D&D 5E (2024) What Would You Like to See from D&D Beyond Drops?

[TravDoc42]

I've been enjoying the monthly drops on D&D Beyond of content so far! I am curious to find out what sort of content is coming down the pipe, and I wonder what you all would be excited to see!

Personally, I love monsters (big surprise), and I think this format is a great way to bring forward old oddities from previous editions that haven't found a place in 5.5e yet, like the wingless wonder, the adherer, the spell weaver, etc. I was very impressed by the Celestial Horrors, so seeing unique new monsters is also cool!!

 

[Zaukrie]

Mostly stickers and monsters.

 

[sevenbastard]

Well, I dont actually use D&D beyond, but if they wanted to hook me. Short, focused, site based adventures that could easily be dropped in a campaign would be nice.

 

[Zaukrie]

Well, I dont actually use D&D beyond, but if they wanted to hook me. Short, focused, site based adventures that could easily be dropped in a campaign would be nice.

Good point. Lots of one shots with good maps..... That look good online for online play.... Which they mostly don't have.

 

[Clint_L]

Well, you guys have pretty much nailed my preferences:

1. Stickers. Lotsa them so I can customize maps more.
2. Map tiles. See above. Let me make my own maps from scratch.
3. Cool monsters.
4. Mini-adventures (though...One Shot Wonders is already on DDB, and doing too much of this would undercut them, so maybe not).
5. Magic item cards that could be sent to whichever player got an item. They can see it, the art, etc. and it also adds the item to their character sheet.

 

[bedir than]

Good point. Lots of one shots with good maps..... That look good online for online play.... Which they mostly don't have.

Isn't this literally Drops right now?

 

[Distracted DM]

This is a question I'm sure WotC would like to have the answers to- Drops are a good idea, and since they changed course and allowed the standard DnDB sharing rules for them I see them being a big draw.

Isn't this literally Drops right now?

Yeah, but most if not all maps on Drops are Mike Schley maps. If you don't like his style, or prefer other artists, I can see people wanting a greater variety/style of maps. Not too unreasonable of an ask since we're eliciting "what would you (personally) like to see from drops?"

I don't know if any of the maps in the Drops are new- I think they're all out of the old WotC back-catalogue. But I'd hardly complain about that... Drops so far seems like a hit.

 

[Zaukrie]

Isn't this literally Drops right now?

The maps are not great mostly compared to most VTT maps. I love scheys work in general, but these maps aren't detailed, aren't really made for VTT use. And, y'all asked what I wanted, I answered what I wanted?

 

[Hexmage-EN]

New things that are easy to plug in, be they brand new or updates to older editions' material. Mostly on the DM side to reduce the chance of overpowered things being introduced on the players' side.

 

[Vaalingrade]

Ownership of what I'm handing money over for.

Then like feats.