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Very Important Text-Based D&D discussion
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TD
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TD
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Looks like you did an Initiative check and some stat checks.
The below post may help a bit:
I'm guessing the practice encounter thing ended already? I was able roll initiative and see other people's rolls in the Game Log but unless I need to launch campaign or something it's not showing up under my encounters. I've never used D&DBeyond for anything but character sheets and game rules before, though, so maybe I'm missing something.
TD
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Where did you go to find your encounters?
I haven't even seen that screen.
TD
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Interesting - Encounters only seems to appear on the page and not on the app.
It's blank for me too, though.
TD
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Ben seemed to have a view and we were trying to see if there was any sort of automation but with it not showing in my encounters, I'm suspecting we may have tested it incorrectly.
I had no idea what I was doing after the initiative check. I did see it looked like shortkut had attacked a few things
Tutorial: How to Build Encounters and Run Them on D&D Beyond
The Encounter Builder and Combat Tracker tools have been combined into Encounters! Free to use by all registered users, Encounters is everything you nee...
www.dndbeyond.com
Might be the reason things seem wonky?
Also, maybe we need like a link to the encounter or something? I don't know.
This was the conclusion I'd come to, that it was a DM-facing thing and the orchestration was still done thought discussion. I don't think there's any UI for the player, and I believe only encounters that you yourself make show up under that "My Encounters" section.Found this tutorial on how to use the thing. And scanning through the comments there was this:Tutorial: How to Build Encounters and Run Them on D&D Beyond
The Encounter Builder and Combat Tracker tools have been combined into Encounters! Free to use by all registered users, Encounters is everything you nee...www.dndbeyond.com
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Might be the reason things seem wonky?
Also, maybe we need like a link to the encounter or something? I don't know.
TD and others that were helping test it earlier weren't actually attacking anything as far as they could see. They were just rolling from their character sheet, and the one test I did with TD I'd manually applied damage to one of the enemies set up in that encounter. I'd say similarly if a player character takes damage, I'm just going to tell you "you take X points of damage" and you'll have to adjust that on your character sheet yourself. I would then I believe see the adjusted HP value on my encounter screen so it's easier to track everything, but as a player you're still really just interacting with the character sheet and otherwise the "action" will be done on the forum.
I'll put together a tutorial of sorts once I've got things straightened out in my head, including which buttons to click when.
There's also a Map feature that's in Alpha, and definitely buggy. I'm trying to decide whether I want to leverage this or just put maps together myself and drop them into the thread as needed. Some visual indicator of your surrounding area and who is where will probably help all involved, but I want to make sure you're not going to see more of the maps than you should as a player, and so on.
As far as my testing of the forum-side dice rolling, it doesn't seem like the bonus/difficulty modifiers really work like they're supposed to. As far as I can tell it'd require people still add their bonus modifiers onto the rolls manually, and that's just going to make it harder than it would be if we use the rolls on DnDBeyond.
This goes well with me saying wisdom should be your dumper stat.
Kutshort practices his attacks and accidentally angers the troll he thought was a tree.
But I’m so charismatic he forgives me
If that doesn't work, Inkarnate is a pretty nice tool for map-making I found in the past. Also Roll20 if you want something people could join and move their characters around on. It has ways to hide stuff on it. Of course both have way more premium than free features, but still.
TD
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Not sure if you saw my message earlier but did you start the campaign prior to the encounter?
I ask because I clicked enter campaign and it said you hadn't started it, so could be a factor?
TD
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The campaign is active, yes. There's nothing else to "launch" it beyond activate/deactivate. I'd say the fact you can all see each other rolling in the game log should imply it's in progress.
The encounters themselves have to be "started", but the test one earlier was running while I was asking people to test it. It's now not.
You'll have to show me where it's telling you things aren't in progress yet if it still is, as I'm not seeing anything else on my side.
I may check those out, but I'm leaning towards just moving the tokens around myself as necessary and dropping them into the post. If nothing else I can work with this and just fog of war it manually.
TD
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At the time we were testing it out, I hit launch game and it said "the DM has not started the campaign."
That message is not present and now I get this:
*Kutshort stands at the front of the ship not realizing he's on a ship because most of it is behind him*
"The world sure is bouncing up and down a lot today"
TD
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It's not in the app.
The app seems great but there's things missing. If you click on the campaign name, you can launch it, and it takes you to this boat.
TD
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Is that so we cannot see outside the boat? If so, then yes
Yar. I put a chunk in the middle of the boat to make it more obvious, too.
And I'm guessing it's FULLY obscured for you? It's only semi-transparent for me but I do have the DM view.
TD
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a) You were on point with that drawing
b) This seems like the most likely explanation
TD
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Yeah just looks like grey blobs, if that's what you mean. No transparency.
TD
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This is how it appears to me now, even though I have 60 ft of darkvision…
