Being surrounded by sight of rulebooks and reams of character sheets while you play has been part and parcel of the Dungeons & Dragons live from the very start . And while many players have begun using headphone and tablets to make their tabletop experience easy , Wizards of the Coast is in the end offer their own solution .
Over the weekend the company formally announced D&D Beyond , a new app made in partnership with Curse media that will let role player look up rule , see to it inventories or manage their fictitious character ’s stats all from the convenience of a unified interface from their phone or lozenge . Designed to work with the current 5th edition of D&D , Beyond is meant to give you more space and time to actually act games , instead of riff through pages of adventure guide because you forgot the fillip to opinion roles an Ancient Brass Dragon has . Here ’s a hilariously over - dramatic puzzle trailer for the app that shows a little bit more of how it works :
There ’s been peck of virtual tabletop and third party tool like Beyond for quite some time at this point — to the point Wizards has even sell prescribed D&D content through them — so it remains to be attend what Beyond will bring to the board outside of the official stigmatisation . And there are questions about just how much it will all be , too : is there going to be a future tense where corrupt the physical copy of a D&D adventure or rulebook comes with codes to get at it on Beyond ? Or will fans who still require physical edition and the convenience of an app like this have to branch out twice ?
For now , we have to hold off and see . If you ’re interested in trying Beyond , you’re able to sign up up for a genus Beta ahead of its rollout this summer at the tie below .
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