How Dungeons & Dragons' New App Will Make Role- Playing Easier Than Ever. Dungeons & Dragons is, intrinsically, a very physical experience: You’re surrounded by pens, stacks of paper, and rulebooks, rolling dice, talking to your friends.

But Wizards of the Coast is planning to help modernize the way fans play the game with the introduction of Beyond, a new app that wants to help balance the physical experience of role- playing D& D with a decluttered, all- digital support system. Being developed with Curse, Beyondmarks a huge step for Dungeons & Dragons’ approach to digital supplements—especially because of the fact that the company had resisted creating official digital tools for the game, allowing third party developers to make they own. Now, however, Wizards of the Coast is all- in. The base version of the Beyond app will be free and available for both PC and mobile. It includes the ability to browse basic rules for D& D’s Fifth Edition, and access to both the Systems Reference Document, for Dungeon Masters looking to create their own campaign material, and the Elemental Evil Player’s Companion, a sourcebook for creating new characters. But if fans want to get the most out of Beyond when it launches, they’re going to have to open their enchanted sack of gold.

Individual resources from base elements like the Players Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual to supplements like Volo’s Guide to Monsters will cost $3. Meanwhile, two tiered subscription services will also be available as well: the “Hero” tier allows single players unlimited character creation, and access homebrew content published by fans through the app, while the “Master” tier, intended for DMs and player groups, lets users share purchased content from one app with multiple users for campaigns. We sat down with Curse’s product lead Adam Bradford to discuss just what fans will be able to do with Beyond at launch, and how the company is going to balance the appeal of digital convenience with D& D’s legacy as a distinctly non- digital experience. Tell us a little bit about what D& DBeyond does for a D& D player. Adam Bradford: D& D Beyond is an official digital toolset for Dungeons & Dragons for the fifth edition rules.

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Our focus is to make game management easier for players both at the table and between game sessions. At launch, a game rules compendium with all D& D sourcebooks in digital format will be available, as well as a character builder, digital character sheet, homebrew content creation, and the early stages of campaign management. Wizards of the Coast has dabbled with digital companions for D& D in the past, but nothing as comprehensive as D& DBeyond.

Why now? Bradford: Creating a comprehensive toolset for D& D is challenging. It’s “structured make- believe”—there are rules, but no real limits. As much as I enjoy playing an open- world video game, those games are still bound to the edge of the map. I think that because of that challenge of digitizing D& D, it’s taken some time to get here, but we’re committed to make it worth the wait. Dungeons & Dragons is in the zeitgeist today, more popular than it’s ever been, and Beyond is coming alongside to welcome all the new players and enhance the game experience for veterans. While third- party apps have come along to fill in gaps over time, D& D Beyond aims to provide those long- desired tools in a single, unified place.

How does the arrival of Beyond affect Wizards of the Coast’s relationship with third- party D& D apps like Roll. Bradford: We have no current plans to create a virtual tabletop. Our intention is to work alongside the VTT partners Fantasy Grounds and Roll. If you create a character on D& D Beyond, you will eventually be able to export that character to use while playing virtually through Fantasy Grounds or Roll. The tabletop gaming experience is an intrinsically offline one, and if you’re playing at a convention or somewhere without reliable internet, the idea of a digital app might feel risky to some players.

Will users still be able to use all of D& D Beyond’s features without being connected to the internet? Bradford: A D& D Beyond native mobile app for i. OS and Android is in parallel development that is central to our offline strategy. When that launches, players will be able to view any content and create and manage characters without an internet connection. What would you say to old- school tabletop gamers who are perhaps wary of the game becoming a digital- physical hybrid experience? Bradford: Our goal is to use technology to supplement and enhance the D& D experience—not to turn that experience into a videogame. We want to minimize the negative impact of rules at the table, such as taking a long time thumbing through books to find an obscure rule or not remembering all your character’s options.

If we do that, the other key elements of the game, such as bringing characters to life and sharing an interactive story with friends, can shine through. Players can engage with the toolset at level at which they’re comfortable. If all you want to do is automate character creation and progression and print your character sheet for a session, you can do that. Watch Tokyo Gore Police Full Movie. If you want to continue to use physical books at the table but want something to help you prep adventures between sessions, we’re still providing value for you. Finally, where will D& DBeyond go after its initial launch? What features should fans expect that won’t be in included on day one? Bradford: We have an extensive roadmap that could extend for years.

Dungeons & Dragons is growing at an incredible rate, and we will grow with it. Our focus immediately after launch will be to release the mobile app and some quality of life enhancements like dice rolling. We will also introduce Twitch stream integration, where someone viewing a D& D stream will be able to hover over a character’s name to expand that character’s statistics on demand.

If a character gets poisoned, that will appear on their character frame and the viewer can hover to see what the poisoned condition does. It will give viewers a way to engage with their favorite streamed games in a way they haven’t be able to before. Before the end of the year, we will work on monster and encounter building.

A common practice for DMs that need a particular monster to fit into a particular challenge range more easily is to “reskin” existing monsters. We our monster builder, you will be able to scale the creature’s Challenge Rating up or down based on what you need, with all the math happening automatically. If you want to give the monster a powerful magic item, you will be able to do so and see the impact that would have on the encounter. Once we have all the character- focused tools and then monster- focused tools in place, we will bring it all together to provide initiative/ combat tracking. At that point, a DM could target particular characters with a fireball, prompting those players to make Dexterity saving throws.

After rolling dice (physical or integrated), the DM would see the results immediately and be able to get right into narrating the outcome. D& D: Beyond will initially launch August 1. Founders Pack” offer selling the Beyond editions of Fifth Edition Players Handbook, Dungeon Master’s Guide, and Monster Manual for $2.

What Happens if Justice League Bombs? Greetings and/or salutations, people! Welcome to io. 9's (occasionally weekly) mail column, where I solve the mysteries of the world of nerd- dom to you, both fictional and otherwise. This week: What was Elektra’s deal in The Defenders? Is an evil BB- 8 droid a good thing or a bad thing? And, most importantly, who’s to blame for Game of Thrones season seven?

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Do they try another new DC [movie continuity], or do they have to wait a while so people don’t get confused? How long would it take for the taste of JL to wash out of people’s mouths? Let’s take a step back and remember that “bomb” is a relative term here.

For all its faults, Batman v Superman made a ton of money—$8. The problem is that WB knows it could have made a lot more if it had been better, and fans had actually liked it. Then the studio miraculously got Wonder Woman right, so it knows that it has the power to make a true, Marvel Studios- level superhero blockbuster, even if it has no real idea how it managed it. Since these movies still make money either way (for now), there’s no impetus for Warner Bros. To wonder if WB will reset the DC Extended Universe is to wonder if it actually has a cinematic universe in the first place.

Aquaman is much too close to being finished for the WB to back out of now, and Wonder Woman 2 is as a safe a bet as there could be. But what does it actually have in the works that’s even close to definitely getting made? The next film on the schedule is Shazam in 2. Dwayne Johnson’s Black Adam for his own film later. Neither Cyborg nor Green Lantern Corps. Cyborg has a star—and they’re both ostensibly coming out in 2. Not likely. Now, here’s all the DC films that Warner Bros.

The Batman, which was originally announced in 2. Matt Reeves said he was completely starting the movie over from scratch this past summer. The Flash, which has had Ezra Miller attached to star since October 2. Flashpoint at this year’s San Diego Comic- Con. Batgirl, by the suddenly less beloved Joss Whedon. Justice League Dark, which was announced in 2.

Lobo, announced in 2. A Joker and Harley Quinn movie. A Nightwing movie. That insane “gritty” Elseworlds Joker origin movie from Martin Scorsese. Theoretically Black Adam, a Deadshot solo movie, and Suicide Squad 2.

And there’s always Man of Steel 2 and Justice League 2. Watch Witch Hunter`S Bible Download on this page. All these movies were either announced so long ago that we have no reason to believe they’ll actually get made in the next five years, or are so new that there’s little chance they’ll survive until gestation. Since 2. 01. 3, WB has made four DCEU films: Man of Steel, Suicide Squad, Batman v Superman, and Wonder Woman. Do you really think all 1. I’m guessing five, max, and it’ll take at least 1. Oh, and if somehow Justice League is a smash hit and everything gets greenlit?

Well, then Ben Affleck is still obviously, adorably desperate to abandon this nonsense, and Flashpoint almost certainly will, by its very name, reset the DC movie- verse anyway. And then there’s WB’s astoundingly insane decision to maybe make DC superhero movies that aren’t in continuity with the rest of the films, for maximum audience confusion and absence of synergy. The bottom line is that WB is basically so terrified it’s going to screw these movies up again, that it’s waiting for Justice League and Aquaman to come out, and let the studio know if it’s on the right track or not. Until then (and, if we’re being honest, probably long after then) it’s going to keep throwing anything it can think of against the DC movie wall.

The occasional movie will somehow come out, and no one can be sure if it’ll be part of the cobbled- together Extended Universe or not. Not even Warner Bros.

GRRM Warfare. About 8. People, Give or Take: 1) Are Benioff and Weiss actually bad showrunners who have coasted on George R. R. Martin’s work? Why was the decision made to shorten seasons seven and eight when the show could have clearly benefitted from more time? Will season eight have the same problems? No. I know Weiss and Benioff have barely done anything else in Hollywood beyond Game of Thrones, which seems pretty incriminating. I also know that it feels like the two of them fully abandoned the books this season, and then calamity and problems immediately ensued.

But let’s remember that Weiss and Benioff have made six good to great seasons of Game of Thrones, and there’s a hell of a lot more to showrunning than just putting the books onscreen. More importantly, the two have been going off script from the books from the very beginning, from that wonderful, iconic conversation between Cersei and Robert Baratheon in season one right through that magnificent season six finale where Cersei finally achieved everything on her vision board. They had run out of book material for various storylines starting back in season four, and yet we were good straight through six. Have poor choices been made this season? Absolutely, but that brings us to…2) ..

I think is responsible for most of the season’s problems. More time would have allowed more characters more moments, more explanations for some of the bizarre things that happened (see below), and just more breathing room to give the various storylines more weight. It still wouldn’t have solved the godawful mess that was the Sansa- Arya storyline, but it likely did mean Weiss and Benioff needed to figure out a way to kill Littlefinger sooner rather than later, and the only way they could think of to kill him with some drama was by turning Arya into a crazy person. As for who decided to shortened the seasons, I sincerely doubt Weiss and Benioff wanted to. Game of Thrones is their baby, and they knew they were in for a long haul, assuming the show didn’t get canceled. I doubt they were bored right at the beginning of the series’ epic conclusion. Certainly HBO didn’t want shortened seasons; they’d be happy to run Game of Thrones until the heat death of the universe.

That leaves the actors, and remember, seven years is a long time for an actor to play a single character, especially actors of the caliber of Lena Headey and Peter Dinklage. I bet anything Kit Harington and Emilia Clarke at minimum are dying to be done with it in order to move on to new projects. The actors all had to sign new contracts for season seven and eight, and for many of them, the show needed them more than vice versa. I imagine these two shortened seasons was all they could get out of (one or more of) the biggest stars, forcing them to try and stuff everything they hoped to do in 2. Which resulted in problems like…Grey(Worm)’s Audacity. Wes: What the hell was the opening scene with the Unsullied and Dothraki waiting outside of some castle and how did we teleport from there to the first meeting ever of the major players?

I have scoured the net trying to figure out what the scene was and no one has covered it. Please help! Although it wasn’t spelled out, it’s actually pretty easy to put two and two together here. The big truce meeting was at the Dragonpit, right by King’s Landing. Obviously, Cersei was not going to remove her army and Euron’s fleet from the capital for these little talks, because that would have been dumb as hell, and Cersei is not dumb.

However, Daenerys would also not just come to King’s Landing, right smack in the middle of Cersei’s forces, without her own troops. So she had Grey Worm, the Unsullied, and the Dothraki surround the city, so if things went bad her forces were there to bail her out/kick Lannister ass. The better question is, how did the Unsullied get from being trapped in Casterly Rock with no food and surrounded by Lannister troops, to hanging outside King’s Landing looking totally fine? You know, I pride myself on being able to figure out completely unsupported ways to fill the plot holes of just about anything, but I have no clue here.