i don't want to be able to publish someone's work i want to be able to:
1. use it as a learning tool to see how something is done.
2. tweak it for my personal use.
Its one of the more annoying things as it appears to be a relatively painless change with no downsides.
Well, painless as it may be it must not be simple to program. They do plan to implement that feature, they just never give ETAs. Something will be not there forever and then all of a sudden it is. Like Spells of the Mark for example.
Simple solution would be to give the creator the option to allow their work to be used as a template if people add it to their collection, and/or add an uneditable field whenever you use a homebrew item as a template that annotates the name of the author and link to the original. Maybe even include the original's version number in it so if people find the original made updates then can look at that instead of the "copy".
In case it needs to be said, by "simple", I do not mean "easy". Just that it would be a solution without much in terms of fancy work required, even if it would be time consuming.
This would create a renaissance of content, please allow homebrew copying!
It's like Twitter's retweet function
You would get so much more polished content
That is unfortunately not true. There will definitely be more content, because bunches of people will be making bunches of versions of the same content, but if one in fifty is actually polished up properly, that still means there are now 49 unpolished versions when once there was one. And that presumes we would ever be allowed to publish our variations of other folks stuff.
To be honest, if other people start making minor variations of my homebrews and then publishing them as their own original work, I will be very put out. I may not make a dime off of ‘brews I publish here on DSB, but that is still my work, my designs, my time and effort writing, editing, playtesting, and rebalancing. I am still playtesting things I wrote “in the before times” when we could hug friends and eat with each other in restaurants without fear. That’s my time, effort, and energy. If someone wants to adjust them for their private use I have no problem with that. If they start publishing those adjusted versions as their original work, I would consider that as much plagiarism as WotC does. (You know how we are physically prevented from publishing things that are “too similar” to the original? I expect my work to enjoy the same protection.)
In case it was unclear, that last paragraph was as much for the benefit of the DDB Devs as for anyone else.
How about allowing people to choose whether they want to publish their content "for use" (others could add the content to their collections as they can now) or "for use and modification" which would allow the copying and republishing?
Has any work ever gone into this? I am trying to create a heavily modified campaign and it is annoying to have to create all thr homebrew from scratch.
Has any work ever gone into this? I am trying to create a heavily modified campaign and it is annoying to have to create all thr homebrew from scratch.
i don't want to be able to publish someone's work i want to be able to:
1. use it as a learning tool to see how something is done.
2. tweak it for my personal use.
Its one of the more annoying things as it appears to be a relatively painless change with no downsides.
Well, painless as it may be it must not be simple to program. They do plan to implement that feature, they just never give ETAs. Something will be not there forever and then all of a sudden it is. Like Spells of the Mark for example.
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
DDB Buyers' Guide
Hardcovers, DDB & You
Content Troubleshooting
Simple solution would be to give the creator the option to allow their work to be used as a template if people add it to their collection, and/or add an uneditable field whenever you use a homebrew item as a template that annotates the name of the author and link to the original. Maybe even include the original's version number in it so if people find the original made updates then can look at that instead of the "copy".
In case it needs to be said, by "simple", I do not mean "easy". Just that it would be a solution without much in terms of fancy work required, even if it would be time consuming.
How about allowing people to choose whether they want to publish their content "for use" (others could add the content to their collections as they can now) or "for use and modification" which would allow the copying and republishing?
Has any work ever gone into this? I am trying to create a heavily modified campaign and it is annoying to have to create all thr homebrew from scratch.
If you could do it you wouldn’t have to ask.
Creating Epic Boons on DDB
DDB Buyers' Guide
Hardcovers, DDB & You
Content Troubleshooting
I would have used this feature today, had it existed.
Still missing this feature, and with how fast they are implementing things it'll very likely never come.