New Patronage Goal Announced: D&D Beyond Importer Extension (Patreon)

Hello DMs,

I am launching a new Patronage Goal. I'd like your help in reaching 1,500 Patrons! I'd like to tie the patronage goal to an ambitious feature that will be offered to Epic Initiative level patrons.

D&D Beyond is an excellent source of official D&D statblocks, but today there is no simple way to run encounters in Improved Initiative with the content that you've bought and paid for on D&D Beyond. I'd like to build a cross-browser extension that runs in your browser that will grab a statblock that you're viewing on D&D Beyond, and import it into Improved Initiative with one click.

The plan to provide this feature to the Epic Initiative level after reaching a Patreon goal reflects the additional time commitment required by the feature. I'll have to build and maintain an extension that runs in Chrome, Firefox, and other browsers and works on a website that I don't control, so I'll potentially need to update it based on a few different sources of issues.

I made a proof-of-concept extension this month that can grab the name of a creature from a statblock on D&D Beyond and send it off. The way that D&D Beyond displays statblocks today will allow this to work, but there is a small risk that DnDB will take steps to block extensions like this from working on their website. Wizards and Curse have a good track record of working with the D&D community, so I expect that this won't be a problem.

As always, I'd like your feedback on this. Thanks for your support!