Absolutely love the site and will be using it for all my games going forward; however, I have recently run into a small issue. In my groups next campaign I am playing a changeling, modified trickery domain cleric. Lots of scope for some fun! I would have liked to be able to keep this information, particularly the race, from the rest of the group, to prevent meta-gaming, and have made my character sheet private to prevent them from reading it. Despite making this change the race, class and even subclass are visible to the rest of the group. Would it be possible to hide this information if the sheet is made private and just display name and picture?
Depending on whether or not you need shared content, you can create a fake character to join the campaign. Make sure you talk to your DM and put your real character in a different campaign so they can see it if needed.
While this may seem dismissive (which is not my intent), I think DDB shouldn't prioritise dev time on any feature that can be resolved simply by telling your players not to do something. I'm not saying the feature should never come, just that if you can accomplish the same result by saying "Hey guys, don't look at each others character sheets" or "Don't read through the adventure", that's an acceptable solution.
While this may seem dismissive (which is not my intent), I think DDB shouldn't prioritise dev time on any feature that can be resolved simply by telling your players not to do something. I'm not saying the feature should never come, just that if you can accomplish the same result by saying "Hey guys, don't look at each others character sheets" or "Don't read through the adventure", that's an acceptable solution.
Unfortunately you can't really tell players not to look at the roster which is where the information shows. Also there will always be players who like to Meta. It doesn't matter what you tell those players they're going to peek if they can.
Depending on whether or not you need shared content, you can create a fake character to join the campaign. Make sure you talk to your DM and put your real character in a different campaign so they can see it if needed.
Good idea, unfortunately for my current party, many of whom have secrets this would require creating 4 or 5 separate campaigns. Thats probably more admin than anyone wants.
Unfortunately you can't really tell players not to look at the roster which is where the information shows.
I guess that's a fair point, in my campaigns my players always save bookmarks directly to their character sheet. Most have forgotten that the roster screen even exists.
Also there will always be players who like to Meta. It doesn't matter what you tell those players they're going to peek if they can.
This honestly sounds more like a problem with the player than with D&D Beyond. If you tell your players not to look at something, they shouldn't look at it.
I get that this is a valid problem, I just think the most efficient solution is people not ignoring what they've been asked not to do.
Depending on whether or not you need shared content, you can create a fake character to join the campaign. Make sure you talk to your DM and put your real character in a different campaign so they can see it if needed.
Good idea, unfortunately for my current party, many of whom have secrets this would require creating 4 or 5 separate campaigns. Thats probably more admin than anyone wants.
Well then everybody can just know everybody's race and class. It doesn't really change anything. Their characters still don't know.
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Hey guys,
Absolutely love the site and will be using it for all my games going forward; however, I have recently run into a small issue. In my groups next campaign I am playing a changeling, modified trickery domain cleric. Lots of scope for some fun! I would have liked to be able to keep this information, particularly the race, from the rest of the group, to prevent meta-gaming, and have made my character sheet private to prevent them from reading it. Despite making this change the race, class and even subclass are visible to the rest of the group. Would it be possible to hide this information if the sheet is made private and just display name and picture?
Keep up the great work
Andy D
While it's not something I have personally had to use, I think this would be a perfect thing to add.
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Depending on whether or not you need shared content, you can create a fake character to join the campaign. Make sure you talk to your DM and put your real character in a different campaign so they can see it if needed.
While this may seem dismissive (which is not my intent), I think DDB shouldn't prioritise dev time on any feature that can be resolved simply by telling your players not to do something. I'm not saying the feature should never come, just that if you can accomplish the same result by saying "Hey guys, don't look at each others character sheets" or "Don't read through the adventure", that's an acceptable solution.
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Unfortunately you can't really tell players not to look at the roster which is where the information shows. Also there will always be players who like to Meta. It doesn't matter what you tell those players they're going to peek if they can.
Good idea, unfortunately for my current party, many of whom have secrets this would require creating 4 or 5 separate campaigns. Thats probably more admin than anyone wants.
I guess that's a fair point, in my campaigns my players always save bookmarks directly to their character sheet. Most have forgotten that the roster screen even exists.
This honestly sounds more like a problem with the player than with D&D Beyond. If you tell your players not to look at something, they shouldn't look at it.
I get that this is a valid problem, I just think the most efficient solution is people not ignoring what they've been asked not to do.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
Well then everybody can just know everybody's race and class. It doesn't really change anything. Their characters still don't know.