Campaign Options

I would like to suggest having most of the options in the Home page for characters like Sources, Partnered content, Advancement type, Optional features, etc.. be options that can be set by the DM for their campaign. Or at least, in some way, overide player's choices or validate if the character is "compatible" with the campaign the DM wants to run before adding or creating a character for it.

I feel like those options are mostly DMs decisions and could eliminate some confusions for unfamiliar players with Beyond.  Of course, I would also let DM have the choice to leave each options up to the players if they so decide.

This can go wrong SO many ways.

From not affecting non-Beyond-hosted campaigns, to being a potential invasion of player privacy, to potential "tag-teaming" banlists, to this precluding just communicating w/your players.

This is already an option, sort of.  Our DM decides what sources and options to use, and as the DM has access to the player sheets they can go in and set them.  They cannot lock the options though, which kind of defeats the purpose.

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This can go wrong SO many ways.

From not affecting non-Beyond-hosted campaigns, to being a potential invasion of player privacy, to potential "tag-teaming" banlists, to this precluding just communicating w/your players.

 I agree; this would be a hard one to enforce without causing a ton of potential downstream issues.  I think being able to define the available source books at a campaign level is still necessary, though.

I think the actual sourcebook filtering should happen at the character level.  A player should be able to define what sourcebooks they want to be available when selecting options at level-up, so they would be able to set defaults to filter out setting-specific content (Stryxhaven or Eberron or etc), or whatever else they might not want to see any time they select an option for that character.  I hate having to filter out Stryxhaven spells every time I prepare one, let me set it as a default for the character so that filter is pre-applied.

Then, what if the campaign module had a section where the DM could specify what filters applied to that campaign, and then those filters could be inherited down to a character created for that campaign.  It doesn't actively prevent or block anything, just makes the DM's limitations easily visible, and then gives players an option to easily assign those campaign-default filters to their character sheets.

Feel like that might be best of both worlds 

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I would like to suggest having most of the options in the Home page for characters like Sources, Partnered content, Advancement type, Optional features, etc.. be options that can be set by the DM for their campaign. Or at least, in some way, overide player's choices or validate if the character is "compatible" with the campaign the DM wants to run before adding or creating a character for it.

I feel like those options are mostly DMs decisions and could eliminate some confusions for unfamiliar players with Beyond.  Of course, I would also let DM have the choice to leave each options up to the players if they so decide.

 I'd like a content selection "flag" system similar to how the character builder currently flags options that you have made a required selection for, except if the selection doesn't match the DM's content limitations. So under the Content Management menu, there'd be two section, one for books and one for character builder. The character builder section would be identical to the Character Preferences screen in the builder and would allow the DM to set all relevant preferences. Something like this with a tooltip on the ! that says "The Dungeon Master has restricted this content option from the campaign. Please confirm with your DM before selecting this option"

Quote from ArmorStorm >>

This is already an option, sort of.  Our DM decides what sources and options to use, and as the DM has access to the player sheets they can go in and set them.  They cannot lock the options though, which kind of defeats the purpose.

 It would save a lot of time for everyone if the DM could set and forget content limitations.

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Quote from Savoiet >>

I would like to suggest having most of the options in the Home page for characters like Sources, Partnered content, Advancement type, Optional features, etc.. be options that can be set by the DM for their campaign. Or at least, in some way, overide player's choices or validate if the character is "compatible" with the campaign the DM wants to run before adding or creating a character for it.

I feel like those options are mostly DMs decisions and could eliminate some confusions for unfamiliar players with Beyond.  Of course, I would also let DM have the choice to leave each options up to the players if they so decide.

 I'd like a content selection "flag" system similar to how the character builder currently flags options that you have made a required selection for, except if the selection doesn't match the DM's content limitations. So under the Content Management menu, there'd be two section, one for books and one for character builder. The character builder section would be identical to the Character Preferences screen in the builder and would allow the DM to set all relevant preferences. Something like this with a tooltip on the ! that says "The Dungeon Master has restricted this content option from the campaign. Please confirm with your DM before selecting this option"

I like this "flag" paradigm, though I think in general it needs to be more granular than the existing Source Category options. For instance, I might want to run an Eberron campaign and allow players to use options from Eberron: Forge of the Artificer, but not Forgotten Realms-specific stuff from Heroes of Faerun. (Ironically there used to be an "Eberron Content" category for exactly this purpose.)

Maybe all of those Source Category options should work like the Partnered Content one, where there's a checkbox for the category as a whole but also individual ones for individual books within it.