A while ago I made a spell and made the mistake of publishing it. I've revised it several times over but I only have one version of it in my collection. When I am making a magic item I tried to add the spell as one of it's abilities but it displays the spell 3 different times as if referring to the different versions. Despite the many versions none of them are the ones are the current version.
Am I doing something wrong or misunderstanding part of the process?
You just discovered the hard way (like I did) one of the many reasons I constantly recommend that people not publish their homebrews until they are a bajillian percent sure it is perfect, and then hold off another month just in case. Those ghosts will haunt your homebrewer FOREVER now.
When you attach a spell with those ghosts to another homebrew, it lists them all in “version order.” So make sure that you have specifically chosen the one at the very bottom as that should be the most recent version. If hen re-save the whole magic item so the system picks up the changes. Then it could take up to 15 minutes (not usually, but it can) for those changes to push to the character sheet. If it still hasn’t corrected, log out and back in. That will trigger the server to dump its cache. Then just wait another 15 minutes for everything to catch up. If that still hasn’t worked, post links to the spell, the magic item, and your test character so a Mod can look into it for you.
A while ago I made a spell and made the mistake of publishing it. I've revised it several times over but I only have one version of it in my collection. When I am making a magic item I tried to add the spell as one of it's abilities but it displays the spell 3 different times as if referring to the different versions. Despite the many versions none of them are the ones are the current version.
Am I doing something wrong or misunderstanding part of the process?
You just discovered the hard way (like I did) one of the many reasons I constantly recommend that people not publish their homebrews until they are a bajillian percent sure it is perfect, and then hold off another month just in case. Those ghosts will haunt your homebrewer FOREVER now.
When you attach a spell with those ghosts to another homebrew, it lists them all in “version order.” So make sure that you have specifically chosen the one at the very bottom as that should be the most recent version. If hen re-save the whole magic item so the system picks up the changes. Then it could take up to 15 minutes (not usually, but it can) for those changes to push to the character sheet. If it still hasn’t corrected, log out and back in. That will trigger the server to dump its cache. Then just wait another 15 minutes for everything to catch up. If that still hasn’t worked, post links to the spell, the magic item, and your test character so a Mod can look into it for you.
Good luck.
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