I'm trying to share my generated characters with my players for a few upcoming oneshots, but they (and I) keep getting error coded. Only I can access the characters when opening them on my account. None of the character sheets are set to "Private", so here's yet another example of D&D Beyond and Wizards just being truly awful at fulfilling even the most basic functions of their product.
It is impossible for anyone else to use a character sheet on your account. That’s so that nobody can mess with your characters. In order for someone else to use your character you have to relinquish control of it so that other player can add it to their own account first.
If this is a "feature" to keep people from making changes to the character... why am I unable to change the campaign permissions or character permissions to circumvent this. Besides, why would you play D&D with people that you don't trust?
Is there any way that we can get arround the need to unassign the character from yourself to allow someone else to manipulate the sheet, like when I can't make it?
If there isn't, how do we go about requesting the feature? My whole party is upset with the lack of circumvention of this "feature".
The creator of a campaign also has edit access to the characters within it, since they're assumed to be the DM.
The situations where people actually want somebody who is not your DM to be able to edit their character is presumably not, in the opinion of the DDB devs, worth the developer time, interface complication, and inevitable misuses that they have to handle through support.
And I can't say they're wrong. For every group that both needs it and can be trusted with it, there are likely several people who'd think it's a blast to tell people "let me edit your character so I can help you with your problem", and then just vandalize it.
If this is a "feature" to keep people from making changes to the character... (1) why am I unable to change the campaign permissions or character permissions to circumvent this. (2) Besides, why would you play D&D with people that you don't trust?
(3) Is there any way that we can get arround the need to unassign the character from yourself to allow someone else to manipulate the sheet, like when I can't make it?
(4) If there isn't, how do we go about requesting the feature? My whole party is upset with the lack of circumvention of this "feature".
1: Because that's not how the site's designed. The answer to doing this is to unassign the character and let it get claimed.
2: Not everyone plays in closed groups. For example, I play in open groups in pickup games on Discord. So do a lot of other people.
3: No. Doing this is considered part of campaign scheduling.
I'm trying to share my generated characters with my players for a few upcoming oneshots, but they (and I) keep getting error coded. Only I can access the characters when opening them on my account. None of the character sheets are set to "Private", so here's yet another example of D&D Beyond and Wizards just being truly awful at fulfilling even the most basic functions of their product.
It is impossible for anyone else to use a character sheet on your account. That’s so that nobody can mess with your characters. In order for someone else to use your character you have to relinquish control of it so that other player can add it to their own account first.
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If this is a "feature" to keep people from making changes to the character... why am I unable to change the campaign permissions or character permissions to circumvent this. Besides, why would you play D&D with people that you don't trust?
Is there any way that we can get arround the need to unassign the character from yourself to allow someone else to manipulate the sheet, like when I can't make it?
If there isn't, how do we go about requesting the feature? My whole party is upset with the lack of circumvention of this "feature".
...that's what unassigning is for.
The creator of a campaign also has edit access to the characters within it, since they're assumed to be the DM.
The situations where people actually want somebody who is not your DM to be able to edit their character is presumably not, in the opinion of the DDB devs, worth the developer time, interface complication, and inevitable misuses that they have to handle through support.
And I can't say they're wrong. For every group that both needs it and can be trusted with it, there are likely several people who'd think it's a blast to tell people "let me edit your character so I can help you with your problem", and then just vandalize it.
1: Because that's not how the site's designed. The answer to doing this is to unassign the character and let it get claimed.
2: Not everyone plays in closed groups. For example, I play in open groups in pickup games on Discord. So do a lot of other people.
3: No. Doing this is considered part of campaign scheduling.
4: Get in line.