New here. Do we need a membership to MrPrimate’s patreon to import DnDBeyond content like the Monster Manual or does our Forge Subscription include that somehow? If not, how do we do it?
The forge has its own Beyond integration/importing, which is a little different to Mr. Primates (although they both use the same metadata in the background)
Mr primates is great for character imports (free). If you want monsters/feats/spells etc then you need to join his patreon.
The Forge importer brings across complete books. This is now free if you are on the storey teller or world builder tiers. If you are on the game master tier, then you need to join kakaroto’s patreon.
You can try the free Frozen Sick and Lost Mine of Phandelver for free on any tier to see what it’s like.
Thanks. I am on the World Builder tier but I don’t know where to find The Forge’s importer.
There is a bit of a procedure for the first time (and then its straight forward after that)
You can goto the Bazaar module page and click on the DnD Beyond filter.
Then click refresh. All the books will appear.
You also need the forge compendium browser module installed
Finally you will need to follow the instructions in “important information”. This explains how to add a browser extension to chrome in order for it to work.
If you need further assistance, its probably a little easier on the Forge discord page.
The forge one that was mentioned doesn’t do the same thing as the DDB Importer. It gives you access to the resources in your world but does not import them into compendiums the was the DDB Importer does.
You can use the DDB importer without Patreon if you have your own proxy (which they tell you how you can set up). You can import everything but Adventures this way - you need Patreon for that. You also can’t sync back to DDB without Patreon - if you want to update you DDB to reflect changes from your game.
The two are very different, MrPimate’s DDB Importer module is good at importing character sheets and specific monsters or spells, etc… The Forge’s DDB Integration is exclusively for importing of books as a whole. We do not support character sheets (DDB Importer does a great job of that!), but we do support converting books into compendiums. It’s also likely to be much faster to import the whole book as a single operation rather than importing every monster in it one at a time. But DDB Importer will be a better solution if you want to import a single specific monster rather than the whole book, for example.
The two are not competing, they’re complementary and do things quite differently from one another. The DDB Importer’s Adventure import feature is the one that most closely resembles the Forge’s integration.
Thank you, that makes sense. My understanding is now that DDB Importer is a module that imports specific things from DNDBeyond while the Forge integration is in the Bazaar as a whole which can import books which you have purchased and requires no additional module itself.
Now that I have had a chance to use both I can see the advantages of them individually. Thanks.
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