Hi i had this question as well, however there isn’t a way to just delete a submitted home brew. I’m in my creations page and the only options i see are “disable comments”, and “create new version”. I created a new version and the original is still there and active. There is no way to just delete it.
It's a shame we can't link the new version on the old one, or manually hide the old one from search results (or just nest it behind the new one).
There are a lot of reasons this could be done - new errata or new splatbooks with conflicting or overlapping rulings, for example...or a previously-unforeseen loophole in a rule.
The old content could still be on Beyond, just we'd have the ability to stop it from cluttering everyone's search results with confusingly conflicting duplicates.
It's a shame we can't link the new version on the old one, or manually hide the old one from search results (or just nest it behind the new one).
The old content could still be on Beyond, just we'd have the ability to stop it from cluttering everyone's search results with confusingly conflicting duplicates.
We have had a conversation about this from our end regarding this very idea. If deleting a homebrew record causes errors to members who subscribed to it, the ability to toggle display of an item may be the next way to go - possibly deleting non-subscribed, hidden items on a scheduled basis.
All just ideas, of course, but we've been brainstorming as well!
That's great to hear, Sedge! You guys have a great team (and I'm not just saying that because you approved my recent published content very quickly ^_~)
Until any such feature is implemented, publicly submitted homebrew will become content for the community. As Filcat mentioned, users can submit updated versions, but we will not be fielding reports to delete public items. The 'Private' homebrew feature allows for testing and editing, which players can join into campaigns to do. Once submitted to 'Public', it becomes community-owned as a final draft.
Could we PLEASE get a way to delete a monster at least if no one else is using it? Super frustrating to have submitted something too early, found typos, then can't even fix it without submitting multiple versions, which just looks ugly and tacky.
I submitted my Homebrew just a bit to early and found it had some typos.
They should at least let us edit them
I didn't even mean to open it up for internal community commentary or whatever (at least at this point, maybe I would have someday), I was just trying to figure out how to share the monster stat link with my players and friends...little did I know there was literally 0 room for error.
It would be nice if there was a way to privately share homebrew. Basically make it like unlisted youtube videos where you can only see or use them if you have a link.
You people do know you can make a new version, right? It's a couple of clicks, fix what you need, save, publish, and everyone using it gets a notification of a new version and they can update to it. They can still use the old versions but the new version will be the one now appearing in the lists.
It would be nice if there was a way to privately share homebrew. Basically make it like unlisted youtube videos where you can only see or use them if you have a link.
You can. Make your homebrew. Join campaign. All homebrew you make and have in your collection (which you will do, it gets added automatically) will be shared to everyone else in that campaign automatically - you don't need any subscriptions or content sharing - it's automatic.
I submitted my Homebrew just a bit to early and found it had some typos.
They should at least let us edit them
I didn't even mean to open it up for internal community commentary or whatever (at least at this point, maybe I would have someday), I was just trying to figure out how to share the monster stat link with my players and friends...little did I know there was literally 0 room for error.
When you click the "Share with Community" link, the following message is displayed, that requires you to click the SUBMIT button to actually publish:
If there is something that you feel is unclear with the message and the rules that are linked to, please let us know!
I've only ever published 3-4 pieces of homebrew, and I had already made several passes for spelling, grammar, and mechanics corrections before doing so as well as making a test character to make sure the modifiers applied correctly.
DDB made it clear what publishing meant, so I don't publish my unfinished or unbalanced junk (there is already more than enough of that out there).
You people do know you can make a new version, right? It's a couple of clicks, fix what you need, save, publish, and everyone using it gets a notification of a new version and they can update to it. They can still use the old versions but the new version will be the one now appearing in the lists.
It would be nice if there was a way to privately share homebrew. Basically make it like unlisted youtube videos where you can only see or use them if you have a link.
You can. Make your homebrew. Join campaign. All homebrew you make and have in your collection (which you will do, it gets added automatically) will be shared to everyone else in that campaign automatically - you don't need any subscriptions or content sharing - it's automatic.
Yes, but it would be nice to be able to share stuff without trying to organize a campaign. For example, I made a cat as a joke for someone in the forums but I don't really want it to be a public thing. I'd rather it only be visible to people seeing it through that thread. That way there's some context behind it.
Submitting a new version of published homebrew doesn't really fix the fact that there's no corrections possible for existing homebrew, or no way to take something off the market because you'd like to redo it after learning more about the game. Nor can you share homebrew with your buddies - or here on the forums, as part of a "help me figure this out please?" request in Homebrew, for example - without publishing it, which means it is irrevocably locked in Until The End of Time because updating to new revisions is entirely optional and a player downloading your homebrew can, at any time, dig through your revision history to find the old ratty crap-ass version and use that, instead.
Essentially, the current system requires any homebrew you want to make available to be absolutely pitch perfect the first time, in its final form, with no need for revisions ever. It's...daunting, and I can understand the desire to want to revise your work or even take down something you meant as a joke. By the same token I can understand why DDB doesn't want people pulling published, public-download homebrew out from under the feet of people who decided to use it. I would argue that allowing a piece of homebrew to remain in one's collection even after the public link has been taken down would solve the issue neatly - if somebody is using your doohickus they can continue to do so, but otherwise you should be allowed to correct your errors or fix the thing.
That's the glory of digital media - we're not Wizards. We shouldn't have to get absolutely every single digit 100% Heavenly Perfect Triple-S+ Score on the very first revision. We can put something on the Internet, and then we can fix it if it's bad. Except currently we can't because the revision system is ass and basically doesn't exist, and without any 'Prototype' tags nobody can share their in-progress homebrew to try and gather feedback without instead making that the Final Ultimate Definitive Edition of the thing they're trying to build.
Yep. In this day and age it's baffling that some kind of versioning isn't built in, at minimum, so we can fix and fine tune stuff without 20 different copies sitting in our list of homebrew for the same thing.
And, like I said in my initial comment...for those times you jump the gun (for whatever reason), I can't see any logical reason as to why you shouldn't be able to delete something no one has seen or used - especially seconds/minutes after you posted it!
The bit about wanting to share things without a campaign is also a good point, and what I was trying to do in the first place.
Thank you for this reminder. Here's what's not clear from the text associated with the 'submit' button: it is not clear from the text that you will be unable to delete the item if it is submitted and accepted. Please consider adding that warning. If I'd known that when I started experimenting with the system, I would not submitted the item.
Here's the issue: the very first homebrew magic item I created was intended to be a draft, not a final version. Yes, I had to click 'submit', but the learning curve for this system can be significant AND I assumed that I would be able to delete an item that I was not happy with. For, for now, the item named 'Red Petra' is an item with only a name and no other attributes. It is obviously incomplete. I can not edit it. I can not delete it. Yes, if is my fault for creating it, but in my defense, I was merely experimenting with the system in the first days that I created my account. It has no subscriptions. It never will because it is nothing besides a title. It might as well say 'ham sandwich'. Do you really want that cluttering your list of items?
I understand (and cheerfully agree) why items we submit belong the community if approved, but you are also telling us that us that once we submit an item, we can never unsubscribe from it ourselves? Does that mean if I subscribe to another user's content, that I can never unsubscribe from that item? I am now hesitant to subscribe to anything for fear that I will be stuck with an unwanted item for the life of my account.
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Submitted a Homebrew and noticed a typo. Cannot seem to find a way to delete it. Is this not possible?
You can fix the typo and submit a new version.
Thank you. I wasn't sure if there was any way otherwise.
Hi i had this question as well, however there isn’t a way to just delete a submitted home brew. I’m in my creations page and the only options i see are “disable comments”, and “create new version”. I created a new version and the original is still there and active. There is no way to just delete it.
There is no way to delete a submitted Homebrew, reasoning is that someone may be using it already and it would delete it for them as well.
It's a shame we can't link the new version on the old one, or manually hide the old one from search results (or just nest it behind the new one).
There are a lot of reasons this could be done - new errata or new splatbooks with conflicting or overlapping rulings, for example...or a previously-unforeseen loophole in a rule.
The old content could still be on Beyond, just we'd have the ability to stop it from cluttering everyone's search results with confusingly conflicting duplicates.
We have had a conversation about this from our end regarding this very idea. If deleting a homebrew record causes errors to members who subscribed to it, the ability to toggle display of an item may be the next way to go - possibly deleting non-subscribed, hidden items on a scheduled basis.
All just ideas, of course, but we've been brainstorming as well!
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That's great to hear, Sedge! You guys have a great team (and I'm not just saying that because you approved my recent published content very quickly ^_~)
Until any such feature is implemented, publicly submitted homebrew will become content for the community. As Filcat mentioned, users can submit updated versions, but we will not be fielding reports to delete public items. The 'Private' homebrew feature allows for testing and editing, which players can join into campaigns to do. Once submitted to 'Public', it becomes community-owned as a final draft.
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Send me a message with any questions or concerns
Could we PLEASE get a way to delete a monster at least if no one else is using it? Super frustrating to have submitted something too early, found typos, then can't even fix it without submitting multiple versions, which just looks ugly and tacky.
Yeah void I agree with you.
I submitted my Homebrew just a bit to early and found it had some typos.
They should at least let us edit them
I didn't even mean to open it up for internal community commentary or whatever (at least at this point, maybe I would have someday), I was just trying to figure out how to share the monster stat link with my players and friends...little did I know there was literally 0 room for error.
It would be nice if there was a way to privately share homebrew. Basically make it like unlisted youtube videos where you can only see or use them if you have a link.
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You people do know you can make a new version, right? It's a couple of clicks, fix what you need, save, publish, and everyone using it gets a notification of a new version and they can update to it. They can still use the old versions but the new version will be the one now appearing in the lists.
You can. Make your homebrew. Join campaign. All homebrew you make and have in your collection (which you will do, it gets added automatically) will be shared to everyone else in that campaign automatically - you don't need any subscriptions or content sharing - it's automatic.
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I've only ever published 3-4 pieces of homebrew, and I had already made several passes for spelling, grammar, and mechanics corrections before doing so as well as making a test character to make sure the modifiers applied correctly.
DDB made it clear what publishing meant, so I don't publish my unfinished or unbalanced junk (there is already more than enough of that out there).
Yes, but it would be nice to be able to share stuff without trying to organize a campaign.
For example, I made a cat as a joke for someone in the forums but I don't really want it to be a public thing. I'd rather it only be visible to people seeing it through that thread. That way there's some context behind it.
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Submitting a new version of published homebrew doesn't really fix the fact that there's no corrections possible for existing homebrew, or no way to take something off the market because you'd like to redo it after learning more about the game. Nor can you share homebrew with your buddies - or here on the forums, as part of a "help me figure this out please?" request in Homebrew, for example - without publishing it, which means it is irrevocably locked in Until The End of Time because updating to new revisions is entirely optional and a player downloading your homebrew can, at any time, dig through your revision history to find the old ratty crap-ass version and use that, instead.
Essentially, the current system requires any homebrew you want to make available to be absolutely pitch perfect the first time, in its final form, with no need for revisions ever. It's...daunting, and I can understand the desire to want to revise your work or even take down something you meant as a joke. By the same token I can understand why DDB doesn't want people pulling published, public-download homebrew out from under the feet of people who decided to use it. I would argue that allowing a piece of homebrew to remain in one's collection even after the public link has been taken down would solve the issue neatly - if somebody is using your doohickus they can continue to do so, but otherwise you should be allowed to correct your errors or fix the thing.
That's the glory of digital media - we're not Wizards. We shouldn't have to get absolutely every single digit 100% Heavenly Perfect Triple-S+ Score on the very first revision. We can put something on the Internet, and then we can fix it if it's bad. Except currently we can't because the revision system is ass and basically doesn't exist, and without any 'Prototype' tags nobody can share their in-progress homebrew to try and gather feedback without instead making that the Final Ultimate Definitive Edition of the thing they're trying to build.
It sucks. It really sucks.
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Yep. In this day and age it's baffling that some kind of versioning isn't built in, at minimum, so we can fix and fine tune stuff without 20 different copies sitting in our list of homebrew for the same thing.
And, like I said in my initial comment...for those times you jump the gun (for whatever reason), I can't see any logical reason as to why you shouldn't be able to delete something no one has seen or used - especially seconds/minutes after you posted it!
The bit about wanting to share things without a campaign is also a good point, and what I was trying to do in the first place.
Thank you for this reminder. Here's what's not clear from the text associated with the 'submit' button: it is not clear from the text that you will be unable to delete the item if it is submitted and accepted. Please consider adding that warning. If I'd known that when I started experimenting with the system, I would not submitted the item.
Here's the issue: the very first homebrew magic item I created was intended to be a draft, not a final version. Yes, I had to click 'submit', but the learning curve for this system can be significant AND I assumed that I would be able to delete an item that I was not happy with. For, for now, the item named 'Red Petra' is an item with only a name and no other attributes. It is obviously incomplete. I can not edit it. I can not delete it. Yes, if is my fault for creating it, but in my defense, I was merely experimenting with the system in the first days that I created my account. It has no subscriptions. It never will because it is nothing besides a title. It might as well say 'ham sandwich'. Do you really want that cluttering your list of items?
I understand (and cheerfully agree) why items we submit belong the community if approved, but you are also telling us that us that once we submit an item, we can never unsubscribe from it ourselves? Does that mean if I subscribe to another user's content, that I can never unsubscribe from that item? I am now hesitant to subscribe to anything for fear that I will be stuck with an unwanted item for the life of my account.