After seeing several threads about this kind of issue, I think I've found the problem - DMs looking at a player's character sheet will see available content that the DM owns, beyond just the content that the player should have access to.
I determined this by turning off Content Sharing on a non-active campaign. When I Viewed another person's character sheet, and brought up Manage Spells, under Add Spells it showed spells from content sources that the player doesn't own, for example Tasha's Caustic Brew. When I clicked Learn on that spell, I got a 403 Error.
When the player looked at their character, they didn't see Tasha's Caustic Brew as a learnable spell.
I'm pretty sure that in the past (like a year ago), before I got a Master Sub, I wasn't able to add non-SRD content the player didn't own when I edited their character sheets. This issue was probably caused by one of the more recent updates.
I just checked with Inventory items, and it looks like I can add non-SRD magic items and such without Content Sharing on (and not cause a 403 Error), but Spells still cause it. Very strange.
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Having the same issue currently but it's adding feats instead. I believe having the player unclaim their character the DM add the feat/spell then the person reclaims should be a temporary fix
Thanks for mentioning Feats! I confirmed that the same thing happens with Feats as with Spells (go to Manage, see all the ones I own but not shared, attempting to Add causes 403 Error.)
The "player-unclaim, DM-claim, add stuff, DM-unclaim, player-claim" method does work and has always been an option. The issue is that it used to keep the unshared Spells & Feats from showing up, instead of now when it shows them to the DM, lets the DM select them, and then drops a confusing error.
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After seeing several threads about this kind of issue, I think I've found the problem - DMs looking at a player's character sheet will see available content that the DM owns, beyond just the content that the player should have access to.
I determined this by turning off Content Sharing on a non-active campaign. When I Viewed another person's character sheet, and brought up Manage Spells, under Add Spells it showed spells from content sources that the player doesn't own, for example Tasha's Caustic Brew. When I clicked Learn on that spell, I got a 403 Error.
When the player looked at their character, they didn't see Tasha's Caustic Brew as a learnable spell.
I'm pretty sure that in the past (like a year ago), before I got a Master Sub, I wasn't able to add non-SRD content the player didn't own when I edited their character sheets. This issue was probably caused by one of the more recent updates.
Helpful rewriter of Japanese->English translation and delver into software codebases (she/e/they)
I just checked with Inventory items, and it looks like I can add non-SRD magic items and such without Content Sharing on (and not cause a 403 Error), but Spells still cause it. Very strange.
Helpful rewriter of Japanese->English translation and delver into software codebases (she/e/they)
Having the same issue currently but it's adding feats instead. I believe having the player unclaim their character the DM add the feat/spell then the person reclaims should be a temporary fix
Thanks for mentioning Feats! I confirmed that the same thing happens with Feats as with Spells (go to Manage, see all the ones I own but not shared, attempting to Add causes 403 Error.)
The "player-unclaim, DM-claim, add stuff, DM-unclaim, player-claim" method does work and has always been an option. The issue is that it used to keep the unshared Spells & Feats from showing up, instead of now when it shows them to the DM, lets the DM select them, and then drops a confusing error.
Helpful rewriter of Japanese->English translation and delver into software codebases (she/e/they)