I joined a campaign recently that has content sharing turned on, and there was suddenly just a flood of homebrew stuff showing up in the builder for me. I asked the DM and he said it's not in his account—that it's probably from one of the players in one of his campaigns. Thinking back, I've actually noticed that before too—where I'd seen some homebrew in my options (when homebrew is turned on) that I know I never created or added.
I can't actually figure out why this would be intended, so it seems like a bug to me, because we want what the DM is sharing via content sharing, not every homebrew item every player in the campaign has in their account, right?
Also, in that same campaign, even though I have the Homebrew button toggled off in the builder, when I go into the spell list, I see all these homebrew spells that I have no idea where they came from—and neither does the DM (except that it must be from another player's account).
Apologies if this was asked and answered elsewhere; I couldn't find it on the forum, if so.
Unfortunately, you cannot selectively choose which homebrew is accessible. It is either everyone's homebrew or no homebrew at all.
If you have homebrew turned off, you should not be able to see any homebrew spells (unless you already put homebrew spells onto the character). There might be a lag between selecting that option in the builder and the character sheet, so the character sheet might acknowledge that homebrew is turned off yet, but generally speaking, disabling homebrew will remove access to homebrew. And just ot be clear, disabling homebrew only removes access to homebrew, it will not remove homebrew that is on the character sheet.
Unfortunately, if a homebrew spell has a subclass of a prepared spellcasting class as one of the spell lists it's added to, then it will show up as "always prepared" for that subclass even if you don't have Homebrew Content enabled for the character using that subclass.
The only way to deal with the problem is ask the player(s) with those homebrew spells in their Homebrew Collection to please remove them. Some DDB users will just add published homebrew that sound interesting, without realizing possible consequences.
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Hi,
I joined a campaign recently that has content sharing turned on, and there was suddenly just a flood of homebrew stuff showing up in the builder for me. I asked the DM and he said it's not in his account—that it's probably from one of the players in one of his campaigns. Thinking back, I've actually noticed that before too—where I'd seen some homebrew in my options (when homebrew is turned on) that I know I never created or added.
I can't actually figure out why this would be intended, so it seems like a bug to me, because we want what the DM is sharing via content sharing, not every homebrew item every player in the campaign has in their account, right?
Also, in that same campaign, even though I have the Homebrew button toggled off in the builder, when I go into the spell list, I see all these homebrew spells that I have no idea where they came from—and neither does the DM (except that it must be from another player's account).
Apologies if this was asked and answered elsewhere; I couldn't find it on the forum, if so.
Unfortunately, you cannot selectively choose which homebrew is accessible. It is either everyone's homebrew or no homebrew at all.
If you have homebrew turned off, you should not be able to see any homebrew spells (unless you already put homebrew spells onto the character). There might be a lag between selecting that option in the builder and the character sheet, so the character sheet might acknowledge that homebrew is turned off yet, but generally speaking, disabling homebrew will remove access to homebrew. And just ot be clear, disabling homebrew only removes access to homebrew, it will not remove homebrew that is on the character sheet.
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Unfortunately, if a homebrew spell has a subclass of a prepared spellcasting class as one of the spell lists it's added to, then it will show up as "always prepared" for that subclass even if you don't have Homebrew Content enabled for the character using that subclass.
The only way to deal with the problem is ask the player(s) with those homebrew spells in their Homebrew Collection to please remove them. Some DDB users will just add published homebrew that sound interesting, without realizing possible consequences.
Helpful rewriter of Japanese->English translation and delver into software codebases (she/e/they)