As far as I’m aware, the only self hosted player character builder is the charactermancer in plutonium, the patreon-accessible Foundry VTT plugin made by the 5e.tools folks — but man. My kingdom for a dndbeyond alternative, something self hosted that can take open 5th edition content and allow my players to build and save their character sheets. I don’t suppose I’m just missing something already out there, or are there any projects I should be following?

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[–] 7 points 2 years ago (4 children)

https://www.dungeonmastersvault.com/

Not self hosted but I believe it is open source. Their discord has content packs that cover all officially released content.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago (2 children)

    Thanks for sharing, might also use this as a tool. Side note: I jumped on the discord but it looks like they removed the packs to be safe, let me know if I'm mistaken.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Yeah and weren’t terribly helpful in the discord about it tbh. Im just looking for open licensed content - any idea where folks are sharing those?

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    I miss the days of the free 4e character creator, it was a thing of beauty... I also miss minions

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago

    Aurora is no longer maintained, but it still works just fine. It's a Windows app, so not web-accessible or anything, but it's free. It only contains the SRD content by default (probably for legal reasons), but there's at least one publicly-accessible elements repository for it that you can find using your favorite search engine.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 years ago

    If one doesn't exist, it would seem to be a fairly straightforward (if not a smidge tedious) thing to implement. Ever thought about learning web development?

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