Today we released the first iterative of Content Management that allows DMs to select the content they'd like to be shared with those in their campaign. Take a look at the changelog for more information about how it works.
Please leave your feedback here for the team. We'll use this to help improve this as we continue developing this feature.
It seems that some books inside the bundles aren't showing up on the management page. However, it differs between my two campaigns. One shows only the PHB and three adventures and the other shows only the three adventures. I have other books that aren't showing in either.
Edit: The likely reason for the difference is that a player in the campaign has purchased the book in the one campaign independently of a bundle.
It seems that some books inside the bundles aren't showing up on the management page. However, it differs between my two campaigns. One shows only the PHB and three adventures and the other shows only the three adventures. I have other books that aren't showing in either.
Edit: The likely reason for the difference is that a player in the campaign has purchased the book in the one campaign independently of a bundle.
For any bugs, please email support at support@dndbeyond.zendesk.com. You can provide any more details about the bug there.
Before you do submit your bug, please check that there are no other players that have content within that campaign.
Content from ALL players within a campaign can be shared. Not just your content. So that might be why the campaigns have different lists for you.
Could this level of content management be made available to anyone that has content sharing on, not just the DM of the campaign? I'm in one campaign as a player that shares many players with a second campaign that I DM. That makes turning off compendium content for the second campaign moot, as I can't turn off those same adventures in the campaign that I'm only a player in (without turning off my content sharing altogether).
Could this level of content management be made available to anyone that has content sharing on, not just the DM of the campaign? I'm in one campaign as a player that shares many players with a second campaign that I DM. That makes turning off compendium content for the second campaign moot, as I can't turn off those same adventures in the campaign that I'm only a player in (without turning off my content sharing altogether).
Our current concept of a campaign is one DM leading a group of main characters through a campaign. While other configurations do happen, it's something that we hope to handle in other ways.
So when it comes to content sharing, we think it'll be much more simple for DMs to choose which content to share.
Let me ask you. Why do you and your friends use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups? Is it because there's a limit to only 3 campaigns that you can share content with?
It seems that some books inside the bundles aren't showing up on the management page. However, it differs between my two campaigns. One shows only the PHB and three adventures and the other shows only the three adventures. I have other books that aren't showing in either.
Edit: The likely reason for the difference is that a player in the campaign has purchased the book in the one campaign independently of a bundle.
We just deployed a patch that should fix that issue. If it doesn't, please let us know!
Could this level of content management be made available to anyone that has content sharing on, not just the DM of the campaign? I'm in one campaign as a player that shares many players with a second campaign that I DM. That makes turning off compendium content for the second campaign moot, as I can't turn off those same adventures in the campaign that I'm only a player in (without turning off my content sharing altogether).
Our current concept of a campaign is one DM leading a group of main characters through a campaign. While other configurations do happen, it's something that we hope to handle in other ways.
So when it comes to content sharing, we think it'll be much more simple for DMs to choose which content to share.
Let me ask you. Why do you and your friends use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups? Is it because there's a limit to only 3 campaigns that you can share content with?
Thanks for the interest!
It doesn't sound like they do use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups - rather, they do have 2 separate campaigns on D&D Beyond for the 2 actual campaigns, but the 2 groups have a lot of overlap in terms of players. And in this case, Halfwing is a player in the first campaign but a DM in the second - but they're unable to prevent their adventure content from being shared in the first campaign, because only the DM of that campaign can limit/control what content is shared in the first campaign (even though Halfwing is the one that owns some of that content).
First of all, thank you! This feature is a long time coming for many of us.
As for feedback, my only quick suggestion based on what's been implemented would be a toggle switch at the top to select or deselect all. As a DM with the legendary bundle, I own far more content that I don't want to share than content I do (e.g. Player's Handbook and Xanathar's Guide to Everything). To go through the list and manually turn off every Adventure and all the other Sourcebooks is something I'll happily do, but it'd be nice to be able to toggle everything off, and only need to flip on the two items I do want to share.
Could this level of content management be made available to anyone that has content sharing on, not just the DM of the campaign? I'm in one campaign as a player that shares many players with a second campaign that I DM. That makes turning off compendium content for the second campaign moot, as I can't turn off those same adventures in the campaign that I'm only a player in (without turning off my content sharing altogether).
Our current concept of a campaign is one DM leading a group of main characters through a campaign. While other configurations do happen, it's something that we hope to handle in other ways.
So when it comes to content sharing, we think it'll be much more simple for DMs to choose which content to share.
Let me ask you. Why do you and your friends use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups? Is it because there's a limit to only 3 campaigns that you can share content with?
Thanks for the interest!
It doesn't sound like they do use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups - rather, they do have 2 separate campaigns on D&D Beyond for the 2 actual campaigns, but the 2 groups have a lot of overlap in terms of players. And in this case, Halfwing is a player in the first campaign but a DM in the second - but they're unable to prevent their adventure content from being shared in the first campaign, because only the DM of that campaign can limit/control what content is shared in the first campaign (even though Halfwing is the one that owns some of that content).
This is exactly it.
I'm a player in one campaign, with content sharing on for everyone else in that group. I'm a DM in a second, entirely different campaign, but that includes a large overlap of players from the first group. I can't manage which content I share as the player in campaign 1, which means that restricting content as a DM in campaign 2 does nothing for those players, as they can still access it all from campaign 1.
Just flipped my switches on Content Management feature today, seemingly works fine -- though not sure I can test the blocks from the DM/book owner side.
Agreed with post above about adding a Select All switch or checkbox at the top of the list. Granted it took me mere seconds to flip each switch manually, but I'm only running one campaign (my first) and I can see a Select All feature would really be helpful for multi-campaign DMs. Plus, it's a simple basic feature that's commonly offered in such click-select listings online. Not a high priority, but worth adding to your dev schedule as DDB's compendium library will only grow ever-larger and the list ever-longer.
Good work. Saluting all the mages behind the screen at DDB!
Could it default to all adventures not being shared until manually shared? I think in most cases DMs don't want to share the adventure contents, so it would make more sense having that off by default.
Alternatively, could the adventures and sources grouped separately, with an easy way to turn all books in one section off? The alphabetical list of both types together means it's easy to overlook an adventure you don't want to share.
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Could this level of content management be made available to anyone that has content sharing on, not just the DM of the campaign? I'm in one campaign as a player that shares many players with a second campaign that I DM. That makes turning off compendium content for the second campaign moot, as I can't turn off those same adventures in the campaign that I'm only a player in (without turning off my content sharing altogether).
Our current concept of a campaign is one DM leading a group of main characters through a campaign. While other configurations do happen, it's something that we hope to handle in other ways.
So when it comes to content sharing, we think it'll be much more simple for DMs to choose which content to share.
Let me ask you. Why do you and your friends use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups? Is it because there's a limit to only 3 campaigns that you can share content with?
Thanks for the interest!
It doesn't sound like they do use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups - rather, they do have 2 separate campaigns on D&D Beyond for the 2 actual campaigns, but the 2 groups have a lot of overlap in terms of players. And in this case, Halfwing is a player in the first campaign but a DM in the second - but they're unable to prevent their adventure content from being shared in the first campaign, because only the DM of that campaign can limit/control what content is shared in the first campaign (even though Halfwing is the one that owns some of that content).
This is exactly it.
I'm a player in one campaign, with content sharing on for everyone else in that group. I'm a DM in a second, entirely different campaign, but that includes a large overlap of players from the first group. I can't manage which content I share as the player in campaign 1, which means that restricting content as a DM in campaign 2 does nothing for those players, as they can still access it all from campaign 1.
I am in exactly this situation.
Content sharing permissions should reside with the owner of the material, not the DM. The current system assumes the owner and the DM are the same person.
The owner should be able control sharing with the participants of the campaign as they chose. Ideally they should be able to differentiate between players and the DM.
For example if I own the DDB adventure, I should be able to share it with the DM of a campaign, but not the players.
In my case I have a legendary bundle, which contains the adventure my DM is running (he has a hard copy version). I have shared content so that he can benefit from the DDB functionality, but would prefer if he (and the other players) did not have access to all the other adventures I plan to run with the same group in the future.
Could this level of content management be made available to anyone that has content sharing on, not just the DM of the campaign? I'm in one campaign as a player that shares many players with a second campaign that I DM. That makes turning off compendium content for the second campaign moot, as I can't turn off those same adventures in the campaign that I'm only a player in (without turning off my content sharing altogether).
Our current concept of a campaign is one DM leading a group of main characters through a campaign. While other configurations do happen, it's something that we hope to handle in other ways.
So when it comes to content sharing, we think it'll be much more simple for DMs to choose which content to share.
Let me ask you. Why do you and your friends use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups? Is it because there's a limit to only 3 campaigns that you can share content with?
Thanks for the interest!
It doesn't sound like they do use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups - rather, they do have 2 separate campaigns on D&D Beyond for the 2 actual campaigns, but the 2 groups have a lot of overlap in terms of players. And in this case, Halfwing is a player in the first campaign but a DM in the second - but they're unable to prevent their adventure content from being shared in the first campaign, because only the DM of that campaign can limit/control what content is shared in the first campaign (even though Halfwing is the one that owns some of that content).
This is exactly it.
I'm a player in one campaign, with content sharing on for everyone else in that group. I'm a DM in a second, entirely different campaign, but that includes a large overlap of players from the first group. I can't manage which content I share as the player in campaign 1, which means that restricting content as a DM in campaign 2 does nothing for those players, as they can still access it all from campaign 1.
I am in exactly this situation.
Content sharing permissions should reside with the owner of the material, not the DM. The current system assumes the owner and the DM are the same person.
The owner should be able control sharing with the participants of the campaign as they chose. Ideally they should be able to differentiate between players and the DM.
For example if I own the DDB adventure, I should be able to share it with the DM of a campaign, but not the players.
In my case I have a legendary bundle, which contains the adventure my DM is running (he has a hard copy version). I have shared content so that he can benefit from the DDB functionality, but would prefer if he (and the other players) did not have access to all the other adventures I plan to run with the same group in the future.
The truth is somewhere inbetween - imho both the owner and the dm should have veto rights. Even if the owner wants to share a source, the DM should be able to say it's not available.
On the other hand, the player should be able to hide certain sources (mostly adventures, I assume) from the DM, for example in cases where the DM is a player in the owner's other campaigns, which is not a rare case.
The DM decides if Content Sharing should be available on a Campaign
The Player should be able to override the sharing in relation to their own content, down to individual books
If the DM also owns the book, it is nevertheless shared in the Campaign if they want it to be shared
Essentially.
I'd nuance and change the wording slightly for additional clarity (maybe):
The owner of content can decide (module by module) if they wish to share it to a particular campaign
The DM of said campaign may restrict what shared content is available to players
This allows a DM to chose what shared content players can see (irrespective of if they are the owner or not). It also allows the owner to chose what they share (or not).
I assume that if someone owns content, they can still access it even if not shared. As they should be, they have bought it! I also assume the same restrictions currently in place regarding compendium vs character options etc
The DM decides if Content Sharing should be available on a Campaign
The Player should be able to override the sharing in relation to their own content, down to individual books
If the DM also owns the book, it is nevertheless shared in the Campaign if they want it to be shared
That seems to be what people are saying. I'm guess it'd work like the following:
DM of the campaign could enable content sharing
The DM would see under 'content management' a list of all sources available from across all users libraries (assuming one or more users have a master tier sub)
The DM could restrict access to any of those sources
Any play would also see the 'content management' option, but it'd only list the sources they own, not all sources available.
If a player who owns a book the DM doesn't disables sharing of that book, it'd disappear from the DM's content management list (?)
If a player who owns a book the DM also owns disables sharing of it, it'd still remain in the DM's list (?)
Or maybe instead for option 5 the source would appear as "Content sharing disabled by the owner (USERNAME)"?
The DM decides if Content Sharing should be available on a Campaign
The Player should be able to override the sharing in relation to their own content, down to individual books
If the DM also owns the book, it is nevertheless shared in the Campaign if they want it to be shared
That seems to be what people are saying. I'm guess it'd work like the following:
DM of the campaign could enable content sharing
The DM would see under 'content management' a list of all sources available from across all users libraries (assuming one or more users have a master tier sub)
The DM could restrict access to any of those sources
Any play would also see the 'content management' option, but it'd only list the sources they own, not all sources available.
If a player who owns a book the DM doesn't disables sharing of that book, it'd disappear from the DM's content management list (?)
If a player who owns a book the DM also owns disables sharing of it, it'd still remain in the DM's list (?)
Or maybe instead for option 5 the source would appear as "Content sharing disabled by the owner (USERNAME)"?
Does seem very complex situation to manage
How about this:
There should be a page listing all the content the user owns (for now, on a "book" level, later this might be extended to something like the individual purchases). On this page the user could allow or deny the content to be shared in campaigns where content sharing is enabled.
For the campaign, the DM could set up which materials can be shared with all participants. They can still see all material the members shared.
Content sharing can be enabled for the campaign by member(s) with a Master subscription; but each player could have a single option whether they share their "allowed to share" materials or not.
This way each user has a control over what they want to share with others in a shared campaign, with a simple option to disable it alltogether for specific campaigns; and the DM has final say on allowing/banning materials.
Don't forget, there could be campaigns where several players have Master subscription, often the DM not being one of them; and there should be an easy way to decide whose slots is the campaign reserved from.
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This is awesome - and will be a massive help when my group moves on from Lost Mine to something else where they're not using pregens.
A couple of observations though ...
I'd definitely second the need for a Select / De-select All option - but I'd throw in the mix a "Block / Share All Adventures" and "Block / Share All Sourcebooks" option ... my bet would be that many (most?) DM's would want to share the sourcebooks, but not the adventures - so the prime use-case is likely enabling content sharing then blocking all adventures. There will of course be many other use-cases, but a quick way to toggle off all the adventures would be a big help for many.
It also seems like blocked content is not respected by the Mobile App, so if content sharing is on for a campaign, players can't see the content on the website, but they can simply sign in to the app and download the content there anyway - hopefully just an oversight that will be resolved in the next app update.
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Hey Everyone,
Today we released the first iterative of Content Management that allows DMs to select the content they'd like to be shared with those in their campaign. Take a look at the changelog for more information about how it works.
Please leave your feedback here for the team. We'll use this to help improve this as we continue developing this feature.
Thanks!
It seems that some books inside the bundles aren't showing up on the management page. However, it differs between my two campaigns. One shows only the PHB and three adventures and the other shows only the three adventures. I have other books that aren't showing in either.
Edit: The likely reason for the difference is that a player in the campaign has purchased the book in the one campaign independently of a bundle.
For any bugs, please email support at support@dndbeyond.zendesk.com. You can provide any more details about the bug there.
Before you do submit your bug, please check that there are no other players that have content within that campaign.
Content from ALL players within a campaign can be shared. Not just your content. So that might be why the campaigns have different lists for you.
Thanks again for letting us know! Reminder, if you think it's a bug, please email support@dndbeyond.zendesk.com.
Thanks!
Could this level of content management be made available to anyone that has content sharing on, not just the DM of the campaign? I'm in one campaign as a player that shares many players with a second campaign that I DM. That makes turning off compendium content for the second campaign moot, as I can't turn off those same adventures in the campaign that I'm only a player in (without turning off my content sharing altogether).
Our current concept of a campaign is one DM leading a group of main characters through a campaign. While other configurations do happen, it's something that we hope to handle in other ways.
So when it comes to content sharing, we think it'll be much more simple for DMs to choose which content to share.
Let me ask you. Why do you and your friends use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups? Is it because there's a limit to only 3 campaigns that you can share content with?
Thanks for the interest!
We just deployed a patch that should fix that issue. If it doesn't, please let us know!
Thanks,
Dave
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It doesn't sound like they do use one campaign for multiple adventuring groups - rather, they do have 2 separate campaigns on D&D Beyond for the 2 actual campaigns, but the 2 groups have a lot of overlap in terms of players. And in this case, Halfwing is a player in the first campaign but a DM in the second - but they're unable to prevent their adventure content from being shared in the first campaign, because only the DM of that campaign can limit/control what content is shared in the first campaign (even though Halfwing is the one that owns some of that content).
Looks good now...thanks for the quick fix!
First of all, thank you! This feature is a long time coming for many of us.
As for feedback, my only quick suggestion based on what's been implemented would be a toggle switch at the top to select or deselect all. As a DM with the legendary bundle, I own far more content that I don't want to share than content I do (e.g. Player's Handbook and Xanathar's Guide to Everything). To go through the list and manually turn off every Adventure and all the other Sourcebooks is something I'll happily do, but it'd be nice to be able to toggle everything off, and only need to flip on the two items I do want to share.
But, again, great work! Thank you!
This is exactly it.
I'm a player in one campaign, with content sharing on for everyone else in that group. I'm a DM in a second, entirely different campaign, but that includes a large overlap of players from the first group. I can't manage which content I share as the player in campaign 1, which means that restricting content as a DM in campaign 2 does nothing for those players, as they can still access it all from campaign 1.
Just flipped my switches on Content Management feature today, seemingly works fine -- though not sure I can test the blocks from the DM/book owner side.
Agreed with post above about adding a Select All switch or checkbox at the top of the list. Granted it took me mere seconds to flip each switch manually, but I'm only running one campaign (my first) and I can see a Select All feature would really be helpful for multi-campaign DMs. Plus, it's a simple basic feature that's commonly offered in such click-select listings online. Not a high priority, but worth adding to your dev schedule as DDB's compendium library will only grow ever-larger and the list ever-longer.
Good work. Saluting all the mages behind the screen at DDB!
I know you already thought of all this :) I just signed up for a year of Master Tier, gonna go and selectively share my stuff now :D
(PS. I mentioned a checkbox bug on #ddb-feedback. DS.)
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Could it default to all adventures not being shared until manually shared? I think in most cases DMs don't want to share the adventure contents, so it would make more sense having that off by default.
Alternatively, could the adventures and sources grouped separately, with an easy way to turn all books in one section off? The alphabetical list of both types together means it's easy to overlook an adventure you don't want to share.
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I am in exactly this situation.
Content sharing permissions should reside with the owner of the material, not the DM. The current system assumes the owner and the DM are the same person.
The owner should be able control sharing with the participants of the campaign as they chose. Ideally they should be able to differentiate between players and the DM.
For example if I own the DDB adventure, I should be able to share it with the DM of a campaign, but not the players.
In my case I have a legendary bundle, which contains the adventure my DM is running (he has a hard copy version). I have shared content so that he can benefit from the DDB functionality, but would prefer if he (and the other players) did not have access to all the other adventures I plan to run with the same group in the future.
The truth is somewhere inbetween - imho both the owner and the dm should have veto rights. Even if the owner wants to share a source, the DM should be able to say it's not available.
On the other hand, the player should be able to hide certain sources (mostly adventures, I assume) from the DM, for example in cases where the DM is a player in the owner's other campaigns, which is not a rare case.
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So essentially what people want(?) is:
Page Reference: Core Rules to DDB
Page Reference: DDB to PHB
Page Reference: DDB to DMG
Page Reference: DDB to MM
Essentially.
I'd nuance and change the wording slightly for additional clarity (maybe):
This allows a DM to chose what shared content players can see (irrespective of if they are the owner or not). It also allows the owner to chose what they share (or not).
I assume that if someone owns content, they can still access it even if not shared. As they should be, they have bought it!
I also assume the same restrictions currently in place regarding compendium vs character options etc
That seems to be what people are saying. I'm guess it'd work like the following:
Or maybe instead for option 5 the source would appear as "Content sharing disabled by the owner (USERNAME)"?
Does seem very complex situation to manage
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How about this:
This way each user has a control over what they want to share with others in a shared campaign, with a simple option to disable it alltogether for specific campaigns; and the DM has final say on allowing/banning materials.
Don't forget, there could be campaigns where several players have Master subscription, often the DM not being one of them; and there should be an easy way to decide whose slots is the campaign reserved from.
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This is awesome - and will be a massive help when my group moves on from Lost Mine to something else where they're not using pregens.
A couple of observations though ...
I'd definitely second the need for a Select / De-select All option - but I'd throw in the mix a "Block / Share All Adventures" and "Block / Share All Sourcebooks" option ... my bet would be that many (most?) DM's would want to share the sourcebooks, but not the adventures - so the prime use-case is likely enabling content sharing then blocking all adventures. There will of course be many other use-cases, but a quick way to toggle off all the adventures would be a big help for many.
It also seems like blocked content is not respected by the Mobile App, so if content sharing is on for a campaign, players can't see the content on the website, but they can simply sign in to the app and download the content there anyway - hopefully just an oversight that will be resolved in the next app update.