If I start a campaign, and share content with it, I can turn off access to certain books, for example I can choose to NOT share adventures so that less scrupulous players won't read ahead.
If someone else starts a campaign, and I join it as a player, and then I share my content to that campaign, I cannot choose to limit the content that I share to that campaign... it's all or nothing...
Could someone explain how I can join a campaign as a player and just share sourcebooks?
Unfortunately, at the moment there is not a way to do so. But thank you for expressing an interest in there being such an option. The more people who do so, the better the chance it will be developed in the future.
The general solution that is being proposed is that if you don't want to share some specific adventure content to a campaign, you need to get the DM of that campaign to disable that content being shared (not the person sharing the content)...
The problem with this is that our D&D group is quite active and we run multiple campaigns at the same time.. e.g:
Game 1: SKT Campaign - DM Me, Player Betty, others ... Conent sharing by me, and limited to sourcebooks only
Game 2: Lost Mines Adventure - DM Betty, Player Me, others ... Conent sharing by me, and I have no control of what's being shared
In this example I can ask Betty to turn off content sharing for adventures in her campaign, and then I can check to see if the adventures are turned off... however... she can (and does) periodically go back into her campaign to enable the SKT content while we are playing my SKT game so that she can look up stuff on the sly.
Obviously the optimal solution in this example is for Betty to stop her behaviour, or for me to stop playing D&D with Betty... what everyone is asking for, is a way to remove the ability/temptation, instead of excluding people from playing D&D.
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If I start a campaign, and share content with it, I can turn off access to certain books, for example I can choose to NOT share adventures so that less scrupulous players won't read ahead.
If someone else starts a campaign, and I join it as a player, and then I share my content to that campaign, I cannot choose to limit the content that I share to that campaign... it's all or nothing...
Could someone explain how I can join a campaign as a player and just share sourcebooks?
Unfortunately, at the moment there is not a way to do so. But thank you for expressing an interest in there being such an option. The more people who do so, the better the chance it will be developed in the future.
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I am hardly the first person to have this issue, and this is not the first time that this has been requested:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/bugs-support/49746-content-sharing-is-either-all-or-none
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/bugs-support/42442-ive-turned-off-content-sharing-but-players-can
The general solution that is being proposed is that if you don't want to share some specific adventure content to a campaign, you need to get the DM of that campaign to disable that content being shared (not the person sharing the content)...
The problem with this is that our D&D group is quite active and we run multiple campaigns at the same time.. e.g:
Game 1: SKT Campaign - DM Me, Player Betty, others ... Conent sharing by me, and limited to sourcebooks only
Game 2: Lost Mines Adventure - DM Betty, Player Me, others ... Conent sharing by me, and I have no control of what's being shared
In this example I can ask Betty to turn off content sharing for adventures in her campaign, and then I can check to see if the adventures are turned off... however... she can (and does) periodically go back into her campaign to enable the SKT content while we are playing my SKT game so that she can look up stuff on the sly.
Obviously the optimal solution in this example is for Betty to stop her behaviour, or for me to stop playing D&D with Betty... what everyone is asking for, is a way to remove the ability/temptation, instead of excluding people from playing D&D.
Edit: Fixed typo