Non-Subscribers can't add existing Homebrew.

I find it counter intuitive that.

• A free tier account can create their own homebrew monsters.
• A free tier account CANNOT add other users homebrew to their collection.

Honestly I would have thought it would be the other way around.

My wife (free tier) is DMing for me (Master Tier) and as a free user, she cannot pick Homebrew creations that the community has made, to add to her collection of usable items.  However, she can sit down and do the painstaking task of recreating them if she so desired.

We're playing through a DDEX1 and many of the named, variation monster stats have been created by the community.  If I add them to my collection, she cannot see them, nor can she see my own homebrew creations.

Yet when something is too similar to existing content, the statement attached is:

Remember, private homebrew is automatically shared with other users in your campaigns and does not need to be shared with the community for players to access.

This suggests that we should be able to share items as a player, with the DM etc.

It's shared within a campaign. So if you homebrew an item that will trigger the temporary buffs from a spell like Heroe's Feast, one person creates it as homebrew and adds it to their character sheet. Now everyone else in that campaign will also see that item when the search items from a character sheet already in the campaign, and add it to their inventory. That first person doesn't even need to add it to their character sheet. But the adding the homebrew only works for within the campaign.

They're recreating the 'gather around a table and pass the PHB around and copy the relevant stats onto your paper sheet.'

Quote from pocketmouse >>

It's shared within a campaign. So if you homebrew an item that will trigger the temporary buffs from a spell like Heroe's Feast, one person creates it as homebrew and adds it to their character sheet. Now everyone else in that campaign will also see that item when the search items from a character sheet already in the campaign, and add it to their inventory. That first person doesn't even need to add it to their character sheet. But the adding the homebrew only works for within the campaign.

They're recreating the 'gather around a table and pass the PHB around and copy the relevant stats onto your paper sheet.'

 I get that you think it should work like that, and I agree.

But it doesn't work like that for Monsters.  As a player, I have a ton of Monster homebrew in my account.  My DM cannot see any of it.  

Quote from Perringaiden >>

 I get that you think it should work like that, and I agree.

But it doesn't work like that for Monsters.  As a player, I have a ton of Monster homebrew in my account.  My DM cannot see any of it.  

 The situations where the DM wants to use the players' homebrew monsters are going to be dwarfed by the situations where the players, deliberately or accidentally, see the DM's homebrew monsters.

Homebrew Sharing is a Character Sheet thing. Homebrew Monsters can be added to character sheets under Extras.

Homebrew Sharing does not work for Maps VTT yet. It's in Beta. Not everything will work yet.