Hey dev. Then why when I try to make a new version of my custom race that has 3 subraces under it, not only do the pictures disappear, but the 3 subraces are all gone as well? And when I copy the subraces, they're linked to the version where I want to edit!
And there is no way I can just put the copied subrace under the copied race!???
Stop making shit inconvenient. I want my published work back, now. Also, there was no warning that published work cannot be edited. NOR WAS THERE ANY TIPS ABOUT HOW UNPUBLISHED WORK CAN BE SEEN BY OTHERS IF THEY HAVE THE LINK!!!
The issue is still not solved. I am getting a lot of trouble from not being able to edit my published content or even get a complete copy from "MAKE NEW VERSION" without anything missing.
Published is permanent. When you hit the “share with comunity” it gets locked in as if you had sent it to a printers to get put on paper. Published content can no longer be edited.
It is best practice to not publish your homebrews until thorough playtesting and editing is completed. Just like WotC doesn’t officially publish anything until it has been playtested and edited, it is best for us to take the same care before submitting out “finished works” for the comunity. Basically, if it isn’t finished, don’t share it yet as if it were.
The only thing you can do at this point is to recreate your subraces from scratch attached to the new version of your race, then thoroughly playtest and edit your homebrew before republishing it to overwrite the old version.
DnD Beyond seems to be run by money-grubbing rats because the homebrew process for EVERYTHING is so convoluted and complicated;especially subclasses. It's so difficult to successfully implement anything that purchasing content/a subscription in the marketplace is becoming increasingly tempting. At least it would save me a lot of time and confusion.
The "tutorials" posted on the help page are bare-bones and NO help at all. I've spent literal days scrounging around on the internet looking for tips or a good tutorial explaining in easy-to-follow terms how to, for example, homebrew a new warlock patron subclass--with little to no success. There is almost nothing out there (that I've been able to find) that can explain the programming necessary to input in the homebrewing process that successfully shows up in the character sheet and actually WORKS. This is absolute garbage and a scam.
If there was a way to view others' homebrew pages in such a way that you can see the programming language they used in order to get things to work with the character sheet, that would save a lot of people a lot of grief. But I guess that would be the generous thing to do, and DDB clearly doesn't want that.
Have you actually posted your dilemma in the Homebrew section of the forum? From what I can tell this is your first post on this board. There's usually people there who would be happy to show you the ropes. Brewing a subclass for the first time can be daunting, but you might be better off asking for help than denouncing the system.
So I'd recommend going to the homebrew section of the forum, politely asking for help talking about specifically what you want to do (i.e. thread titled "Help Me Brew Warlock Patron X")..
Paid content does save you time, but after the initial time investment into learning how to use the homebrew system successfully, it becomes less time consuming.
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Incidentally the homebrew is just limited access to the tools the staff uses to enter information in. They allowed access to that system because of customer requsst. They aren't trying to punish you into buying pieces but trying to let you access the tools as a gift to you.
They are currently updating the underlying system and once that is done many things will be possible including better and more convenient homebrew tools. It probably won't be soon but its coming.
is there a way to edit another person's homebrew. they have something very similar to what i want to do can i create a copy of their's and then edit it to tweak it to what i want?
No unfortunately I've been hoping to get them to do that for over a year. I have personally disagreed with their reasons for not allowing it but they do have a reason. Basically they feel it allows someone to claim another person's work. My thought would be to not allow republishing of works based an a homebrew. Again the do disallow it and there was thought put into the decision. Maybe it will be a moot point when they revamp homebrew to make it more a system for regular users.
Wouldn't it be an idea to add an "Under Development" tag to homebrew creations? So if I want to publish a homebrew race for example for community review, but I expect that I will need to edit it before the final release, I tick an "Under Development" box when publishing it. This option should then do one of 2 things; either prevent anyone from actually picking the race. Or it could simply be there to notify anyone picking the race for one of their characters, that the race might be changed. Then, when I'm satisfied with the race and ready for the final release, I publish the race again, but this time I don't tick the "Under Development" box...
This is mainly a fix to the issue with publishing homebrew races with subraces... I've just finished making a race with 5 distinct subraces, and since I didn't know I couldn't edit it after publishing without making a copy and manually recreating all 5 subraces, I didn't think twice about publishing my mostly finished race and subraces for review and input...
Imagine my surprise, sadness, and annoyance right now... :(
Wouldn't it be an idea to add an "Under Development" tag to homebrew creations? So if I want to publish a homebrew race for example for community review, but I expect that I will need to edit it before the final release, I tick an "Under Development" box when publishing it. This option should then do one of 2 things; either prevent anyone from actually picking the race. Or it could simply be there to notify anyone picking the race for one of their characters, that the race might be changed. Then, when I'm satisfied with the race and ready for the final release, I publish the race again, but this time I don't tick the "Under Development" box...
This is mainly a fix to the issue with publishing homebrew races with subraces... I've just finished making a race with 5 distinct subraces, and since I didn't know I couldn't edit it after publishing without making a copy and manually recreating all 5 subraces, I didn't think twice about publishing my mostly finished race and subraces for review and input...
Imagine my surprise, sadness, and annoyance right now... :(
There is no need to publicly publish things for the community to review, as that is not publishing is meant for on Beyond. Publishing is meant for the final draft of homebrew projects.
You can already ask for feedback in the forums, and more experience players and GMs can look at your homebrew descriptions and give their responses without needing to use Beyond's character sheets. And when you are ready to play test things to make sure it works with the character sheet, you can ask interested parties to join a temporary campaign to make sure things work properly. Once that is complete, then you publicly publish.
Personally though, I recommend skipping publishing homebrew publicly altogether. If you are just an average user and just want to share stuff with your friends, family, and immediate social circle, there is no benefit to publishing things. If you are targeting a public audience, and you have plans to sell your ideas down the line, I would still discourage publishing things on here, at least not until you have experience publishing elsewhere first (e.g.: DMS Guild, DriveThruRPG). I am not a lawyer nor do I have experience in the intellectual property field, but my gut feeling is that it is better to be cautious and not publish anything on here that you plan to monetize.
While the established method that you describe works super wonderfully Stormknight, it does begin to crumble when it comes to subraces. :( In order to change a subrace you have to Create New Version of the existing race, then manually re-enter the subraces, with any changes you wanted to make to the one subrace you were looking to change. Usually I find Creating a New Version very simple and great to use, but the subrace issue is a tad exhausting.
(I apologize if this has been fixed, I last updated a race with subraces when the sheet revamp occurred in July and have avoided subraces since-- So I might be out of date!)
Just curious if this is still the case, as I noticed a small error in a homebrew subrace I published and have been unable to create a new version. Will I have to manually re-enter everything by hand or is this a bug?
I made a subclass homebrew but i forgot to put in the display order for the subclass features. this ment that when I posted it the features didn't show up. I tried making another copy of it but when I did so it also didn't have the features. How can I retrieve them?
This is a very good point. There are certain grammatical errors in a custom race I published which 4 Variants but the only way to fix them is to make a new version and then remake all of the variants relating to this race which takes ages! I love the D&D Homebrew creator and I don't want to sound like a complainer because I'm a big fan of this software, but this is one of the things that could definitely be improved.
Mayhap. In future, best practice is to test and edit everything prior to publishing.
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Hey dev. Then why when I try to make a new version of my custom race that has 3 subraces under it,
not only do the pictures disappear, but the 3 subraces are all gone as well? And when I copy the subraces, they're linked to the version where I want to edit!
And there is no way I can just put the copied subrace under the copied race!???
Stop making shit inconvenient. I want my published work back, now.
Also, there was no warning that published work cannot be edited. NOR WAS THERE ANY TIPS ABOUT HOW UNPUBLISHED WORK CAN BE SEEN BY OTHERS IF THEY HAVE THE LINK!!!
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The issue is still not solved. I am getting a lot of trouble from not being able to edit my published content or even get a complete copy from "MAKE NEW VERSION" without anything missing.
Published is permanent. When you hit the “share with comunity” it gets locked in as if you had sent it to a printers to get put on paper. Published content can no longer be edited.
It is best practice to not publish your homebrews until thorough playtesting and editing is completed. Just like WotC doesn’t officially publish anything until it has been playtested and edited, it is best for us to take the same care before submitting out “finished works” for the comunity. Basically, if it isn’t finished, don’t share it yet as if it were.
The only thing you can do at this point is to recreate your subraces from scratch attached to the new version of your race, then thoroughly playtest and edit your homebrew before republishing it to overwrite the old version.
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DnD Beyond seems to be run by money-grubbing rats because the homebrew process for EVERYTHING is so convoluted and complicated;especially subclasses. It's so difficult to successfully implement anything that purchasing content/a subscription in the marketplace is becoming increasingly tempting. At least it would save me a lot of time and confusion.
The "tutorials" posted on the help page are bare-bones and NO help at all. I've spent literal days scrounging around on the internet looking for tips or a good tutorial explaining in easy-to-follow terms how to, for example, homebrew a new warlock patron subclass--with little to no success. There is almost nothing out there (that I've been able to find) that can explain the programming necessary to input in the homebrewing process that successfully shows up in the character sheet and actually WORKS. This is absolute garbage and a scam.
If there was a way to view others' homebrew pages in such a way that you can see the programming language they used in order to get things to work with the character sheet, that would save a lot of people a lot of grief. But I guess that would be the generous thing to do, and DDB clearly doesn't want that.
Have you actually posted your dilemma in the Homebrew section of the forum? From what I can tell this is your first post on this board. There's usually people there who would be happy to show you the ropes. Brewing a subclass for the first time can be daunting, but you might be better off asking for help than denouncing the system.
So I'd recommend going to the homebrew section of the forum, politely asking for help talking about specifically what you want to do (i.e. thread titled "Help Me Brew Warlock Patron X")..
Paid content does save you time, but after the initial time investment into learning how to use the homebrew system successfully, it becomes less time consuming.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
Incidentally the homebrew is just limited access to the tools the staff uses to enter information in. They allowed access to that system because of customer requsst. They aren't trying to punish you into buying pieces but trying to let you access the tools as a gift to you.
They are currently updating the underlying system and once that is done many things will be possible including better and more convenient homebrew tools. It probably won't be soon but its coming.
is there a way to edit another person's homebrew. they have something very similar to what i want to do can i create a copy of their's and then edit it to tweak it to what i want?
No unfortunately I've been hoping to get them to do that for over a year. I have personally disagreed with their reasons for not allowing it but they do have a reason. Basically they feel it allows someone to claim another person's work. My thought would be to not allow republishing of works based an a homebrew. Again the do disallow it and there was thought put into the decision. Maybe it will be a moot point when they revamp homebrew to make it more a system for regular users.
Wouldn't it be an idea to add an "Under Development" tag to homebrew creations?
So if I want to publish a homebrew race for example for community review, but I expect that I will need to edit it before the final release, I tick an "Under Development" box when publishing it. This option should then do one of 2 things; either prevent anyone from actually picking the race. Or it could simply be there to notify anyone picking the race for one of their characters, that the race might be changed.
Then, when I'm satisfied with the race and ready for the final release, I publish the race again, but this time I don't tick the "Under Development" box...
This is mainly a fix to the issue with publishing homebrew races with subraces...
I've just finished making a race with 5 distinct subraces, and since I didn't know I couldn't edit it after publishing without making a copy and manually recreating all 5 subraces, I didn't think twice about publishing my mostly finished race and subraces for review and input...
Imagine my surprise, sadness, and annoyance right now... :(
There is no need to publicly publish things for the community to review, as that is not publishing is meant for on Beyond. Publishing is meant for the final draft of homebrew projects.
You can already ask for feedback in the forums, and more experience players and GMs can look at your homebrew descriptions and give their responses without needing to use Beyond's character sheets. And when you are ready to play test things to make sure it works with the character sheet, you can ask interested parties to join a temporary campaign to make sure things work properly. Once that is complete, then you publicly publish.
Personally though, I recommend skipping publishing homebrew publicly altogether. If you are just an average user and just want to share stuff with your friends, family, and immediate social circle, there is no benefit to publishing things. If you are targeting a public audience, and you have plans to sell your ideas down the line, I would still discourage publishing things on here, at least not until you have experience publishing elsewhere first (e.g.: DMS Guild, DriveThruRPG). I am not a lawyer nor do I have experience in the intellectual property field, but my gut feeling is that it is better to be cautious and not publish anything on here that you plan to monetize.
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Just curious if this is still the case, as I noticed a small error in a homebrew subrace I published and have been unable to create a new version. Will I have to manually re-enter everything by hand or is this a bug?
I made a subclass homebrew but i forgot to put in the display order for the subclass features. this ment that when I posted it the features didn't show up. I tried making another copy of it but when I did so it also didn't have the features. How can I retrieve them?
This is a very good point. There are certain grammatical errors in a custom race I published which 4 Variants but the only way to fix them is to make a new version and then remake all of the variants relating to this race which takes ages! I love the D&D Homebrew creator and I don't want to sound like a complainer because I'm a big fan of this software, but this is one of the things that could definitely be improved.
I did you method of "editing" a published homebrew item and it doesn't give me the option to edit.