Is that something set to change? You could make it unpublishable. There are lots of interesting ideas but sometimes imperfectly executed or missing some minor bob or bit that makes it complete or one thing that makes it overpowered or underpowered. It would make homebrew much more useable.
My main advice would be to contact the person who created that homebrew. :)
If you wish to take their work and tweak it slightly, it would be a good idea to seek permission, especially if you're thinking of publishing once you've done so.
You clearly are avoiding the question. He said "make it unpublish-able" i.e. I want for my own use the ability to edit homebrews... If this is not gonna happen. Could you tell us why?
You can ask the author. Making it "unpublishable" doesn't solve the issue. Even if the website could simply mark a homebrew as a copy of an existing published homebrew when you first hit copy, there would be nothing preventing you from creating one from scratch and manually copying each part of the homebrew using the copied version as reference. And using the system that identifies if homebrew is too similar to official material will result in too many false positives.
If you want access to the information for how a specific homebrew works under-the-hood, you can ask the author. Not every author wants people copying their work. Those that do will happily teach you how they got their homebrew to work the way it does.
Since this is DnD and we all are using WotC material as a baseline to make our own ideas to begin with, it seems a bit hypocritical of us to not share our homebrew material considering the recent scandal. Especially on the DnDBeyond platform, and even more so with something we willingly published on the platform to share. If you publish it, then it should be open for use by others however they want.
I was trying to edit based on a homebrew. Mainly so I could look at how they did things.
When I selected the character class and then looked at the list of homebrews to base on the homebrew isn't there to base on.
Am I missing something in the system.
Currently, we do not allow you to use someone else’s published home as a template to copy from.
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Is that something set to change? You could make it unpublishable. There are lots of interesting ideas but sometimes imperfectly executed or missing some minor bob or bit that makes it complete or one thing that makes it overpowered or underpowered. It would make homebrew much more useable.
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If you wish to take their work and tweak it slightly, it would be a good idea to seek permission, especially if you're thinking of publishing once you've done so.
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You clearly are avoiding the question. He said "make it unpublish-able" i.e. I want for my own use the ability to edit homebrews... If this is not gonna happen. Could you tell us why?
I second that question, this seems such an unreasonable decision without further justification!
I have hit this problem too. It would be nice to see how they managed to set something up atleast.
You could just ask the author.
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You can ask the author. Making it "unpublishable" doesn't solve the issue. Even if the website could simply mark a homebrew as a copy of an existing published homebrew when you first hit copy, there would be nothing preventing you from creating one from scratch and manually copying each part of the homebrew using the copied version as reference. And using the system that identifies if homebrew is too similar to official material will result in too many false positives.
If you want access to the information for how a specific homebrew works under-the-hood, you can ask the author. Not every author wants people copying their work. Those that do will happily teach you how they got their homebrew to work the way it does.
Since this is DnD and we all are using WotC material as a baseline to make our own ideas to begin with, it seems a bit hypocritical of us to not share our homebrew material considering the recent scandal. Especially on the DnDBeyond platform, and even more so with something we willingly published on the platform to share. If you publish it, then it should be open for use by others however they want.