If I added a character to one of my campaigns and assign it to a player in that campaign is there a way for me, as the DM, to unassign that character again or is that left to the player that it was assigned to?

I'm a bit unclear on what the Deactivate and Remove buttons do..not sure if they are the tools that will allow me to unassign the character or not.

One problem we are having is that one player has two assigned characters.  One shows up in my DM screen (D&D Beyond) and the other does not for some reason.  I'd like to unassign the second character.

Thanks!

So, you can unassign the character on your end, for a player to claim it, but can't assign it to a specific person.

The character then belongs to that player, you cannot unassign that character, because it no longer belongs to you. That player that owns it would have to do it.

Deactivate leaves a character in the campaign, but removes their access to shared content (if you or someone else has enabled content sharing).

Remove removes that character from the campaign wholesale. The player would still own/be able to manage that character, but wouldn't be in the campaign.

The player can go into the campaign, and unassign the character if you ask. If they refuse? You can remove the character from the campaign. (Note, the player would be able to re-add the character with the invite link still).

Thank you for that awesome reply!