We haven't yet seen how the homebrew aspect of D&DB will be presented. That being said, I think it would be awesome if we could use the power of the community to curate (and / or upvote) homebrew content. I'm don't know if it will be possible to share your homebrew content yet, but I think it would be great if we could not only share our content, but also vote on other's content that we could pull into our campaigns. This would also allow for community highlighting of cool and well balanced items and monsters. Also, I think it could help bring the community together.
You will be able to publish your homebrew content for it to be shared with other users in the site. However, items that are requested to be published will first pass through a moderation queue for standards approval. And we are most definetly allowing upvoting.
You are also free to keep some or all of your homebrew creations set to private. These items will not go through moderation, and thus won't be available for other users, in general. However, there will be sharing allowed of private hombrew for users that have joined the same campaign.
As a DM/Player, I'd like to subscribe / add all homebrew content from specific authors to my homebrew library. For example if Unearthed Arcana is supported though homebrew content, I'd like to subscribe to WOTC content. Anything by Matt Mercer. Etc.
Furthermore, as a player in a DMs campaign, it would be cool to be able to request approval for certain homebrew content in their campaign. For example, as a player, if I find a spell Arcane Blast that I want to use, it would be cool if I could click a request button, the DM gets notified of my request, and the DM gets to select allow or deny all in an automated fashion.
As a DM/Player, I'd like to subscribe / add all homebrew content from specific authors to my homebrew library. For example if Unearthed Arcana is supported though homebrew content, I'd like to subscribe to WOTC content. Anything by Matt Mercer. Etc.
Furthermore, as a player in a DMs campaign, it would be cool to be able to request approval for certain homebrew content in their campaign. For example, as a player, if I find a spell Arcane Blast that I want to use, it would be cool if I could click a request button, the DM gets notified of my request, and the DM gets to select allow or deny all in an automated fashion.
Overall, very excited about the tool set!
That's exactly how getting your homebrew into a campaign will work; it has to be approved by the DM. If you're the DM, you can add homebrew items from your homebrew collection en mass or selectively to the campaign to be made available for the players to use.
The auto-subscription by source is a cool concept. We'll add that into the feature pool. It may not be something that is available for the Phase 3 of the beta, but it should be something we would add in a subsequent release.
As a DM/Player, I'd like to subscribe / add all homebrew content from specific authors to my homebrew library. For example if Unearthed Arcana is supported though homebrew content, I'd like to subscribe to WOTC content. Anything by Matt Mercer. Etc.
Furthermore, as a player in a DMs campaign, it would be cool to be able to request approval for certain homebrew content in their campaign. For example, as a player, if I find a spell Arcane Blast that I want to use, it would be cool if I could click a request button, the DM gets notified of my request, and the DM gets to select allow or deny all in an automated fashion.
Overall, very excited about the tool set!
That's exactly how getting your homebrew into a campaign will work; it has to be approved by the DM. If you're the DM, you can add homebrew items from your homebrew collection en mass or selectively to the campaign to be made available for the players to use.
The auto-subscription by source is a cool concept. We'll add that into the feature pool. It may not be something that is available for the Phase 3 of the beta, but it should be something we would add in a subsequent release.
Thanks for the input!
That request feature for homebrew is really awesome, great job! I also wanted to add a +1 to the idea of a subscription by source, I think it's an awesome idea.
Yeah, I like the idea of "subscribing" by source to acquire cool homebrew ideas that I might want to use as well. And if sources like UA and others might also be added then we can be able to check them out. I see the subscribing as giving you an alert whenever that person or group as the case may be adds homebrew content with public release. We can go check it and add it into our own campaign management if we like it.
I really like that homebrew will go through moderation. This of course means you will have a crew of people that have to look at everything and determine its plausibility with 5e overall. Obviously you have plans to handle this as it could supply a few full time jobs or some combo of part timers that have to work through all the make this public requests.
Of course, people that want to professionally publish things they create at a later date to actually make money on it should not be doing a public share here or a few other places including DMsguild despite you can charge for it there. Most publishers want to work with your first publishing rights, not after you self-published stuff. Just a note on the business side of publishing, but if doing it for fun and free have at the public sharing!
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This feature is one of the top I'm looking forward to. We do a lot of tweaking and home-brew pieces melded in with published works. It will be nice to have a common interface wihtout having to pull from all the different 3rd party apps, stores, and compendiums. I'm curious though, would the Dungeon Masters Guild be considered a sort of competitor for this feature? Since that's one of the tops right now for people subscribing to new published materials. Of course, the advantage here would be the stricter approval process. But, will creators be able to charge if they wish like they can with DMGuild, or will all works be published as free?
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Experience: 5e Only - Playing, DM, world building.
DM for Home-brew campaign based on Forgotten Realms lore. 5 player. Also play in party of 8.
You will be able to publish your homebrew content for it to be shared with other users in the site. However, items that are requested to be published will first pass through a moderation queue for standards approval. And we are most definetly allowing upvoting.
You are also free to keep some or all of your homebrew creations set to private. These items will not go through moderation, and thus won't be available for other users, in general. However, there will be sharing allowed of private hombrew for users that have joined the same campaign.
Moderation for balance should be to sort it into categories such as "weak", "average", "somewhat overpowered", etc. and categories such as "even progression", "incredibly broken when used in conjunction with [tooltip or link]x[/tooltip or link]", "somewhat unbalanced for multiclassing", etc. Also, moderation for quality should attempt to help the creator fix any problems that might exist.
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"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" -- allegedly Benjamin Franklin
What is overpowered in your campaign may be comparatively weak in another campaign. It's purely a judgement call, and that call should be left to the DM instead of adding more work to the moderator. Perhaps a way to get something like this would be to allow feedback/comments on a homebrew so people can post their thoughts and experiences.
What is overpowered in your campaign may be comparatively weak in another campaign. It's purely a judgement call, and that call should be left to the DM instead of adding more work to the moderator. Perhaps a way to get something like this would be to allow feedback/comments on a homebrew so people can post their thoughts and experiences.
Okay, so make it more approximate. Maybe skip the power level entirely, but I like the notion of telling my players to "pick a race from the 'incredibly overpowered' category".
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"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" -- allegedly Benjamin Franklin
Homebrew moderation will only ensure that the entries meet the listed rules & guidelines for content submission. Members are encouraged to create any/all levels of content they wish, as campaigns differ from table to table. As submissions are subscribed to, these items will rise in popularity from the remainder. I do believe that a comment section on public homebrew items, as well as up/downvoting, has been discussed by the staff.
Please keep the suggestions coming! The more input received, the better product for us all.
We haven't yet seen how the homebrew aspect of D&DB will be presented. That being said, I think it would be awesome if we could use the power of the community to curate (and / or upvote) homebrew content. I'm don't know if it will be possible to share your homebrew content yet, but I think it would be great if we could not only share our content, but also vote on other's content that we could pull into our campaigns. This would also allow for community highlighting of cool and well balanced items and monsters. Also, I think it could help bring the community together.
You will be able to publish your homebrew content for it to be shared with other users in the site. However, items that are requested to be published will first pass through a moderation queue for standards approval. And we are most definetly allowing upvoting.
You are also free to keep some or all of your homebrew creations set to private. These items will not go through moderation, and thus won't be available for other users, in general. However, there will be sharing allowed of private hombrew for users that have joined the same campaign.
I am the Inquisitor Imperitus. I am judge, jury, and executioner. Draw your last breath now, as I send you to the Nine Hells.
That sounds great!
A few natural extensions to this features:
As a DM/Player, I'd like to subscribe / add all homebrew content from specific authors to my homebrew library. For example if Unearthed Arcana is supported though homebrew content, I'd like to subscribe to WOTC content. Anything by Matt Mercer. Etc.
Furthermore, as a player in a DMs campaign, it would be cool to be able to request approval for certain homebrew content in their campaign. For example, as a player, if I find a spell Arcane Blast that I want to use, it would be cool if I could click a request button, the DM gets notified of my request, and the DM gets to select allow or deny all in an automated fashion.
Overall, very excited about the tool set!
I am the Inquisitor Imperitus. I am judge, jury, and executioner. Draw your last breath now, as I send you to the Nine Hells.
Thank you so much for being so receptive to feedback and responsive! ^_^
Yeah, I like the idea of "subscribing" by source to acquire cool homebrew ideas that I might want to use as well. And if sources like UA and others might also be added then we can be able to check them out. I see the subscribing as giving you an alert whenever that person or group as the case may be adds homebrew content with public release. We can go check it and add it into our own campaign management if we like it.
I really like that homebrew will go through moderation. This of course means you will have a crew of people that have to look at everything and determine its plausibility with 5e overall. Obviously you have plans to handle this as it could supply a few full time jobs or some combo of part timers that have to work through all the make this public requests.
Of course, people that want to professionally publish things they create at a later date to actually make money on it should not be doing a public share here or a few other places including DMsguild despite you can charge for it there. Most publishers want to work with your first publishing rights, not after you self-published stuff. Just a note on the business side of publishing, but if doing it for fun and free have at the public sharing!
PbP - Beregost Blues - Portia Starflower, Half Elf, Cleric, Life Domain
PbP - Tome of Annhilation - Vistani Mocanu, Human, Bard
This feature is one of the top I'm looking forward to. We do a lot of tweaking and home-brew pieces melded in with published works. It will be nice to have a common interface wihtout having to pull from all the different 3rd party apps, stores, and compendiums. I'm curious though, would the Dungeon Masters Guild be considered a sort of competitor for this feature? Since that's one of the tops right now for people subscribing to new published materials. Of course, the advantage here would be the stricter approval process. But, will creators be able to charge if they wish like they can with DMGuild, or will all works be published as free?
Experience: 5e Only - Playing, DM, world building.
DM for Home-brew campaign based on Forgotten Realms lore. 5 player. Also play in party of 8.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" -- allegedly Benjamin Franklin
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What is overpowered in your campaign may be comparatively weak in another campaign. It's purely a judgement call, and that call should be left to the DM instead of adding more work to the moderator. Perhaps a way to get something like this would be to allow feedback/comments on a homebrew so people can post their thoughts and experiences.
"Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both" -- allegedly Benjamin Franklin
Tooltips (Help/aid)
Homebrew moderation will only ensure that the entries meet the listed rules & guidelines for content submission. Members are encouraged to create any/all levels of content they wish, as campaigns differ from table to table. As submissions are subscribed to, these items will rise in popularity from the remainder. I do believe that a comment section on public homebrew items, as well as up/downvoting, has been discussed by the staff.
Please keep the suggestions coming! The more input received, the better product for us all.
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