Some friends wanted to start a campaign and I’m trying to digitize my character sheet. Initially I was going to use d&dbeyond so I could send my DM the character sheet digitally and make it easier for them, but I can’t pick Drow without paying for the character, for whatever silly reason. I’ve been checking out all the apps I can find on the play store and I can’t find any with Drow.

Are their any apps that give you all the character options? I’m using Android but I don’t mind switching over to my laptop (Windows/Linux). I had originally wanted an offline app but opted for online to help the DM, but since that won’t be possible anymore I could care less. Still, online apps are fine as I can just block their access to the internet or suffer the occasional ad if I really must.

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    1 year ago

    If you want to stick with DnD beyond, there’s an option to homebrew races and you can “homebrew” a 5e drow for personal use. Just copy the template for a similar race and you can adjust features. I will warn you though, the UI is pretty unintuitive so it might take some work

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        Definitely recommend roll20. Our group moved there during the lockdowns and we finished one campaign and began another. We played Pathfinder.

        There is stuff you can purchase but it’s mostly cosmetics like tokens or dynamic lighting.

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    I’ve been using the More Purple More Better (MPMB) character sheet in combination with Adobe Reader on my Windows pc. It isn’t exactly an application replacing your char sheet, but an interactive PDF file reliant on JavaScript. It has a common recognizable layout, and is filled to the brim with macros and generation tools - you’ll be able to whip up a char sheet in no time once you get the hang of it.

    Out of the box it only has PHB content, but you can add additional scripts containing every bit of official content for 5e. It isn’t very hard to find, either, /r/MPMB for example.

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      Thanks for this! Our DM might want us to print everything out as some of the players might be distracted by their phones lol. If it works well with Adobe I’m guessing it will be easy to print.

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    I’m surprised there’s been no mention of 5e.tools

    Ive heard there’s a charactermancer (character creation tool) now, but I havent tried it.

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    I use Adventurer’s Codex. It only works for 5e, and you have to enter and maintain things manually, but it’s really flexible because of that. It’s a web app, but it works pretty well on phones or computers and it’s FOSS.

    If you need stuff to reference and help fill it in, I recommend either 5e.tools or dnd5e.wikidot.com. Both of those sites have all the released content for 5e in a well-organized format. I prefer 5e.tools for spells and the wikidot for… basically everything else.

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    There’s an android app called 5e character sheet that has all the published options. It has an icon like a green d20.

    Edit: it’s called “fifth edition character sheet”

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      So for me it’s got a red dragon icon, but I believe we have the same app. I wanted to use this one initially, but it was missing Drow, then I looked in the settings and found I could download a bunch of d&d info and Drow is an option! I think this might be what I use for Android!

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      +1 for this. Keeps all of my characters nice and tidy. Whenever you level up, you pick your new abilities from a list of options, and then it’ll autofill that into your character sheet. It won’t autofill your spells, though, so I use a different app for that. The only downside is that some of the abilities for certain classes aren’t named correctly, I assume due to copyright issues. But the names are pretty clear what they’re referencing (example: Agonizing Blast = Potent Cantrip).

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    I use Aurora, while the development has been “paused indefinitely” there are still plenty of features that make this app well worth it. There is a pretty exhaustive list of additional content that you can add to the application, making it super easy to build any kind of character you want. I’ve tried a few of the Android apps out there like 5E Character Sheet and while those might work well for you, I really appreciate the easy item management that Aurora provides.

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    I use PrismScroll for all my 5e character sheets! While it has a one-time payment for Pro features, the free version isn’t limited in the way of character creation.

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    I realize that you can’t just move to a different game, but I’d still like to encourage people to play Pathfinder. All of its rules are available for free online.

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    Not sure if Fight Club is on Android, but that used to be my go-to app before Beyond. There’s also programs like Foundry, if you don’t mind the initial license purchase. You may be able to pirate Foundry, but it’s honestly pretty cheap to begin with.

    I mention Foundry because if you have any friends who could share D&D Beyond content with you, then you can use an extension to scrape the shared modules and dump them directly into your Foundry campaign. Or as a last ditch effort, you could just recreate them from scratch, since Foundry is primarily focused on homebrew and custom content anyways. Just add it as custom content and you’re all set. It’ll take a while to properly code, but the basics will go quick enough.

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      Couldn’t find Fight Club on android, so probably just iOS. I’ll check out Foundry, it’s awesome just how many tools have been created for d&d, but I suppose expected with such a strong fanbase. Wish I got into this back in HS.

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          I see, so apparently my phone won’t support it, no idea why, I’ve got a pixel5a on android13. It is rooted if that changes anything. This happened with another app I was recommended, but I just found an APK online, guess I’ll do the same with this one.

          Edit: Seems to be Google shenanigans:

          Starting from 1 Nov 2022, apps that don’t target an API level within two years of the latest Android release (API 29 and below) won’t be available to new users with devices running Android versions newer than your app’s target API level. This means that new users won’t be able to discover or install your app on Google Play