I keep seeing people with issues adding spells, however my problem is something that makes less sense. I am trying to add Holy weapon as a use limited spell to a Warlock subclass, however when adding it to the feature as an added spell, I am not able to submit the subclass to the community. because it tells me that i am adding liscensed content or private homebrew content. however this issue only seems to happen when trying to add it as a modified spell, if I add holy weapon to a spell list it works just fine.

Am I not able to add use limiters to existing spells and share that with the community?

Holy Weapon is from a non-free source (Xanathar's Guide to Everything), which is why you can't publish a homebrew that explicitly adds it as a spell. You can still share the subclass with a campaign you belong to.

I believe I found a work around. I added the spell as an action instead of a spell to set the use limit and reset. still not sure why just adding it as a spell doesn't work

I have the book. and if I added it to the Expanded spell list it wouldn't have any issue, I tested that. the issue was that I couldn't add it as a modified spell in order to add uses based on Charisma modifier. adding it to a spell list should fall under the same issue if it was a case of not being able to add it to a subclass because of needing the book.

You should be seeing something like this:

This Subclass cannot be shared with the community for the following reasons:

• This homebrew Subclass has data mapped to it that is licensed content or private homebrew. This typically occurs when licensed or private homebrew spells are linked to the Subclass.

Remember, private homebrew is automatically shared with other users in your campaigns and does not need to be shared with the community for players to access.

Whether you own the book or not, you're not allowed to publish homebrew that references licensed content. Holy Weapon is licensed content not available in the Basic Rules, therefore you're not allowed to publish homebrew that includes that spell.

If you have added Holy Weapon via a feature and the homebrewer isn't saying you can't publish it, then you probably haven't done [Save Changes] at the top edit page of the homebrew.

In any case, wait before publishing homebrew until you've had a chance to test and see whether it works. Once it's been published, it can't be edited or deleted.

I see that only when trying to publish it with a spell added to a feature and added to the additional specific spells but not when adding it to an expanded spell list. i tested adding Holy Weapon to the expanded spell list i saved the expanded list, i saved the feature and then i saved the subclass. it will allow me to publish it with the spell added to the available spells for the class. so what is the difference? Homebrew can be updated ive updated both of mine a couple times already.

Interesting... so you can add a spell to an Additional Spell List under a feature of a homebrew subclass, and the homebrew publisher won't validate it. I get the feeling that's unintended somehow.

But in any case, all you're doing is making the spell available on the subclass's spell list when you Manage Spells. You can't make them Always Prepared, give them limited uses, etc.

apparently. but i did change it to being a modified version of the spell in the feature and made it as an action. which was something i saw suggested in another forum. so it isn't the entire Holy weapon spell just the first part minus a need for concentration. but that part is in the wording of the feature.