If you pick race, and you enable all your resources, you will get a list of every playable race that has been created for 5th edition D&D by WOTC, that appears in the resources you own.Įverything in character creation is covered, and the interface is intuitive, except in a few places. You can look up the individual classes, races, and bits of equipment in the resources where they appear, but when you do the walk through for character creation, all the resources you own will be available at the appropriate tab. In other words, if you look up spells, all the spells from all the resources you own will show up in the spells section, and likewise with the monsters.Ĭharacter creation is another place where this comes up as well. However, any information that is organized into the individual resources is also included in similar format if that information falls under another header. In other words, if you want to look up the optional slow healing rules or flanking from the DMG, it’s only going to show up in that resource, but if you search for those things, it will take you to the header on the chapter for the web page that contains that information. There is some content, such as optional rules, that can only be accessed in this manner. You can look up individual chapters, formatted for a web page, in the way they were organized and constructed in the books. If you own any resources (such as the Player’s Handbook or the Dungeon Master’s Guide), you can access those in multiple ways. It was always a good tool for looking up rules in the SRD, if you didn’t purchase any of the packages, but I like the way the information is organized. I’m much happier with the interface now than I was previously. I decided to play around a bit more, and if I liked it, I would buy it. I really do enjoy D&D 5th edition, and I really do want to have easy digital access to the information about the game. While it wasn’t a concern for me, there was also that nagging bit at the back of my brain telling me that the digital plan for D&D, with players potentially buying the same resources for a virtual tabletop, a physical copy, and D&D Beyond was something I couldn’t fully dismiss. Additionally, the initial outlay of funds to get up to speed was high, and while I didn’t think it was unreasonable, the fact that someone that has already been into D&D for years has to play “catch up” made the (reasonable) cost daunting. From what I could access in the beta, I wasn’t overly impressed, and I really wanted a functional app that was designed to be used on a phone, instead of just using the mobile setup of the website. I was really on the fence for a long time about D&D Beyond, and buying into the resources. The service grants access to online character creation, rules references, monster statistics, and, if you purchase the assets, the hardcover adventures that Wizards of the Coast have published up to this point. D&D Beyond is an online service for managing content officially published by Wizards of the Coast for Dungeons and Dragons 5th edition.

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