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February 18, 2021

Welcome again!

Sorry that this post came so late in the day, but it’s been a crazy day, and yourdorkmaterials was unable to get a post in today and my day has been difficult do to the cold affecting my MS.

That said, although I didn’t get the test video made (I’ll have that tomorrow!), I have the draft for the scrip for Part II of our How-To character done!


If you have any constructive criticism, we’d love to hear it.


Hello and welcome back to Your Dork Materials, this is your host, The Daily Dungeon Master.


Today, we will continue our video series on “How-To DnD Beyond” with the second part on How to Character.


Today’s episode we will cover:

-Using a character

-Editing a Character from the character sheet

-Leveling a Character


And

-Creating custom Items


Let’s get started!


First, we click on the cog: this brings up the character editor button, the level manager, the short and long rest, the ability to change the backdrop of your sheet as well as the theme, change your character’s portrait, sheet preferences, the ability to get a shareable link to your sheet, and lastly the ability to print your sheet off as a PDF.


Heading back to the top, you see the share button, getting you the shareable link, and a quick button for your character to take either a short or long rest. The anvil, like the editor and level editor buttons earlier, take you back to the character creation section. As a side note, when using the level editor or the character editor button is how you level up your character and gain the associated benefits of leveling.


Now let’s look at the box marked “Defenses.” Depending on your race and equipment, you will have something listed in this box. Erlic, for example, has a periapt of proof against poison, and therefore is immunity from poison and from being poisoned. Adjacent to defenses are is the box for conditions. Here you keep track of your various conditions, like being blinded, charmed, deafened, etc…


Above this box is the Inspiration box. This is a simple check box to determine whether or not you have inspiration.


Next to that is the HP box. This is pretty self-explanatory. That said, you can simply enter the amount of hp you are damaged or healed, and click the appropriate button to heal or do damage. You can even enter a value for temporary HP over here, like so.


Looking around the rest of the sheet, you can see that there are boxes around each number. Those are your associate ability scores, modifiers, and other such things. Let’s say your dungeon master calls for dexterity save. Simply click on the modifier next to the saving throw at you should get something like this. As you can see, the role came up as an [insert the number rolled], and adding plus the modifier for this character’s savings throw modifier, the total of the saving throw, then, is a [Insert the total].


Next, let’s look at attack rolls. If this character is attacking with his dagger, I would simply click number next to the weapon I am using like so. Again, see the die roll as well as the addition of the modifier to get the role of [insert number here]. Damage is similarly rolled. Simply click on the box used to attack, and the die value plus modifier totaled.


The next tab over are spells. Any spells and associated spell slots will be found here.


Next is the equipment tab. This lists any and all pieces of equipment you have, be it in your inventory, what you have attuned, and anything that doesn’t fit into one of those categories.

The next tab is Features & Traits. This is where you will find your list of class features and racial features in detail, along with any that have a specific number of uses per long or short rest. It should be noted that any ability that resets with a short rest will be reset upon confirming a short rest, like so. Likewise will abilities, spell slots, etc…that require a long rest be reset with confirming a long rest, like so.


The next tab is the description tab. Here is where you find the character’s associated background and any other traits, gender, physical description, personality traits, ideals, bonds, and flaws.


The last two tabs are totally customizable, to the extend that you can fill them up with any text you find relevant to your character. Of note, the extras show various categories of “extras” to choose from, like pets, familiars, vehicles, etc…


Now we will talk about custom items. Say you find a spell scroll of control weather. We click on the equipment tab and click on manage equipment. We can click scroll, where we would think that we could find the appropriate scroll. Uh-oh. Scrolls only come by level. Okay, no problem. Here’s how we fix it. Control weather is an 8th level spell. So, we go down the list and click on “spell scroll (8th level) and click add. Note how it shows up on our equipment list.


Click onto the character sheet and then click on the scroll and this should come up. See that customize button? Click it and see how you can name it. Simply type the name of the scroll, in this case, Control Weather, and click off of the window, and voila! You now have a spell scroll of Control Weather. If I want to remove it after having used it, I click on the scroll, go to the bottom and click remove. No more scroll.


Say my dungeon master hands out treasure and I get money. How do I add and subtract currency? Very easy. See where it says currency here above manage equipment? Click on that and this window should open. As you can see, Erlic is rich. He’s a rogue so he likely stole most of it. That said, adding and subtracting treasure is easy. Simply enter the amount of each coinage into the appropriate spot. Say we get 1 platinum, 2 gold, 4 electrum 8 silver, and 16 copper. I know, original. You simply enter it in like this…and then click add. Now say Erlic went out for a night on the town and spent all that hard fought loot. Simply do the same with entering the currency, but this time click remove.


Lastly, say we want to create a custom item that the DM give us. Say your DM gives you a mysterious ring. You don’t know what it does or what it’s for, but you have it. What do you do?

Click back on manage equipment and this time, click on “Custom Items.” Now click on Add custom Item. Click on Unidentified Item 1, or whatever it comes up as depending on how many of these you have. Click on Edit and put in all the relevant data. Scrolling down in our equipment list, you can see it right there: Mysterious Ring.


Well, there you have it, how to use the DnD Beyond Character sheet!


Join us next week for our next installment where we discuss how to use the various functions under “Game Rules”!


Until Next time…


So, what did you think? Did I leave anything out or did I not go into enough detail on a section?


Let me know in the comments section below!

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