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With D&D Beyond's latest Alpha feature, you’ll be able to use interactive battle maps straight from your digital D&D library!

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[–] ocassionallyaduck 5 points 1 year ago (3 children)

Cool, but I won't give DnD Beyond money after the 5e debacle. No thanks.

Use talespire. Or Foundry. Or literally anything.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Sums up my feelings.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

In this case use Owlbear Rodeo, the great equivalent product that this is almost a clone of.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Out of curiosity, what’s your beef with the third party VTT’s?

[–] ocassionallyaduck 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Nothing I love them.

DnD Beyond is first party my friend. And Wizards were absolute corporate scum trying to lock people into only being able to use DnD Beyond for official modules and rule sets in the future.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 year ago

Sorry, I misread - I thought you were saying you weren’t giving Foundry or talespire your money either.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

That's an 8 minute video to showcase basic vtt features like they're revolutionary.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago (1 children)

After their efforts with 4e's VTT, I'm not surprised they're so happy to be able to show basic functionality

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I must have missed that. But I pretty much ignored all of 4E.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago

Do not let hasbeenbro monopolize this shit

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago
[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 year ago

I already have the master tier subscription due to the nature of how I support my players, who also hugely prefers owlbear rodeo over over VTTs and struggles to juggle tabs in browser for online play, this does interest me a lot.

I am not enthusiastic about this being in the pocket of Hasbro but with more integration into the rest of the character sheet, and initiative tracker, I could see my table actually using this. The majority of my players don't care about TTRPG politics and Hasbro's monopoly on the industry, I'd need to see if it's integrated further, as currently it's basically owlbear rodeo which pulls from D&DBeyond rather than proper integration.