrew copy of one of the official spells, then you can take a look inside and use that as a reference.

verbal pasture
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is there a plase on here i can go for help with finding a homebro

naive lodge
ornate valve
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Some of the Sourcebooks on my ddb app apparently got updated. Is there anywhere I can check what exactly got changed and in what way?

verbal pasture
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ok ty looking fro sum ofthe menus is a conpleat pane with a screen reader

stark mural
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I have a question about the summon beast and avrae if this isn't the channel please let me know which.

naive lodge
strange granite
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My friend is in this sever but it wont load up, it says he is joined but doesn't have access and is wonder if you guys can kick him so he can try to join back. His id is 〈~✩⊰Allurre LeFay⊱✩~〉#6712 if you want to talk to him about it because again he cant get in contact with a anyone.

wanton shard
strange granite
wanton shard
verbal pasture
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is there away to look at a homebrou rase and see how thay set it up ?

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thers apsumtings i wont to add but am not sure how to

modest pelican
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There isn't I'm afraid

verbal pasture
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so then how would /wer would i put sumting likethis

Frayed Mortality

There is a price to pay for a shade’s bond to shadows. Carving half your soul weakens your connection to life. You use hit die that are one size category smaller (d12 --> d10,   d10 --> d8,   d8 --> d6,   d6 --> d4) when rolling to “naturally” recover hit points. For example, if you would normally roll d10's to heal on a short rest you would instead roll d8's and if you would have used d6’s would be d4’s instead.
uneven lantern
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I don't actually think that's doable in a homebrew race, other than just adding the text description.

verbal pasture
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it would be cool ifthay aded it

uneven lantern
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It would be cool.

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But generally speaking, the homebrew system is built to facilitate the official rules. To add things outside of that takes additional time and effort, and it's hard to prioritize those over things that will more directly benefit a wider range of users.

little plume
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Hey i dont wanna keep spamming the same topic. Just looking to get some feedback on the archived version of the wildfire druid ☚

uneven lantern
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I'm not sure we've got an answer to give on that topic, I'm afraid.

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I don't personally have access to the archived wildfire druid, so I don't even have a way to investigate it myself.

modest pelican
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@little plume Archived content is generally not modified once archived, so I can't really give a reason as to why fireball would be removed from your players domain spells. Can you link to the affected character?

little plume
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Sorry was making dinner 😂

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@modest pelican there ya go

modest pelican
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I've had a poke around and it looks like something may have happened to remove circle spells from that particular archived UA.

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Unfortunately due to it being archived UA of a published subclass, I doubt there's much chance of that getting fixed

ocean lily
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the Warlock Accursed Specter, does it need a body or somthing or can I summon anyone that I have once killed before?

little plume
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Dang thats unfortunate @modest pelican

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Its not a huge issue since he can just homebrew custom stuff to replicate it

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Was just wondering if anything could be done. Thank you for ur time

ocean lily
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@little plume I love your name bro lol

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I dub your coolest Paul of all.

little plume
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Thank you sir

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I wear that title proudly

uneven lantern
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When you slay a humanoid, you can cause its spirit to rise from its corpse as a specter, the statistics for which are in the Monster Manual.

sour tartan
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why is the dnd beyond app telling me to update books?

verbal pasture
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can you eddit hombrue rases you make if you later want to ajust it ?

thorn sandal
verbal pasture
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what do you mean by publish

thorn sandal
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You can "publish" homebrew to make it public and available to be added to others homebrew collections on DDB

verbal pasture
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like can i shair it with just friends or do i have to sho it to eavey

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ok

thorn sandal
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You can share it with just friends, as long as they're in a campaign, and you don't even need a membership to do it!

verbal pasture
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i t is there any thing i shuld know about before submiting it ? well realy its my friend doing it sothe speling is ok but are there any rools ? i saw alot of stuf that seamed to use the e xzackt same lerding as allthe other m hobru of asimler type

thorn sandal
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If you only want to share with friends just don't publish it, once they're in a campaign with you it will be shared automatically.

thorn sandal
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These rules don't apply if you aren't publishing it though

little plume
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I just got given a bow that uses strength instead of dex for both attack and damage rolls

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How do I homebrew this on DDB?

verbal pasture
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ok

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so am not sure if what am makig with my friend vyalights the rools

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i am basickly making an elf vearint shade so its the elf stuf with th sum ofthe macanicks of ashade but am not sure ifthat counts as a sub rase

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also if we publish it howlong dos it ttake usely to get aproved

little plume
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and what should I pick as weapon type for an arrow given... copying an arrow of Slayting to use as arrow base ...

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has it set as a weapon with no weapon type but beyond woint allow me to continue without selecting a weapon

verbal pasture
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never mind

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its that i cant make a rase subrase if thay dont have one afisely i get it i mis red it

languid sparrow
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Hi there, sorry to interrupt. Does anyone have any tips for switching between using DDB's digital dice to post rolls to the game log and sending the rolls to Roll20? I've managed to get my settings such that it won't do either, and I'm getting tripped up on old support articles. Sorry if this isn't the right place.

prisma fulcrum
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They don't really do support for third-party here

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Suggestion is going to be to turn off plugins/extensions and if it still doesn't work in ddb come back

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But this is the right channel for help with the functioning of the site!

verbal pasture
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does my friend need to do anythng to s ha ve it sho up in are campane

thorn sandal
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Nope! Just save the final version of their homebrew, and they're done! It'll automatically be shared with everyone in the campaign.

verbal pasture
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weard it isint

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we thort maybe we wer mising sumting

languid sparrow
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Thanks @prisma fulcrum I ironically never had any trouble with it until I tried to use D&D Beyond's roll mechanics. I guess I'll just disable all of DDB digital dice stuff and go with Roll20.

thorn sandal
verbal pasture
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i do

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does it have to be my game or can it be one wer in

thorn sandal
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The character has to be in the same campaign as the person who created the homebrew, yes

verbal pasture
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it shows up if my friend makes a campene but not inthe campane wer in togaver

thorn sandal
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Caching maybe? Wait about 15 minutes and let me know if it still doesn't show up.

verbal pasture
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ok

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its just odd it shos up an a new campane he made but not the other campane were both in lol

thorn sandal
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Yeah, not quite sure what's happening so this is a good thing to try

verbal pasture
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i think i figerd it out

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i went to creat new char but was not in acampne lol

thorn sandal
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Oh, okay lol

little plume
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guessing there are no answers for either of my questions?

thorn sandal
little plume
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Ah I assumed that was foir balanncing homebrew

thorn sandal
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They help out with the homebrew tools as well

radiant spire
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A character in my campaign for some reason can only access a read only version of her sheet all of a sudden. I can confirm she is logged in and has claimed the character.

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Any ideas why?

opal pelican
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Is it on her list of characters?

uneven lantern
idle arch
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@radiant spire if someone creates a shareable link to their character sheet, and they tried to access their character through that link, it will be read only, even for them

little plume
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So I linked the discord avrae to my dnd beyond and it's been 3 days now and when I do !ddb it says I don't have it linked

uneven lantern
little plume
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Oooh

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Thank you so much lol

hidden aurora
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What has changed in the books on the app? They all need updating, apparently. 🤔
Ta.

modest pelican
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It's usually just minor fixes for things like errors in formatting

hidden aurora
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Ah, thanks. It's only on ones I own, rather than shared ones, so I was a little confused.

midnight apex
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name change?

modest pelican
# midnight apex name change?

You're going to need to explain this question a little more? Are you asking to change your name? How to change your name?

midnight apex
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I want my name changed

modest pelican
midnight apex
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I meant for dnd beyond

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XP

modest pelican
deft bane
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I changed my username on the website with a token from the support team, but the app is still showing my old username. I’ve tried logging out/logging back in but it hasn’t changed. Any suggestions to fix this?

modest pelican
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I believe that may take a little while to update and push the new account data

pseudo geyser
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So, not sure if this is just me (willing to bet it is) But my bank account just got charged with two payments of 27.80 by the dndbeyond site... anyone know how I can reach the team about this?

modest pelican
lyric dune
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I’m having an issue where some spells I should have in my class spell list don’t show up as an option for one of my characters (but do for a different character of the same class). Any ideas? Specifically I have a Druid where both “Wrath of Nature” and “Guardian of Nature” do not show up in the list of known spells that I can prepare for my Druid character. Other XGtE spells do show up in the list so I don’t think its a simple content access issue. It’s not a TCoE add to the spell list, its not a subclass addition, its just a straight up class spell (at least its listed as such on D&DB). I can see the spell and spell details when i list all the Druid spells through Game Rules > Spells

verbal pasture
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i cant find sumting in the ravin loft book so thort i would ask here i are clearicks stilll weaker in ra vinloft or did 5e fixthat

violet vortex
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5E fixed it, they’re no longer inherently weaker just for being clerics in that setting.

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In fact, they’ve introduced new mechanics that make Channel Divinity more worth having.

warm egret
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can i get some one to help me with dnd with a char

uneven lantern
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If it's a technical question about D&D Beyond itself, ask away.

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If it's more about what you should pick or general character advice, you should check out #character-discussion.

warm egret
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i dont know if it is im kinda new i know some of the stuff but i need help with what i put in my stats and other things

uneven lantern
warm egret
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thank you and im sorry i posted it in the wrong chat

frank flicker
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Hello! I would like to know if there is a way to automatically filter only items I own. for example, I have bought the dungeon master guide and the sword coast adventurer's guide. but I do not own Tasha's. Is there a way to filter "only items I own", or do I have to manually select on the "source" filter?

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uneven lantern
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It should already show only the items you have access to.

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Whether you bought them, or whether they're being shared with you.

frank flicker
uneven lantern
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Hmm. Maybe I'm mistaken, then. 🤔

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But yeah, the Sources filter is probably your best option there.

frank flicker
uneven lantern
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We can definitely pass that feedback along, at least. 👍

verbal pasture
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ok z

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so i want to say i love your site as i have said before

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but my god is sum ofthe webpage not easy to navagate with tts softwair

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like wen looking for items or what not or even on char creasing

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and idk what can be dun to fix it as am not aprograme but it is realy frustrateing from a user pr prespecktive

uneven lantern
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We'll pass that on to the team for consideration 🙂

verbal pasture
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ty and i dont mean to be witchy

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just the last 3 days tryingto find a hombru class + working on stuf for my own game had me puling out hair

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am tothe point wer i need sited asistins to find the magic stuf or sertin other tings as its just faster

uneven lantern
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No worries at all. If there's an opportunity to improve things (and it sounds like there is), I'm sure they'll want to hear about it. 👍

digital wolf
craggy merlin
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Noob question sorry - I want to run ghosts of saltmarsh with a group of people that are either new to 5e (coming from pathfinder 1.0 and before that Dnd 4e) or new to dnd entirely. I'm wanting to use dnd beyond to make it easier to start. I've subscribed and got both physical and digital saltmarsh. I've created a campaign, and added some unclaimed characters for them to use. I wanted to set up for the first encounter. - say that's the kitchen in the haunted house. it has 4 centipedes. What am I supposed to do at that point? do I create the encounter in enounter builder? then how do I get it into combat tracker? can I pull the encounter from the digital book somehow? how do I show the players the map of saltmarsh?

digital wolf
# craggy merlin Noob question sorry - I want to run ghosts of saltmarsh with a group of people t...

There currently are no pre-built encounters for encounters from the official published adventures, but I believe that's planned for the future. At the moment, you can manually create that encounter in the encounter builder. You can also import an encounter from the Encounter Builder into the Combat Tracker.

There's an Encounters feedback portal where you can support existing feature suggestions or suggest new features yourself: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/encounters-feedback-portal/114888-encounters-feedback

Encounters Feedback - Encounters Feedback Portal - D&D Beyond Feedb...

As we continue to improve our encounters tool, we are looking for your feedback.
Please use the Encounters Feedback Portal to vote on your favorite new featu...

storm hazel
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may someone tell why can't i use all the features and paths that should be in the game? Like it only shows one path to the barbarian, and half the feats of the base game

lime gulch
storm hazel
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i didnt buy any additional content peepoSad , im talking about the basic ones from the players handbook

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like instead of having the 3 barbarian paths, i only have one

lime gulch
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There is a big difference between the Basic Rules and the PHB. If you didn't pay for the PHB, you can't access content from it.

storm hazel
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oh that really sucks

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thanks tho

lime gulch
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Well, to get professionally created content, you need to pay for it, like everyone else.

storm hazel
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yeah i get it, but it's way too expensive for me. Thanks again

lime gulch
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There are two other suggestions:

  1. Gather a group of friends to pay for a Master subscription and each book and share it.
  2. Only buy the options you want piecemeal.
uneven lantern
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If you do buy the individual options (like a single subclass), whatever you spend gets credited toward the purchase of the book itself, too.

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Or if you’ve already got the physical book, you can use the homebrew tools to recreate that content for free.

storm hazel
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oh, that's a great idea, thanks!

digital wolf
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Yep! As long as you don't publish it, you can use the homebrew system to recreate that stuff for you/your group

fickle niche
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Good evening 🙂

I'm confused and looking for clarification, please... Tasha's Cauldron of Everything. The 'complete' book is 29.99. There are some individual and 'grouped' purchase listings also.

What is 'Compendium Content Only'? Does it give all of the things you would use in DnD Beyond (like the separate 'items' listed for sale, or ???

Thanks 🙂

lime gulch
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Compendium Content is just the text to read.

digital wolf
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If you buy a particular subclass a la carte, then that will unlock that subclass for use in the character builder.

fickle niche
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Ah, I get it now, thanks SabreRunner and V2Blast. I read the 'description' but just couldn't understand what it was saying.

Have a great evening 🙂

digital wolf
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Also, as @uneven lantern mentioned above:

If you do buy the individual options (like a single subclass), whatever you spend gets credited toward the purchase of the book itself, too.
So if you buy the College of Creation bard subclass at one point, then later decide to get the whole book (which includes the compendium content and all the character options, etc. for use in the other tools), then the price of the full book is discounted by the amount you've already paid for stuff from that book.

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No problem, happy to help 🙂

slate cedar
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Hi! I'm trying to add a homebrew feat that grants spells to a Shadow Sorcerer (basically trying to replicate Tasha's expanded spell list for previous subclasses) but for some reason it hasn't been working properly

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Any ideas why that might be?

uneven lantern
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In what way did it not work?

slate cedar
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When I add the feat to my sorcerer's character sheet, sometimes the spells appear and sometimes they don't. I can't find a pattern or a logical reason why it happens, they just sometimes are not there. Having tried in another computer and in the app, it's also not consistent. Sometimes they appear in the app, but not in my computer, other times they are nowhere to be found, etc.

uneven lantern
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So the same spell — say, fireball — is sometimes displayed and sometimes isn’t?

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I think there was a bug already reported there, actually. I had it happen on my own character, in fact.

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If I had the expanded spell prepared already, it would show in the app. If I unprepared it, it would disappear from there.

slate cedar
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In my case I believe they should always be prepared, because it being a sorcerer works on spells known

uneven lantern
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Yeah, I was just about to say…

slate cedar
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Well, knowing that it's a bug that happens mostly gives me calm, kinda. At least it's not my account nor my character only

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I guess I'll wait to see if it gets fixed, then?

uneven lantern
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I’m honestly not sure if yours is related or not.

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If you’ve just got it set as a known spell and leaving it there, I wouldn’t expect that to happen, even in the context of that other bug.

slate cedar
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Huh, makes sense, yes

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It's weird, I based my feat off of Shadow Touched because it also grants specific spells... I just removed the ASI and changed the spells given

uneven lantern
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Yeah, that definitely sounds unrelated to the other issue.

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I’d actually suggest contacting customer support for this one. Include screenshots, if you can. Hopefully they’ll be able to look under the hood and see what’s going on.
https://dndbeyond.link/SubmitTicket

slate cedar
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Will do

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Thanks!

sinful sentinel
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How do I build a sidekick?

modest pelican
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You will have to use the homebrew monster tools to add sidekick traits to an existing monster

sinful sentinel
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Thank you Davyd!

crimson remnant
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Hi im new and built a character. Just im by Equipment and.... am confused of what/ how much ik ould take

solid kestrel
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starting equipment

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or, starting gold and buy equipment from the Equipment table (basic rules or PHB.)

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anything more, your DM needs to approve.

real path
solid mauve
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Is there a reason I can't find Clone in the Magical Secrets list for my bard?

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It should be there, right?

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It should be between Clairvoyance and Cloud of Daggers, shouldn't it?

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crystal scarab
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Clone is an 8th level spell, which would only be unlocked by gaining a magical secret at 18th level

solid mauve
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It's an 18th level bard

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Oh you know what, I was looking at the 14th level list

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That was the reason. Thanks.

ornate valve
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If one person in a campaign has a master tier sub and all the books, then enables content sharing for everybody else in the campaign, it does not enable that content within all the ddb tools, correct? A player in that campaign will not be able to use for example the mobile app to search for spells or monsters or classes that are part of that shared content, correct?

wanton shard
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It does. I own all content and have a Master tier sub, and all of my friends who are in my campaign are able to search for things freely

ornate valve
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I could have sworn I read somewhere in the forum that it only enables that content for the character builder specifically

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But if that's not the case, then great

wanton shard
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If you turn off the toggles for content in the content management page, it's still available in the builder, but not to view externally

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Meaning, if you've disabled your sources, the players can still build using all your Tasha's or Eberron content, but they won't be able to read the books or view the listings

ornate valve
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But everything is available for them to view if the content is enabled?

wanton shard
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Correct

ornate valve
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Great

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Thanks for the help

uneven lantern
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Any shared character options can only be used by characters in that campaign, however.

verbal pasture
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i dont know ifther is a way to fix tis

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but

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wen making aworlock if i pick pa hex blade it gives me axes to melee weapons and meadem armer

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but wen i go to pick starting aquitment i cant pick melee weapons and meadem armer

icy ledge
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The subclass doesn't effect starting equipment

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No subclass does

verbal pasture
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ug

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thats frustating

icy ledge
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Only thing I can think of is Cleric with the warhammer locked behind proficiency

verbal pasture
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a it mean the dm or my wife wil needto add stuf as am sick of trying to add stuf with my tts

icy ledge
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I don't understand what you mean

wanton shard
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Yes, according to the warlock Equipment section:

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

(a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
(a) a component pouch or (b) an arcane focus
(a) a scholar’s pack or (b) a dungeoneer’s pack
Leather armor, any simple weapon, and two daggers

And as part of the Hexblade's Hex Warrior feature:

At 1st level, you acquire the training necessary to effectively arm yourself for battle. You gain proficiency with medium armor, shields, and martial weapons.

Gaining proficiency with martial weapons and medium armor does not change what the warlock class grants on character creation. This is in contrast to the cleric, whose Equipment section reads:

You start with the following equipment, in addition to the equipment granted by your background:

(a) a mace or (b) a warhammer (if proficient)
(a) scale mail, (b) leather armor, or (c) chain mail (if proficient)
(a) a light crossbow and 20 bolts or (b) any simple weapon
(a) a priest’s pack or (b) an explorer’s pack
A shield and a holy symbol

restive heath
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Hey is anyone here able to assist me in using the homebrew creator on dnd beyonds website? ive got an issue where i wanted to add a subclass with a feature you can activate a few times a day (Actions->limited uses - working so far) and then it should give you some boni (setup under modifiers) to some stats for a minute. but as soon as i select the subclass while leveling a character up, all the boni apply right away and ive got no way of "turning them off". What do i do there?

wanton shard
# restive heath Hey is anyone here able to assist me in using the homebrew creator on dnd beyond...

There is currently no way to model temporary effects like this (such as a barbarian's Rage, for instance). The best way to represent it as part of the subclass is to give the description only, without adding the modifiers, which is currently how any official subclasses/classes with temporary effects are set up.

Modeling temporary effects is more easily done by creating your own magic items that can be equipped or unequipped when appropriate, to automatically display the bonuses on the character sheet. It's not something that should be published (in fact, the Homebrew Rules & Guidelines expressly forbid publishing magic items that aren't actually magic items), but it's a way to personally track these effects if you or someone in your campaign is using your homebrew subclass!

restive heath
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i got a few follow up questions too if you dont mind.

  1. are the code snippets a bit wonky? i tried using them like advised here https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dungeons-dragons-discussion/homebrew-house-rules/25930-using-snippet-codes-in-your-homebrew and for some reason i got it to work once but now they are being displayed like this again {{modifier:str}} in the character sheet.
    2)how long does it take for saved changes to "apply" to a homebrewed thing? i noticed theres quite some delay but if i knew it was like exactly 5mins it would be a bit easier to work with
Using Snippet Codes in your homebrew - Homebrew & House Rules - Dun...

This is another placeholder thread, until such time as I am able to more fully detail this for you all.
This information is taken primarily from this changel...

wanton shard
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For the first part of the question: Can you provide a link to the character sheet? For the second part, homebrew edits can take upwards of 15–20 minutes to propagate onto the character sheet, due to caching. If you still see no change after this time has elapsed, try bumping the character level up and back down again to re-fetch the character data.

uneven lantern
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Snippet codes only work in the Snippet fields. They won’t work in any Description fields.

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If you try to put them in a Description, you’ll get exactly what you typed, so that may be the issue here.

verbal pasture
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ok

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i see your point

sturdy valve
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How do i upgrade from Hero to Master Tier's

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restive heath
little plume
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Guys, I have a question and I have been unable to find it anywhere.

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If I subscribe to D&D Beyond, will I be able to use content in all books?

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Or will I have to buy them?

wanton shard
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Subscriptions do not automatically grant access to content. You would have to buy the content to use it, still. Alternatively, if you have a Master tier subscription, you can enable content sharing in your campaigns, and any books that you and the other players in your campaign own on D&D Beyond will be shared with each other.

little plume
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Ok, thanks for the answer! 😄

slate cedar
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Is there a way to add the Primal Companions to a Beast master ranger's character sheet? Say, something like adding wildshape stats to druids

uneven lantern
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Since they scale based on your own specific character, the best solution is to create one as your own homebrew monster and set it accordingly.

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Then you can add it to your Extras under the Misc category.

slate cedar
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I mean the ones from Tasha's, I didn't find their stat blocks in the Extras

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Should I make them as homebrew?

uneven lantern
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Yep!

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Like I said, the stats for the new ones depend entirely on your own specific character, so they can’t really be added otherwise.

slate cedar
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Okay, thanks! Would you recommend starting from scratch or using a template?

uneven lantern
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I’d do it from scratch myself.

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The homebrew monsters are probably the easiest ones to figure out.

slate cedar
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Great

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Thanks again

uneven lantern
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But if you get stuck, we’re here to help. 🍀

slate cedar
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I'm gonna take you up on that offer...
I got stuck when trying to add HP and AC, because the fields only accept numbers (seems like) and, as you said, it depends on the character's stats

uneven lantern
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Right, so you have to do the calculation listed there in the statblock.

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5 + five times your ranger level

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So if you’re level 3, that’s 5 + (5*3) = 20

slate cedar
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And then I just add the numbers, which then I would need to change with every level up?

uneven lantern
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And you’d put that 20 in the HP box

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But yeah, you’ll have to update it accordingly whenever your own stats change.

slate cedar
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I see

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Makes sense, and works for now, thanks

little plume
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so how do i add feats other then these

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lime gulch
little plume
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anyway to add homebrewed?

lime gulch
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Yes.

  1. Create Homebrew.
  2. Turn on Homebrew Material in character home screen.
  3. ???
  4. Profit?
little plume
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thank you

icy ledge
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How do I give a subclass Pact Magic, i.e. Warlock casting, I was looking through a copy of Profane Soul but couldn't see anything

wanton shard
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If you give a subclass an ability called Pact Magic (and fill in the appropriate "Can Cast Spells?" information), the appropriate magic happens behind the scenes. Except... I can't recall at this moment whether it works for every class, and if so, what the progression is. It might not actually work if an existing subclass doesn't have Pact Magic?

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I'm very tired though, so don't take that second part as fact

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But I'll set myself a reminder tomorrow to go through and see what, if anything, works

icy ledge
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That first part is pretty interesting, I'll try that as a base and mess with it if I need to, thanks for the help

icy ledge
frank sentinel
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Is there a filter to see just the standard choices for familiar in the beastiary?

opal pelican
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You can click on them all here. And on PC you can probably just mouse over.

supple siren
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I have been using an extension to transfer some data (mostly dice rolls) into a VTT. Recently I've heard of new extensions that are starting to offer a VTT experience directly for DDB. I haven't found anything specific in DDB forums (or general searching) that expresses DDB's response to these. Is there something that DDB is pairing with or is developing? Or are all of these "at your own risk" and "that's not us"

modest pelican
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D&D Beyond does not develop, endorse the use of, or support, any third party extensions, especially those that transfer data to third party services

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We have 2 applications that run outside of DDB services; the Avrae discord bot and the Twitch overlay

supple siren
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Good to know. Thank you.

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I really hadn't been sure since the community forum on the site is filled with it

uneven lantern
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I don’t think there’s a way to switch an existing spellcaster from one to the other.

worthy gust
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Hello, folks! Just yesterday I started getting this message every time I try to open stuff on DDB. I have not changed any browser settings or anything. Can anyone fill me in?

modest pelican
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That suggests you're doing the same or similar actions repeatedly and that's triggering the anti-bot measures

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This can be triggered by extensions, VPNs or antivirus software

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The first thing to try is disabling any extensions

noble garden
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Hi! I'm making a homebrew race and I would like to know if there is any way to add charge slots to it. Like a spell slot but not for spells, you know?

worthy gust
modest pelican
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You may not have, but extensions, VPNs and anti-virus can update in the background

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If you are running any extensions (especially those that manipulate D&D Beyond, something we advise against using), try disabling them

uneven lantern
noble garden
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Thank you so much! :)

supple siren
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Looking at the encounter builder, is there a way to randomize the hit points that will be generated? For example, so far if I'm putting in 5 bandits and I don't want to use the average of 11, I have to wait until the encounter is going before I can put in the result of 2d8+2. I understand its under construction but was wondering if there is a different method

modest pelican
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You can roll their hit points from the stat block and enter that number into max hit point override

supple siren
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That is what I've been doing but it seems to require the encounter to be running to adjust it. I was hoping there was a way to save the encounter on the build process so it can be loaded and when running have the changes already done

modest pelican
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Save and resume will let you start the encounter, set everything up, and then save it ready to go.

supple siren
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Honestly. I forgot about that. Awesome thought. Thank you

modest pelican
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I don't believe it's been released yet, but was previewed two Dev updates back

supple siren
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I'll be looking for it.

upbeat coral
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I'm in a campaign with content sharing on, but besides the player's handbook the others don't seem to work. Do I just need to wait a while for the options to appear?

modest pelican
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What books should be shared other than the PHB?

upbeat coral
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Tasha's cauldron of everything is the one I'm interested in and should be shared, according to the dm

modest pelican
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Okay, are you able to access the compendium (the digital book)?

upbeat coral
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No, it just takes me to the purchase options

modest pelican
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Okay, has the DM of the campaign enabled the book from the content management menu?

upbeat coral
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Let me check

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Ah, it wasn't enabled

modest pelican
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There we go!

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Easily done

upbeat coral
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Thank you for your help

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Yes it works now

wet nexus
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I'm getting an API check failure when I try and access my character sheet. It loads for a bit, and then after maybe 30s to a minute it shows the beholder page with the rolled a 1 on api check. I've tried different web browsers, but still getting Error Code
88ba006db7a344be95001458ea6ffe43 Version
5.1.0

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rotund crystal
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Yeah, that's happening to me too.

hushed canopy
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Same here! Maybe its server based

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Just checked with some other players - same is happening to them.

mystic osprey
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happening to me and my friend too

hard hatch
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same here

hushed canopy
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Welp - hope it gets resolved by tonight or our game is gonna suck.

mystic osprey
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same here

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it probably will get fixed

fossil geyser
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Same here. We were just about to start 🥲

wet nexus
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the phone app seems to function

hushed canopy
modest pelican
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Thanks for the reports, this has been raised.

rose schooner
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I can’t math!!!

bright basin
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I was thinking it was the servers, thats why I joined ;-;

modest pelican
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The moderation team asks that people don't abuse the image permissions in this channel that are intended for relaying support information by posting memes and image macros. We need to keep this channel clear for relaying information

fossil geyser
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Is there an ETA on a fix? It's almost 11 p.m. where I am. My players wanna know if we should pack up.

modest pelican
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Any information we get will be relayed here

rotund crystal
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6968ffe8461240629badf87a0deda7a3

Code if the team needs it.

modest pelican
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The team is investigating what's causing the localised outages now and we'll communicate as much information as we can as soon as we can. No ETA I'm afraid

tender hare
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hey guys, can someone please help me?

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For some reason I cant open any character seet

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sheet*

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keep getting this

modest pelican
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@tender hare there's currently a site issue affecting some users

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It's being investigated by the team as we speak

tender hare
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oh ok

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great

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ty ❤️

modest pelican
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No worries, please keep an eye on this channel or our social media for updates on the status of the issue

worthy gust
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Hello!

Since yesterday afternoon (7/30/21) I started seeing this page whenever I click on something on D&D Beyond:

I looked up what to do online and talked to people here. I have now removed ALL chrome extensions, java is enabled, and my browser is up to date. The extensions I removed were Google dictionary, Evernote Web clipper, ProWritingAid, and Adobe Acrobat. I can't see how ANY of those extensions should cause a problem on DDB. But I got rid of them, anyway. I cleared all cookies, browser data, and browsing history. I closed Chrome and restarted my computer. And it is still doing it. I'm about to uninstall Chrome and reinstall it.

I'm using Chrome Version 92.0.4515.107 (Official Build) (64-bit). I'm on a PC/Windows 10.

It seems to happen especially when I try to access a campaign or character sheet.

Why is this happening? I'm simply sitting here reading on the site. I make characters and maybe some homebrew, but I don't use the site improperly. NOTHING on my computer or web browser changed (until I removed extensions today) before this started happening. I have dished out too much money to you guys for this to be happening.

Please help.

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uneven lantern
worthy gust
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tardy hound
uneven lantern
modest pelican
tardy hound
worthy gust
uneven lantern
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I don’t think so. You’re the only one I’ve seen with that issue.

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But if you scroll up a little, you’ll see there’s quite a few people at the moment experiencing trouble with what you saw in Firefox.

worthy gust
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Thanks for trying to help

uneven lantern
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I don’t really watch the forums. You’re the only one I’ve seen in here.

worthy gust
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Oh. well i dont' think it is a current problem with others. Most of the posts were from last year. But LOTS of people.

uneven lantern
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Once this current outage is resolved, I’m curious is Firefox will work as intended for you.

worthy gust
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we'll see.

uneven lantern
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If it does, then Chrome itself is the likely issue.

worthy gust
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so weird

mystic carbon
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It does it with every browser I've tried it on, so it's probably D&D Beyond itself D:

worthy gust
mystic carbon
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Yeah

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I think

worthy gust
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the prove you're human thing?

mystic carbon
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Oh, no

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The API one

worthy gust
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ah

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yeah, that's the site

green canyon
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I'm having the same problem as well. I can get on, open my character sheet, then after a few seconds I get that error page.

worthy gust
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they are working on it

green canyon
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Ok. I already let my DM know, cause our session is supposed to start in 35 minutes ><

uneven lantern
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Yep. The team is aware of the API errors and working on it as we speak. 👍

mystic carbon
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Yeah. ^_^ Was just mentioning it in case it helped! Dreams38Hug

worthy gust
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I swear I'm human

mystic carbon
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If you can click "Share Character" fast enough and get the link you can at least view your character sheet for the time being :)

candid siren
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I'm also getting the API error continuously, so DnD Beyond is effectively down for now?

wet nexus
quick dove
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Hello everyone! A fix has been implemented. Please refresh your sheets! If the issue persists, please try to logout and back into your account, clear your cache, and/or close and reopen your browser.

If you try those steps and the issue still persists, please let us know!

hushed canopy
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You guys at DnD Beyond ROCK. Thanks!

mystic carbon
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You are the best! hype Dreams38Hug

keen bear
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ddb devs…

deft hound
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Hey everyone, first, thanks for the amazing site and for all the hard work done on the back end! Question I havent been able to find an answer for: Ive been using the DNDB combat tracker for combat. It's awesome. Saves me more than once from having to bounce around documents. My question is- my players roll iniative and it doesnt transfer into the combat tracker. Is there a way to link that so I dont have to ask them every combat what theirs was?

digital wolf
# deft hound Hey everyone, first, thanks for the amazing site and for all the hard work done ...

Not currently, but I think that's a planned feature, per the first post in this thread: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/encounters-feedback-portal/58420-combat-tracker-alpha-feedback

Combat Tracker ALPHA Feedback - Encounters Feedback Portal - D&D Be...

Greetings Beyonders!
We're happy to announce an ALPHA release of the Combat Tracker tool to subscribers!
We have been using the combat tracker in i...

deft hound
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(having to put them in manualy

stark thicket
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Hello, I'm trying to make a homebrew monster but it doesn't roll the seperate damages correctly, when I press it's action button. Can someone please proofread my work.

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Dragonbane Greataxe. Melee Weapon Attack: [rollable]+13;{"diceNotation":"1d20+13","rollType":"to hit","rollAction":"Dragonbane Greataxe"}[/rollable] to hit, reach 5 ft., one creature. Hit: 11 [rollable](2d12 + 1d6 + 7 + 4);{"diceNotation":"2d12 + 1d6 + 7 + 4","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Dragonbane Greataxe","rollDamageType":"slashing"}[/rollable] slashing damage plus an additional 14 [rollable](1d6 + 10);{"diceNotation":"1d6 + 10","rollType":"damage","rollAction":"Dragonbane Greataxe","rollDamageType":"radiant"}[/rollable] radiant damage.

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This is what I put into the homebrew creator after I copy pasted the Wyverns stinger action and changed it's damage and damage types.

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Simplified version:

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Dragonbane Greataxe. Melee Weapon Attack: +13 to hit, reach 5 ft., one target. Hit: 35 (2d12 + 1d6 + 7 + 4) slashing damage plus an additional 14 (1d6+10) radiant damage.

uneven lantern
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What happens when you do roll them?

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It looks right to me, though, but I’m wondering if the diceNotation allows spaces in there or not. 🤔

stark thicket
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If I roll them separately they both work. If I press the name of the action, the to hit works like usual, and the radian damage works like usual, but the slashing damage always comes out as 4.

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And it doesn't matter if I'm using the simplified or complex version of the action. The slashing damage is always 4

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Removing the spaces from the diceNotation sadly did not change anything.

uneven lantern
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Hmm…

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The obvious difference in that one is that it’s using two kinds of dice.

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But it’s also got +7+4 — why not just +11?

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I’d try the +11 and see what happens. If that doesn’t work, I’d try 5d6 instead of the current dice as well. If that one works, maybe multiple die sizes just aren’t supported.

stark thicket
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I think that's the culprit, D&D Beyond's homebrew creator doesn't seem to support multiple dice

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*multiple types of dice

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Or multiple pluses for that matter. Anyway, it works now. I changed the damage to 3d12+11 slashing.

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Thanks for the help 😉

thorn wraith
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Hello can someone explain to me content sharing on the site please? I've been using dndbeyond for over a year and can't seem to grasp this simple concept.
I see that the limit is 5 campaigns with 12 players in each. How do I see who is in what campaign? There doesn't seem to be a player list at all? I run one shots with different people and need to share and revoke sharing pretty often. Is there a way to do this without deleting the whole campaign after every session? Thanks

lime gulch
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  1. Hi.
  2. Click over to My Campaigns and you can see the characters in each campaign. Inside a campaign, under each character is the name of its creator.
  3. You don't have to delete a campaign, just turn content sharing on and off.
thorn wraith
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Thanks for the reply, I don't want to turn content sharing off though, I want to be able to remove certain people that have access to it and keep certain other players in it so they can retain access.
I see the player names now, would this be a case of removing character(s) belonging to certain players then resetting the invite link?

lime gulch
thorn wraith
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Great, thanks

onyx arch
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I don't suppose anyone knows of a Roll20 discord?

modest pelican
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This channel is for getting help using D&D Beyond, you probably want #non-dnd-topics

desert cosmos
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I'm trying to make a homebrew item, but I don't understand how to type in commands you can click on. Like with roll20 where you can click on "1d10" in the class features

modest pelican
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You can't make commands that are clickable

desert cosmos
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How does roll20 do it then?

modest pelican
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I don't know, it's an entirely different system

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You'd be best off checking either the roll20 documentation or their forums

void edge
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is something wrong with content sharing?

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I've got a new DnDB user who is trying to build a new character... does said character need to be built within the campaign that has content sharing on?

Said user can't seem to access any of the content I have shared... he's in two campaigns with different DM's we both have sharing on, but he doesn't seem to have access to any of it.

opal pelican
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It has to be for the campaign.

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If they're making it without it being attached to the campaign they won't have access to the other material.

modest pelican
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Yep, shared content only appears in the character builder or character sheet if either you're making the character via the option when following the invite link, or editing a character already in the campaign

worthy gust
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Hello, folks! I just had a player point out that you can just add endless feats to your character sheet via manage feats. I think this is a bug... maybe?

modest pelican
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Nope, it's an international feature to allow DMs to award feats outside the normal system. For example, Mythic Odysseys of Theros allows feats at level one

worthy gust
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I see. Thanks

stray birch
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Good evening. The Class Page of the Bloodhunter won't stop loading. Neither on my or one of my players accounts and browsers. Is this a known issue?

modest pelican
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@stray birch disable beyond20

mystic quest
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Hi, I'm looking to recruit some DMs for several games. Would I post in the looking for DM channel or is there another place for me to post?

modest pelican
balmy cypress
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Good Evening, would anyone be able to help me figure out why on the website for dndbeyond when I create a Paladin I only have see one oath in my Sacred Oath drop down?

modest pelican
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Have you purchased any other sacred oaths?

balmy cypress
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Oh I have not, I didnt realize that I had to buy it... is there something specific that I need to buy? Where do I need to purchase this at?

modest pelican
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D&D Beyond offers all the books in digital format, so each oath is available in the book it was printed in

balmy cypress
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I would assume that the player's handbook should get me the majority of the Oaths then correct

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So if I purchase this book it will show up in the drop down list for Scared Oaths?

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I just want to confirm before I just start buying things

modest pelican
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Yep, the PHB contains the most of them

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You can view what each book offers

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Just select a book from the marketplace and scroll down

balmy cypress
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Yup

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This is right correct?

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There is nothing special that I need to select when I go through the purchase process?

vernal moat
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Nope. Just enter the details needed to purchase and you're good to go

balmy cypress
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Thank for everyones help here

vernal moat
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just so you know, Xanathar's and Tasha's also have more oaths if you need them

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there's also one in the Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide

balmy cypress
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yea I am starting to noticed that they are in multiple guides

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but that is it for me lol I have bought probably too much here lol

solar ice
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hi im new to d&d and im currently trying to make a character, im on the score calculations section and i was just wondering if anyone could explain what or how to use the other modifiers and override score section. Thanks!

icy ledge
solar ice
icy ledge
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No problemo

ornate summit
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When looking at my artificer sheet there’s a part in actions and a part in equipment for infusions, is there a difference or is it just two different ways to keep track of them?

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modest pelican
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The part in actions is for tracking how many infusions you have active
The part in inventory is for making infusions and equiping them to your character

ornate summit
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Ok, thank you

nimble vector
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so i have the dndbeyond app and a lot of books are now wanting to update...but aren't they books? what is getting updated??

modest pelican
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Updates to the books will be pushed for a variety of reasons, such as fixing hyperlinks, applying errata, or correcting formatting issues

nimble vector
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aaah alright

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thanks for the help

abstract cloud
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Hey, so I’ve noticed when adding the three new books to my cart that they went in as $74 (because I have the Legendary Bundle), but when I then check out with them, the total comes into $94 because of taxes. Why is there suddenly taxes on D&D Beyond’s books?

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As far as I’m concerned, this hasn’t been the case so far

lilac dirge
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Is there a guide on how to create Vestiges of Divergence on DDB? Or would I have to make three variations of the same item (to achieve dormant, awakened, exalted)?

modest pelican
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@abstract cloud there was a change on how taxes had to be applied to sales some time back and now it's applies in the basket before completing checkout

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@lilac dirge There's no modal functionality of magic items, multi-mode items (such as Vestiges of Divergence and Arms of the Betrayers) are made by creating three versions as you noted

lilac dirge
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alright, many thanks

steep vine
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What does it mean when something has a "hit dice", like ranger has a "d10 hit die" for example. What does that mean?

modest pelican
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That's the dice used to determine hit points when you level up, and what you roll when healing on a short rest

uneven lantern
clever trail
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Tasha's added Aura of Vitality to the cleric list and dndbeyond doesn't seem to have that?

wanton shard
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Tasha's Cauldron of Everything introduced optional class features, including for some classes additional spell lists. These are only optional additions, not a change to the overall class list. That means searching by class list won't return optional additional class spells.

Also, to use them on your character sheet, you need to either own TCoE on D&D Beyond, or else be creating your character in a campaign where the content is being shared with you. Then, in the character builder (or in the Preferences menu on the character sheet), you need to toggle on Optional Class Features. In the Class pane of the Character Builder, expand the Optional Feature Manager under Cleric, and under Additional Features, check Additional Cleric Spells. This will allow these additional spells to be selectable in your spell preparation.

ornate summit
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Is there a way to set/change the proficiency bonus on a monster’s stat block in the homebrew monster creator?

modest pelican
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Yep, adjust it's CR. Prof bonus is derived from challenge rating automatically

ornate summit
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Ok, I’ll try that

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I had it at cr 0 and it’s prof bonus was +2, what Cr should I change it to to change the prof bonus?

uneven lantern
ornate summit
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Thank you

little plume
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I have the D&D Master Plan Annually that I by memory purchased in bulk back around May of this year (I have a certainty of the date it would have been around my birthday). I have received a notification that my Master Plan has now expired due to the card being itself expired (accurate) but I wanted to check with staff that no payment of ~ $55.00 had been received earlier for a new period. Obviously I'll be looking at my card history and suchbas well. Thank you. If someone could "@" me about this or start a DM, send an e-mail or whatever, that would be appreciated.

modest pelican
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@little plume For queries about payments, you'd be best of putting in a customer service ticket as the CS team has much higher access to that side of things

little plume
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Okay, thanks Davyd. As aside, if a subscription says it ends August 4th, does that mean end of day August 4th or until August 4th @ 12:00 AM ?

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Nitty but as I'm not active as much as I might wish with a group, I'm debating just letting things expire for a while.

modest pelican
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that again would be a question for the CS Team as I'm not sure

little plume
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Okay, cool.

exotic nebula
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hello, I have master subscription and want my players to be able to use phb. Do they have to create a character to be able to use sourcebooks?

uneven lantern
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They need to have joined the campaign where you have content sharing enabled.

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But they can only join with a character (or by creating one when they join), so yes.

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Once they're in the campaign, any game content owned by anyone in the campaign will be accessible for everyone else. They'll be able to read that book content in the Game Rules and Sources menus, and use those shared character options for characters in that campaign.

exotic nebula
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thanks for quick response 🙂 got it to work now

night portal
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question about custom actions: is it possible to make one for Sharpshooter/Great Weapon Master.

uneven lantern
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Not as a custom action, but you can add a second copy of whatever weapon you’re using, rename it, set the weight to 0, and adjust the To Hit / Damage as needed.

night portal
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ah thanks

rose dune
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Hey, it's me again tinkering with homebrew stuff on ddb. I'm in the middle of creating a new variant for humans (based on the avatar hack for 5e) and I want the race variant to have access to spell casting and - in the best case - only have access to a specific spell list I already created. Can anyone tell me what I have to do for that? Where do I "activate" that this race is a spell casting one and where do I maybe link the special list OR add all those spells they have access to (by means of the avatar hack)?

uneven lantern
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That might depend on what you mean by access to spellcasting.

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If there’s an existing race that already does something similar, you can make a homebrew copy of that and see how it was set up.

rose dune
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that was my idea too, but briefly going over e.g. elves they have specific access to say like one cantrip or so "from the wizard's spell list" and I know how to do that but it doesn't meet my expectations...
the waterbender variant has the treat "Water Bending. You gain access to the Water Bender spell list. Your spellcasting ability is Dexterity. The components for these spells become Somatic and Material: an appropriate amount of water." So I created a spell list with all those spells (canon spells, not homebrew - just a homebrew composition) and I wish to grant the race access to either this list or use another way to make the race have access to spells in general (and choose them manually later)

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(have access to spells in general = have the spells option in the character final ddb sheet and adding spells there)

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I already tried to just add all those spells via "spells: Add a spell or spell list that the racial trait may grant access to" but it doesn't let me choose all of those I need (they aren't displayed, although I could choose them in the other trait thing "additional spell list")

uneven lantern
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Additional Spell List makes those spells available for a character to choose as part of their Spellcasting or Pact Magic class features (if they have one), following the normal rules for that class.

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Using High Elves as an example, though, you should be able to add it in a similar way. I think if you put multiple spells in the “Spell” field, the player will be prompted to choose one of them.

rose dune
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Yes, that's what I got from ddb as well; and it doesn't fit that well - first and foremost because I don't even get displayed all those spells I want to be able to display (for example thorn whip [from xgte] which I get displayed regularly in ddb if I search it via the search bar although I don't own xgte) and I don't want to choose, I want my variant to know all of those (at appropriate levels) I add ... I have the impression I'm missing something that just activates something 🤔
edit: I own the PHB and don't even get displayed "arms of hadar" for example ... hm.

uneven lantern
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If you see thorn whip on the spells page but don't own it yourself, it's likely being shared with you through one of the campaigns you're in.

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However, shared character options are available only to characters in the campaign that's sharing them.

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Anyway... if you want them to get all those spells, you'll need to list just one spell there in that field instead.

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And then add another racial spell for the next one, and so on.

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To control when they get those spells, you'll also want to fill in the "Available at Character Level" box for that racial spell entry.

rose dune
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alright, that seems to work... although I really don't get why I don't have the phb spells, but that's for another day I think. thank you for you time, I think that'll get me where I want!

uneven lantern
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Yeah, I don't have an explanation for that one. 🤔

rose dune
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yes^^

uneven lantern
verbal pasture
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i know its ben told to me but how do i add a "npc" to to avrie

uneven lantern
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For initiative? There's a few options.

crystal scarab
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(js it might be beneficial in the long run if we start directing people to #ddb-avrae-help so that becomes the norm for asking those questions. Rn it's half and half)

uneven lantern
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  • Add them as a generic combatant (See !help init add for more info).
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  • Add them as an existing monster statblock and give them a name. (!init madd ogre -name Phil)
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  • Create your own homebrew statblock in CritterDB, then import it into Avrae and !init madd as usual (See !help bestiary for instructions.)
floral lance
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anyone willing to help a rusty (younger) player create a character in vc?

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it's for a random westmarch campaign

modest pelican
floral lance
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oh sorry lol]

modest pelican
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No worries

little plume
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Does anyone known If you lose anything like home brew or encounters made, etc. when a subscription expires? I'm waiting on a response about my subscription status from Cust Serv and I haven't gotten an answer yet.

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Okay, that's a start. I think I'll just sign up with the Heroic Tier as I'm not currently concerned about sharing. It makes sense DDB would have proration for loving from Heroic to Master, right?

uneven lantern
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I do know with characters, any you have above the limit of six get locked but not deleted. You pick which six stay open, and the rest get unlocked again if/when you resubscribe.

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I don’t think there’s limits on homebrew or encounters, but if there are, I expect they’d work the same.

little plume
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Okay, that's a start. I think I'll just sign up with the Heroic Tier as I'm not currently concerned about sharing. It makes sense DDB would have proration for moving from Heroic to Master, right?

uneven lantern
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I think so, but you’d need to contact customer support to make that switch.

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Unless you just cancel the one, then start the other after it expires.

little plume
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Okay, I was thinking about pinging Sorce honestly but as I'm not sure how his online status actually works, I figured I'd just wait on CS. Main issue is my current sub expires either tonight or tomorrow, dunno which.

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Also, doy, danka @uneven lantern :P

uneven lantern
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Do you have the ticket number on hand?

little plume
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I do if needed. ?

uneven lantern
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Well, I can pass it along and let them know you were hoping for an answer before your current one expires.

little plume
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Thank you! Here: 1073637

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Not sure why it did the link thing ...

final trellis
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Generally if I'm online im at the computer (I'm Australia based, so its about to hit 2.30pm for me)

little plume
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Sure but you ARE CS so it seemed less than polite to just shout out SORCE!! whenever I needed something.

final trellis
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Well thank you, I do appreciate it 😄

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I'll pick up the ticket and take a look

little plume
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Much appreciated sir.

little plume
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Awesome, see all my homebrew and encounters are still available, thanks again @uneven lantern & @final trellis :)

final trellis
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Oh yeah, I replied! (got distracted by the Olympics 😛 ). Happy to help!

jade drift
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Hi I have messaged DDB support but I have yet to get a reply, I cancelled my subscription last month but I was charged again this month. I checked my account and my subscription had re-enabled it self or didn't register the unsubscribe even though it clearly at the time stated it was cancelled. I would like it cancelling and a refund please.

modest pelican
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You will have to wait for customer service to contact you (tickets are processed in the order they are received). There's nothing we can do here I'm afraid

copper plover
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Where did the button go for adjusting the amount of characters? XD

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I only need 3, not 5

modest pelican
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There are some ongoing changes being made to the in-alpha encounter builder. This feedback has already been passed along though!

copper plover
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Okay, good to know. I found a long way around it by making a campaign and making char for that and then make an encounter cause i needed one soon 🤣 🤣

modest pelican
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You can also do it via using the presets

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Not idea, I know

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But if you select a preset, then remove it, it resets it to zero party members

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(I encountered this myself this morning)

copper plover
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Yup, those have 4 tho, and at lvl 1 thats a bit finicky

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Ohhh, thats a new route

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Good ta know

sullen elk
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In the encounter builder, can I change what the monsters have for equipment? Can I change an Orc's weapon for a spear?

wanton shard
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Not from within the Encounter Builder. You can create a homebrew copy of said monster, and change its attacks in your homebrewed version to reflect different weapons/spells/etc.

zealous patio
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Is there a page to access only the game log for a campaign? To use, for example, in streamed games? Currently capturing the side of my player's sheet to achieve the image below, but wondering if I can dedicate a window to it specifically. Like /log or /gamelog in the campaign URL.

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uneven lantern
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Not currently, no, but we can pass that request along to the team.

zealous patio
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Thanks very much.

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If you're passing along the idea - having optional background colours would allow for quick green-screening for online play.

ripe skiff
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Who do i go to for a partnership

modest pelican
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@ripe skiff what do you mean?

ripe skiff
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Like do i speak to the owner to speak about a partnership or a moderator

modest pelican
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What do you mean by a partnership?

ripe skiff
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A server partnership

modest pelican
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Oh, we're not looking to partner with any servers at this time

unkempt iris
ripe skiff
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Dang oh well

zealous patio
# unkempt iris you could achieve this effect with Tampermonkey — is that how you're doing this ...

In my case I'm using tools in OBS. My process:
-open a full-screen window of a character sheet in dndbeyond
-set character sheet to underdark mode
-click to open game log, and lock it in place

-create a source in OBS: Window capture, select the full-screen character sheet
-crop the source to only see the game log
-set a color-key fiter on the source, manually select the background of the character sheet
-set a second color-key filter of the source, select the background of the rolls themselves (optional)
-apply some coloration/transparency effects as needed (optional)

The above works quite well, don't get me wrong. It just means you need to have that full-screen character sheet open all the time. There's always the possibility as well that DDB will change the default colours in the background at some point, which would break the color-keys.

modest pelican
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@zealous patio @unkempt iris probably better to take this to #dm-discussion or pms

exotic nebula
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can i search in my books or do i have to look up everything by looking trough the chapters?

uneven lantern
exotic nebula
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but not on a pc?

uneven lantern
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There’s the global search option, which will let you check all books. You can click the Compendium filter to limit the results to book content.

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But if you want to search in just a single book, that’s currently only available in the app.

exotic nebula
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ahh, that sucks, at least i can do it on my phone 🙂

foggy heron
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I have noticed in the past dev updates that they can pin the sidebar to the side without it covering the rest of the character sheet, but I checked my sheet and it does not exists. Is it an option that I have to turn on in the settings or is it not an option yet.

My Character Sheet

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Dev character sheet

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final trellis
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Is your screen size/resolution small? You generally need a bigger window/screen size to have the additional options

foggy heron
final trellis
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Okay I've jsut retested on my own computer - its all related to the width of the window

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if you arent seeing it on your screen and you have the window maxed, then you dont have a high enough screen size/resolution

foggy heron
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How is 60 inches not big enough? 😆

final trellis
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resolution

foggy heron
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So I have to raise my resolution then?

final trellis
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if you have it maxing at 1080 then thats quite small for a screen that size

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For example - for me once I decrease/increase the width the options appear/disappear

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foggy heron
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So I guess it only works with wide screens then?

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Never mind, I figured it out.

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I usually have dnd beyond zoomed in on firefox since it has such small text.

final trellis
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Yeah, because the options are to permanently fix the sidebar - which takes up more room, therefore needs a wider window

foggy heron
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That is why it was not showing up.

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Thank you for helping me even though it was my own stupidity that made it not work.

final trellis
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No worries, happy to help 🙂

jade drift
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@modest pelican Is DnDbeyond support usually this bad at getting back to people 2 support tickets and no replies 3 days of waiting now?

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Could you help me get in contact with somebody please

modest pelican
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Tickets are replied to in the order they are received. If you enter a second ticket, that ticket won't actually get your first ticket seen any quicker, your second ticket will just been reviewed after your first ticket

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If the customer support team has had a large number of tickets, there may be a longer turn around time to your ticket being reached

jade drift
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Right I get that but its been 3 days since I sent my first ticket. I have been charged for subscription I do not want and as the days go on it will be harder to get refunded

final trellis
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We generally ask you NOT to add multiple tickets, that causes extra work

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If its urgent, what is yout ticket number?

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Rather than adding multiple tickets?

jade drift
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#1073642 not sure how urgent it is I cancelled my subscription end of June start of July (6 month) to avoid being charged in August got an email on the 2nd that I was charged sent the first ticket after I saw that email but I sent it from my business email(not associated with the DDB account) not my personal email which is the one I use for DDB so I sent a 2nd ticket.

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My worry is if it takes a week to sort DDB support will just say sorry but your already been using your subscription or something to that effect.

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Thank you @final trellis for sorting it

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Just got an email appriecate it

modest pelican
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Joel is a CSuperstar

final trellis
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I've processed the ticket - please note Support's standard turnaround for first response can be up to 3 days, so there was still another 24 hours for the initial ticket. As we dont work weekend in the support team and the team is tiny, if we have a person out it can mean that certain sub queues are at that three day wait

jade drift
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I get that, given that it was an accidental subscription or failed cancellation whatever to call it I wasn't sure how long I had before I was unable to get a refund. I have had bad experiences with companies in the past who have long support times use those long response times to wiggle there way out of refunding or delaying returns

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Thanks again @final trellis

final trellis
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That we don't do, we always try our best to resolve (even if it takes us a few extra days)

onyx arch
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Do tokens come with the Monster Manual?

modest pelican
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Avrae can generate tokens for any monster you have access to that has art

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If you purchase the monster manual, you will be able to generate tokens for any of the monsters that purchase grants you access to

onyx arch
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Forgive me, how do you generate tokens?

edgy oriole
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In Avrae you use the !token <name of monster>. Use quotes around the monster name if it's more than one word.

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See !help token for more details.

onyx arch
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thank you 🙂

little plume
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does homebrew not allow the word humanoid?

uneven lantern
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What specific error are you getting?

little plume
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non english word

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not letting me aprrove cause of that

uneven lantern
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Just in case: those warnings only apply if you're trying to publish your homebrew to the entire community. If it's just for you and your campaign, you don't need to publish at all, and you can ignore those warnings altogether.

little plume
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or... wow. You can have a title with the one word but not have it in a decription.

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Amorphous

uneven lantern
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But if you are trying to publish, I'd suggest trying to hit the main Save button for that homebrew to retrigger the validation process.

modest pelican
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That warning can be caused by multiple things:

  • use of actual non-english text
  • use of terms that imply something isn't completed such as TBC, TBA or WIP
  • not filling in fields to the expected degree. For example, if you just put "new race" in the description field, that is not enough
little plume
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refrencing a trait from the race for a variant race

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allows it as name of trait but not in description

modest pelican
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Descriptions need to be substantial, in line with official content

uneven lantern
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Since "humanoid" and "amorphous" are both words in the English dictionary, I doubt those are the culprits here.

little plume
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only things I can think of.

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Your a sentient slime, but you are human in apperance.

Human Slime Traits
Human Form
In place of longer reach you have a human form. Whilst in this form you are medium size and can not make use of your Amorphous trait.

modest pelican
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@little plume Can you link me to the homebrew?

little plume
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that is all the words

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yeah

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main race

uneven lantern
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It might be that the description is too short.

modest pelican
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It is

little plume
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This Subrace cannot be shared with the community for the following reasons:
This homebrew Subrace has text that includes Non-english Language
Remember, private homebrew is automatically shared with other users in your campaigns and does not need to be shared with the community for players to access.

modest pelican
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Your main description is too short

little plume
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thats the error message but okay

uneven lantern
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Yes, that error message can be triggered if the description is too short.

little plume
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I see. okay

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thanks

modest pelican
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To give you an idea of the expected length of a description, look at the official races in the basic rules

little plume
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yeah

uneven lantern
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You've also got a couple typos in there that could be contributing to that error.

little plume
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yeah managed to get it to work by improving the main decription.

next pebble
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Hi ddb community, I have a physical copy of xge. How do I import it in?

uneven lantern
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There's not a way to directly import physical books.

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But you can use the homebrew tools to recreate any of that content for free.

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Alternatively, you can buy just the parts of the book you need -- like a specific subclass -- if you didn't want to buy the book itself.

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Anything you spend on those purchases does get credited toward the cost of the book as a whole, too.

next pebble
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Ok. I’m looking to make a home brew class (based off the grisha from six of crows) and I’m worried referencing to XGE spells (Danse Macabre & Investiture of Flame) is causing a validation error.

naive lodge
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As long as you aren't trying to publish it then it'll be fine and you can ignore that.

uneven lantern
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Yeah, if it's just for personal use in your own campaign, you can ignore all those warnings.

next pebble
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Ok thanks. 🙂

uneven lantern
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All your homebrew gets shared with your campaign automatically.

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If you're trying to publish to the global community, though, then those warnings have to be resolved first.

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In this particular case, published homebrew can only directly reference content from the Basic Rules.