BUMPING THIS!!! Please please please implement this!! As a DM, I want to do cool story stuff for specific characters but I don't want it to be ruined by the fact that they can see all the homebrew :(
Same here. I trust the players in my party not to look at anything without permission. Still, it would be nice to just be able to click a box choose what's visible to players. That way they can browse my homebrew to see all the races, items, and what not that I want them to have access to without them stumbling across spoilers the whole time.
Personally I've done the earlier suggestion of making a homebrew race and renaming it and setting the character to private. They can only see the race name (fake) and the class (irrelevant).
Gonna bump this! It’d be a small but helpful change to have the option to hide player characters from one another but still be visible to the DM. I’d like my players to be able to access my sourcebooks to make their characters, but it’s hard to keep the mystery when others can see what you’ve made!
Yes, yes, and more yes! I'm starting to DM, and I want to be able to keep character secrets. Things like the above-mentioned changeling and aasimar would make it so unnecessarily difficult to do any of the workarounds for such a comparatively simple change!
Edit: I actually have an aasimar and a changling in my current group. They have both had their big reveal moments to the group, so I can actually specifically say in this comment now how annoying it was that I had to create "homebrew" human characters, and because I had to do it twice, one of the characters found out stuff he wasn't supposed to even as I was doing this workaround. Come on, DDB, step it up for this ridiculously easy fix!
Adding my vote to this, as I am about to play an aasimar priest/druid multiclass, and want it to be a surprise. I am obsessed with creating delighted surprise at the table!
Another DM here, i would love to hide everything except name from my current and future campaigns. Little mystery goes a long way in storytelling and even tho my players can behave themselves and not look into other players bags i would and my players would like to concentrate not to have that info even as a meta-knowledge. Thanks. This can't be be hard fix. I'd hate to do different campaigns even tho i have subscription for it. Seem's silly.
Unfortunately I have to agree. Please, DDB, add this in so that the DM and the owner of the PC can choose when to reveal the Name, Race, Class etc.
Bumping as it seems to be the near monthly request and subject that is found on Google from everyone.
At this point I've had to simply not add NPCs to my current campaign but rather keep them private in my personal character collection to refer back to them. I have done quiet a bit of leg work to ensure PCs know these characters well enough through world anvil pages and interactions but, simply having the option in Beyond to have them there without giving anything away would be very nice. Heck, even World Anvil offers users the ability to have creator only content that's not visible to readers within a public page.
I can't imagine what a headache this would be for players, like one we have now who is a Changeling and does everything he can to hide it. Thankfully my players are great at separating game from meta.
Google brought me here. Bumping for April. Master tier subscriber and DM here. From the subscription page:
Share Purchased Books With Your Friends
You can share your books and compendium content across five campaigns with up to 12 players each! It’s like bringing a backpack full of books for your friends to use, minus the heavy backpack.
Enhance the character creation experience for your table
I have a group of friends that I play 1-2 nights a week with. We have two campaigns that alternate weeks. I provide the books for both and DM for one.
I also have family members I occasionally play with on the weekends. We have two campaigns, I provide the books for both and DM for one.
We are wrapping one up semi-soon so I'm prepping for the next campaign. Now that we have more experience, this one is going to be more immersive, so characters being able to have secrets sheets from each other would be very nice. The option of creating a campaign for each character isn't going to work though because of the 5 campaign limitation. It also defeats the wonderful Encounter tool (thank you, I love it.)
Could we get a toggle for 12 campaigns of 5 members each?
Could we get a "60 unique accounts" limit instead?
Could we get a toggle for "Mysterious Creature" in the character settings?
Bumping also. I had a campaign awhile back where a PC was a secret Hexblade warlock and had the entire party convinced he was a fighter for the longest time. The party placed bets on a gladiators area and entered him and another PC in it, He went through most of the fights as a "Fighter" then the Semi finals ended up between him and the other PC, and the big stupid grin on his dumb face when he turned to me and said "I cast shield" after the other player attacked him, and then he cast hexblades curse on his turn will forever be branded in my mind. Also the look on all my players faces when they realized what he did was PRICELESS. I know its not an every campaign thing but this has to be an easy feature even just to let the DM toggle something on and off.
I'd go with several campaign pages for secret players, you can only share content with a few campaigns, but you can make one master campaign for character creation and several others for them to rest their character sheet in. They could also just not join the campaign and have their character in secret unless you need to see something.
Thank you for your advice. I think we all know HOW to go around this issue and HOW to do it the complicated way. What we are asking for the past 3,5 years is the function that would make your lives as DMs much easier and would help with the RP part of the DnD.
Also, you have no way of creating Encounters on DnDBeyond for characters from different campaigns. You could do it manually every time, or create just "placeholders" characters but again it makes things unnecessarily complicated. And any edit to players' characters (statuses, HP modifications) you will not see in the Combat Tracker.
Nevertheless, your advice is appreciated but will not solve the issue at hand.
Very much in support of this, right now it's rather clunky to go about hiding these things from other players and it also makes it obvious that there's something to hide to begin with. Being able to easily toggle visibility of race/class in the campaign screen would be wonderful.
In a similar vein, if you have your character sheet set to public it doesn't let other players see your background/description sections (which I think makes a lot of sense), but people can still see what your actual selected background is by hovering over (or tapping on mobile) any language or weapon/tool proficiency granted by it. Feels like a bit of an oversight, though maybe background isn't something a lot of people mind being public?
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Same here. I trust the players in my party not to look at anything without permission. Still, it would be nice to just be able to click a box choose what's visible to players. That way they can browse my homebrew to see all the races, items, and what not that I want them to have access to without them stumbling across spoilers the whole time.
Personally I've done the earlier suggestion of making a homebrew race and renaming it and setting the character to private. They can only see the race name (fake) and the class (irrelevant).
Gonna bump this! It’d be a small but helpful change to have the option to hide player characters from one another but still be visible to the DM. I’d like my players to be able to access my sourcebooks to make their characters, but it’s hard to keep the mystery when others can see what you’ve made!
Bumping! We are starting a new campaign and it would be great if the race/class/subclass was redactable in the campaign view.
bump.
wanted to play a (secret) changeling, but everyone knew from the get-go.
Yes, yes, and more yes! I'm starting to DM, and I want to be able to keep character secrets. Things like the above-mentioned changeling and aasimar would make it so unnecessarily difficult to do any of the workarounds for such a comparatively simple change!
Edit: I actually have an aasimar and a changling in my current group. They have both had their big reveal moments to the group, so I can actually specifically say in this comment now how annoying it was that I had to create "homebrew" human characters, and because I had to do it twice, one of the characters found out stuff he wasn't supposed to even as I was doing this workaround. Come on, DDB, step it up for this ridiculously easy fix!
Agree, this feature is needed. I'm about to play a changeling, in a party that I don't want to know I am anything other than a normal elf.
Adding my vote to this, as I am about to play an aasimar priest/druid multiclass, and want it to be a surprise. I am obsessed with creating delighted surprise at the table!
Unfortunately I have to agree. Please, DDB, add this in so that the DM and the owner of the PC can choose when to reveal the Name, Race, Class etc.
BUMP
Surprises are one of my favourite parts of D&D and having a feature to hide race/class would be PERFECTION.
Bumping as it seems to be the near monthly request and subject that is found on Google from everyone.
At this point I've had to simply not add NPCs to my current campaign but rather keep them private in my personal character collection to refer back to them.
I have done quiet a bit of leg work to ensure PCs know these characters well enough through world anvil pages and interactions but, simply having the option in Beyond to have them there without giving anything away would be very nice. Heck, even World Anvil offers users the ability to have creator only content that's not visible to readers within a public page.
I can't imagine what a headache this would be for players, like one we have now who is a Changeling and does everything he can to hide it. Thankfully my players are great at separating game from meta.
Yes please. This needs to be a thing.
Google brought me here. Bumping for April. Master tier subscriber and DM here. From the subscription page:
Share Purchased Books With Your Friends
You can share your books and compendium content across five campaigns with up to 12 players each! It’s like bringing a backpack full of books for your friends to use, minus the heavy backpack.
I have a group of friends that I play 1-2 nights a week with. We have two campaigns that alternate weeks. I provide the books for both and DM for one.
I also have family members I occasionally play with on the weekends. We have two campaigns, I provide the books for both and DM for one.
We are wrapping one up semi-soon so I'm prepping for the next campaign. Now that we have more experience, this one is going to be more immersive, so characters being able to have secrets sheets from each other would be very nice. The option of creating a campaign for each character isn't going to work though because of the 5 campaign limitation. It also defeats the wonderful Encounter tool (thank you, I love it.)
Love the site, good luck implementing MPMotM!
Edit: grammar typo.
Also bumping this. The ability to fully hide my players from seeing anything about each other—race and class included—would be very helpful.
Adding my name to this. Currently running a campaign and a few of my players want their character's race to be hidden.
Bumping also. I had a campaign awhile back where a PC was a secret Hexblade warlock and had the entire party convinced he was a fighter for the longest time. The party placed bets on a gladiators area and entered him and another PC in it, He went through most of the fights as a "Fighter" then the Semi finals ended up between him and the other PC, and the big stupid grin on his dumb face when he turned to me and said "I cast shield" after the other player attacked him, and then he cast hexblades curse on his turn will forever be branded in my mind. Also the look on all my players faces when they realized what he did was PRICELESS. I know its not an every campaign thing but this has to be an easy feature even just to let the DM toggle something on and off.
I'd go with several campaign pages for secret players, you can only share content with a few campaigns, but you can make one master campaign for character creation and several others for them to rest their character sheet in. They could also just not join the campaign and have their character in secret unless you need to see something.
Thank you for your advice.
I think we all know HOW to go around this issue and HOW to do it the complicated way.
What we are asking for the past 3,5 years is the function that would make your lives as DMs much easier and would help with the RP part of the DnD.
Also, you have no way of creating Encounters on DnDBeyond for characters from different campaigns. You could do it manually every time, or create just "placeholders" characters but again it makes things unnecessarily complicated. And any edit to players' characters (statuses, HP modifications) you will not see in the Combat Tracker.
Nevertheless, your advice is appreciated but will not solve the issue at hand.
Bump! Would be nice if character is set to Private that only the name appears. No other details.
Very much in support of this, right now it's rather clunky to go about hiding these things from other players and it also makes it obvious that there's something to hide to begin with. Being able to easily toggle visibility of race/class in the campaign screen would be wonderful.
In a similar vein, if you have your character sheet set to public it doesn't let other players see your background/description sections (which I think makes a lot of sense), but people can still see what your actual selected background is by hovering over (or tapping on mobile) any language or weapon/tool proficiency granted by it. Feels like a bit of an oversight, though maybe background isn't something a lot of people mind being public?