D&D Beyond Importer

Integrate your dndbeyond.com characters into Foundry Virtual Tabletop.

This module:

• Import your DDB characters into Foundry, and sync changes back!
• Import a characters extras such as Wildshapes or beast companions.
• Import spells and items.
• Import Monsters and NPCs.
• Patreon supporters can sync limited character changes back to DDB.

In addition you can:

• Use the built in dictionary to get a large icon coverage during import.
• Use supplied SRD items where available.
• Choose to use matching SRD icons.
• Attempt to auto-generate effects for items.

Video Tutorial

Watch a video to get started here!.

Examples

Import Things!

Update back to D&DBeyond

Exclude Items from Update

Generate Roll Tables

Encounter Muncher

Compendium Folders Module Support

What's the catch?

Calls to dndbeyond are proxied to provide authentication and to bypass CORS checks.

The proxy calls dndbeyond with your credentials to fetch your data.

To get all your spells and do bulk importing you need to set the Cobalt Cookie setting to the value of your D&DBeyond CobaltSession cookie. See my helper Chrome extension to help.

Do NOT give your cookie to other people, this is like handing out a password to your dndbeyond account.

We do not store your cobalt cookie on the server.

To logout/invalidate these credentials log out of your D&DBeyond Session.

If you wish to host your own proxy, please see ddb-proxy, help is not available for this mode, and not all functionality is available.

Support

Where can you support me? See my Patreon.

You can log bugs here, or mention them in the Discord channel.

Pre-requisites and recommendations

There are NO pre-requisites for DDB Importer.

Below are some recommended modules.

I'd strongly recommend installing:

• Magic Items for attaching spells to magic items
• Link Item and Resource DnD5e module for good resource linking (not needed if using the new 5e sheets in v3.0.0+)
• Vision/Detection Modes 5e adds those lovely missing vision modes for 5e.

If you want to add spell effects, and high levels of automation you will need, (this is not recommended if you're using Foundry for the first time):

• DAE for skill bonuses and basic effects
• Midi-QOL
• About Time
• Times Up.

Several macros that impact tokens rely on:

• Active Auras
• Active Token Effects

For super high automation (this is not recommended if you're using Foundry for the first time):

• Chris's Premades includes a lot of more advanced effects, but has a lot of module dependencies.

For prettiness add:

• Token Magic FX.
• Automated Animations

SRD Import Notes

Some detail will be lost:

• Any auto configuration of Magic Item spells
• Any custom damage modifications from things like Fighting Styles and Improved Divine Smite

Some details are updated, if applicable:

• number of uses
• quantity of items
• attuned status
• equipped status
• resource tracking
• spell preparation status
• proficiency

Configuration

Avatar upload directory

Sets the icon directory where you are storing your avatar image uploads. It's relative to the Foundry /Data directory, please do not add a leading or trailing slash to this path.

Examples:

• img/uploads references to [Foundry]/Data/img/uploads
• uploads references to [Foundry]/Data/uploads
• ` references to[Foundry]/Data` - not recommended

FAQ

See FAQ!

Attributions

Some assets in this module are kindly provided by JB2A and are licensed by Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International. You can find them under img/jb2a

Check them out at https://jb2a.com they have a free and patreon supported Foundry modules providing wonderful animations and assets for a variety of situations.

You can learn more about their Foundry modules here