I have various homebrew items and want to share them with my players (via direct link), do I really have to publish them and get them approved?
I don't want to translate everything in English to get it approved (is this even necessary?), neither do I want to wait several days for every change.
I tried to open a campaign and have a player enter it with a placeholder character (we are using roll20/physical sheets and not dndbeyond), but it did not work.
You can share private homebrew within a campaign. Are you able to see your homebrew in your character builder?
You can't just share the link for your homebrew and have a character add it. If it is private then they would need to be a part of your campaign with content sharing enabled.
At least someone in the group has to have Master Tier. I have it for our group (the rest are all college students) and the DM has been able to create magic items and add them to our inventory. Quite the surprise for my Drow that had left all things Drow below over 50 years ago... our DM begins telling me of a dream sequence after my death / revival... and I wake to a Longbow in my character's inventory with HER name on it! Geeburs! The dream sequence was bad enough... but to have it in my inventory and I hadn't noticed?!? OMG!!! I still haven't touched it or equipped it... I'm very afraid... but regardless... he has a free account and was able to sent it right over!
No one needs a master tier subscription to share private home-brew within a campaign - that subscription is for sharing paid-content, and for including other users' public home-brew.
Your private home-brew is shared with users in your campaign, you just have to make sure the appropriate check boxes are clicked (I believe the content sharing check box in the campaign must be clicked, and I know for sure the character has to be created in the campaign and have the allow home-brew option selected).
You can't enable content sharing unless you have a master tier subscription though. Right? WIthout the subscription, there is no content sharing checkbox.
You can't enable content sharing unless you have a master tier subscription though. Right? WIthout the subscription, there is no content sharing checkbox.
Like I said, I wasn't sure about that checkbox being needed - just sure that you don't need a subscription to share private home-brew among your campaign (as that's a thing the mods have said multiple times in various other threads, and matches up with what the subscription info page in the marketplace says)
Then that is news to me. I haven't seen any of those threads, nor do I see that anywhere in the subscription details. I see that you can create private homebrew, publish public homebrew, but you need a subscription to use other's published homebrew.
Just found this post from filcat from September. AaronOfBarbaria is correct in that sharing private homebrew is possible without a subscription but you need to join the campaign as well. So create a character in the campaign and then have your characters check if the homebrew things come up. Make sure they have homebrew turned on in the Home tab of the character builder.
If you make your homebrew public then it is no longer your private homebrew. Per the subscription details page "Use public homebrew content from others" requires at least the hero tier subscription. Best option would be to duplicate your public homebrew to keep as a private version.
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I have various homebrew items and want to share them with my players (via direct link), do I really have to publish them and get them approved?
I don't want to translate everything in English to get it approved (is this even necessary?), neither do I want to wait several days for every change.
I tried to open a campaign and have a player enter it with a placeholder character (we are using roll20/physical sheets and not dndbeyond), but it did not work.
You can share private homebrew within a campaign. Are you able to see your homebrew in your character builder?
You can't just share the link for your homebrew and have a character add it. If it is private then they would need to be a part of your campaign with content sharing enabled.
So I need the Master Tier Subscription even for my own homebrew?
I wasn't aware of that.
To enable content sharing then yes, you need a master tier. otherwise, everyone is limited to what they have on their own accounts.
At least someone in the group has to have Master Tier. I have it for our group (the rest are all college students) and the DM has been able to create magic items and add them to our inventory. Quite the surprise for my Drow that had left all things Drow below over 50 years ago... our DM begins telling me of a dream sequence after my death / revival... and I wake to a Longbow in my character's inventory with HER name on it! Geeburs! The dream sequence was bad enough... but to have it in my inventory and I hadn't noticed?!? OMG!!! I still haven't touched it or equipped it... I'm very afraid... but regardless... he has a free account and was able to sent it right over!
No one needs a master tier subscription to share private home-brew within a campaign - that subscription is for sharing paid-content, and for including other users' public home-brew.
Your private home-brew is shared with users in your campaign, you just have to make sure the appropriate check boxes are clicked (I believe the content sharing check box in the campaign must be clicked, and I know for sure the character has to be created in the campaign and have the allow home-brew option selected).
You can't enable content sharing unless you have a master tier subscription though. Right? WIthout the subscription, there is no content sharing checkbox.
Then that is news to me. I haven't seen any of those threads, nor do I see that anywhere in the subscription details. I see that you can create private homebrew, publish public homebrew, but you need a subscription to use other's published homebrew.
Just found this post from filcat from September. AaronOfBarbaria is correct in that sharing private homebrew is possible without a subscription but you need to join the campaign as well. So create a character in the campaign and then have your characters check if the homebrew things come up. Make sure they have homebrew turned on in the Home tab of the character builder.
If you make your homebrew public then it is no longer your private homebrew. Per the subscription details page "Use public homebrew content from others" requires at least the hero tier subscription. Best option would be to duplicate your public homebrew to keep as a private version.