I've come across a situation where i'm a DM for a campaign, having hundreds of articles of homebrew content that i use in it. I've now joined another campaign as a player, and enabled content sharing on that. An unfortunate side effect of that is that now my new DM's homebrew content has bled into my other campaign (spells and whatnot) and it means i have to manually check, when players are choosing new spells, to make sure they don't take something made by my other DM and not balanced for my campaign. Is there a way to stop that from happening, while still allowing me to share the official books contents to the campaign as a player.
As far as I am aware, the only ways to prevent homebrew from being shared right now are to either remove it from your homebrew collection, or disable homebrew content at character creation.
that's not the issue i have. It isn't my own character in the campaign, that i don't want the homebrew content for. The problem is that my other DM's homebrew content is by proxy shown in my own campaign, because i have homebrew content enabled. But problem is, i only want my own homebrew to show. My dm's homebrew content isn't showing up in my collection. But it shows up in spell and feats lists for example for the players in the campaign that i DM for.
Yes, i tried that. Unfortunately it still does it. It seems to me, that the issue isn't in the content sharing part, but the DM to player to next layer of players bleed.
I'd love to limit my campaign, where i'm the DM, to only my homebrew content. And then in another campaign i'd receive that dm's content. So basically only the dm's homebrew collection is shared per campaign. Maybe DM and players. But so it wouldn't bleed to the next campaign over.
There should not be a content sharing bleed from one campaign to another.
Like for example if 6 people are divided into 2 groups of 4 (with 1 person in both groups) [1, 2, 3, 4] and [3, 4, 5, 6]. Person 1 should only see the homebrew and books of 1234 and person 6 should only see the homebrew and books of 3456.
So unless your DM in that group is also a player in your campaign, your other players should not have access to their homebrew. It is possible your players added the same homebrew to their collections, but otherwise this would be classified as a bug.
Just to follow up OliviaNorah - can you clarify whether or not one of your players (in the campaign wherein you're the DM) has actually been able to select one of the homebrews that's shared with you?
That's how i discovered it. My warlock was excited about a cool spell and messaged me about it on level up. When i looked into it, i realised it's a homebrew spell but not on my homebrew collection. So i started looking into other stuff and found that there were many feats and subclasses that i hadn't added to my collection, but were available to my players in the campaign that i DM in.
Have you verified that these items come from your other campaign/DM?
When you turn on content sharing all content from all players in the campaign are shared, not just from the DM. So if any of the players in this campaign have homebrew content in their own collections, it will be shared with you and your other players.
Like for example if 6 people are divided into 2 groups of 4 (with 1 person in both groups) [1, 2, 3, 4] and [3, 4, 5, 6]. Person 1 should only see the homebrew and books of 1234 and person 7 should only see the homebrew and books of 3456.
Just want to say there is no person 7, only 6 people :)
Have you verified that these items come from your other campaign/DM?
When you turn on content sharing all content from all players in the campaign are shared, not just from the DM. So if any of the players in this campaign have homebrew content in their own collections, it will be shared with you and your other players.
This is actually a problem I see a lot. People are always confused why they have Ravnica content when the Dm doesn’t. Maybe a good idea to have would be to put the words ‘Content from all players is shared’ under the blue ‘Content Sharing’ rectangle in the campaign page?
It seems that it is actually the case. One of my players has begun experimenting with homebrew content. So the issue isn't cross campaign bleed. My apologies.
Ideally i'd love to see an option to not allow player's content to be shared though. Rather than just blanket all share. This way it doesn't mix another dm's content with mine.
Okay, i've done some digging and understand better, where all the stuff comes from.
I invited a player into my campaign, who is a DM in another campaign with bunch of his homebrew content. This means, that due to me having content share enabled, all of his homebrew content is mixing with mine in this campaign. That's highly inconvenient, considering that i have a huge amount of homebrew items, and so far it has been easy, where i don't have to blacklist anything for my players. But now i have to manually check with them every time they look at the spell list or feats or anything else, to make sure that they're picking stuff from official content/my homebrew. And unfortunately, at least i didn't find any note, that if they are for example choosing a new spell, that is homebrew, it doesn't show the creator/source on them. While on the official material it shows the source book. If nothing else, would it be able to add the name of the person, who created the spell/feat/article in the immedeate notes in character sheet. That way the players have some kind of indication, what is available to them.
Like for example if 6 people are divided into 2 groups of 4 (with 1 person in both groups) [1, 2, 3, 4] and [3, 4, 5, 6]. Person 1 should only see the homebrew and books of 1234 and person 7 should only see the homebrew and books of 3456.
Just want to say there is no person 7, only 6 people :)
Yeah I rewrote that analogy half way through and missed a 7. It should be a 6.
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I've come across a situation where i'm a DM for a campaign, having hundreds of articles of homebrew content that i use in it. I've now joined another campaign as a player, and enabled content sharing on that. An unfortunate side effect of that is that now my new DM's homebrew content has bled into my other campaign (spells and whatnot) and it means i have to manually check, when players are choosing new spells, to make sure they don't take something made by my other DM and not balanced for my campaign. Is there a way to stop that from happening, while still allowing me to share the official books contents to the campaign as a player.
Hello there,
As far as I am aware, the only ways to prevent homebrew from being shared right now are to either remove it from your homebrew collection, or disable homebrew content at character creation.
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Hi,
that's not the issue i have. It isn't my own character in the campaign, that i don't want the homebrew content for. The problem is that my other DM's homebrew content is by proxy shown in my own campaign, because i have homebrew content enabled. But problem is, i only want my own homebrew to show. My dm's homebrew content isn't showing up in my collection. But it shows up in spell and feats lists for example for the players in the campaign that i DM for.
You’re right. Sorry, I misconstrued your intent. Have you tried turning content sharing off only in the campaign where you are a player?
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Yes, i tried that. Unfortunately it still does it. It seems to me, that the issue isn't in the content sharing part, but the DM to player to next layer of players bleed.
I'd love to limit my campaign, where i'm the DM, to only my homebrew content. And then in another campaign i'd receive that dm's content. So basically only the dm's homebrew collection is shared per campaign. Maybe DM and players. But so it wouldn't bleed to the next campaign over.
There should not be a content sharing bleed from one campaign to another.
Like for example if 6 people are divided into 2 groups of 4 (with 1 person in both groups) [1, 2, 3, 4] and [3, 4, 5, 6]. Person 1 should only see the homebrew and books of 1234 and person 6 should only see the homebrew and books of 3456.
So unless your DM in that group is also a player in your campaign, your other players should not have access to their homebrew. It is possible your players added the same homebrew to their collections, but otherwise this would be classified as a bug.
Yes, i'm aware this shouldn't happen, but it does happen. Hence why i'm talking about it here. It sounds like a bug.
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D&D Beyond StaffJust to follow up OliviaNorah - can you clarify whether or not one of your players (in the campaign wherein you're the DM) has actually been able to select one of the homebrews that's shared with you?
Hello, yes.
That's how i discovered it. My warlock was excited about a cool spell and messaged me about it on level up. When i looked into it, i realised it's a homebrew spell but not on my homebrew collection. So i started looking into other stuff and found that there were many feats and subclasses that i hadn't added to my collection, but were available to my players in the campaign that i DM in.
Hi OliviaNorah,
Have you verified that these items come from your other campaign/DM?
When you turn on content sharing all content from all players in the campaign are shared, not just from the DM. So if any of the players in this campaign have homebrew content in their own collections, it will be shared with you and your other players.
Just want to say there is no person 7, only 6 people :)
This is actually a problem I see a lot. People are always confused why they have Ravnica content when the Dm doesn’t. Maybe a good idea to have would be to put the words ‘Content from all players is shared’ under the blue ‘Content Sharing’ rectangle in the campaign page?
I am double checking, to make sure that the content in question is coming from the other campaign.
It seems that it is actually the case. One of my players has begun experimenting with homebrew content.
So the issue isn't cross campaign bleed. My apologies.
Ideally i'd love to see an option to not allow player's content to be shared though. Rather than just blanket all share. This way it doesn't mix another dm's content with mine.
Okay, i've done some digging and understand better, where all the stuff comes from.
I invited a player into my campaign, who is a DM in another campaign with bunch of his homebrew content. This means, that due to me having content share enabled, all of his homebrew content is mixing with mine in this campaign. That's highly inconvenient, considering that i have a huge amount of homebrew items, and so far it has been easy, where i don't have to blacklist anything for my players. But now i have to manually check with them every time they look at the spell list or feats or anything else, to make sure that they're picking stuff from official content/my homebrew. And unfortunately, at least i didn't find any note, that if they are for example choosing a new spell, that is homebrew, it doesn't show the creator/source on them. While on the official material it shows the source book. If nothing else, would it be able to add the name of the person, who created the spell/feat/article in the immedeate notes in character sheet. That way the players have some kind of indication, what is available to them.
Yeah, I wish homebrew had that little blue logo next to it in the spell, item, and subclass selection, not just the race.
What I do is keep homebrew turned off during level up and turn it on when receiving a homebrew feat or item only.
Yeah I rewrote that analogy half way through and missed a 7. It should be a 6.