Tasha's Cauldron of Everything has been out for over a month, and the developers are still working hard to get everything working that isn't already, which I very much appreciate and thank. With the release of this book and its content being put on the site, a new option for the classes and subclasses have been granted, the variant/additional features that allow you to modify a base class by giving them alternative features to change certain aspects of them. Most of these feature variants that I have used have been functioning in the Character Builder, but there is still much to be wanted.
One of the main things that I and many others for the past 3ish years have been asking for is a way to make Homebrew classes in the homebrew character builder for this site. Many, many people have asked for it, and after all these years it has not come. I understand this and that it can be very difficult to allow this functionality with the current site's coding, but there is a relatively simple and quicker way to solve this problem, with is the point of this thread.
The developers of the site should allow us, the consumers, to homebrew Class Feature Variants for the official base classes. We have this option for subclasses, races, and so on, but we do not have it for classes yet, which I found to be strange. After all, you had to do the work for making the Variant Class Features when putting the content from Tasha's on this site's character builder, so most of the work should already be done. If you just let the site community to have access to this, we will be able to do the next best thing to homebrewing our own classes on this site.
For example: If one were to make a homebrew class that is an "Antipaladin", which would be a homebrew class that functions similarly to the Paladin class but with a darker theme, this would be practically impossible to make on the current site's homebrew builder. However, if we were granted the ability to modify the base class with homebrew Class Feature Variants, this would be more easily to make, being able to replace the healing and divine features of the Paladin with necrotic and fallen features that an Antipaladin would get.
The options would be expanded a ton, and I'm sure the overall community would appreciate this option a lot. It would be an easier way to do the equivalent of making a homebrew class on this site, for both the developers and homebrewers. I know I and many, many others would make a lot of use of a feature like this, as it would finally allow me to add my homebrew classes as options for players in my campaign for this website in a functional and relatively straightforward way.
So, developers, please add this option to the site. The work is already almost done, and it would make many of us much more happy with the options of the site's homebrew builder.
To any other member of the site's community, upvote this post and/or comment below if you want this option. We need to raise support for this idea in order to finally get some functionality for making homebrew classes on this site.
Have a good year, everyone, and hopefully we get this option in the foreseeable future!
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Thanks! This is currently the most important option to me for additional features for this site, especially because it should be relatively simple to implement, but the other options mentioned in that thread should definitely be on D&D Beyond's Development Team's shortlist for upcoming features.
I'm glad that quite a few others want the same thing.
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Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Tasha's Cauldron of Everything has been out for over a month, and the developers are still working hard to get everything working that isn't already, which I very much appreciate and thank. With the release of this book and its content being put on the site, a new option for the classes and subclasses have been granted, the variant/additional features that allow you to modify a base class by giving them alternative features to change certain aspects of them. Most of these feature variants that I have used have been functioning in the Character Builder, but there is still much to be wanted.
One of the main things that I and many others for the past 3ish years have been asking for is a way to make Homebrew classes in the homebrew character builder for this site. Many, many people have asked for it, and after all these years it has not come. I understand this and that it can be very difficult to allow this functionality with the current site's coding, but there is a relatively simple and quicker way to solve this problem, with is the point of this thread.
The developers of the site should allow us, the consumers, to homebrew Class Feature Variants for the official base classes. We have this option for subclasses, races, and so on, but we do not have it for classes yet, which I found to be strange. After all, you had to do the work for making the Variant Class Features when putting the content from Tasha's on this site's character builder, so most of the work should already be done. If you just let the site community to have access to this, we will be able to do the next best thing to homebrewing our own classes on this site.
For example: If one were to make a homebrew class that is an "Antipaladin", which would be a homebrew class that functions similarly to the Paladin class but with a darker theme, this would be practically impossible to make on the current site's homebrew builder. However, if we were granted the ability to modify the base class with homebrew Class Feature Variants, this would be more easily to make, being able to replace the healing and divine features of the Paladin with necrotic and fallen features that an Antipaladin would get.
The options would be expanded a ton, and I'm sure the overall community would appreciate this option a lot. It would be an easier way to do the equivalent of making a homebrew class on this site, for both the developers and homebrewers. I know I and many, many others would make a lot of use of a feature like this, as it would finally allow me to add my homebrew classes as options for players in my campaign for this website in a functional and relatively straightforward way.
So, developers, please add this option to the site. The work is already almost done, and it would make many of us much more happy with the options of the site's homebrew builder.
To any other member of the site's community, upvote this post and/or comment below if you want this option. We need to raise support for this idea in order to finally get some functionality for making homebrew classes on this site.
Have a good year, everyone, and hopefully we get this option in the foreseeable future!
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
This. Imma link your post as a shoutout here
Thanks! This is currently the most important option to me for additional features for this site, especially because it should be relatively simple to implement, but the other options mentioned in that thread should definitely be on D&D Beyond's Development Team's shortlist for upcoming features.
I'm glad that quite a few others want the same thing.
Please check out my homebrew, I would appreciate feedback:
Spells, Monsters, Subclasses, Races, Arcknight Class, Occultist Class, World, Enigmatic Esoterica forms
Is this a thing already, or at least it is in the works?