I'm the DM of a Curse of Strahd game. One of my players has bought the legendary bundle and has shared it with our campaign. As DM, I had locked Curse of Strahd in the content management. I can still access the curse of strahd source book, but I can't access some monsters (specifically, trying to access Vladimir Horngaard fails).
I realized that since I'm not the owner of the content, I was effectively locking myself out of the content even though I am the campaign's DM. It's also weird considering that access to the source book itself is not locked.
For now, I've unlocked the content for everyone in the campaign, which isn't a big deal, but I think this could be improved for this sort of use case. It's a bit hard to find a good balance but I assume if someone is a DM and has content shared with them, then locks would be ignored as if they were content owners.
Maybe an update to the content locks in the campaign section to select which players have access to which books?
Alternatively, it'd be pretty sweet to just be able to lock specific sections of books. As an example, being able to lock the majority of Waterdeep: Dragonheist, while having the sections written in-character by Volo being available, as it's purely setting lore that characters are likely (encouraged) to know.
Content management has been a popular request, and you all have some excellent suggestions for ways it could work! This initial pass just worked on an entire source, but being able to lock specific parts of a book is something we are working on! More fine grained control over items in a source will help with a lot of the issues you are having, and as soon as we have an update to Content Management we will be sure to let everyone know.
@OboeCrazy: Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post.
Unfortunately, I feel like with the suggestions that were commented on later (which are great suggestions!), you may have missed my initial report of the bug with the content management which blocks content access to the DM themselves. I wasn't making a suggestion on locking specific parts of content, but rather reporting that there is a bug which blocks specific parts (in my case, it was access to campaign monster stat blocks) even though I am DM.
Thanks again!
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InsidersI'm the DM of a Curse of Strahd game. One of my players has bought the legendary bundle and has shared it with our campaign. As DM, I had locked Curse of Strahd in the content management. I can still access the curse of strahd source book, but I can't access some monsters (specifically, trying to access Vladimir Horngaard fails).
I realized that since I'm not the owner of the content, I was effectively locking myself out of the content even though I am the campaign's DM. It's also weird considering that access to the source book itself is not locked.
For now, I've unlocked the content for everyone in the campaign, which isn't a big deal, but I think this could be improved for this sort of use case. It's a bit hard to find a good balance but I assume if someone is a DM and has content shared with them, then locks would be ignored as if they were content owners.
Thanks!
Yeah it doesn't make sense that a DM can lock themselves out of content. This must be a bug.
Maybe an update to the content locks in the campaign section to select which players have access to which books?
Alternatively, it'd be pretty sweet to just be able to lock specific sections of books. As an example, being able to lock the majority of Waterdeep: Dragonheist, while having the sections written in-character by Volo being available, as it's purely setting lore that characters are likely (encouraged) to know.
This! So much this!
It would be great to block entire chapters of books right down to specific sections of chapters. That would make things so much nicer.
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InsiderContent management has been a popular request, and you all have some excellent suggestions for ways it could work! This initial pass just worked on an entire source, but being able to lock specific parts of a book is something we are working on! More fine grained control over items in a source will help with a lot of the issues you are having, and as soon as we have an update to Content Management we will be sure to let everyone know.
There's more details about how it's working right now in the changelog: https://www.dndbeyond.com/changelog/575-content-management-initial-release
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Insiders@OboeCrazy: Thank you for taking the time to respond to my post.
Unfortunately, I feel like with the suggestions that were commented on later (which are great suggestions!), you may have missed my initial report of the bug with the content management which blocks content access to the DM themselves. I wasn't making a suggestion on locking specific parts of content, but rather reporting that there is a bug which blocks specific parts (in my case, it was access to campaign monster stat blocks) even though I am DM.
Thanks again!