D&D Beyond 9+

This app is a must have app for all DMs everywhere. I started a long-play campaign 4 years ago, before I had known about this. What this looked like: everyone was gathered around the table with their character sheets and notebooks, I had a 1.5” binder and a 3 subject spiral notebook. This was sort of impractical, as whenever I said something, my players had to write notes and respond in character at the same time. Then one of them brought their laptop, no notebook, no dice, just the laptop. We were like, “oh no, did something happen to your character sheet? Did you forget to bring dice?” When she turned her laptop around and clicked one of the buttons in those boxes that roll dice, we flipped out. It was the most fancy thing we had seen sense pdf character sheets. After that, we moved our campaign to dnd beyond, and it made more of a difference to me the DM then to the players. First off, they don’t need to take notes, I can just put the info into the campaign notes and there is nothing else we need to do. It also greatly improved my efficiency to create homebrew and run the campaign. We got through twice as much of my story in the second half when compared to the first half. It makes D&D easy and fun for beginners. We got a new player recently, and what usually takes months to learn, they understood in just a few sessions. So, in short, everyone. D&D players and GMs, get this app, use the website, do D&D better and easier with D&D beyond.

D&D Beyond is a amazing way to do all sorts of things from getting lots of different monster stat blocks, Customizing your own Characters and NPC’s. Not only has D&D Beyond helped me make lots of different campaigns and characters to play, It also has made organizing them incredibly easy and fast. I think that the only downside to the App is that to make multiple characters you need need to buy a subscription, however even though the subscription costs money, not only is it very cheap compared to similar paid content in other Apps, It gives a lot of other benefits and extra’s that make it even more worth it! The last thing I am going to talk about is the other things you can buy, the Adventures and Sourcebooks. Now even though normally you would not want to see more things to pay for, D&D makes it different. Not only does it cost the same as it would at any library's or stores, it also (as I said earlier), is way easier to manage and keep track of. For example instead of having multiple books to look for, D&D Beyond just implements it into the other things that were already easy to navigate. One other thing that makes it great is how unlike stores, D&D Beyond always has every book that you could need and even ones you did not know you did. This is why I gave D&D Beyond 5 Stars and I don't think I will ever change that.

I am a pretty veteran dnd player and had a lot of doubts about using dnd beyond, mostly because of having to by the source books again from them.

After agreeing to dm a campaign with 8 people I knew my usual all paper setup wouldn’t work as I would have no clue of what my players character sheets had on then to balance encounters and such. I needed an online source to hold all their sheets. Roll20 would have worked but I would have had to insert everything about every characters sheets into their roll20 sheets as they did not know how to. After figuring out you can use unpublished homebrew in your own campaigns with a master teir subscription, I decided to try it out for a month and after some success with setting up some characters I ended up also buying a couple source books on their. I have to say it was a wonderful decision.

For vets. It’s a great way to keep track of everything and make sure even if players lose their paper sheet they’ll be able to play. And for new players, everything lays itself out to you and I wouldn’t get right out of the get go trying to make homebrew, but telling people what dice to roll and all the modifiers it gets right there is so helpful.