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D&D Beyond Toolset Takes Your Role-Playing Digital
March 23, 2017 by brennon
Wizards Of The Coast have partnered up with Curse to bring D&D Beyond to life. The Digital Toolkit is currently in Open Beta for testing and will contain a wealth of information on Dungeons & Dragons for you to plan sessions as a Dungeon Master and play in them as a Hero.
The App/Program will allow you to build characters and then seamlessly have them available on laptops and handheld devices. You will also be able to dip into a compendium of information to check spells, abilities and more.
Some have said that this is 'too late' but they have done what I think is natural. You wait to see what the market wants and what it likes in other unofficial apps and then pick the best to run with in your own official version. It does look very swish and I might have to try it out and see if it's as intuitive as they'd have us believe!
They are in phase one right now looking at the Compendium, Listings and a Forum.
Will you be giving this a go?
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Hmmmm I understand what people who are crticising this release are saying as this does seem to be part of what WotC were promising as part of your ongoing subscription (remember those??) back when 4th Edition launched.
I was originally a roleplayer (as people under the age of 18 couldn’t buy metal figures, in my state as we’d put them in our mouth and die of lead poisoning…you know what under 18s are like…. sigh…..it was a long time ago) and D&D was always my drug of choice.
5th Edition is a step in the right direction and i like the rules but, %^%%^ me, will Hasbro/Wizards of the Coast ever release anything to support it? They release on average 1 Role Playing (not talking about the endless $%%$$ plastic minis or novels ) product on average of every 2 to 3 months and one gets the feeling that Hasbro has cut their staffing back to bone and is trading on the name.
It is a shame because the worlds developed by TSR and WotC have real colour and flavour but they never explore any of it (outside of one small part of the Forgotten Realms) . I have recently gone over to Pathfinder, at least it is still supported.
@ beardragon14 – I totally agree… where are the releases? where is the support for 5th edition campaigns? I know they have some adventure series in hardback.. but they are hardly “ready to play” and not particularly seamless for any new D&D fans or groups. The monster manual guides are interesting, but not essential. And I’m still not even sure what is going on with the Forgotten Realms with their multiverse/alt dimension crash, never mind, wait, maybe.. no.. we’ll definitely separate out the worlds again…
And I must say that after many, many years of being an avid reader of the novels.. I haven’t been reading them at all since this new edition dropped because there doesn’t seem to be any consistency with them or their timing or the story line either.
So yeah… I want to love 5th edition… but I’m having a hard time using any of their published stuff and feel abandoned and unsupported by the releases.
Glad to see some technological advancements… but might be a bit too little and too late.. especially as I’m not sure they are doing enough to support the print format.
A Twitch account for access to D&D Beyond stuff ?
I know single sign on can be useful, but it also means you’re sharing interests (and lots of juicy data) with a company that isn’t WoTC.
Digital rulesets are nice (easier to search for stuff), but the disadvantage is that it becomes difficult/impossible to add house rules and your own modifications/notes to the system.
One potential problem/challenge is that the system is on-line only.
So you’re out of luck if you are somewhere without (decent) internet.
I also wonder what the business model for this thing is going to be like.
I doubt it will be ‘free’ forever … unless they’re planning on selling any collected search data.
Finally … I do hope they’re localizing all of the content they’ve got, because it would be kind of silly if the hardcopy is localised, but the on-line content is English only.
As a bonus they could automatically convert all measurements to the metric system.
does it have a subscription fee? Can i use twitch prime to get it for free? Anyway i doubt i’ll ever abandon Criticalrole for tools i have already for free
Sort of sad that it’s taken this long for them to come out with a digital stat sheet for us to use. Others have made this and I use them often, without needing to subscribe to anything.