u/nathanielbartholem

I've got four players in my Roll20 based campaign.

Two of them are using the Roll20 2024 Character sheets and two of them are using the Character sheets in DND BEYOND, and using BEYOND20 to pipe their rolls and info into the chat in Roll20.

I understand at one time it was possible to have BEYOND20 to pipe their rolls into virtual animated dice in Roll20.

But I have not figured out how to enable that or even if it is still possible. Anyone know?

My players got smart, and interrogated a Goblin to get confirmation of the castles location. Inspired by the random encounter info in the module one of the Goblin's they killed on the road had the wanted poster with one of the adventurers pictures in it with a reward listed.

I can't decide how much the captured Goblin knows about the castle defenses, number of inhabitants, or alternate entrances. I'm thinking the Goblin has a general idea of "at least a dozen guards" and "the castle is crumbling so it may have more ways of entry than a castle usually has" but perhaps a Goblin who has been there and worked there would know even more than that?

My players already routed Glassstaff from the Redbrand hideout and know who he is and that he is in league with the Spider. But perhaps more import for the Castle, the player characters all stole Redbrand cloaks and plan to try to show up at the Castle with ONE of their party in tow as a prisoner, and the rest in Cloaks. In theory some Redbrands may have shown up at the castle from time to time?

I am inclined to let this ruse possibly work, with a skill check, though at this point, the castle inhabitants are on alert since Glassstaff showed up talking about the adventurers having attacked his hideout in town, and some of the Goblin party whom they didn't kill or capture on a road in the woods managed to escape and go straight to the castle to warn them.

I suppose I let role playing influence the DC of the subterfuge encounter. Seems like a Charisma: Deception, Performance, or Persuasion roll? Seems like the guards they are trying to fool would need to roll a Wisdom: Insight, or Perception, check that exceeds the PC's roll on the particular Charisma skill they used when lying about be a RedBrand and having captured the wanted PC?

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My players have been wiping the floor on recent fights, so I'm thinking the missing Glassstaff may show up at the Castle during the battle if the players are having too easy a time with their characters defeating the crew.

I'm thinking their MAIN goal is to save Gundren. That is likely to go badly.

Their secondary goal would be to find out the location the Wave Echo Cave. That could be from the fabled map, Gundren if he doesn't die, or perhaps a captured foe at the castle.

At the very least, then, they will realize that two of the missing brothers are not here at the castle, and they "must" be at the Cave, so we got to go save them. Sildar is traveling with the party at this point, so he is pushing them on the urgency of saving Gundren at the castle, and could push the party to go the caves to save the other brothers, if there is hesitancy (assuming he survives the castle battle).

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My questions then are:

1. How can I make the deception plan to enter the castle difficult -- not just a high DC kind of thing, but narratively challenging?

2. Without completely nerfing the prisoner situation, how can the captured Goblin give them useful stuff (beyond confirming the castle location, which he has done) so they feel like keeping him alive was useful.......but he doesn't just tell them in detail things about the castle and it's occupants and defenses to the extent that it becomes a cake walk?

3. Am I missing any other good plot hook potentials to draw the players to the Wave Echo Caves upon completion of the castle?

I assume this must be used during the buy phase like other +1$ bonuses but have seen some people play it as a “take a $ token for use any time later” card as well.

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I see various posts over the past couple of years about people using a carrier for their watch that differs from the one they use for the phone.

USMobile is one of the carriers that offers a cheap watch-only plan. But they appear to require that your watch use a different iCLOUD account than your phone.....meaning you won't get phone calls on your watch, if I understand correctly.

Many of the discussions on this topic seem focused on children or family plan etc where you would NOT want the watch to get phone calls on the number of your cell phone.

But my desire is the opposite. I would like to use an alternate carrier AND still be logged in to the same iCloud account and use the phone number from my iPhone.

Anyone got a cellular watch set up this way?

I think I am running up against a limitation of the technology. But just to make sure:

I have a Sonos PlayBar for my center, and have been happy adding two Play 1's for the L and R with the SS app.

I the added Surrounds (two more Play 1s) with the SS app. They are waaaay too loud. (They are one foot behind me.)

So I nuked that setup, and set up the Play Bar and Surround via the Sonos S1 app. It got the volume right for the surrounds. Balanced with the Play Bar, and the right volume for how close they are. Yeah!

But I still want to add L and R speakers.

So then I tried to add a L and R (front) speakers via the SS app. But it wants me to delete the Surrounds, first.

Well, if I do that, and then add them back via the SS app, they are again too loud.

I don't think there is a way to finesse this in the system. If I want to add L and R up front, I can only add Surrounds via the SS app, and lose out on the volume balancing that the Sonos app does when setting up surround speakers, right?

I am hoping I am wrong! Advice?

There is a cat stat block listed in the srd, and in the 2024 PHB which I own on roll20.

Should I be able to drag and drop the cat entry from the compendium onto the map, and have a NPC/ monster cat?

(I can’t, but maybe that’s not how you take a monster with a stat block and enter them into play?)

UPDATE: Copying the old game seems to have solved access.

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I've got five players in my game.  I bought the 2024 PHB and turned on sharing. 

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But my players are not seeing the options to use items from the 2024 PHB in their characters.

This is the only game where I am sharing.  It is a "free account" while we get our bearings on how things work.

What other settings might matter?

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More detail / an example:

Here is what I see when searching for AXE:

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But here is what my player sees:

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No sign of the 2024 PHB items.....

What kind of troubleshooting should I do?

I've got a lot of Lossless music (ALAC, FLAC) on my Mac, ripped from my own CDs.

When I move albums over to my iPhone, I would prefer them to take up much less space. So I would like to have them get converted to lossy audio when dragging them to my iPhone.

Is there a setting or process with Apple Music on my Mac and or on my iPhone that would do this automatically?

Of, if not, how do I do this manually (convert from Lossless to Lossy) in Apple Music on my Mac -- and then I drag them to my phone?

If I "sync my Library" will it upload my Lossless rips to the cloud? Will it convert them to lossy when doing so? Or is it simply making a note of when I have marked to put into my Library from my Apple Music subscription?

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INFO: I am an Apple Music subscriber. I am using an M1 Mac with Tahoe.

My character is a 3rd level Druid and have the Magic Initiative Feat but the cantrics and spells for Clerics that I get to choose from because of this Feat are not showing up as options in the character sheet even though the Feat is clearly documented.

Is there an additional toggle I need to flip? I own all three 2024 core books and the character was built with 2024 rules in the 2024 sheet.

A search for this on DDG didn't produce any actionable solutions (or even answers) other than make sure you own the books on DND BEYOND, which I do.

I've been enjoying my Rivelia for a while now, but I am tired of scrolling through a dozen drinks I dont ever want to choose, to get to the ones I want. It does a little smart re-ordering but never seems to be enough.

Is there a way to reduce the number of drinks displayed?

Also, sometimes I forget in what way I have customized some drinks and would love to be able to edit their name, to reflect things like: Iced Latte Small Cup, or Two Double Shots Cappuccino large cup.

Some quick searching and of course AI says Sure, do it this way....and then proceeds to talk about buttons and menus that dont exist.

Am I SOL or simply haven't found the right menus to do what I want?

I see several posts from two years ago, saying this was on the roadmap.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Roll20/comments/1fj295c/converting_from_2014_to_2024_sheets/

https://www.reddit.com/r/Roll20/comments/1fkyrm6/2014_sheet_to_2024_sheet/

But I've got a player who is patiently trying to do this, and so far has not been able to.

They can't use the SRD compendium of "free 2024 rules" and before they buy the 2024 PHB, I have suggested they pause until we can get their character sheet updated.

Some searching and I guess maybe this feature has never been released? Or maybe I am just missing it?

I'm still learning some of the less common rules.

One of my players wants their character to make a running leap across the chasm in the Crevasse Cave (R8) in the Redbrand hideout.

Their strength is 16, and they have a running start. We are trying to use the 2024 rules. According to the SRD:

"Long Jump

When you make a Long Jump, you leap horizontally a number of feet up to your Strength score if you move at least 10 feet immediately before the jump.

When you make a standing Long Jump, you can leap only half that distance. Either way, each foot you jump costs a foot of movement.

If you land in Difficult Terrain, you must succeed on a DC 10 Dexterity (Acrobatics) check or have the Prone condition.

This Long Jump rule assumes that the height of the jump doesn’t matter, such as a jump across a stream or chasm."

So, assuming they have the space to make a running start (10 feet) and the chasm is less than 16 feet wide, they automatically succeed in their jump, yes?

​In this 2014 DND adventure (Phandelver and Below) I see a nice "Show to Players" button on this handout/item in my compendium/adventure module. But I don't want to show them all these details.

I just want to show them what the creature looks like. They need to discover the rest through game play.

Unfortunately, if I click on the Picture: Handout:Goblin link, while it brings up the following nice picture, I do NOT get the option to share this image via any "Show to Players" button, like on the prior screen.

​I guess I could screen shot it and throw it into the discord chat, but I'd prefer to share it / show it in the Roll20 chat. Any way to do so?

Update: it’s a bug of the auto pop out feature. Whew. Thought I was going crazy.

I'm DMing a 2024 (DND) campaign using a purchased module (Phandelver and Below, which I guess is technically a 2014 module?) and a free account.

When I went to roll for initiative for the monsters and NPS, while the players were rolling for initiative for their PCs, I accidentally rolled for initiative for all the monsters and NPCs in the module, at every location. It was a few dozen creatures that populated the initiative tracker.

Luckily they only showed up in the DM view and not the players' view.

But I was not able to find a way to remove creatures from the tracker who should not be there, so I ended up tracking initiative for the monsters and NPCs in a piece of paper and not referring to DM view of the tracker with dozens of combatants that weren't actually around.

Is there a way to edit the tracking, removing someone, etc?

My friend created a game, bought a module /adventure for it -- but then wasn't able to be the GM due to time commitments.

So they assigned me the GM role.

The players at the table would like to make use of the 2024 Players Handbook.

It appears that I can buy the DND 2024 PHB and share it with my table, even with the free account....... except maybe not, because sharing is limited to "games you create" and while I am the DM of this current game, I did not create the game.

Am I SOL, or am I reading the rules too literally?

I've been enjoying my Rivelia for a while now, but I am tired of scrolling through a dozen drinks I dont ever want to choose, to get to the ones I want. It does a little smart re-ordering but never seems to be enough.

Is there a way to reduce the number of drinks displayed?

Also, sometimes I forget in what way I have customized some drinks and would love to be able to edit their name, to reflect things like: Iced Latte Small Cup, or Two Double Shots Cappuccino large cup.

Some quick searching and of course AI says Sure, do it this way....and then proceeds to talk about buttons and menus that dont exist.

Am I SOL or simply haven't found the right menus to do what I want?

I’ve got a Playbar setup with two Play1 speakers as the left and the right, thanks to this excellent app.

I have noticed that the left and right channel content correctly only shows up in the left and right speaker. None of it comes out of the Playbar.

But the opposite is not true. some of the dialog, which is just in the center channel, not only comes out of the Playbar but is ALSO spread to the left and right speaker.

Is this what other people are hearing as well? If so, then fine. It’s not ideal for the center channel content to also be heard in the left and right speakers. But if that’s how it has to work, then I’ll live with it.

But if this is user error on my part, I’d like to know about that, so I can work on fixing it.

(if it matters I should note that I am running on s1 still.)

What does the SIZE control option do for a given recipe?

Does it run more water through the same puck?

Does it foam more milk?

If the former, then I definitely don't want to use it.

If the latter, that could be useful for my household.

Seems like it is the former from my testing which is a waste. And I want a bigger drink I should just make two drinks right?

The Rivelia has 15 recipes (if one includes "hot water" as a recipe.)

But many of them don't really make intuitive sense to me. Is there a guide? I would think this should be in the manual, but it is not.