D&D 5E (2024) One Store's Sales (D&D 2014 & 2024)

[UngainlyTitan]

I have a friend who runs a game club in his school, and he says that it is very common for the players to use Beyond while the GM still runs from books. I wonder how typical that is.

Hell, I use both if I have the books and I run form VTTs. If looking for stuff to fill out an adventure or to plan what next to slot into a campaign. I check what I have in books first. It is easier to flip through. Unfortunately, I cannot afford to buy every book and now adays only buy adventurers if I an actively planning to run them, though when I can, I will buy the physical copies of anthology books, only buying the online version for the VTT I am using. Since as I have said I find the anthologies very useful as filler and campaign starter material.

 

[FitzTheRuke]

Hell, I use both if I have the books and I run form VTTs. If looking for stuff to fill out an adventure or to plan what next to slot into a campaign. I check what I have in books first. It is easier to flip through. Unfortunately, I cannot afford to buy every book and now adays only buy adventurers if I an actively planning to run them, though when I can, I will buy the physical copies of anthology books, only buying the online version for the VTT I am using. Since as I have said I find the anthologies very useful as filler and campaign starter material.

I have everything on DDB myself, but I read "real" books when I'm sitting in bed at night, and I generally cut-n-paste into MS Word, and edit down, information for "at the table".

I don't like digital tools at the table. I find that anyone who uses DDB for their character sheet always takes FOREVER to find anything. I too, take too long if I have to scroll through a PDF at the table. Maybe some folks (and some computers) have the ability to navigate quickly, but most do not, IME.

DDB is the best digital tool for D&D that we've ever had. It still needs a lot of work. There was a time when it seemed like it was going to get that work, but WotC (somewhat understandably) didn't pay, what was it, $143 million, just to want to rebuild it from the ground up (which apparently it needs, or it would have been improved by gradual updates).

Maybe someday!

 

[ECMO3]

I have everything on DDB myself, but I read "real" books when I'm sitting in bed at night, and I generally cut-n-paste into MS Word, and edit down, information for "at the table".

I don't like digital tools at the table. I find that anyone who uses DDB for their character sheet always takes FOREVER to find anything. I too, take too long if I have to scroll through a PDF at the table. Maybe some folks (and some computers) have the ability to navigate quickly, but most do not, IME.

DDB is the best digital tool for D&D that we've ever had. It still needs a lot of work. There was a time when it seemed like it was going to get that work, but WotC (somewhat understandably) didn't pay, what was it, $143 million, just to want to rebuild it from the ground up (which apparently it needs, or it would have been improved by gradual updates).

Maybe someday!

I do not find DND Beyond character sheets to be very good. They are extremely hard to navigate, have all kinds of math errors and they are very difficult to edit and fix. Take even a basic thing like Agonizing Truestrike - something basic right from the PHB and no way to get it on the character sheet. Getting custom weapons to work or adding bonuses is a real chore.

I think the character sheet on Roll20 is the best digital character sheet for 5E that I have used. I would also put the Character sheet on Foundary ahead of DND Beyond, although it takes time getting used to.

At the table though nothing beats pen and paper when it comes to a character sheet IME.

 

[Lanefan]

At the table though nothing beats pen and paper when it comes to a character sheet IME.

Even when playing online, a paper character sheet is still the way to go IMO.

If nothing else, you get to decide the format it's in and what goes where etc., and that alone makes things light-years easier to find than using someone else's format and layout.