Ok so nows its five years later- I have the same issue - We have two DMs for this campaign - I need to give the other DM access to the campaign and give his account permissions so he can edit shared notes, etc. I cant seem to find a way to let him into it. All the shared content is linked to my account - I am fine with controlling the campaign as a DM
But the EDIT THE CAMPAIGN, CREATE ENCOUNTER need to give him access. All characters are made public so he can see them anyhow now but he has no access to EDIT them - which he needs to add treasure and other updates he may need to do. With the characters public - maybe he can do that now...
Has or when will this be changed? I realize sharing my account goes against policy - but until this is fixed - I cant see another way to work around it now and still use D&DBeyond.
13/09/22 - Still really think this should be an added feature. May I ask have any internal discussions about this request been spoken about? Think I'm just gonna have to copy the whole campaign over to a friend so he can run it as DM but it's pretty annoying we both can't..
Yah - I had a campaign a while back where I had to quit and hand it over as well - but the only way to "hand it over" or assign a new DM was to have the other DM create a campaign and transfer all the characters over to it...it was a total pain.
My players character was killed off so that he can change from PC to DM and I am creating a PC to join the party (essentially flip-flopping our roles).
I am the one that set up the Campaign. The fact that there isn’t a way to at minimum transfer a campaign to a different person as DM is just dumb. The content was paid for and its still the exact same party/campaign, just two people switched roles… Nobody new was added…
But because this isn’t a feature, we have to do one of the following:
1) switch logins with the person that is taking over as DM, breaking terms of service
2) new dm creates a new campaign (really same campaign, but logistics), buys all the content that was already purchased for the campaign, we all transfer our characters (hopefully, might not even be possible since they were created with the old “campaign” and campaigns purchased content), or we have to all recreate our characters again…
My players character was killed off so that he can change from PC to DM and I am creating a PC to join the party (essentially flip-flopping our roles).
I am the one that set up the Campaign. The fact that there isn’t a way to at minimum transfer a campaign to a different person as DM is just dumb. The content was paid for and its still the exact same party/campaign, just two people switched roles… Nobody new was added…
But because this isn’t a feature, we have to do one of the following:
1) switch logins with the person that is taking over as DM, breaking terms of service
2) new dm creates a new campaign (really same campaign, but logistics), buys all the content that was already purchased for the campaign, we all transfer our characters (hopefully, might not even be possible since they were created with the old “campaign” and campaigns purchased content), or we have to all recreate our characters again…
This is so convoluted…
Unless something has changed, option 2 is viable and "shouldn't" violate the ToS, and shouldn't be that hard.
Have the new DM start a campaign
have everyone leave the current campaign.
The new DM then sends a join link to all of the players.
Everyone joins
Have someone with a master tier subscription(or buy a MT sub ~$5/month, or ~$50/year likely cheaper and of more benefit than the new DM buying the content) enable content sharing and you should be good to go.
The only thing you may lose is the the maps tool if the new DM does not have a master tier subscription, but there are other options to replace that tool for free, and if the new DM has a MT sub they will not have access to the maps for books they do not personally own, but it is easy enough too upload maps from the shared content, tokens would be generic too, but can be modified fairly easy as well.
It is late and I had a hard day, if you have any questions post them and I will do my best to help, I have done this a few times but it has been a while.
Yes it is more convoluted than it should be for sure.
My players character was killed off so that he can change from PC to DM and I am creating a PC to join the party (essentially flip-flopping our roles).
I am the one that set up the Campaign. The fact that there isn’t a way to at minimum transfer a campaign to a different person as DM is just dumb. The content was paid for and its still the exact same party/campaign, just two people switched roles… Nobody new was added…
But because this isn’t a feature, we have to do one of the following:
1) switch logins with the person that is taking over as DM, breaking terms of service
2) new dm creates a new campaign (really same campaign, but logistics), buys all the content that was already purchased for the campaign, we all transfer our characters (hopefully, might not even be possible since they were created with the old “campaign” and campaigns purchased content), or we have to all recreate our characters again…
This is so convoluted…
You've added some unnecessary steps to option 2. The new DM doesn't need to buy any content, nor even get a subscription.
Let's say you've got DM Amelia, with players Beth, Clara, and Desi. Amelia (DM) owns all the books and has a master tier sub. They're all playing in a campaign called Queens of Hypothetica, but now Beth wants to DM so Amelia can be a player, but Clara and Desi keep their characters. Here are the steps:
Beth creates a campaign called "Queens of Hypothetica (DM B)" (or whatever she likes)
Beth get the invite link for the campaign and gives it to Amelia, Clara, and Desi
Amelia joins that campaign with a character
Amerlia enables content sharing for "Queens of Hypothetica (DM B)
Clara and Desi select "remove" for their characters, taking them out of the original Queens of Hypothetica
Clara and Desi use the invite link Beth gave them to join with their original characters
Optional - Amelia turns off content sharing on the original Queens of Hyothetica campaign
Each person in the campaign only needs to do two things, and no one needs to pay any extra money
But it doesn't really solves the problem of DM changing every other week, like is westmarches. That would still be a problem, that everyone has to always switch campaigns. It would be so easier if DM could share info on the same campaign and keep access and all that. You don't want us to share account, I understand, but could you make this a lot friendlier for GMs ?
I will be DMing in a highschool, and it would make all our lifes so much easier if others had access to my notes and stuff if per exemple, I can't make it, and they take over for me. And stuff like that. I would have to completly use other website and other places to make this work. I think it had been demanded a lot, it would be great if it could be possible.
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Danitha SteelStrider - Human mercenary Cleric of Shaundakul
Hi! I'll pile on here. This is essentially making the campaign feature useless for many parties (especially those of us that have more than one DM). Right now, my only use is for building properly scaled encounters with the old encounter builder (and the use is marginal at best when tools like Kobold Plus Fight Club exist). Otherwise, the campaign feature is junk.All of this could be light years better with some proper user engagement and a more agile development approach. All good, though. Drives us more to pen and paper, which I am convinced is better in the end.
And don't get me started on the new Maps encounter builder... the world's most clunky/least intuitive digital tool of all time.
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Ok so nows its five years later- I have the same issue - We have two DMs for this campaign - I need to give the other DM access to the campaign and give his account permissions so he can edit shared notes, etc. I cant seem to find a way to let him into it. All the shared content is linked to my account - I am fine with controlling the campaign as a DM
But the EDIT THE CAMPAIGN, CREATE ENCOUNTER need to give him access. All characters are made public so he can see them anyhow now but he has no access to EDIT them - which he needs to add treasure and other updates he may need to do. With the characters public - maybe he can do that now...
Has or when will this be changed? I realize sharing my account goes against policy - but until this is fixed - I cant see another way to work around it now and still use D&DBeyond.
13/09/22 - Still really think this should be an added feature. May I ask have any internal discussions about this request been spoken about? Think I'm just gonna have to copy the whole campaign over to a friend so he can run it as DM but it's pretty annoying we both can't..
Yah - I had a campaign a while back where I had to quit and hand it over as well - but the only way to "hand it over" or assign a new DM was to have the other DM create a campaign and transfer all the characters over to it...it was a total pain.
Bumping because another Co-DM any myself are having this same issue.
6, almost 7 years later, I have the same problem. My sibling is making a campaign and I want to be able to help with it.
My players character was killed off so that he can change from PC to DM and I am creating a PC to join the party (essentially flip-flopping our roles).
I am the one that set up the Campaign. The fact that there isn’t a way to at minimum transfer a campaign to a different person as DM is just dumb. The content was paid for and its still the exact same party/campaign, just two people switched roles… Nobody new was added…
But because this isn’t a feature, we have to do one of the following:
1) switch logins with the person that is taking over as DM, breaking terms of service
2) new dm creates a new campaign (really same campaign, but logistics), buys all the content that was already purchased for the campaign, we all transfer our characters (hopefully, might not even be possible since they were created with the old “campaign” and campaigns purchased content), or we have to all recreate our characters again…
This is so convoluted…
Unless something has changed, option 2 is viable and "shouldn't" violate the ToS, and shouldn't be that hard.
Have the new DM start a campaign
have everyone leave the current campaign.
The new DM then sends a join link to all of the players.
Everyone joins
Have someone with a master tier subscription(or buy a MT sub ~$5/month, or ~$50/year likely cheaper and of more benefit than the new DM buying the content) enable content sharing and you should be good to go.
The only thing you may lose is the the maps tool if the new DM does not have a master tier subscription, but there are other options to replace that tool for free, and if the new DM has a MT sub they will not have access to the maps for books they do not personally own, but it is easy enough too upload maps from the shared content, tokens would be generic too, but can be modified fairly easy as well.
It is late and I had a hard day, if you have any questions post them and I will do my best to help, I have done this a few times but it has been a while.
Yes it is more convoluted than it should be for sure.
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You've added some unnecessary steps to option 2. The new DM doesn't need to buy any content, nor even get a subscription.
Let's say you've got DM Amelia, with players Beth, Clara, and Desi. Amelia (DM) owns all the books and has a master tier sub. They're all playing in a campaign called Queens of Hypothetica, but now Beth wants to DM so Amelia can be a player, but Clara and Desi keep their characters. Here are the steps:
Each person in the campaign only needs to do two things, and no one needs to pay any extra money
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But it doesn't really solves the problem of DM changing every other week, like is westmarches. That would still be a problem, that everyone has to always switch campaigns. It would be so easier if DM could share info on the same campaign and keep access and all that. You don't want us to share account, I understand, but could you make this a lot friendlier for GMs ?
I will be DMing in a highschool, and it would make all our lifes so much easier if others had access to my notes and stuff if per exemple, I can't make it, and they take over for me. And stuff like that. I would have to completly use other website and other places to make this work. I think it had been demanded a lot, it would be great if it could be possible.
Danitha SteelStrider - Human mercenary Cleric of Shaundakul
Aislynn Moontouched - Aasimar, Cleric of Selûne
Hi! I'll pile on here. This is essentially making the campaign feature useless for many parties (especially those of us that have more than one DM). Right now, my only use is for building properly scaled encounters with the old encounter builder (and the use is marginal at best when tools like Kobold Plus Fight Club exist). Otherwise, the campaign feature is junk.All of this could be light years better with some proper user engagement and a more agile development approach. All good, though. Drives us more to pen and paper, which I am convinced is better in the end.
And don't get me started on the new Maps encounter builder... the world's most clunky/least intuitive digital tool of all time.