I just started a campaign where the players were limited to making human characters (only) for campaign reasons. I told them, upfront, in Session Zero: "We are starting with humans only. Please use the D&D Beyond campaign link to generate and update your character."
Then I trusted them to do so. I don't mind if they noodle about with other options for fun, but it was pretty simple to get the character they play to be the character that fits the campaign.
Other than a modicum of trust, I didn't need anything else. It pretty much solves itself with communication.
You clearly don't have literally every book they published until last months, with spells that are completely broken for 5th Edition completely mucking up the UI.
Yeah I’d like this too. Would be handy to make everything available to players but have an automatic way to disallow silvery barbs and flock of familiars (say).
I'm in agreement with Agile_DM - if you have a group who knows how to, erm... talk, then you can easily get round this issue.
That said, many people ask for this feature to be implemented and I can definitely see how this would be helpful, especially as I too am a DM who on occasion restricts the usage of some builds for Character Creation. If we can have a filter for sources when searching for things like Magic Items, then I'd like to think it would be fairly simple to implement a filter for Character Creation options (speaking as someone who has next to no knowledge on how to code!).
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#Open D&D
Have the Physical Books? Confused as to why you're not allowed to redeem them for free on D&D Beyond? Questions answered here at the Hardcover Books, D&D Beyond and You FAQ
Looking to add mouse-over triggered tooltips to such things like magic items, monsters or combat actions? Then dash over to the How to Add Tooltips thread.
It is comically easy - if you think about it, it's happening already. Can a Rogue just simply take a Cleric spell? Of course not.
And we know they have the data already, since if you browse items, you can set the search filter to limit by source. So it's not as if they don't know what item/feat/spell, etc belongs to which book.
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I just started a campaign where the players were limited to making human characters (only) for campaign reasons. I told them, upfront, in Session Zero: "We are starting with humans only. Please use the D&D Beyond campaign link to generate and update your character."
Then I trusted them to do so. I don't mind if they noodle about with other options for fun, but it was pretty simple to get the character they play to be the character that fits the campaign.
Other than a modicum of trust, I didn't need anything else. It pretty much solves itself with communication.
You clearly don't have literally every book they published until last months, with spells that are completely broken for 5th Edition completely mucking up the UI.
Or run multiple campaigns. Is each player supposed to consult independent black out lists *every day* they do spell prep?
This is a simple feature.
Yeah I’d like this too. Would be handy to make everything available to players but have an automatic way to disallow silvery barbs and flock of familiars (say).
I'm in agreement with Agile_DM - if you have a group who knows how to, erm... talk, then you can easily get round this issue.
That said, many people ask for this feature to be implemented and I can definitely see how this would be helpful, especially as I too am a DM who on occasion restricts the usage of some builds for Character Creation. If we can have a filter for sources when searching for things like Magic Items, then I'd like to think it would be fairly simple to implement a filter for Character Creation options (speaking as someone who has next to no knowledge on how to code!).
#Open D&D
Have the Physical Books? Confused as to why you're not allowed to redeem them for free on D&D Beyond? Questions answered here at the Hardcover Books, D&D Beyond and You FAQ
Looking to add mouse-over triggered tooltips to such things like magic items, monsters or combat actions? Then dash over to the How to Add Tooltips thread.
It is comically easy - if you think about it, it's happening already. Can a Rogue just simply take a Cleric spell? Of course not.
And we know they have the data already, since if you browse items, you can set the search filter to limit by source. So it's not as if they don't know what item/feat/spell, etc belongs to which book.