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Hi gang!

Hope you're all doing as well as you can be. In the next few hours, if everything goes according to plan, a new DDB Importer version will drop including an alpha release for munching in Feats, Backgrounds, and Classes & Class Features in bulk.

There will be some rapid improvements to Class Advancements and some adjustments to support the new feature advancements.

This will be released to GOD tier initially.

When will this come to other Patreon tiers? It will be coming to the Undying tier soon (TM) but stability needs to be improved, and some new infrastructure needs deploying. If all goes well later this month.

How do I access it? In the Muncher tool, click on Munch and then Characters. There will be buttons to import Feats, Backgrounds and Classes. Many backgrounds and Classes now grant Feats, so import those first. As always, make sure you have munched Spells and Items first. This tool will respect the Source filtering you have setup for the Muncher.

How does it work? This feature needs a character it can change, we call this a Mule. The importer will add and remove classes and features etc in order to capture the required data. It will then sort through the results and import the required data. Needless to say this takes some considerable time. Please keep your browser window in focus and have patience.

Known Issues

You will have to delete/recreate your DDB Classes compendium if it already contains classes, as there is a new folder structure.

Advancements are not complete, especially for choice options like Battle Master Maneuvers.

Species munch is not yet ready for humans. Currently the coding kobolds are working hard on this, and expect an update in the next couple of weeks bringing support.

There is some instability in the proxy elements of this, and the software will enforce small category based munching. Sometimes it might crash, please try again after a few minutes, and if you are still having issues try limiting the source categories to narrow down the cause.

Optional Features from TCoE are not yet imported

Thank you all for your support, this has been a long an winding path to get back to this point.

Jack/MrPrimate

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Craig Smith

thank you for all your hard work on this! we the fans really appreciate you!

Sam A.

You're a damn wizard

Stuffman1861

will it only be for the undying and god tiers, or will it be available to everyone later on?

Arteroc

My question as well!

MrPrimate

Eventually, but I need to see how it scales and performs with fewer users first, and ensure it doesn't cause any problems for DDB or other users.

Michael Grady

Excellent work! While it would be awesome for full back and future catelogues of stuff to be available for purchase directly through FVTT - we know that will never be the case. This work helps justify all those $$$ that some of us have unwisely spent on DDB so far!

Ghost of War

My players and I want to say Thank You for your work!

Crueler of the Universe

Can someone help me. I have a God Tier membership that shows on the app but not on the website on my computer and I am not able to use it in Foundry. Any suggestions

Minion135

Thank you for your continued hard work on this!

Meghan

I cannot wait! seriously couldn't DM without how easy you make it to use all the shit I've spent so much $$ on

Lisette

Hi !! I want to update Foundry to update the cruncher, but I have a problem : I'm currently on Foundry 12 (build 343) because it's the only one that'll support some of my supplements from Kobold Press. I also have a lot of custom compendiums. Does anyone have any idea how to to import the compendiums on version 13 ?

Random Dude

Hi sorry to be a bother, Ive just gotten the god tier subscription and the status on foundry corresponds to that but my characters tab on the muncher does not give me any options for background classes etc. Anyone got any insights/advice?

Random Dude

Sorry to nag you again, Ive got it working and the feats munching transfers from core rules and expanded rules like tashas and xanathars guide, but when i try and pull classes it only pulls from the core rules and doesnt bring the subclasses from the expanded rules. Can I ask for your help with this?

MrPrimate

Please go to the discord and create a thread on the support channel. There you can upload a debug file from the help section in the muncher.

Alderi Tokori

Awesome! Just a question, can we import subclasses from other rulebooks than the PHB? I've tried but it only seems to load the PHB subclasses

MrPrimate

Yes, make sure the source exclusions are not filtering out categories you want to include

Alderi Tokori

Thank you for answering so fast :) I have not touched the defaults exclusions, and when I imported feats/backgrounds, it correctly imported feats and backgrounds from the expanded 2014 rules. This issue only seems to happen to the subclass import. I don't know if it plays a part in this but all the content is shared with me; I have checked that the campaign id is correctly set and the character that i've sacrificed is part of this campaign with the shared sources. I saw your answer to "Random Dude", asking him to create a thread on discord. I'm going to try and reimport everything with all other modules disabled and create a thread with the debug file :)

Mateusz Wacławek

Hey! I can't seem to solve the issue on my own. I tried importing all the character options, but for some (yet unknown) reason, I don't see any new Compendium pack being created and the DDBeyond compendium seems to be untouched/unedited after the process completes. Can you provide me with some help? You are a godsend for the DDB-importer module, truly!