I am currently participating in a campaing where I am a player. I bought Monster Manual (2014) last week.
My DM does not have that book but we have book sharing enabled. However, my DM can not access most of the monster in monster manual. For example he can not use displacer beast or intellect devouerer in dndbeyond maps app. We have checked that the book is listed in "Shared content" in the campaign.
Can someone explain to me how the book sharing works? I thought he would get access to all the material I have? Or have I misunderstood how this works?
If you own MM, you and your GM are in the same campaign, and someone with Master Tier subscription enabled Content Sharing in that campaign, then everyone in that campaign should have access to everything that everyone else in the campaign has.
Check your entitlements to make sure it is in sync, and check your licenses too to make sure you have the license to MM. Your GM should also check their entitlements and sync if necessary.
Ask whoever has Master Tier subscription to turn off Content Sharing and then turn it back on and see if that helps.
If you double checked all that and your GM still is not able to access MM, you may want to submit a ticket to customer support. However, keep in mind that customer support has a huge backlog of tickets to go through and the holiday/vacation season is coming up, so do not expect things to get fixed any time soon.
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As for Maps, I think the tool is still in alpha, and I do not remember if they integrated that tool with Content Sharing yet. If they have not been integrated yet, then whoever is hosting Maps will also need to own the content themselves to use it in Maps.
This may be specifically a Maps issue. IIRC there have been other posts on this forum where a DM wasn't able to use things shared with them in maps, and that was due to maps not allowing it. (At least at this point in development)
I am currently participating in a campaing where I am a player. I bought Monster Manual (2014) last week.
My DM does not have that book but we have book sharing enabled. However, my DM can not access most of the monster in monster manual. For example he can not use displacer beast or intellect devouerer in dndbeyond maps app. We have checked that the book is listed in "Shared content" in the campaign.
Can someone explain to me how the book sharing works? I thought he would get access to all the material I have? Or have I misunderstood how this works?
If you own MM, you and your GM are in the same campaign, and someone with Master Tier subscription enabled Content Sharing in that campaign, then everyone in that campaign should have access to everything that everyone else in the campaign has.
Check your entitlements to make sure it is in sync, and check your licenses too to make sure you have the license to MM. Your GM should also check their entitlements and sync if necessary.
Ask whoever has Master Tier subscription to turn off Content Sharing and then turn it back on and see if that helps.
If you double checked all that and your GM still is not able to access MM, you may want to submit a ticket to customer support. However, keep in mind that customer support has a huge backlog of tickets to go through and the holiday/vacation season is coming up, so do not expect things to get fixed any time soon.
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As for Maps, I think the tool is still in alpha, and I do not remember if they integrated that tool with Content Sharing yet. If they have not been integrated yet, then whoever is hosting Maps will also need to own the content themselves to use it in Maps.
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This may be specifically a Maps issue. IIRC there have been other posts on this forum where a DM wasn't able to use things shared with them in maps, and that was due to maps not allowing it. (At least at this point in development)