Hey, this is kind of just a general question about the general workings of homebrew creations. Is there a general time frame that we can expect our submitted content to be approved/denied? I submitted some things a few months ago, and they came back in little over a week. My most recent submissions though have been in moderation for a solid three weeks now.
Is there a large volume of homebrew content being made right now that's causing it to slow down? Or did I just get lucky the first time?
Not really upset/complaining. I just want to get a general understanding of what to expect.
The moderators have been overwhelmed with the amount of homebrew submitted. It has seriously slowed things down. They are working on some ways to automate part of the process and some other changes to improve wait times. One change is already implemented: users will see a warning at the top of their homebrew (at least some types) if it clearly meets certain criteria for denial, alerting them that their homebrew cannot be published.
In a thread I created a few weeks ago queue times were over a month, it looks to be around two months now actually. There was supposed to be some announcement in the last week or two about the state of this, but still nothing. I think they're having issues / delays on the "automation" here, and so they don't have anything to comment. At the time of this post I have some things still in moderation submitted in late May.
We're still working through the queue, but there are a LOT of submissions.
The dev team are working on other options, which we're hoping will mean that there the whole queue has been processed before the end of this month (no guarantee) and then stays that way.
In a thread I created a few weeks ago queue times were over a month, it looks to be around two months now actually. There was supposed to be some announcement in the last week or two about the state of this, but still nothing. I think they're having issues / delays on the "automation" here, and so they don't have anything to comment. At the time of this post I have some things still in moderation submitted in late May.
The issue is that there is no automation. It's up to the moderation team to go through each and every single submission, one by one. When you get hundreds a day, and can only go through so many, it builds up. We are working on a solution for it, but for now, we continue to slog through everything.
In a thread I created a few weeks ago queue times were over a month, it looks to be around two months now actually. There was supposed to be some announcement in the last week or two about the state of this, but still nothing. I think they're having issues / delays on the "automation" here, and so they don't have anything to comment. At the time of this post I have some things still in moderation submitted in late May.
The issue is that there is no automation. It's up to the moderation team to go through each and every single submission, one by one. When you get hundreds a day, and can only go through so many, it builds up. We are working on a solution for it, but for now, we continue to slog through everything.
Understood, I was just passing along the information.
My oldest homebrew waiting in moderation was made over 7 weeks ago. I do not blame though because they get loads of submissions and only have small moderation staff to review them all on top of all the PMs they get, helping users, reviewing the forums, consolidating feedback from the appropriate threads, etc. It's a lot so we should not be angry at the long wait times.
I know this being looked into about ways to improve this. I would like to make a very lame suggestion: when somebody "shares with community" the homebrew it goes into a half-publish status. It will not show up in any of the Homebrew search lists but can be viewed by anyone accessing it through the direct url but has a message, in big red letters, to say this has not yet been reviewed or approved and ask viewers to use the report button if there is anything offensive or inappropriate about the homebrew. When the homebrew is reviewed if approved it becomes fully published and that message goes away and it appears in the homebrew lists but if rejected it can no longer be viewed and even if they change and resubmit it still cannot be viewed until approved.
This would allow us to give the links to our friends who may be interested in it (either to give advice or help playtest in their campaigns) yet not have it open to the whole public so that there's no harm done if it turns out there was copyright issues or something inappropriate. Anyone putting the links in the forums should have it deleted by mods. We cannot always playtest all our homebrew in our own campaigns because sometimes the ideas we have may not match our current campaigns or have room to include them. But, we may have friends who can help give a fresh perspective and maybe try it in their campaigns. If we wanted to do this currently we have to recreate the whole thing either on a separate site like homebrewery or in a word document which has to then be uploaded or into the homebrew forum which barely gets read. This would help ease the pressure it also means if we get feedback before approval we can cancel it, edit and resubmit and would be fine with going to the back of the queue as we have our friends re-look at it and playtest further.
I dunno. Food for thought.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Click ✨ HERE ✨ For My Youtube Videos featuring Guides, Tips & Tricks for using D&D Beyond. Need help with Homebrew? Check out ✨ thisFAQ/Guide thread ✨ by IamSposta.
Homebrew doesn't have to be submitted publicly. All homebrew can be instantly available if left private, and anyone sharing a campaign with you can use/test it.
Homebrew doesn't have to be submitted publicly. All homebrew can be instantly available if left private, and anyone sharing a campaign with you can use/test it.
Just a small fyi.
This is one of our biggest issues. We get a lot of homebrew that is meant for private use, but still requires us to look it over and reject. Another issue is Homebrew that is missing modifiers and just won't work. In the case of Magic Items, I have to read over what the item description says it's meant to do, then go check the modifiers. Sometimes the modifiers are missing, other times I find modifiers that aren't mentioned in the description. Both are reasons to reject, but it still takes me time to do it. Now think about races, and everything that goes into those. Those take even more time to go through. As stated, we are looking into ways to fix this issue, so your submissions aren't sitting in limbo for months at a time. We realize this is annoying to users and moderators both.
Homebrew doesn't have to be submitted publicly. All homebrew can be instantly available if left private, and anyone sharing a campaign with you can use/test it.
Just a small fyi.
I know. But you do realise sometimes the ability to share is not about own use? Some people like making homebrew for others, and sharing is a way to get feedback when we cannot do the playtesting ourselves and sometimes the people we want to share with are not on D&D Beyond. No offence but I'm not going to my friend and say "hey, go make a twitch account, now go join D&D beyond, now click this campaign invite link and make a random character taking up one of my character slots in a campaign you won't be playing in and now you can give this homebrew subclass a look and maybe use it in your off-site pen-and-paper home game I'm not playing in!" -- Yeah, not doing that. The point of "sharing" is so I can just give them a link and they can view it.
Not everyone you may want to share with is a D&D Beyond user and not everyone you want to share with can be in the same campaign as you and you cannot always playtest things yourself. I have time for 2 campaigns in which I run 4 characters, I cannot add more characters to these and I do not have schedule available for joining another campaign so I cannot playtest myself, nor can those other members in the same campaigns - some barely able to make it these games at all and they already have their own characters. Our time is limited and the point of sharing is to share with specific people we know, usually outside our own campaigns or not on D&D Beyond, who may have the time and be willing to help.
The campaign-sharing advice is good advice but very rarely is it actually a solution for our problem (or at least, mine), which is why I made the suggestion.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Click ✨ HERE ✨ For My Youtube Videos featuring Guides, Tips & Tricks for using D&D Beyond. Need help with Homebrew? Check out ✨ thisFAQ/Guide thread ✨ by IamSposta.
Homebrew doesn't have to be submitted publicly. All homebrew can be instantly available if left private, and anyone sharing a campaign with you can use/test it.
Just a small fyi.
I know. But you do realise sometimes the ability to share is not about own use? Some people like making homebrew for others, and sharing is a way to get feedback when we cannot do the playtesting ourselves and sometimes the people we want to share with are not on D&D Beyond. No offence but I'm not going to my friend and say "hey, go make a twitch account, now go join D&D beyond, now click this campaign invite link and make a random character taking up one of my character slots in a campaign you won't be playing in and now you can give this homebrew subclass a look and maybe use it in your off-site pen-and-paper home game I'm not playing in!" -- Yeah, not doing that. The point of "sharing" is so I can just give them a link and they can view it.
Not everyone you may want to share with is a D&D Beyond user and not everyone you want to share with can be in the same campaign as you and you cannot always playtest things yourself. I have time for 2 campaigns in which I run 4 characters, I cannot add more characters to these and I do not have schedule available for joining another campaign so I cannot playtest myself, nor can those other members in the same campaigns - some barely able to make it these games at all and they already have their own characters. Our time is limited and the point of sharing is to share with specific people we know, usually outside our own campaigns or not on D&D Beyond, who may have the time and be willing to help.
The campaign-sharing advice is good advice but very rarely is it actually a solution for our problem (or at least, mine), which is why I made the suggestion.
If the goal isn't to use it on DDB though, wouldn't it be easier to make it on Homebrewery or GM Binder to share? In your very detailed example the person you want to share with isn't even on DDB!
If the goal isn't to use it on DDB though, wouldn't it be easier to make it on Homebrewery or GM Binder to share?
Actually, no. Those sites are horrible to use and you need to use Chrome and I prefer Firefox. Also, by making it on here I can make it in a more structured format and can make a character with it or such as so I can see that some modifiers are working as intended and options show as I want and so on. Making a character on here and just refreshing on an edit is an immense time-saver and so much easier. It means I can work out a few things easier because some things may not show out of balance until you see those modifiers on a character sheet. This is not the same as full playtesting over several sessions but gives me the opportunity to work some things out very quickly easily right away. I do want to share with the D&D Community for more feedback and it would be great to not have to rewrite it all over again to do so. I also just don't see the need, given my suggestion, to wait up to 2 months to give a link to a friend in the meantime. Not saying my suggestion is good just that it would help me and those in same situation as me and can possibly help the mods too. Just think it is worth considering.
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
Click ✨ HERE ✨ For My Youtube Videos featuring Guides, Tips & Tricks for using D&D Beyond. Need help with Homebrew? Check out ✨ thisFAQ/Guide thread ✨ by IamSposta.
If the goal isn't to use it on DDB though, wouldn't it be easier to make it on Homebrewery or GM Binder to share?
Actually, no. Those sites are horrible to use and you need to use Chrome and I prefer Firefox. Also, by making it on here I can make it in a more structured format and can make a character with it or such as so I can see that some modifiers are working as intended and options show as I want and so on. Making a character on here and just refreshing on an edit is an immense time-saver and so much easier. It means I can work out a few things easier because some things may not show out of balance until you see those modifiers on a character sheet. This is not the same as full playtesting over several sessions but gives me the opportunity to work some things out very quickly easily right away. I do want to share with the D&D Community for more feedback and it would be great to not have to rewrite it all over again to do so. I also just don't see the need, given my suggestion, to wait up to 2 months to give a link to a friend in the meantime. Not saying my suggestion is good just that it would help me and those in same situation as me and can possibly help the mods too. Just think it is worth considering.
Agreed, I want all my stuff public with feedback, it's very valuable and I don't want to have to use multiple sites. Recommending I go somewhere else is the same as no suggestion IMO.
Homebrew is something the team wanted to do from the very beginning. Telling someone to go to another site to make their Homebrew seems... counterproductive to what we are trying to do here. That being said, there are a lot of submissions that are rejected on the basis of being made for personal campaigns. These are items that reference NPC's or player created worlds, that make no sense for the general public to have. None of the moderation team are asking anyone to submit Homebrew elsewhere, just be aware that not everything created is something the general public needs access to.
I bet there are a lot of super-users on the forum who would happily volunteer to review homebrew submissions. :-) (nudge nudge, wink wink).
Rollback Post to RevisionRollBack
"Orcs are savage raiders and pillagers with stooped postures, low foreheads, and piggish faces with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks." MM p245 (original printing) You don't OWN your books on DDB: WotC can change them any time. What do you think will happen when OneD&D comes out?
Hey, this is kind of just a general question about the general workings of homebrew creations. Is there a general time frame that we can expect our submitted content to be approved/denied? I submitted some things a few months ago, and they came back in little over a week. My most recent submissions though have been in moderation for a solid three weeks now.
Is there a large volume of homebrew content being made right now that's causing it to slow down? Or did I just get lucky the first time?
Not really upset/complaining. I just want to get a general understanding of what to expect.
The moderators have been overwhelmed with the amount of homebrew submitted. It has seriously slowed things down. They are working on some ways to automate part of the process and some other changes to improve wait times. One change is already implemented: users will see a warning at the top of their homebrew (at least some types) if it clearly meets certain criteria for denial, alerting them that their homebrew cannot be published.
Trying to Decide if DDB is for you? A few helpful threads: A Buyer's Guide to DDB; What I/We Bought and Why; How some DMs use DDB; A Newer Thread on Using DDB to Play
Helpful threads on other topics: Homebrew FAQ by IamSposta; Accessing Content by ConalTheGreat;
Check your entitlements here. | Support Ticket LInk
Awesome, thanks for the info! I figured that was probably the case. Just wanted to check before I started getting annoyed for no reason haha
In a thread I created a few weeks ago queue times were over a month, it looks to be around two months now actually. There was supposed to be some announcement in the last week or two about the state of this, but still nothing. I think they're having issues / delays on the "automation" here, and so they don't have anything to comment. At the time of this post I have some things still in moderation submitted in late May.
Check out my other brews:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/homebrew/subclasses?filter-author=Turk&filter-author-previous=Turk&filter-author-symbol=100003885
-
View User Profile
-
View Posts
-
Send Message
D&D Beyond FoundersWe're still working through the queue, but there are a LOT of submissions.
The dev team are working on other options, which we're hoping will mean that there the whole queue has been processed before the end of this month (no guarantee) and then stays that way.
Pun-loving nerd | Faith Elisabeth Lilley | She/Her/Hers | Profile art by Becca Golins
If you need help with homebrew, please post on the homebrew forums, where multiple staff and moderators can read your post and help you!
"We got this, no problem! I'll take the twenty on the left - you guys handle the one on the right!"🔊
-
View User Profile
-
View Posts
-
Send Message
InsidersThe issue is that there is no automation. It's up to the moderation team to go through each and every single submission, one by one. When you get hundreds a day, and can only go through so many, it builds up. We are working on a solution for it, but for now, we continue to slog through everything.
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
Understood, I was just passing along the information.
Check out my other brews:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/homebrew/subclasses?filter-author=Turk&filter-author-previous=Turk&filter-author-symbol=100003885
My oldest homebrew waiting in moderation was made over 7 weeks ago. I do not blame though because they get loads of submissions and only have small moderation staff to review them all on top of all the PMs they get, helping users, reviewing the forums, consolidating feedback from the appropriate threads, etc. It's a lot so we should not be angry at the long wait times.
I know this being looked into about ways to improve this. I would like to make a very lame suggestion: when somebody "shares with community" the homebrew it goes into a half-publish status. It will not show up in any of the Homebrew search lists but can be viewed by anyone accessing it through the direct url but has a message, in big red letters, to say this has not yet been reviewed or approved and ask viewers to use the report button if there is anything offensive or inappropriate about the homebrew. When the homebrew is reviewed if approved it becomes fully published and that message goes away and it appears in the homebrew lists but if rejected it can no longer be viewed and even if they change and resubmit it still cannot be viewed until approved.
This would allow us to give the links to our friends who may be interested in it (either to give advice or help playtest in their campaigns) yet not have it open to the whole public so that there's no harm done if it turns out there was copyright issues or something inappropriate. Anyone putting the links in the forums should have it deleted by mods. We cannot always playtest all our homebrew in our own campaigns because sometimes the ideas we have may not match our current campaigns or have room to include them. But, we may have friends who can help give a fresh perspective and maybe try it in their campaigns. If we wanted to do this currently we have to recreate the whole thing either on a separate site like homebrewery or in a word document which has to then be uploaded or into the homebrew forum which barely gets read. This would help ease the pressure it also means if we get feedback before approval we can cancel it, edit and resubmit and would be fine with going to the back of the queue as we have our friends re-look at it and playtest further.
I dunno. Food for thought.
Click ✨ HERE ✨ For My Youtube Videos featuring Guides, Tips & Tricks for using D&D Beyond.
Need help with Homebrew? Check out ✨ this FAQ/Guide thread ✨ by IamSposta.
Homebrew doesn't have to be submitted publicly. All homebrew can be instantly available if left private, and anyone sharing a campaign with you can use/test it.
Just a small fyi.
-
View User Profile
-
View Posts
-
Send Message
InsidersThis is one of our biggest issues. We get a lot of homebrew that is meant for private use, but still requires us to look it over and reject. Another issue is Homebrew that is missing modifiers and just won't work. In the case of Magic Items, I have to read over what the item description says it's meant to do, then go check the modifiers. Sometimes the modifiers are missing, other times I find modifiers that aren't mentioned in the description. Both are reasons to reject, but it still takes me time to do it. Now think about races, and everything that goes into those. Those take even more time to go through. As stated, we are looking into ways to fix this issue, so your submissions aren't sitting in limbo for months at a time. We realize this is annoying to users and moderators both.
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
Understood, hopefully for the both of us your developers come through soon.
Check out my other brews:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/homebrew/subclasses?filter-author=Turk&filter-author-previous=Turk&filter-author-symbol=100003885
I know. But you do realise sometimes the ability to share is not about own use? Some people like making homebrew for others, and sharing is a way to get feedback when we cannot do the playtesting ourselves and sometimes the people we want to share with are not on D&D Beyond. No offence but I'm not going to my friend and say "hey, go make a twitch account, now go join D&D beyond, now click this campaign invite link and make a random character taking up one of my character slots in a campaign you won't be playing in and now you can give this homebrew subclass a look and maybe use it in your off-site pen-and-paper home game I'm not playing in!" -- Yeah, not doing that. The point of "sharing" is so I can just give them a link and they can view it.
Not everyone you may want to share with is a D&D Beyond user and not everyone you want to share with can be in the same campaign as you and you cannot always playtest things yourself. I have time for 2 campaigns in which I run 4 characters, I cannot add more characters to these and I do not have schedule available for joining another campaign so I cannot playtest myself, nor can those other members in the same campaigns - some barely able to make it these games at all and they already have their own characters. Our time is limited and the point of sharing is to share with specific people we know, usually outside our own campaigns or not on D&D Beyond, who may have the time and be willing to help.
The campaign-sharing advice is good advice but very rarely is it actually a solution for our problem (or at least, mine), which is why I made the suggestion.
Click ✨ HERE ✨ For My Youtube Videos featuring Guides, Tips & Tricks for using D&D Beyond.
Need help with Homebrew? Check out ✨ this FAQ/Guide thread ✨ by IamSposta.
If the goal isn't to use it on DDB though, wouldn't it be easier to make it on Homebrewery or GM Binder to share? In your very detailed example the person you want to share with isn't even on DDB!
Actually, no. Those sites are horrible to use and you need to use Chrome and I prefer Firefox. Also, by making it on here I can make it in a more structured format and can make a character with it or such as so I can see that some modifiers are working as intended and options show as I want and so on. Making a character on here and just refreshing on an edit is an immense time-saver and so much easier. It means I can work out a few things easier because some things may not show out of balance until you see those modifiers on a character sheet. This is not the same as full playtesting over several sessions but gives me the opportunity to work some things out very quickly easily right away. I do want to share with the D&D Community for more feedback and it would be great to not have to rewrite it all over again to do so. I also just don't see the need, given my suggestion, to wait up to 2 months to give a link to a friend in the meantime. Not saying my suggestion is good just that it would help me and those in same situation as me and can possibly help the mods too. Just think it is worth considering.
Click ✨ HERE ✨ For My Youtube Videos featuring Guides, Tips & Tricks for using D&D Beyond.
Need help with Homebrew? Check out ✨ this FAQ/Guide thread ✨ by IamSposta.
Agreed, I want all my stuff public with feedback, it's very valuable and I don't want to have to use multiple sites. Recommending I go somewhere else is the same as no suggestion IMO.
Check out my other brews:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/homebrew/subclasses?filter-author=Turk&filter-author-previous=Turk&filter-author-symbol=100003885
-
View User Profile
-
View Posts
-
Send Message
InsidersHomebrew is something the team wanted to do from the very beginning. Telling someone to go to another site to make their Homebrew seems... counterproductive to what we are trying to do here. That being said, there are a lot of submissions that are rejected on the basis of being made for personal campaigns. These are items that reference NPC's or player created worlds, that make no sense for the general public to have. None of the moderation team are asking anyone to submit Homebrew elsewhere, just be aware that not everything created is something the general public needs access to.
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
I bet there are a lot of super-users on the forum who would happily volunteer to review homebrew submissions. :-) (nudge nudge, wink wink).
"Orcs are savage raiders and pillagers with stooped postures, low foreheads, and piggish faces with prominent lower canines that resemble tusks." MM p245 (original printing)
You don't OWN your books on DDB: WotC can change them any time. What do you think will happen when OneD&D comes out?
Doesn't have to be super forum users. Also wink. I offered in my last thread, but they said the coming automation piece will make it irrelevant.
Check out my other brews:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/homebrew/subclasses?filter-author=Turk&filter-author-previous=Turk&filter-author-symbol=100003885
-
View User Profile
-
View Posts
-
Send Message
D&D Beyond FoundersIf everything goes according to plan, that's correct. :)
Pun-loving nerd | Faith Elisabeth Lilley | She/Her/Hers | Profile art by Becca Golins
If you need help with homebrew, please post on the homebrew forums, where multiple staff and moderators can read your post and help you!
"We got this, no problem! I'll take the twenty on the left - you guys handle the one on the right!"🔊