D&D (2024) Learning to Love the Background System

[Parmandur]

Same. My 3-year-long Mad Mage campaign is coming to an end this weekend, and we've agreed to play Wild Beyond the Witchlight next using the 2014 rules. By the time we've finished, all three 2024 books will be out, and we'll be able to decide whether we want to adopt them fully or go with a 2014/2024 hybrid.


Yeah, I guess. I mean, they did put more beasts in the PHB, so we can get some sense of how 2024 druids will play already.

51 stat blocks in the PHB, and most are for Druids.

 

[WanderingMystic]

Here are some from the last few weeks in game I am DMing:

Giving my players a vorpal shorts sword

Giving my players Kwalishes powered armor and having it actually work.

Letting my players have an attack option on their character sheet for the Imp Variant Familiar pet and their Flesh Golem they are controlling and getting all the bonuses to work right.

Giving my players a feat-like boon they got which is not a published feat

Giving the extra spells.

All these things take like 2 minutes or less on the Roll 20 character sheet or about that on paper, but some of them are either completely undoable or else a half-hour chore on DNDBeyond. As far as a computer sheet goes DNDBeyond offers me little.




I make custom monsters, but giving PCs control of any of that is near impossible (or I haven't figured it out yet). I have not figured out easy custom magic items. I can customize an item but getting it to use the right ability score or have the right bonuses is extremely difficult.

So under the collections tab there is a button for brows create homebrew. If you go to make magical item you can type in the name of am existing one and just modify fit so you can change a vorpal sword and change they weapon type to any existing weapon so you can have a vorpal whip of you want.

The armor is there under non core and power armor

In the same place you can create custom feats to do practical what ever you want but I will agree that sometimes it takes a little while to get it to give the bonus you want. Adding extra spells you have to do under a feat or as part of creating subclass. I also believe that you might be able to automatically grant a spell as a spell known to an entire class if you create a copy of the spell in customer I think there is a button to do that.

In order to add a minions attack to your sheet it is more complicated, you have to create a magical item that does that damage and has the right attack bonus.

Most of these only take a minute or two but creating a pets attack
.. which to be honest should be part of the pet tab that they have but is not, would take me 5-10inutes to properly create it as a magical item.

 

[ECMO3]

So under the collections tab there is a button for brows create homebrew. If you go to make magical item you can type in the name of am existing one and just modify fit so you can change a vorpal sword and change they weapon type to any existing weapon so you can have a vorpal whip of you want.

This is a huge chore compared to roll 20 where it takes seconds.

 

[WanderingMystic]

This is a huge chore compared to roll 20 where it takes seconds.

To each their own. The groups I am in enjoy DND beyond because we use it for reference and character creation but we do all of our gaming in person.