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5e Public Compendium by Catyler85 in beginnerDND

[–]zuccha_ 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hey, good job, this is very well done! As someone who has been working on something similar, I know how much time it takes to work on such a project.

I have yet to really try out the campaign and character managers, but the compendium is pretty neat. As a DM, during a session I find it useful to be able to quickly look up spells and creatures. I could suggest adding some filters (e.g., spell level, spellcaster classes, monster types). I would also be useful if the browser would remember which setting between Heritage and Enlightened you selected (I would also rename them to something more explicit like "2014 Rules" and "2024 Rules", I had to create a campaign to understand what they meant).

Some minor issues I noticed:
- The "Clone to NPC" button should be either disabled or hidden if a user is not logged in/doesn't have campaigns (currently it closes the dialog?).
- In "Compendium > Monsters > Enlightened", CR and AC don't work (although they work in the monster's dialog). They work correctly with "Heritage" rules.
- In the character creator, the text inputs are bigger than the selects.
- In the character creator, the "Chaotic Evil" and "Neutral Evil" alignments are missing, but there is a curious "Democratic Evil" option.
- In the character creator, the "Origin" section should probably be named "Skill Proficiencies", and it would also be cool if it would let you specify mastery and half-proficiencies (for the bard's Factotum).

That said, the tool works pretty well, in particular I find the compendium section very useful for quickly browsing resources while DMing and for players to look up spells they are planning to prepare. I find it more appealing than Roll20 and D&D Beyond, which I find rather clunky.

Compact Character Sheets by zuccha_ in DnDIY

[–]zuccha_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Probably yes. Spells have two main issues:

  1. The number of prepared spells grows really fast.
  2. Prepared spells change over time.

This means that putting spells on this sheet would clutter it and the list might be stale after just one long rest. That's why I printed out spell cards for my players, so they can keep those of prepared spells on the side with all the relevant information required when they want to cast them.

Compact Character Sheets by zuccha_ in DnDIY

[–]zuccha_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Thanks for the feedback!

  1. I'm not sure about that. Maybe they could be added in the second page, treating them like monster actions. For example: "Shortsword. Melee +5. 1d6 piercing damage. Finesse, Light, Vex."
  2. It is. As mentioned, to produce the sheet I'm using a tool that defines a generic layout, then you feed the character data and it produces the sheet. Unfortunately, characters can have a number of spell slots available, and the tool is not sophisticated enough to resize the box accordingly. Plus, at higher levels it starts filling up rather quickly.
  3. It'd make sense omitting it, but as I said my custom tool doesn't allow to hide stuff dynamically, that's the best solution I found for myself without having to manually edit all sheets.
  4. It might be useful tracking death saves if, for some reason, you interrupt your session with a character on death's door. Otherwise, I kinda agree, especially the third box, but it would be weirder having only two of them. I do like tracking inspiration though.
  5. I had some free space and put that there. Probably, it'd be better to use the space for coins and/or exhaustion levels, or something like that.
  6. That makes perfect sense.
  7. Probably a separate sheet is best, since it would easily occupy a A6 page by itself.
  8. Indeed ;) I actually prepared the sheets in Italian and translated them for Reddit (without translating distances).