Monstrous Compendium Vol. 1: Spelljammer Creatures
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I have created a Sorcerer subclass, and hope, eventually, to share it with the community. But even now, with it in a relatively clean (but untested) form, I get the message:
Which makes sense on one level, but absolutely not on so many others.
I am certainly not linking to any private homebrew spells, which implies I must be linking to licensed content. Of course, I have no way of seeing if I am linking to anything I haven't bought, as all the spells I have added to the class are in the PHB.
Is this message saying that I can't add spells to a subclass that is to be shared with the community if they aren't in the free rules? Sure, I get that it creates a conflict that someone who hasn't bought the relevant book won't get the spell they are entitled to – that's something for DDB to solve, not a reason to force downgrading the subclass – but as I have seen published subclasses that include spells in books I do not own, that can't be the problem.
The spell list is:
Anyone got any ideas why this wouldn;t be accepted?
Yes, that is exactly what it's saying. You can't include spells that are not included in free content like the Basic Rules.
Of the spells you have listed, Toll the Dead and Wrathful Smite are not in the Basic Rules and therefore can't be included in a published homebrew subclass.
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But I have seen other published subclasses with such spells included. Just yesterday, I saw one with something from the new Faerûn books.
What does this mean I need to do? Duplicate my subclass (oh, there's no option to cleanly do that; every relationship needs to be manually reconfigured) and have one version that works properly that I use directly and the broken version – that therefore can't be properly used because those granted spells won't be on spell lists, even for people who have purchased the material – published? That is utterly insane. How can any interesting homebrew be built within those constraints?
Can you link to an example of this?
I'm sorry that I don't have a satisfactory answer for you. I'm just telling you what the limitations of the homebrew system are.
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Unfortunately not. Even checked history of viewed subclasses. But there was definitely one where mousing over one of the spells brought up the new Faerûn book.
I know. I know. It's just one of those things that's so obviously illogical, one would imagine that it has come up before… If I get a satisfactory (or un-) answer from support, I'll add it here.
You don't need to publish something for it to be available in your campaign. Is the other subclass you saw from someone in your campaign?
One thing I'll say is that while this is certainly frustrating, I don't think it's illogical. The purpose of this restriction is to prevent the homebrew system from being used to bypass the marketplace and content sharing system entirely; without it, someone could (for instance) publish a homebrew feat that grants access to every single spell in existence, allowing anyone to use all of them without paying for that content. From WotC's perspective, putting technological measures in place to prevent this makes perfect sense.
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Nope. Completely random.
I see that the other way round. With a tiny implementation, it encourages purchase of the rest of the material. The feat/subclass/other lists the restricted spell, but you don't get access to it, only the pop-up selling you the book. Sure, it needs to be in the character sheet, but that's only difficult if they are building the whole thing backwards.
As to being used to bypass… they seem to let homebrew versions of official restricted material through (see 2024 Wild Magic Sorcerer).