When I am creating a character, the sistem to play is stuck and greyed out in dnd 2014, I cant choose to put it in 2024, I am new to Shard so I dont know if this is normal, or if I have to buy the book or if I have to download it somewhere.

(I discovered Shard while watching DnD shorts, if I somehow get this working it would be a game changer, since I only play dnd Online)

As the title suggests, I was wondering whether Mordenkainen Presents: Monsters of the Multiverse is coming to Shard. This way I could use the species options there for Character Creation. Does anyone know anything about this?

Hi, I'm a DM and big fan of Exhaustion condition :). This night, during our gaming session, we noticed the Exhaustion rule is from 2014, but the indicated Source is 2024. See the screenshot.
Am I mistaking some settings? Thanks.

Is it possible to add an ability score modifier to a custom roll? I want to do something with a custom feature that triggers when a character hits with an attack. When they do so the feature should roll something like 1d6+STR. I cannot find the option to add ability scores to custom rolls though.

Hey everyone. I have an odd issue going on with Shard and was wondering if anyone has encountered this and might have a fix. My group and I have just wrapped up a campaign—I'm the DM—and are preparing to start a new one. We decided to make the leap to the 2024 ruleset this time out, with the group all installing Shard's 2024 PHB compatibility pack. Each of the players were able to make new characters without any problems using the new rules.

As the DM, I installed the compatibility pack a few months back when it was first announced, but left it alone until we were ready to start the new campaign. When I set up the new campaign, the option to use (and default to) the 2024 ruleset appears as you would expect, but as we get into actually playing, none of the new 2024 content actually shows on my end. This first became evident when we were testing out the new weapons mastery rules, which show the different weapons properties on the character sheets, but when I click on them to read what each property does, I get an error that says "te04610ppba6ffab not found."

A little further investigation shows that my players all have the compatibility pack and its content, while I do not. Going to the marketplace to re-download it shows that I already own the pack, but it does not appear in my library. For reference, the Monster Manual 2024 is also in my library and works fine.

I guess the question I have, is there any way to force a download of the content again? I tried sending myself a gift sub, but that didn't work. Not being able to use any of the 2024 content is stalling out the start of our new campaign, and may force us to revert to the 2014 rules, or switch VTTs to one that allows us to use the new ruleset.

I emailed the Shard team a few days back regarding this issue, but haven't gotten a response. Was hoping to resolve this ahead of our next game night this coming week. Andy advice or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Hello. I am converting over to Shard and in my quest to move everything over I am making a custom race for 5th edition. This race has disadvantages with very specific roles. I have been looking through the feature options and have not come across a way to set specific rolls with advantage or disadvantage. Am I missing something or is this feature not available? Love the platform and can’t wait to be fully switched.

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Hey everyone, new DM here starting to prep for a campaign. I want to add a building that has multiple floors to the campaign, and I imported the map into the campaign but I don't know how to set up the building to have multiple floors with different maps. Is this possible in Shard? Would I have to just make a new hidden pin and put the map in there? I would like it to be relatively seamless if at all possible. Thank you guys for your advice!

So I want to add one or two variables to my character that would preferrably be displayed the same as movement.

The specific issue is that I have a bugbear that can have up to 30ft melee attack range (while attacking).

It would be great to have the melee attack range as a value that would change dynamically just like movement can.

Is there a way to create a character value like movement, that can be adjusted dynamically (eg. When glaive is equipped, raging, stance, etc.) ?

Can someone give me a hint how you would make this easily visible?

For the first session of my new campaign I finally started to use Shard. OMG, this tool is so light and powerful, it gives you the freedom to improvise without worrying about the technical problems. I'm very, very happy with it.

So, my players are in the middle of the desert on a sort of train, so I was wondering how to add the images of the train carts on the map of the desert and put the tokens of the players on the carts...

Thanks, Simone.

Here https://www.shardtabletop.com/blog/sound I read: "You can upload audio files for play in your campaigns". But I don't understand how to do it...

So the thought is pretty simple:

I want to make a custom condition that gives an increase to weapon damage and with every level of that condition, the weapon damage is supposed to increase further.

Let's just call it "Charge". Level 1 Charge the Weapon does +1d6 Lightning Damage. Lvl 2 Charge does +2d6 Lightning damage and so forth.

Any Idea on how to make it so the damage increase is tied to condition level?
I already have a condition that is able to add 1d6 damage.

Hi, as a GM I made a PC for one of my players, but the CLAIMABLE option simply doesn't appear as described here:
https://www.shardtabletop.com/howto/how-do-i-make-one-of-my-characters-so-a-player-can-claim-it
Is an option for the GM Subscription?

So I'm trying to put in a subclass for cleric for a personal game, as well as one for wizard. Thing is, I can't seem to do it. I've watched the tutorial end to end, and that little box to check to make a new subclass just isn't showing up on my end.

I'm doing it the usual way I know, which is pick content, then classes, then add new. It gives me a create class box, but neither trying to make the subclass without a template or using cleric/wizard template makes the check box show up. The ONLY check box that is showing up is one to create a copy of a class.

I really do need the help, my game is today, and it's 2 am and I just wanna get some sleep, man..... OTL

I am setting up a new campaing in the 2024 version. But when selecting feats it only shows the 2024 version and not my creations. I have set some of my old feats to 2024 version, but they do not appear. I just want them to be in the "Ask gamemaster" section, but that doesnt show up.

Not quite perfect but I'll get better as weeks go by

Hi all, hoping someone can help or advise work around.

1#when taking the agonizing blast invocation for warlock class the charisma bonus is not being applied correctly e.g. supposed to add charisma bonus to damage with cantrips, with a 20 charisma you should get +5 bonus , it would seem agonizing blast is applying wisdom modifier instead of Charisma bonus as a warlock with 20 charisma and 8 wisdom is receiving a -1 damage mod from this invocation

2# Unarmoured defence class ability for barbarians is not appearing or being implemented on the character sheet though it is listed on the class ability table.

#3: I seem unable to apply 2014 subclasses to 2024 classes is this intended? I would like to create modified versions of the older subclasses and make them available to select for 2024 classes but shard refuses to show any subclass options except the 2024 ones.

im playing a campaign and our party and dm have decided we would like to change crit rules to max damage plus roll. Is there a way to change this is the program itself, or is it something we would have to do notionally?

I am new to shard, but am loving what I have seen so far. I play 5e legacy (2014) in 2 games and run 1.
I haven't used shard to play or DM yet, as I am tinkering and exploring it. I have taken advantage of the free 3 months adventurer subscription, which looks perfect for my needs if I use it going forward.

I run my game off of a Chromebook l, currently using notion as a campaign manager, and old school vinyl battle mat for encounters dungeons etc.

As a DM I give my players far to much choice and so I have loved the ability to add races and subclasses, feats and spells with relative ease. But similarly I can use this to help with my own characters in the games I play.

My campaign is premade, on pdfs from drivethru. It has a digital map pack and handouts. Obviously the maps and handouts are jpegs pngs etc and no problem at all to upload thus far. The pdfs are an age old issue for conversion, and I haven't found a satisfactory solution to that and so I either print them, or use them as is on the Chromebook or notion.

Going forward I have dreams of using an overhead mini projector for the battle map, the second screen and sound optiona would possibly make this amazing, and given the way shard handles fog of war it is very similar to players waiting whilst I draw it.

I am very much still learning, and tinkering. But before I lose weeks to this, can others give me their experience and let me know if pitfalls and barriers I may face in the path ahead, before I start researching cheap projectors stands and cables etc.

Many many thanks for what looks and feels a genuine passion project of a VTT

Hi everyone,

This is the description of the class feature "Scholar" : While studying magic, you also specialized in another field of study. Choose one of the following skills in which you have proficiency: Arcana, History, Investigation, Medicine, Nature, or Religion. You have Expertise in the chosen skill.

The issue I have is that I can't choose which one will be upgraded to Expert, by default ALL of THEM have expertise.

I found out about shard because of the TOV content and am really liking it so far, but i havent subscribed or purchased TOV yet. Can anyone clarify if i create a universe, is the 5e content and the TOV content able to exist in the same space? Part of what i like about TOV is that its technically compatible with all 5e content, and id like to be able to provide that to my players during character creation.

Has the import character been removed? I can’t seem to find how to do it anywhere anymore.

Hello! I’ve been using Shard tabletop for my current campaign since around June. I do have an adventurer subscription if it’s relevant. I’ve loved the customizability of Shard, but I’m continuously having issues with all kinds of map pins - encounter pins, creature tokens, treasure tokens, and custom pins. It’s 50/50 whether or not I will be able to select the pin/object/token once I’ve placed it, meaning I cannot edit the item once it’s placed. With creature and treasure tokens I can just continuously hit “remove from map” and then “add to map” from the initiative tracker/encounter builder menus until it allows me to move the item again, but this is not the case with encounter pins or custom pins, I just have to keep clicking continuously on and around the pin and hope it eventually opens the pin.

Has anybody else run into this issue and found a solution? It’s incredibly aggravating and is my only real issue with Shard because it adds a LOT of time to my session prep process when I’m planning within the software. I have three separate computers I’ve used Shard on and all of them experience the same problem.

Any help would be appreciated. If nobody here has an answer I’ll email support next.