When creating my character, not all of the backgrounds are available. I can only see: acolyte, criminal, folk hero, haunted on, knoble, sage, and soldier.
The answer to all your threads is that what you are seeing is the content available freely through the basic rules, SRD, and Elemental Evil Players companion. Any other content can be purchased in the marketplace, as a whole book or just the pieces of content you want. You can also create private homebrew of any content from the books to use on the character sheet.
The feature/subclass/race you are referring to is not part of the D&D 5th edition SRD and will need to be unlocked from the marketplace before you can use it on D&D Beyond.
To be able to create characters in the Character Builder with sources other then the 5th edition SRD, you have to have purchased those sources - having that content shared with you through your campaign's DM won't work.
To be able to create characters in the Character Builder with sources other then the 5th edition SRD, you have to have purchased those sources - having that content shared with you through your campaign's DM won't work.
A correction, if I may: the content sharing indeed works within the character builder BUT only if you use the campaign link in order to create the character. Any character created outside the campaign will only have your own content available.
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There is one exception. ALL of the following must be true
* Your character is part of a campaign!!!
* Someone in that campaign has a master teir subscription.
* That someone has also made a one time purchase, AND has chosen to share that purchase with the rest of the campaign.
It's that first point that got me. I can see all the shared one time purchases. But, if the character isn't part of that campaign, you can't use it in character creation.
There is one exception. ALL of the following must be true
* Your character is part of a campaign!!!
* Someone in that campaign has a master teir subscription.
* That someone has also made a one time purchase, AND has chosen to share that purchase with the rest of the campaign.
Correction: if Content Sharing is enabled in a campaign,all purchases from every player in that campaign are shared with every player.
If Alice buys nothing but turns on Content Sharing, Bob buys the Player's Handbook and Carol buys the Cavalier subclass, all 3 players will have access to the PH and Cavalier subclass.
The simpler way of phrasing it is - you gain access to content when you purchase it, or if someone else has purchased it and shares it with you via a campaign.
There is one exception. ALL of the following must be true
* Your character is part of a campaign!!!
* Someone in that campaign has a master teir subscription.
* That someone has also made a one time purchase, AND has chosen to share that purchase with the rest of the campaign.
Correction: if Content Sharing is enabled in a campaign,all purchases from every player in that campaign are shared with every player.
If Alice buys nothing but turns on Content Sharing, Bob buys the Player's Handbook and Carol buys the Cavalier subclass, all 3 players will have access to the PH and Cavalier subclass.
Only if you create the character within the campaign... outside of the campaign (just go to character builder and create a character not in the campaign) you will only have access to content you yourself purchased.
For example, my DM bought Legendary. In the campaign if I create a character I have access to EVERYTHING however but there's only limited numbers of slots and there's other players as well but I went to create my own characters outside of the campaign, I did not have access to everything shared with me - I only had access to SRD. So I went ahead and purchased the PHB, DMG, SCAG, the race/class/magic item sections from any of the other books so I could create basically any character I want using the character builder.
When creating a human variant, there's only 1 feat available: grappler.
After increasing my cleric's level to 6, only the life domain is available.
When creating my character, not all of the backgrounds are available. I can only see: acolyte, criminal, folk hero, haunted on, knoble, sage, and soldier.
The answer to all your threads is that what you are seeing is the content available freely through the basic rules, SRD, and Elemental Evil Players companion. Any other content can be purchased in the marketplace, as a whole book or just the pieces of content you want. You can also create private homebrew of any content from the books to use on the character sheet.
I have full access to the PHB and DMG.
The feature/subclass/race you are referring to is not part of the D&D 5th edition SRD and will need to be unlocked from the marketplace before you can use it on D&D Beyond.
D&D Beyond can be used for free and contains information from the following "free to use" sources published by Wizards of the Coast: D&D 5th edition SRD, D&D 5th edition Basic Rules, and Elemental Evil Companion.
Content from other sources, such as the Player's Handbook, Dungeon Master's Guide, or Monster Manual, will need to be purchased from the Marketplace or accessed via another user sharing content with you via their Master Tier Subscription.
To be able to create characters in the Character Builder with sources other then the 5th edition SRD, you have to have purchased those sources - having that content shared with you through your campaign's DM won't work.
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Any character created outside the campaign will only have your own content available.
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Hey BurntToast and LeK, thank you. This would explain the issues I'm having.
I can't find _where_ the website states this though. Don't suppose y'all have a link to share?
I'm not stupid. I'm just unlucky when I'm thinking.
Thanks Grimmric
Unfortunately, even after reading that link several times, the rules on how/when the other feats can be used in character creation were not clear.
After a lot of reading I've come up with the following. Warning, some of this are assumptions on my part.
Without doing anything, character creation is quite limited. You'll only be able to use information from Wizards' free content within your character.
E.g. http://dnd.wizards.com/products/tabletop/players-basic-rules
So, no additional subraces, subclasses, spells, feats etc.
You gain access to this aditional content when you buy a "one time purchase". Mostly. This doesn't include compendium content.
https://dndbeyond.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012600148-So-the-free-content-is-limited
https://dndbeyond.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012583687-What-is-Compendium-Content-and-how-is-that-different-to-the-full-Sourcebook
https://dndbeyond.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/115012440907-What-am-I-able-to-buy-as-one-time-purchases
There is one exception. ALL of the following must be true
* Your character is part of a campaign!!!
* Someone in that campaign has a master teir subscription.
* That someone has also made a one time purchase, AND has chosen to share that purchase with the rest of the campaign.
It's that first point that got me. I can see all the shared one time purchases. But, if the character isn't part of that campaign, you can't use it in character creation.
The simpler way of phrasing it is - you gain access to content when you purchase it, or if someone else has purchased it and shares it with you via a campaign.
This FAQ may help.
EDIT: I have merged your three threads as they are, at this point, the same subject.
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