February 14th, 2018
Today's update includes a few bug fixes, as well as a new feature for DMs as well as players in campaigns.
Bugs:
- Fixed an issue with the modifier type and subtype filters not filtering properly in the magic item listing.
- Fixed an ordering issue occurring in the character builder for Mutagen options in the Blood Hunter class.
- Addressed an issue with speed overrides and modifiers. See this forum post for more information.
Additions:
- Added the ability within a campaign to transfer ownership of characters among players. See more below.
Notes:
Along with today's update, you will now be able to create characters for other players in your campaign. Whether you're a DM or a player, you'll be able to create a character to be made available for users in your campaign to claim as their own.
You'll now see a new section called "Unassigned Characters" on the Campaign Details page:
If a character is "unassigned", it is available for anyone within the campaign or with an invite link to the campaign to claim the character as their own.
As a DM or player, you can create a new unassigned character by clicking the "Create Unassigned Character" button on the details page.
You can also click "Unassign" on any existing characters you own who are in the campaign to put them up for other players.
Characters that are created as Unassigned characters will then appear in the Unassigned Characters section. While they are in an "Unassigned" state, the user who created or last owned the character is still considered the owner. The transfer of ownership happens when the character is claimed by another player. Unassigned characters are still owned by the player who most recently put them up to be claimed for the purposes of viewing, editing, character slot, and potential content sharing purposes.
If you are already in the campaign, you can claim a character by simply clicking "Claim" on any unassigned character. If you have an invite link to the campaign, you can claim any unassigned characters on the "Join a Campaign" page in addition to joining with one of your characters or creating a new one. If you already have the maximum number of slots filled, you will not be able to claim a character, and you will not have an option to claim characters until you make room for that character.
Once a character is claimed, the new user becomes the owner, and has the ability to view, edit, or even unassign the character for someone else to claim if they please. A player who has maxed out their character slots will not be able to create a new unassigned character or claim an existing one until they make room for that character.
It's important to note once again that Unassigned Characters still consume character slots and campaign slots, and are owned by the last person who had ownership of the character before unassigning them. If Content Sharing is enabled, the characters will still share the content of their owners to everyone in the campaign. Lastly, a player can access the campaign as long as they have any active or unassigned characters in the campaign. If a player transfers their last character in a campaign to someone else, they will no longer have access to that campaign. (Unless they join again with another character).
I definitely second the awesomeness of being able to one-click transfer a named NPC from an adventure into a campaign character slot.
I would also love it if the "unassigned character" feature leads to a change in campaign limits from 12 characters to 12 players.
That worked flawlessly! Thanks for the help!
Thanks for the reply -- indeed, that was the problem. I think the UI could perhaps be more helpful in indicating why it's impossible to claim a character -- perhaps an inactive link with a hover tooltip?
Also, it seems a bit awkward that if you're at your character limit, you can unassign a character, but then you are unable to re-claim it, though it still counts as part of your limit.
Wait. So if you have a free account, create 6 characters in a campaign and then unasaign them... you cant claim one of them? I think that´s strange. The system should check if the character you are trying to claim is owned already by you (so is already taking up one of your slots) and let you claiming it
I didn't realize this but I think it's great that as a DM you can join with as many of your "my characters" through the link and then unassign them so other players can use them. I had created tons of pre-gen characters for all my player but I was the only one that could see them unless I remade them on each campaign. This is brilliant. Thanks again!
My character is no longer available. It says that I no longer have any characters. It was there before the update so wondering if the update has something to do with it? Can anyone help?
This is an awesome new feature. Thank you!
This update is really helpful.
This is amazingly helpful. Thank you.
This is great! But I hope to see the ability to choose an existing character to duplicate or add to the campaign so that others can choose them. I am re-creating all the characters I had already made for my players now to make them Unassigned in the campaign.
@Sigerson - I think there is a way to do this. At least it worked for me. What I did is go to my campaign page, grab the invite link, and open it in another browser window. It asked me if I want to join with an existing character which I did. Then I was able to go to the campaign page and unassign it.
While that is a good workaround, they should be adding the capability to do this for at least the DM.