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Figured I’d resurrect this old thread just to throw in my support. My husband and I both have accounts. I have the legendary bundle/ DM subscription, but after buying many of the books with my account (and already having physical copies) we’d love a way for him to use the books we’ve already purchased for my account while having his own separate characters. Especially with the kids getting into D&D. 3 campaigns just doesn’t allow enough freedom of character creation. If we were allowed to share purchased material with members of our household we’d be more inclined to buy additional titles for sure!

 
And why not have one campaign as "sharing". 

Each campaign with content sharing enabled supports 12 players. There are no limits to the number of characters. You can make characters, unassign them when not in use (unassigned characters don't count towards any players character limits) and assign back when in use. And voila - infinite characters for everyone with all purchases shared, for up to 12 people. This is more than plenty.

Unassigned characters belong to the last person that claimed them. So if you as a DM, create an unassigned character for someone to use in the game, once they claim the character from the unassigned pool it immediately gets placed in their character pool. Once that happens you cant even claim it back as DM. See Davyd's post here

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Figured I’d resurrect this old thread just to throw in my support. My husband and I both have accounts. I have the legendary bundle/ DM subscription, but after buying many of the books with my account (and already having physical copies) we’d love a way for him to use the books we’ve already purchased for my account while having his own separate characters. Especially with the kids getting into D&D. 3 campaigns just doesn’t allow enough freedom of character creation. If we were allowed to share purchased material with members of our household we’d be more inclined to buy additional titles for sure!

 
And why not have one campaign as "sharing". 

Each campaign with content sharing enabled supports 12 players. There are no limits to the number of characters. You can make characters, unassign them when not in use (unassigned characters don't count towards any players character limits) and assign back when in use. And voila - infinite characters for everyone with all purchases shared, for up to 12 people. This is more than plenty.

Unassigned characters belong to the last person that claimed them. So if you as a DM, create an unassigned character for someone to use in the game, once they claim the character from the unassigned pool it immediately gets placed in their character pool. Once that happens you cant even claim it back as DM. See Davyd's post here

 
That only really matters if there are people from elsewhere in the campaign. For a campaign between a husband and wife (and maybe kids), it shouldn’t matter one iota.

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Figured I’d resurrect this old thread just to throw in my support. My husband and I both have accounts. I have the legendary bundle/ DM subscription, but after buying many of the books with my account (and already having physical copies) we’d love a way for him to use the books we’ve already purchased for my account while having his own separate characters. Especially with the kids getting into D&D. 3 campaigns just doesn’t allow enough freedom of character creation. If we were allowed to share purchased material with members of our household we’d be more inclined to buy additional titles for sure!

 
The current campaign sharing limit is five campaigns, not three. And while the “player limit” is twelve players, the character limit is ninety-nine.

We need family sharing already. Allow household members to have master access.

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We need family sharing already. Allow household members to have master access.

 
Why?

Make free accounts.

Get DM sub.

Solved.

So, my question is... in our household, my husband bought all the books (physically), then purchased digital content to make characters with.  He's not interested in subscribing, he just wanted the access to the extra stuff beyond basic to be able to integrate into his characters.  He does DM (very VERY rarely) and is fine doing it all by essentially paper, as long as he can see the shared links to folks' characters (he's utterly not interested in doing a campaign version) from their individual accounts.

I, however, am using a free account, for which I've spent $6 bucks on 3 different items as needed for various of my characters.  And I am considering getting back into DMing, and might be interested in using the campaign system (share system), but I haven't spent money on the books and don't really want to, since we've already purchased twice.  We want separate accounts, ie, he really doesn't want me using his account as a DM, because, then what does he use for his account?  It's not very clear.  Hence, it would be nice to have a "family plan", where we could sign up and his content becomes usable on both our accounts, and I can DM from my own.

Or am I missing something?

DM makes a campaign. You all join (even if just with a blank char). One of you (doesn't have to be him, anyone can do it) gets the Master Tier sub and enabled content sharing on the campaign. Voila. You all can access everything anyone has purchased.

The DM doesn't have to be the one to get Master Tier and the person who got the Master Tier doesn't have to have purchased anything else. 

Let's say:

Adam is going to be DM, has not bought anything though.
Beth bought the PHB and DMG
Charlie bought the MM.
Dave got the Master Tier subscription but has not bought anything else.

Adam makes a campaign, and everyone joins. Dave enables Content Sharing.

Now Adam, Beth, Charlie and Dave all have access to the PHB, DMG and MM. 

The sharing thing you want already exists. It's called a Master Tier sub. 

Thank you, that was a great breakdown that didn't seem to be clear in the subscription plan.  It just says "share your unlocked content", which I assumed was content I had to have unlocked myself as the Master sub in order to share it.  

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The DM doesn't have to be the one to get Master Tier and the person who got the Master Tier doesn't have to have purchased anything else. 

Let's say:

Adam is going to be DM, has not bought anything though.
Beth bought the PHB and DMG
Charlie bought the MM.
Dave got the Master Tier subscription but has not bought anything else.

Adam makes a campaign, and everyone joins. Dave enables Content Sharing.

Now Adam, Beth, Charlie and Dave all have access to the PHB, DMG and MM. 

"Now Adam, Beth, Charlie and Dave all have access to the PHB, DMG and MM" ... compendiums and access to all of the player character options from those books in any character sheet created in Adam's campaign.

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The DM doesn't have to be the one to get Master Tier and the person who got the Master Tier doesn't have to have purchased anything else. 

Let's say:

Adam is going to be DM, has not bought anything though.
Beth bought the PHB and DMG
Charlie bought the MM.
Dave got the Master Tier subscription but has not bought anything else.

Adam makes a campaign, and everyone joins. Dave enables Content Sharing.

Now Adam, Beth, Charlie and Dave all have access to the PHB, DMG and MM. 

"Now Adam, Beth, Charlie and Dave all have access to the PHB, DMG and MM" ... compendiums and access to all of the player character options from those books in any character sheet created in Adam's campaign.

 Meaning what?  They only have access to anything used in the character options or they have access to everything from those manuals integrated with the D&DBeyond system?  They can reference the info, include anything in their own characters, etc?  I guess I could just test it for a month and see how it works.

While you have a character in the campaign with sharing enabled all character options that anyone has purchased will be available to add to that character sheet. Not only that but you can then have access to all the books that are shared. Such as going to the PHB and reading it. 

I'll chime in because I purchased some books, just to find out that DND Beyond was a thing so I then had to go and buy all the books again digitally.

It'd be really nice to be able to share the books I've purchased with accounts that I could register under my account as my family members.

I wouldn't buy a paper book, bring it home and expect that I have to buy the same book for everyone in my family. 

Let the digital world reflect reality, enable family sharing. There is no reason or possibility that this isn't achievable. 

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Or they can negotiate a new additional licensing agreement if needed to support a new Netflix or Amazon-like subscription model. Maybe needed, maybe not, they would still be selling books, they'd just sell some to themselves.

What is a bookstore? Sounds very 90's.

Negotiating a new license agreement is not easy and I honestly doubt it is something worth doing right now. If it was worth doing, Wizards would have done so already.

Bookstores also are not some 90's relic. Amazon started out as an online bookstore and it still is very much a bookstore, it is just that these days they are not only a bookstore as they sell lots of other stuff too. Google is also a bookstore, and so is Apple. Those three companies dominate the ebook market. Stores are not limited to just physical brick-and-mortar stores. Physical book stores also are not super rare either, at least before COVID happened anyways. Corporate chain bookstores are extremely common at airports. My city's downtown still have at least over half a dozen mom-and-pop bookstores, with quite a few more scattered throughout the rest of the city. Whether physical bookstores survive COVID is another matter though, especially the mom-and-pop ones.

If everything worth doing had already been done then nothing new would ever happen. We'd all live in stasis. Also Amazon may be a bookstore but they also have family sharing. It doesn't matter if I buy a book or my wife or the kids, we can all read it.

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If everything worth doing had already been done then nothing new would ever happen. We'd all live in stasis. Also Amazon may be a bookstore but they also have family sharing. It doesn't matter if I buy a book or my wife or the kids, we can all read it.

Wizards own Beyond now, so keep making your demands loud and hopefully they hear it. Maybe it will convince them, maybe not. Even if they decide to allow family sharing, it is going to take a while to be implemented. Wizards is not interested in keeping up with the same amount of communication before they took over, so who knows when they will do it, if they consider it at all.

If you want to do something about it instead of sitting around waiting on Wizards, you can use the homebrew tools to make private copies for yourself. Anything that is in your homebrew section is automatically shared with everyone else in the campaign, so you do not need a Master Tier subscription for sharing homebrew.