My DM homebrewed an item called the True Block of Wood for a joke character. Our bard cast identify on it, revealing its properties, allowing the DM to give us its item card. It didn't seem suspicious; it was just a plot device we'd use to open a door later. Then the bard's player added True Block of Wood to his digital character sheet for convenience's sake. One of the tags for the item said "cursed." (The identify spell doesn't reveal curses, which is why the item card given to us left that part out.)
The DM was furious, because even though the DM's account for this website was free, a critical plot detail was just spoiled for us even though the bard player did nothing wrong. How can our DM hide such information from us while still keeping his homebrew creations on his account?
Best onion is for dm to create two versions, one with curse details and one without, and remove cursed from from their collection (so it isn’t shared in the campaign)
Ok, that works for magic items. But what about monsters that the DM would want to use in Encounters and the upcoming Combat Tracker? A player could still accidentally see homebrewed monsters in this way when trying to add creatures in the extra's section of the character sheet. Is there any way to prevent this?
My DM homebrewed an item called the True Block of Wood for a joke character. Our bard cast identify on it, revealing its properties, allowing the DM to give us its item card. It didn't seem suspicious; it was just a plot device we'd use to open a door later. Then the bard's player added True Block of Wood to his digital character sheet for convenience's sake. One of the tags for the item said "cursed." (The identify spell doesn't reveal curses, which is why the item card given to us left that part out.)
The DM was furious, because even though the DM's account for this website was free, a critical plot detail was just spoiled for us even though the bard player did nothing wrong. How can our DM hide such information from us while still keeping his homebrew creations on his account?
Best onion is for dm to create two versions, one with curse details and one without, and remove cursed from from their collection (so it isn’t shared in the campaign)
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Ok, that works for magic items. But what about monsters that the DM would want to use in Encounters and the upcoming Combat Tracker? A player could still accidentally see homebrewed monsters in this way when trying to add creatures in the extra's section of the character sheet. Is there any way to prevent this?
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