I have created a Homebrew Subrace for Dragonborn that has been approved already, but is unsearchable. I would I go about finding this Homebrew content so I can share with my friends.
You can go to your “collection,” expand the subrace, click “view details page” and then send them the link from the URL bar. Alternatively, if your friends are in a campaign with you then they should be able to use your Subrace without having to add it to their collections.
So what you are saying is that "Subraces" just simply aren't searchable at all and must be manually shared. I wonder why the option in homebrew was offered if you can't even publicly share your subrace. Weird.
I think if you add a homebrewed race to your collection the subraces for it come with it, but I’m not 100% sure. 🤷♂️
The point isn’t to share it, the point is to use it for yourself. Publishing should secondary. IMHO, things written just to publish are rarely playtested or edited or tech edited. Stuff written by a DM to use, that they also happen publish are usually better for at least some of that on average, if not all of it. Just by using and refining it before publication it comes out way better, and with fewer republications. At least, that seems to be my experience.
In this case, this subrace has already been playtested by other people and is IMHO a way superior option. Since it had not been put on D&D Beyond (I looked) I wanted to share it publicly. However, I don’t disagree with you that non-playtested or special homebrews don’t need to be publicly posted.
Hey, I don’t disagree with you. My point was that, in the beginning of DDB, there was no homebrew at all, WotC wouldn’t let them. When WotC finally nodded up and down to the idea, DDB had to scramble to implement it.
They took the official creation system that the devs built for “Dev Think,” hid the trickiest stuff that could break the system if done wrong and locked it behind admin access, and then opened the doors to the general public, the vast majority of whom do not think like Devs for the most part. The whole system was kinda ad hock. That’s why it has always been janky and glitched. That’s part of the reason for all of the upgrades to everything DDB is working on. That work is part of why stuff has been extra glitches lately.
Once they’re done everything should be better than ever. But think of it like when they do historical landmark building renovations and you watch the scaffolding slowly creep around the building section by section as the seasons go by until the whole job has been meticulously finished inch by inch? It’s kinda like that.
I have created a Homebrew Subrace for Dragonborn that has been approved already, but is unsearchable. I would I go about finding this Homebrew content so I can share with my friends.
You can go to your “collection,” expand the subrace, click “view details page” and then send them the link from the URL bar. Alternatively, if your friends are in a campaign with you then they should be able to use your Subrace without having to add it to their collections.
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
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So what you are saying is that "Subraces" just simply aren't searchable at all and must be manually shared. I wonder why the option in homebrew was offered if you can't even publicly share your subrace. Weird.
I think if you add a homebrewed race to your collection the subraces for it come with it, but I’m not 100% sure. 🤷♂️
The point isn’t to share it, the point is to use it for yourself. Publishing should secondary. IMHO, things written just to publish are rarely playtested or edited or tech edited. Stuff written by a DM to use, that they also happen publish are usually better for at least some of that on average, if not all of it. Just by using and refining it before publication it comes out way better, and with fewer republications. At least, that seems to be my experience.
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
DDB Buyers' Guide
Hardcovers, DDB & You
Content Troubleshooting
In this case, this subrace has already been playtested by other people and is IMHO a way superior option. Since it had not been put on D&D Beyond (I looked) I wanted to share it publicly. However, I don’t disagree with you that non-playtested or special homebrews don’t need to be publicly posted.
Hey, I don’t disagree with you. My point was that, in the beginning of DDB, there was no homebrew at all, WotC wouldn’t let them. When WotC finally nodded up and down to the idea, DDB had to scramble to implement it.
They took the official creation system that the devs built for “Dev Think,” hid the trickiest stuff that could break the system if done wrong and locked it behind admin access, and then opened the doors to the general public, the vast majority of whom do not think like Devs for the most part. The whole system was kinda ad hock. That’s why it has always been janky and glitched. That’s part of the reason for all of the upgrades to everything DDB is working on. That work is part of why stuff has been extra glitches lately.
Once they’re done everything should be better than ever. But think of it like when they do historical landmark building renovations and you watch the scaffolding slowly creep around the building section by section as the seasons go by until the whole job has been meticulously finished inch by inch? It’s kinda like that.
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
DDB Buyers' Guide
Hardcovers, DDB & You
Content Troubleshooting
Yeah I understand! I am a coder myself so fixing quickly rushed things is something I am well aware of doing. Here is that subrace I mentioned.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/subraces/120471-legacy-dragonborn