Wanted to report a bug: attempted to create a new character today using a homebrew race (That I've used before successfully), the character builder failed to add either the racial ability score bonuses, or the racial skill proficiencies. Upon noticing this I attempted to change the race to something else to check if that would fix it; where-upon the character builder locked up and wouldn't allow me to click "change race" anymore. Refreshing the page had no effect, nor did pressing "next" and back again. I eventually just deleted the character and started from scratch. I'm now a bit hesitant to open any of my already existing characters.
In the future, if the Change Race button disappears, go to HOME and toggle off Customize Your Origin. Then it should show up when you go back to Race.
I've had the same issue in the past and that doesnt always work, been there, tried that when messing around checking features are working as is because the CYO wasnt even active to start with. Easiest way I found to fix it was to go to the url and change the last part where it has /race/manage to /race/choose on the end . It will automatically take you back to the page to re-choose your race.
The reason it locks up however and doesnt allow it to change is likely because you have something conflicting within the homebrew side. I had that happening due to unfinished sections within Options I was working on. It could have been something else that caused it, but it always seemed to point to such, so look for something not being right within the Options on that race.
Also to add, if you have used the homebrew race in the past without issue, but this time added a homebrew subclass or anything else homebrew, there could be the same there.
UPDATE: Replicated the glitch twice more with two different homebrew races; though it worked fine with some others. The precise order of things appears to be:
- Select race
- Go to "abilities" tab, and occasionally, the racial scores will not be there
- Upon returning to the "race" tab; there will seem to be a glitched "line" through the little thumbnail on the right, and "change race" will not register as a link, but as text, and it will be locked.
The only way to get rid of this (tested exiting the character builder entirely, switching to customize origin and back, and refreshing multiple times) is to manually switch the URL from "race/manage" to "race/choose" as suggested previously.
Wanted to report a bug: attempted to create a new character today using a homebrew race (That I've used before successfully), the character builder failed to add either the racial ability score bonuses, or the racial skill proficiencies. Upon noticing this I attempted to change the race to something else to check if that would fix it; where-upon the character builder locked up and wouldn't allow me to click "change race" anymore. Refreshing the page had no effect, nor did pressing "next" and back again. I eventually just deleted the character and started from scratch. I'm now a bit hesitant to open any of my already existing characters.
In the future, if the Change Race button disappears, go to HOME and toggle off Customize Your Origin. Then it should show up when you go back to Race.
Helpful rewriter of Japanese->English translation and delver into software codebases (she/e/they)
I've had the same issue in the past and that doesnt always work, been there, tried that when messing around checking features are working as is because the CYO wasnt even active to start with. Easiest way I found to fix it was to go to the url and change the last part where it has /race/manage to /race/choose on the end . It will automatically take you back to the page to re-choose your race.
The reason it locks up however and doesnt allow it to change is likely because you have something conflicting within the homebrew side. I had that happening due to unfinished sections within Options I was working on. It could have been something else that caused it, but it always seemed to point to such, so look for something not being right within the Options on that race.
Also to add, if you have used the homebrew race in the past without issue, but this time added a homebrew subclass or anything else homebrew, there could be the same there.
UPDATE: Replicated the glitch twice more with two different homebrew races; though it worked fine with some others. The precise order of things appears to be:
- Select race
- Go to "abilities" tab, and occasionally, the racial scores will not be there
- Upon returning to the "race" tab; there will seem to be a glitched "line" through the little thumbnail on the right, and "change race" will not register as a link, but as text, and it will be locked.
The only way to get rid of this (tested exiting the character builder entirely, switching to customize origin and back, and refreshing multiple times) is to manually switch the URL from "race/manage" to "race/choose" as suggested previously.