Having Maps integrated with Encounters is essential. “Oh you killed Goblin A?” When i set his health to 0 he’ll become faded/X’d out/deleted from the Map for me, so i dont have to remember to do it myself. I get to the next monsters turn, their token is highlighted on the map so the players know which one is attacking. A player says “i want to attack this goblin” and clicks it on the map. Its highlighted for me in Encounters so i can see which one they’re talking about. Now i dont need to manually name each enemy on the map Goblin A, B, C etc. Encounter menu and viewing character sheets should be a collapsible leaf on the side of the screen, just like how managing Items/Spells looks on the character sheet. This way its a familiar user experience for people who use the platform
@@austinblake4079It really makes D&D Beyond’s subscription more sustainable if it was an all in one site. I think realistically Wizards should have just done this through another acquisition but the budget wasn’t there for it. Might have even been the original plan which is why everything is being slowly pieced together in-house. I do wonder how everything would have gone down if the shareholder push to sell D&D had worked out.
I would like a feature that automatically adds either some form of differentiator (like goblin A,B,,C / goblin 1,2,3) or adds some kind of colored border to each new goblin I place. That way my players can just say, "I'm attacking Goblin C or the Red Goblin", and it is immediately obvious which one they are referring to.
@@bryanraines7619 imagine you make an Encounter on the encounter builder. Load up Maps, select what Encounter youre going to run, and then all the enemies for that encounter popped onto the map with their differentiators included. Then you just place them where you want. Would be super simple !
Even if they don't get to this soon, maps being in the browser means writing extensions to do it wouldn't be too hard. It's been pretty top of my mind.
Or Shared Containers? Or Custom Containers? Or Custom Conditions? Or updates for the Encounter Tool (like live condition updates for each PC as seen in the app)? And other things that were announced years ago ^^
Are updates to the character sheets just done? Was excited to see a dev update finally again but sad we’re still waiting on sheet features mentioned well over a year ago
With The "fog of war" tool is hard to unhide walls with secret doors especially using maps from the digital content where the secret door is often very close to the wall and while in live it's hard to unhide for instance a corridor while players walk though without reveal too much since the border of the tool does not match the unveiled area (it's a little bit less and if you do more, you risk to hit the secret door... and the slower you get unhiding to more likely the players get you are trying to hide something).
Draw tool is fantastic. Will we be getting AoE overlays at some point? It would be nice to be able to make, for example, a 20' radius circle or a 30' cone, and then position it precisely where I (or the player) wants to place it.
Fantastic! I’ve only just signed up for maps, but not having a spectator view was immediately why I wasn’t going to keep using it. Now that it’s in, I’ll be using it all the time. The two other suggestions I had was: 1: spell tokens, ei orb of… or the ability to make custom tokens and add them. 2: transparent templates for spells, ei 20’ radius fireball template, or 15’ cone of cold template. As in circle, square, cone adjustable size templates. Pretty cool, so far. I’m starting my first game as a DM this week, and maps will be at the centre.
The most amazing feature that I would like to have is a game like experience of combat but just for the DM like having the tokens that are involved on a battle in a “Pokemon like fashion” and the ability to just make something like character A attacked with a fireball enemy B C and D and make all the calculations, with the ability to tune the spells and stuff that characters and enemies can use, just as an ease of use calculator for combat, it doesn’t have to have effect or animations I find that the most tedious part of the game specially in higher levels, almost all the time I tent to eyeball the hits just to keep the phase going
Great stuff, thank you. Could the team clarify where the new home is for errata documentation for all printed products? The old D&D web site has not been updated. Thanks!
@@Odande I had to cut it up into individual segments and upload it to roll20. But I would way more prefer to be able to use just dndbeyond if it could handle maps like this. Or anything over 10mp limit
@D&D beyond. Will we be able to get some support for Non-core rules? Like the contamination rules in DUNGEONS OF DRAKKENHEIM or the Supernatural Gift in MOoT?
They haven't even implemented stuff from the official books. The piety system from theros comes to mind. Not to mention all the stuff from the DMG. So I would be shocked if those somehow got implemented first
How can there not be a feature for the dm to move multiple Tokens simply by pressing ctrl or alt on several tokens or selecting them otherwise. This should be a hotfix in my opinion. Im leading a huge campaign of 8 Players and simply want to move them all from time to time when they travel as a group. Draging every single Token all the time is so exhausting, since we are trying to play mobile phone free and im the only one moving their tokens arround.
I'm just confused why WotC is partnering with FoundryVTT, still making their own VTT and also adding features to Maps to essentially function as another VTT.
WOTC partnering with FoundryVTT is not any different than their initial partnering with Roll20 and FantasyGrounds, it doesn't mean that FoundryVTT is going the become the "official" VTT supported by WOTC, their are simply extending their partnership with another third party tool. While, on their side, they will continue building their internal tools linked to DnDBeyond such as Maps and the VTT they announced last year.
custom tokens or bust ….you need tokens for spiritual weapons and homebrew monsters, echos , summons, wild shapes…just let us upload a library of tokens like owl bear rodeo. I’d like to be using maps, but until that feature is available I don’t see how I could run a game without being able to drop in custom tokens on the fly.
Is there anything in the works currently for the DM to limit individual source books from use in the Character Builder in their campaigns rather than just the blanket options of limiting options like critical role, magic the gathering, 3rd party content etc?
Some nice improvements! However I'd really like to see content sharing support added as a priority; my groups have different DMs so we all own different sets of monsters etc., and we sometimes DM for each other's campaigns, but Maps doesn't currently support this at all (can't create a map as a player in a campaign, and can only see directly owned content and homebrew), please make Maps consistent with campaigns as soon as possible!
I do have a question regarding maps from old adventures being brought into Maps. I'm running Dragon of Icespire Peak and have been able to save down the maps and upload them myself but there are maps with errors on them; are those being corrected? There is one with a scaling issue where it says 1 square is 50 ft instead of 10 ft I believe (a designer acknowledged this by Twitter) and all of the player versions of maps have secret passages marked clearly on them as opposed to them being a solid wall with no denotation of the secret door. The secret door denotations just make the maps useless...
Ideally, the maps should be corrected before being added if D&D Beyond wants us to use them and not have to redo the upload work when they are corrected at a later date.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased with the efforts the devs are making, but I find it outrageous that you haven't finished the feature system for the current rules. We've been waiting for years and you don't even mention that project
As a DM running in-person games, the Spectator view has been amazing. I can Cast the tab to the TV in front of the table, where I also put illustrations and images to show the players things, and keep the table clear of the maps. It gives more space for the wine and cheese and antipasto 🙂 My big request for maps follows on from the Draw capability. I really wish there was a way to place (snapping to grid) a spell effect area, like a grid-shaped fireball template, or a cone-of-cold cone template that can be rotated along an axis, that can be placed down on the map to highlight the grid squares affected. And then tap on them to remove/hide/recolor, and drag to move.
So, yeah, cool and all, but I feel like certain things like the encounter tool and figuring out sidekicks and whatnot should also be of great importance.
I am not an expert (not even close) in how D&D Beyond works, but I remember seeing we can add some homebrew stuff, no? (spells, feats) I understand your suggestion still. My guess is they might be afraid many players would circumvent buying a content by adding a copyrighted class as a free homebrew, but I support the notion that such a full feature is logical and the positives outweigh the negatives (loss of maybe some sales, but in exchange for an even more attractive platform with increased consumer fidelity).
Tested the maps again after a while. While a basic anyone can use it is great. Also is much better then it was a year ago. A few ideas if anyone on the map teams sees this (in no order but marked for number sake): 01) It would be awesome to have the ability to load maps (like from Dungeon Alchemist or other programs) or have preloaded maps that have walls and line of site. To put them on par with the likes of Foundry and Roll20 and such. Also the with the walls and line of site allow for doors a lock and unlock marker, or if the players blow open a wall or stone walk through one to allow line of site to be updated on the fly. 02) Resizable tokens for shrinking or giant. 03) A marker for flying tokens and to be able to adjust how high they are. 04) Spell effects or pop art for fire, ice, fog and such. But at least a Line, Cone, Sphere, Cube markers that can be resized. 05) The ability to mark only to show tokens for the monsters we have access to. I know having the Monster we do not have stats block to can make for better sales (but at lest put what book they can can found in next to them), and allowing a DM to use tokens that they do not have access to the stat block is awesome (I thank you for that). But you are competing with other table top programs that are years ahead. It would be nice to also have the option to skip to only what I have access to. Could be a 4th tag in the token area to filter by content. That way people can load things that would only show in a game they are running or everything. 06) Have it tie into the encounter beta where as the health points go down. The token also changes with it.
This is smart- Foundry is just amazing and gorgeous, but requires training to fully utilize. It can be too much for many DMs, especially new ones. So this is an onboarding tool. Respect for making the game more accessible at both ends of the VTT spectrum.
Bumped into spectator mode over the weekend: perfect for in person projector sessions! I would love to see campaign duplication: my son is running the starter campaign for several groups of friends and I wish we didn’t have to set up the campaign from blank slate each time (i.e., maps, monsters, and fog for each new group).
I love the simplicity of it.. keep up the good work! As it gets more complex though, it would good if you had an option to "show only the basic features", so it doesn't start suffering from Photoshop syndrome!
I will say, I do like maps a lot. I actually just switched both my weekly groups to it and it's been a great deal compared to Roll20, especially since I own 90% of the content on dnd beyond anyway. I hope they continue to grow the features.
Ddb is definitely improving, love maps, wish that maps in the other books where added automatically when you buy those books, not just the ones that are flagged maps in the marketplace.
Need Auras, status effects and hidden/invisiblity tokens, aura related fog of war would be very cool for dark maps. Also it would be nice to have an option to enable/disable grids and grid snapping.
I'm still crossing my fingers for the addition of items, such as furniture, trees, bushes, treasure chests, etc etc etc.. Once they get this, I can abandon Roll20 altogether!
The headline read 2024 Core Rulebooks... but you spent about 7 seconds talking about support for the new books and didn't even touch on how backward compatibility will be supported. And there hasn't been an update on this channel since. (not one that is easy to find on this topic anyway) I've really found DnDBeyond helpful in my playing, so I am hoping it won't fall apart for my purposes after the 2024 updates.
I am really curious from a business perspective why we are reinventing the wheel here. It seems to be they could have purchased something like foundry vtt or negotiated to purchase the right to use their code as a base for their horses system.
The spectator view is spectacular! I only have one question. When are Gnolls going to be made an official player race? Think about it. Gnoll wizard FBs opponents. Ranger and Rogue Gnolls finish off opponents and the three feast away, cleaning up the evidence! They're perfect! :)
These are basic features for any virtual tabletop, and should have been included before the product was even released to the public. At this rate, it will be years before there are comparable features to existing VTT products.
Would be nice if it supported DM/Player versioned maps. Seems like it's not a huge feature to let you link the two same-dimension maps and display one to DM and the other to players as the base layer. I'll leave same feedback in a better place. It's a good reason why I haven't given up on an alternate platform where I can at least add hidden notes and non-token artifacts to identify trap locations/etc. But it's the most burdensome part of game prep currently. That said... as I wrote that I just realized I probably *can* just drop the whole second map on top but invisible-to-players in the other platform.
I think it would be cool if you could make custom characters different sizes such as my friend who has a goliath characters token size could be abit bigger :)
So excited for features that have been available in Roll20 for years drawing is not a tool that should be spoken about for more than 30 seconds for maps to even be considered amongst the likes of Roll20, custom tokens need to be able to be added
Highly doubt this, D&DB is a compendium of content that is usable with other bits of the site, in order for DM's Guild to have that same treatment, people would have to hand-convert flat text to all of the individual tools that make D&D Beyond... well, what it is.
Glad maps are a useful tool for many groups, but that's not what my tabletop-playing groups need. We need improvements on sharing homebrew to players (so that players at the table can actually look through the stuff in our Homebrew collections), with better search fields to sort through the hundreds of homebrew creations. We need H (homebrew) and M (costly material component) tags for homebrew creations and spells on the digital sheet. We need way to customize a skill with a quick semi-permanent Advantage or Disadvantage toggle without having to create ad hoc magic items to add the functionality. We need a Rage toggle for barbarians. We need a Concentration marker toggle for spellcasters... We need sharable containers. Things subscribers have been asking for for years.
Would there ever be a chance to have customer tokens? Being able to upload a picture and select a size would make things a lot easier for homebrew monsters and quick npcs that aren't all facless commoners
Having Maps integrated with Encounters is essential.
“Oh you killed Goblin A?” When i set his health to 0 he’ll become faded/X’d out/deleted from the Map for me, so i dont have to remember to do it myself.
I get to the next monsters turn, their token is highlighted on the map so the players know which one is attacking.
A player says “i want to attack this goblin” and clicks it on the map. Its highlighted for me in Encounters so i can see which one they’re talking about. Now i dont need to manually name each enemy on the map Goblin A, B, C etc.
Encounter menu and viewing character sheets should be a collapsible leaf on the side of the screen, just like how managing Items/Spells looks on the character sheet. This way its a familiar user experience for people who use the platform
I feel Iike all of that is on the roadmap it’s just taking a really long time
All this is on foundry anyway
@@austinblake4079It really makes D&D Beyond’s subscription more sustainable if it was an all in one site. I think realistically Wizards should have just done this through another acquisition but the budget wasn’t there for it. Might have even been the original plan which is why everything is being slowly pieced together in-house. I do wonder how everything would have gone down if the shareholder push to sell D&D had worked out.
I would like a feature that automatically adds either some form of differentiator (like goblin A,B,,C / goblin 1,2,3) or adds some kind of colored border to each new goblin I place. That way my players can just say, "I'm attacking Goblin C or the Red Goblin", and it is immediately obvious which one they are referring to.
@@bryanraines7619 imagine you make an Encounter on the encounter builder. Load up Maps, select what Encounter youre going to run, and then all the enemies for that encounter popped onto the map with their differentiators included. Then you just place them where you want. Would be super simple !
Resizing tokens on the fly would be great, for if an enlarge/reduce spell is used, etc.
Snap to grid, pleeeease!
This is the one thing stopping me from using it
Ideally it could be snap to grid by default, with an option to turn it off. So more options as some DMs might like no grid at all.
@@Baraz_Red Ideally, yeah. :)
Whew, been a while since we had a Dev Update! Keep em coming.
Looking forward to spell effects like distance cones and cubes and what not.
Absolutely!
Even if they don't get to this soon, maps being in the browser means writing extensions to do it wouldn't be too hard.
It's been pretty top of my mind.
I’m just surprised that the tactical maps that WotC put out years ago isn’t incorporated into their maps section
When will Boons and Super Natural gifts added as a feature for players character sheets?
Lol. Next decade probably.
Or Shared Containers? Or Custom Containers? Or Custom Conditions? Or updates for the Encounter Tool (like live condition updates for each PC as seen in the app)? And other things that were announced years ago ^^
Never…
So glad we will be getting tools for running combat and initiative tracking! Would also really like the option to toggle snap to grid!
Are updates to the character sheets just done? Was excited to see a dev update finally again but sad we’re still waiting on sheet features mentioned well over a year ago
Same. Hoping for Encounters updates too
The manage inventory system drives me crazy when I want to browse magic items by rarity on my sheet and always has lol
Agreed, would love to see encounters and character sheet get worked on (as well as the mythical monster builder/user friendly homebrew updates)
I believe, back then, Adam promised that for 2020-2021 lol
i wish shared books would work with maps
Same. We have access to the maps in shared content anyway and could conceivably upload a map manually. It would allow us to skip a step.
Same
No doubt - WE had a hard time undesstanding that until we figured that out. Doh!
With The "fog of war" tool is hard to unhide walls with secret doors especially using maps from the digital content where the secret door is often very close to the wall and while in live it's hard to unhide for instance a corridor while players walk though without reveal too much since the border of the tool does not match the unveiled area (it's a little bit less and if you do more, you risk to hit the secret door... and the slower you get unhiding to more likely the players get you are trying to hide something).
Draw tool is fantastic.
Will we be getting AoE overlays at some point? It would be nice to be able to make, for example, a 20' radius circle or a 30' cone, and then position it precisely where I (or the player) wants to place it.
+1 for AOE overlays for sure. Is there a tool now that can sort of do it? (I would not know)
@@Baraz_Red You can freehand draw it with the draw tool, but if you draw freehand like I do, that's not really a great solution. :)
@@autographedcat Hehe, indeed. A measuring tool, including cones and circles, is needed.
If I had an online game right now, I think this is the VTT I’d use. The tools look nice and simple while covering all the basics.
Fantastic!
I’ve only just signed up for maps, but not having a spectator view was immediately why I wasn’t going to keep using it. Now that it’s in, I’ll be using it all the time.
The two other suggestions I had was:
1: spell tokens, ei orb of… or the ability to make custom tokens and add them.
2: transparent templates for spells, ei 20’ radius fireball template, or 15’ cone of cold template. As in circle, square, cone adjustable size templates.
Pretty cool, so far. I’m starting my first game as a DM this week, and maps will be at the centre.
Tying in encounters would be great
The most amazing feature that I would like to have is a game like experience of combat but just for the DM like having the tokens that are involved on a battle in a “Pokemon like fashion” and the ability to just make something like character A attacked with a fireball enemy B C and D and make all the calculations, with the ability to tune the spells and stuff that characters and enemies can use, just as an ease of use calculator for combat, it doesn’t have to have effect or animations I find that the most tedious part of the game specially in higher levels, almost all the time I tent to eyeball the hits just to keep the phase going
Great stuff, thank you. Could the team clarify where the new home is for errata documentation for all printed products? The old D&D web site has not been updated. Thanks!
Thank you. Unfortunately, I still can't use the software until it allows for bigger map uploads. I really do like what you're doing.
The entirety of Wave Echo Cave from Phandelver is in there, how big of a battle map are you trying to use? Just curious
@@Odande the last map I uploaded was 120x178. And was 218mb as a 3d map model.
@@Odande I had to cut it up into individual segments and upload it to roll20. But I would way more prefer to be able to use just dndbeyond if it could handle maps like this. Or anything over 10mp limit
@D&D beyond.
Will we be able to get some support for Non-core rules? Like the contamination rules in DUNGEONS OF DRAKKENHEIM or the Supernatural Gift in MOoT?
They haven't even implemented stuff from the official books.
The piety system from theros comes to mind. Not to mention all the stuff from the DMG.
So I would be shocked if those somehow got implemented first
@@Enkidu659 yeah. I'm hoping that it can come in under the GF system. Haven't heard anything about that though.
How can there
not be a feature for the dm to move multiple Tokens simply by pressing ctrl or alt on several tokens or selecting them otherwise. This should be a hotfix in my opinion. Im leading a huge campaign of 8 Players and simply want to move them all from time to time when they travel as a group. Draging every single Token all the time is so exhausting, since we are trying to play mobile phone free and im the only one moving their tokens arround.
I'm just confused why WotC is partnering with FoundryVTT, still making their own VTT and also adding features to Maps to essentially function as another VTT.
They're not. Foundry is licensing the content. A VTT is a very different product to what Maps is. Maps is for maps only.
WOTC partnering with FoundryVTT is not any different than their initial partnering with Roll20 and FantasyGrounds, it doesn't mean that FoundryVTT is going the become the "official" VTT supported by WOTC, their are simply extending their partnership with another third party tool. While, on their side, they will continue building their internal tools linked to DnDBeyond such as Maps and the VTT they announced last year.
custom tokens or bust ….you need tokens for spiritual weapons and homebrew monsters, echos , summons, wild shapes…just let us upload a library of tokens like owl bear rodeo. I’d like to be using maps, but until that feature is available I don’t see how I could run a game without being able to drop in custom tokens on the fly.
Is there anything in the works currently for the DM to limit individual source books from use in the Character Builder in their campaigns rather than just the blanket options of limiting options like critical role, magic the gathering, 3rd party content etc?
You can do this by selecting sources in the DDB Campaing.
Some nice improvements! However I'd really like to see content sharing support added as a priority; my groups have different DMs so we all own different sets of monsters etc., and we sometimes DM for each other's campaigns, but Maps doesn't currently support this at all (can't create a map as a player in a campaign, and can only see directly owned content and homebrew), please make Maps consistent with campaigns as soon as possible!
Any chance for you to have the monsters preplaced on the maps?
I do have a question regarding maps from old adventures being brought into Maps. I'm running Dragon of Icespire Peak and have been able to save down the maps and upload them myself but there are maps with errors on them; are those being corrected? There is one with a scaling issue where it says 1 square is 50 ft instead of 10 ft I believe (a designer acknowledged this by Twitter) and all of the player versions of maps have secret passages marked clearly on them as opposed to them being a solid wall with no denotation of the secret door. The secret door denotations just make the maps useless...
Ideally, the maps should be corrected before being added if D&D Beyond wants us to use them and not have to redo the upload work when they are corrected at a later date.
Don't get me wrong, I'm pleased with the efforts the devs are making, but I find it outrageous that you haven't finished the feature system for the current rules. We've been waiting for years and you don't even mention that project
Please include a text feature for the maps.
Will maps ever be available on the mobile app? Maybe even if its only for players and the DM has to use a laptop
Any plans to bring the maps and encounters function to the app?
So glad to see a Dev Update!
This is great! I'm really happy D&D Beyond is continuing to expand the product in sensible ways.
I'm going to take a shot every time the phrase "as well as" is spoken in this update.
Ah, that be sounding like a worthy dwarven drinking game! 🍻
Heh, Todd's back!
What happened with party containers? And (what was it called?) the generic feature system?
So many promised features and improvements were dropped or forgotten altogether upon DDB Beyond acquisition by WotC. Frustrating, to say the least.
As a DM running in-person games, the Spectator view has been amazing. I can Cast the tab to the TV in front of the table, where I also put illustrations and images to show the players things, and keep the table clear of the maps. It gives more space for the wine and cheese and antipasto 🙂
My big request for maps follows on from the Draw capability. I really wish there was a way to place (snapping to grid) a spell effect area, like a grid-shaped fireball template, or a cone-of-cold cone template that can be rotated along an axis, that can be placed down on the map to highlight the grid squares affected. And then tap on them to remove/hide/recolor, and drag to move.
So, yeah, cool and all, but I feel like certain things like the encounter tool and figuring out sidekicks and whatnot should also be of great importance.
Can we please get third party and homebrew classes in D&D Beyond?
I am not an expert (not even close) in how D&D Beyond works, but I remember seeing we can add some homebrew stuff, no? (spells, feats) I understand your suggestion still. My guess is they might be afraid many players would circumvent buying a content by adding a copyrighted class as a free homebrew, but I support the notion that such a full feature is logical and the positives outweigh the negatives (loss of maybe some sales, but in exchange for an even more attractive platform with increased consumer fidelity).
Tested the maps again after a while. While a basic anyone can use it is great. Also is much better then it was a year ago.
A few ideas if anyone on the map teams sees this (in no order but marked for number sake):
01) It would be awesome to have the ability to load maps (like from Dungeon Alchemist or other programs) or have preloaded maps that have walls and line of site. To put them on par with the likes of Foundry and Roll20 and such. Also the with the walls and line of site allow for doors a lock and unlock marker, or if the players blow open a wall or stone walk through one to allow line of site to be updated on the fly.
02) Resizable tokens for shrinking or giant.
03) A marker for flying tokens and to be able to adjust how high they are.
04) Spell effects or pop art for fire, ice, fog and such. But at least a Line, Cone, Sphere, Cube markers that can be resized.
05) The ability to mark only to show tokens for the monsters we have access to. I know having the Monster we do not have stats block to can make for better sales (but at lest put what book they can can found in next to them), and allowing a DM to use tokens that they do not have access to the stat block is awesome (I thank you for that). But you are competing with other table top programs that are years ahead. It would be nice to also have the option to skip to only what I have access to. Could be a 4th tag in the token area to filter by content. That way people can load things that would only show in a game they are running or everything.
06) Have it tie into the encounter beta where as the health points go down. The token also changes with it.
I enjoy maps... but I also want to see the character sheet and magic improvements continue more.
Still can't export character sheet PDFs. Please fix.
This is smart- Foundry is just amazing and gorgeous, but requires training to fully utilize. It can be too much for many DMs, especially new ones. So this is an onboarding tool. Respect for making the game more accessible at both ends of the VTT spectrum.
Just use Owlbear Rodeo, sure it takes a LITTLE bit of effort, but it has every feature that D&D Beyond is trying to brag about.
The biggest barrier to entry is the cost. Will this eventually be free like the more robust Roll20 is?
Bumped into spectator mode over the weekend: perfect for in person projector sessions!
I would love to see campaign duplication: my son is running the starter campaign for several groups of friends and I wish we didn’t have to set up the campaign from blank slate each time (i.e., maps, monsters, and fog for each new group).
amazing updates. Ill be moving over to this soon. currently use a mix of OBR and R20 but this seems to cover what I need well enough now.
I love the simplicity of it.. keep up the good work! As it gets more complex though, it would good if you had an option to "show only the basic features", so it doesn't start suffering from Photoshop syndrome!
I would love snap to grid (unless its in maps and I haven't found it)
Maps does not have a grid to snap to because it only uses free form token scale.
@@ValeryanPrime oh interesting
That's great and all, but when are you going to fix the Superior Technique issue where it doesn't let you pick a maneuver when you select it?
What books have more npc choices for tokens? I need more npc tokens!
Really like that there is progress! Maps has to be tied with encounters 100%
I will say, I do like maps a lot. I actually just switched both my weekly groups to it and it's been a great deal compared to Roll20, especially since I own 90% of the content on dnd beyond anyway. I hope they continue to grow the features.
I would love to combine the map and combat tracker in one tab. It would save a lot of flitting about between multiple screens/tabs
Ddb is definitely improving, love maps, wish that maps in the other books where added automatically when you buy those books, not just the ones that are flagged maps in the marketplace.
They're hoping to have all maps added by the end of this year.
I'm prepping Dungeons of Drakkenheim for my group, and we will be playing the campaign with maps. Glad to see the continued improvements!
FANTASTIC UPDATE! Really exciting to observe the evolution of VTT. Appreciate the focus upon "ease of use"! Keep it up, we love it!
Any updates? Since this video?
I'd love to have an Active Map checkbox or something to let me as a DM consult a map while keeping the players on a different one
Can we have an updated on the 3D VTT?
Tying in encounters and ability to add a grid to maps would be amazing!
Need Auras, status effects and hidden/invisiblity tokens, aura related fog of war would be very cool for dark maps. Also it would be nice to have an option to enable/disable grids and grid snapping.
Is there a way to hide DM rolls on the game log? Anyone know?
Mine *don't* show by default...I have to select show everyone for them to see. I roll from the dice on the left
I’m not able to add any players to my maps?
I'm still crossing my fingers for the addition of items, such as furniture, trees, bushes, treasure chests, etc etc etc.. Once they get this, I can abandon Roll20 altogether!
I’d love to see an extremely advanced A.I. that can DM all the Adventures we buy as an option.
Any news on the 3D VTT?
I would love to be able to add labels to the maps or be able to use generic tokens like 'A' or '1'.
The headline read 2024 Core Rulebooks... but you spent about 7 seconds talking about support for the new books and didn't even touch on how backward compatibility will be supported. And there hasn't been an update on this channel since. (not one that is easy to find on this topic anyway) I've really found DnDBeyond helpful in my playing, so I am hoping it won't fall apart for my purposes after the 2024 updates.
When will party loot be coming to DDB?
It would be awesome to be able to assign tokens darkvision distance and torch light to interact with the fog.
Excited to start experimenting with these maps!
We really need a way for DMs to see the DM map while players only see the player version
Loving the direction Maps is going! Just get that encounter builder integrated into it eventually ;) Keep up the great work, we're loving it!!
Adding condition markers that snap to tokens would be top of my list
I am really curious from a business perspective why we are reinventing the wheel here. It seems to be they could have purchased something like foundry vtt or negotiated to purchase the right to use their code as a base for their horses system.
The spectator view is spectacular!
I only have one question. When are Gnolls going to be made an official player race?
Think about it. Gnoll wizard FBs opponents. Ranger and Rogue Gnolls finish off opponents and the three feast away, cleaning up the evidence! They're perfect! :)
Great updates to Maps. It really starts to turn into THE go-to map tool
Thank you for the maps! Continue improving and growing it! Finally a place to play and not only roll20 or other sites!
I'm confused, is this the promised "3d" table top that was originally advertised or something separate from that?
Something separate.
I think they dropped the 3d tabletop honestly, but Talespire already exists if you want that.
We've been using Maps and loving it since it was released. I hope you've got AoE spell drawing shapes on the roadmap. :)
These are basic features for any virtual tabletop, and should have been included before the product was even released to the public. At this rate, it will be years before there are comparable features to existing VTT products.
Would be nice if it supported DM/Player versioned maps. Seems like it's not a huge feature to let you link the two same-dimension maps and display one to DM and the other to players as the base layer. I'll leave same feedback in a better place. It's a good reason why I haven't given up on an alternate platform where I can at least add hidden notes and non-token artifacts to identify trap locations/etc. But it's the most burdensome part of game prep currently.
That said... as I wrote that I just realized I probably *can* just drop the whole second map on top but invisible-to-players in the other platform.
Who’s this dev? Man I miss the live stream. Are we going to finally add shareable containers?
Custom Tokens!!!
I think it would be cool if you could make custom characters different sizes such as my friend who has a goliath characters token size could be abit bigger :)
Compares to like Roll20 and Owlbear, Beyond seems to have them beat. Like the ability to pull adventure-based maps and doesn’t seem clunky to use.
ANd Roll20 just never felt like the UI was user friendly
Yeah I 100% agree with Roll20. Owlbear might take a bit more, but it's certainly getting there.
@@bridgerdyck387 I also have no idea how to use OBR cause I use R20 and Foundry
I recognized the Dragon Heist map under Waterdeep!
Spectator POV for a DM projecting the battle map on a big screen for example : +1 !
So excited for features that have been available in Roll20 for years
drawing is not a tool that should be spoken about for more than 30 seconds
for maps to even be considered amongst the likes of Roll20, custom tokens need to be able to be added
DM'S NEED the ability to select multiple tokens to move a large group all at once. Dragging individual tokens drastically slows down combat/gameplay.
i wish they added turn order an a way to add hit points to the tokens
Is Dungeon Master's Guild going to be rolled into D&D Beyond? Is all of our Third Party Content going to be exclusive to D&D Beyond?
Highly doubt this, D&DB is a compendium of content that is usable with other bits of the site, in order for DM's Guild to have that same treatment, people would have to hand-convert flat text to all of the individual tools that make D&D Beyond... well, what it is.
Very cool! Custom tokens next, please!
Glad maps are a useful tool for many groups, but that's not what my tabletop-playing groups need. We need improvements on sharing homebrew to players (so that players at the table can actually look through the stuff in our Homebrew collections), with better search fields to sort through the hundreds of homebrew creations. We need H (homebrew) and M (costly material component) tags for homebrew creations and spells on the digital sheet. We need way to customize a skill with a quick semi-permanent Advantage or Disadvantage toggle without having to create ad hoc magic items to add the functionality. We need a Rage toggle for barbarians. We need a Concentration marker toggle for spellcasters... We need sharable containers. Things subscribers have been asking for for years.
Is that shirt she's wearing for sale somewhere? Just the plain text one?
Maps is great! I use it on my phone and it just works 💯 draw tool was the last major thing missing
Maps works so much better for my groups than other vtts that we tried
Seems like this will be simple to use and great once it can do the simple things Roll20 can do.
Can you comment on why it’s been over three months since the last iPhone app update? I think there have been several Android updates in that time.
Yeah, Apple sucks. That's the answer, reach out to Apple and tell them you want the updates.
I still miss custom map editor ... So far its cool for aoneone who play online or without minies
Would there ever be a chance to have customer tokens? Being able to upload a picture and select a size would make things a lot easier for homebrew monsters and quick npcs that aren't all facless commoners
Spectator mode kinda neat