Until developers get the UA spells and Dragonmark spells incorporated, which I know they are working on now, I have been creating homebrew spells and assigning to the classes that correspond with the appropriate players. In doing this several times for an entire party, and then with a bunch of experimentation, I found that, seemingly, if the homebrew spell is created based off of an existing spell, then any class that normally has that spell on their spell list also gets the new homebrew spell added, too, despite explicitly not including any of the original classes in the "Available for Class" field. This is confusing...better to illustrate:
Goal: Add Cause Fear to the cleric's spell list. Results: When adding Cause Fear to the Cleric's spell list, in the homebrew creation, I duplicated Cause Fear, but called it "Cleric UA - Cause Fear" and set the "Available for Class" field to Cleric only. It correctly shows up in the Cleric's spell list, so success there. However, when I go to my Wizard's spell list (which already has Cause Fear), it also shows up there as "Cleric UA - Cause Fear". I've tried this between multiple other class combinations and also different variations of the spell title (e.g. "Cause Fear - Cleric UA", "Cleric UA_Cause Fear", and "Cleric UA - Cause_Fear").
It's more annoying than anything and presumably the class feature variants will be incorporated soon, but thought I'd share as I can see other use cases where this might cause confusion for DMs & players.
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Until developers get the UA spells and Dragonmark spells incorporated, which I know they are working on now, I have been creating homebrew spells and assigning to the classes that correspond with the appropriate players. In doing this several times for an entire party, and then with a bunch of experimentation, I found that, seemingly, if the homebrew spell is created based off of an existing spell, then any class that normally has that spell on their spell list also gets the new homebrew spell added, too, despite explicitly not including any of the original classes in the "Available for Class" field. This is confusing...better to illustrate:
Goal: Add Cause Fear to the cleric's spell list. Results: When adding Cause Fear to the Cleric's spell list, in the homebrew creation, I duplicated Cause Fear, but called it "Cleric UA - Cause Fear" and set the "Available for Class" field to Cleric only. It correctly shows up in the Cleric's spell list, so success there. However, when I go to my Wizard's spell list (which already has Cause Fear), it also shows up there as "Cleric UA - Cause Fear". I've tried this between multiple other class combinations and also different variations of the spell title (e.g. "Cause Fear - Cleric UA", "Cleric UA_Cause Fear", and "Cleric UA - Cause_Fear").
It's more annoying than anything and presumably the class feature variants will be incorporated soon, but thought I'd share as I can see other use cases where this might cause confusion for DMs & players.