I’m in a campaign where our DM is sharing content. I clicked on the adventure that he’s running for us by accident and saw that I could actually read through it - full access. I then texted him that he might want to change his settings.
I then poked around a bit more, clicked on “Content Management” and figured out: 1) He had all of his adventures blocked and 2) I could actually change the sharing settings as a player - all of the settings were there for me.
As of now, it appears that just like the old days, if you share your content, you share everything. The selector buttons are window dressing _ they don’t do anything at all. If those toggles don’t work, why are they there? I’m sure my DM doesn’t want to be sharing all of his expensive DDB adventures with the players he’s going to run them for! Am I missing something here?
Edit: I realized that while I can’t change the content sharing settings in the campaign I don’t own, I can in a campaign I created as the DM where one of the players is sharing content. So in that campaign, one of my players, let’s call him Bob, is sharing his content. When I, the DM, click content management, I see that I have blocked all of Bob’s adventures but have enabled all sourcebooks. Great. However, I can still read Bob’s adventures. Even stranger, I can read content that NEITHER HE OR I OWN! I can read the Eberron sourcebooks even though neither of us has purchased them.
We do have one player in the campaign that owns these books, but he hasn’t enabled sharing of his content. So after all of this, I’m more confused than ever. Is DDB allowing everyone in a campaign to have access to anything any player or DM has purchased? Because that’s what it looks like from where I’m sitting.
Campaign sharing means all content that anyone in the campaign owns here is shared with everyone else in the campaign, unless the DM has restricted the content. I think the DM can see all of the shared content regardless of the settings, but I’m not positive about that.
The whole system is very strange. So my player, Bob, has decided to share his content, but I control the toggles as DM as to what is supposed to be shared and which items are not to be shared. However, I can’t even turn off his sharing - even though I’m the DM, which makes no sense. If I want to share my content instead of his, I’d have to kick him from the campaign, I guess, turn on my sharing and then invite him back? And it certainly doesn’t explain how I can read content that neither of us own. AFAIK, there’s no global account setting that addresses sharing in any way.
So, when content sharing is enabled in a module everyone in that module can access everything shared. The DM, which it sounds like is you, gets to choose who can see what. This is not because you own the content, but because you are the DM for that module; because you are the DM, even when you block access to something, you still have access to it. The player however, can still access that material if they personally own it. They can't be restricted from material they own, only material that is being shared to them.
It doesn't matter who enables content sharing, it shares everything that everyone owns; including homebrew material. The DM chooses, through the toggles, who can access what.
You were 100% right. The problem I was having was that both Bob and I are DMs, each have our own campaigns, each possessing one player in common who has bought nearly everything on Beyond, thus explaining why both Bob and I were able to read everything that particular player owned. Thanks so much for your help!
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I’m in a campaign where our DM is sharing content. I clicked on the adventure that he’s running for us by accident and saw that I could actually read through it - full access. I then texted him that he might want to change his settings.
I then poked around a bit more, clicked on “Content Management” and figured out: 1) He had all of his adventures blocked and 2) I could actually change the sharing settings as a player - all of the settings were there for me.
As of now, it appears that just like the old days, if you share your content, you share everything. The selector buttons are window dressing _ they don’t do anything at all. If those toggles don’t work, why are they there? I’m sure my DM doesn’t want to be sharing all of his expensive DDB adventures with the players he’s going to run them for! Am I missing something here?
Edit: I realized that while I can’t change the content sharing settings in the campaign I don’t own, I can in a campaign I created as the DM where one of the players is sharing content. So in that campaign, one of my players, let’s call him Bob, is sharing his content. When I, the DM, click content management, I see that I have blocked all of Bob’s adventures but have enabled all sourcebooks. Great. However, I can still read Bob’s adventures. Even stranger, I can read content that NEITHER HE OR I OWN! I can read the Eberron sourcebooks even though neither of us has purchased them.
We do have one player in the campaign that owns these books, but he hasn’t enabled sharing of his content. So after all of this, I’m more confused than ever. Is DDB allowing everyone in a campaign to have access to anything any player or DM has purchased? Because that’s what it looks like from where I’m sitting.
Campaign sharing means all content that anyone in the campaign owns here is shared with everyone else in the campaign, unless the DM has restricted the content. I think the DM can see all of the shared content regardless of the settings, but I’m not positive about that.
Trying to Decide if DDB is for you? A few helpful threads: A Buyer's Guide to DDB; What I/We Bought and Why; How some DMs use DDB; A Newer Thread on Using DDB to Play
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The whole system is very strange. So my player, Bob, has decided to share his content, but I control the toggles as DM as to what is supposed to be shared and which items are not to be shared. However, I can’t even turn off his sharing - even though I’m the DM, which makes no sense. If I want to share my content instead of his, I’d have to kick him from the campaign, I guess, turn on my sharing and then invite him back? And it certainly doesn’t explain how I can read content that neither of us own. AFAIK, there’s no global account setting that addresses sharing in any way.
So, when content sharing is enabled in a module everyone in that module can access everything shared. The DM, which it sounds like is you, gets to choose who can see what. This is not because you own the content, but because you are the DM for that module; because you are the DM, even when you block access to something, you still have access to it. The player however, can still access that material if they personally own it. They can't be restricted from material they own, only material that is being shared to them.
It doesn't matter who enables content sharing, it shares everything that everyone owns; including homebrew material. The DM chooses, through the toggles, who can access what.
Thanks, @Jusblazm. I think I need to do a little experimenting with this...
You were 100% right. The problem I was having was that both Bob and I are DMs, each have our own campaigns, each possessing one player in common who has bought nearly everything on Beyond, thus explaining why both Bob and I were able to read everything that particular player owned. Thanks so much for your help!