I think it would be fantastic if we could create folders within homebrew collections and then set sharing to specific campaigns at the folder level. e.g. I create a folder for Campaign 1 and share it with said campaign. Anything I stick in that folder is automatically shared with the people in that campaign based on the parent folder level. I create a folder for Campaign 2 and share it with the corresponding campaign. Same as before, anything in that folder is automatically shared with people in that campaign based on the parent folder. People in Campaign 1 cannot see homebrew for people in Campaign 2 and vice versa. This has the added benefit of allowing me to sort homebrew items to more easily find things. I see this working in conjunction with the current filters.
This allows for a few other possibilities as well:
I can create a misc/private folder that isn't shared with anyone in any of my campaigns. Stuff that isn't finished or isn't ready to be revealed to a party.
The introduction of sharing at the folder level should be complimented by the ability to share/override that at the individual item level. e.g. something in a campaign 1 folder that I want only a single player to be able to see; even if it is in the parent folder shared with that campaign, the ability to override that and limit it to a single person while leaving it in that folder for my organizational benefits. Or something in a campaign 2 folder that I want to extend access for a single player in campaign 1 to see as well.
TL;DR: a sharing system similar to Google Drive would be fantastic for Homebrew content I have created.
This would work for private homebrew stuff that you made yourself and that hasnt been made public. If its been made public and you allow homebrew in the game, unless the homebrew is specific for a world/campaign/area, your players in that campaign where the homebrew isnt available are going to be asking for an explanation if the homebrew isnt allowed. Even though you are the DM and and can say no to the homebrew, the fact that you made it public, your name is on it so they will question.
Being the DM and that, if the homebrew is Campaign specific, just put in the text part of the item description that it's only found in the world/campaign/area so isnt available outside that area. If it gets taken from that region, then it crumbles to dust, or disappears from the person's inventory by some mystical means.
PS: If you are worried about someone stealing your homebrew idea, then re-writing it as their own and then making it public. If you see such happen, you can actually report that homebrew by clicking the Report link and reporting it as Copyright. I'm not sure of what you need to put past that option under the Report button, but since you would have an earlier copy within your own account, you can show that its there, and if that person that made it public was ever in your campaigns in the past, it would show in the logs.
All of my stuff (so far anyways) is private. I am not super worried about the people I play with taking credit for anything I have created, more just I have players that like to poke around looking for items. From an organizational standpoint as well as a sharing standpoint to potentially stop players from finding plot spoiling items, I thought this would be a very useful combination of tools. You are correct, however, that the sharing portion of this idea would be most beneficial to homebrew that has not been publicly shared - almost an extension of the private sharing model while public sharing would remain largely untouched.
I like the safeguard of putting text in the description as a workaround for some non-plot specific stuff, but it wouldn't help much with other things. It would not address the potential of players seeing plot spoiling homebrew if they happen to search for the right thing or have the right filters set while poking around, looking for items/spells, leveling up and looking at feats, etc. Also does not allow granularity to make something available to a specific player in the campaign, but not to others.
I have been creating a ton of new homebrew spells, items, languages, etc. for my campaign worlds. I have thought, several times, that not allowing folders is a drastic oversight. That way I don't have to remember exactly what an item is named, I can just look up the "Campaign A -> Weapons" folder and get what I was looking for.
Devs, please please please make this a functionality!
Is there a way to allow only my own homebrew items in a campaign? I have been poking around and not having any luck figuring out how to limit the list my players can see
Is there a way to allow only my own homebrew items in a campaign? I have been poking around and not having any luck figuring out how to limit the list my players can see
thank you in advance.
No. Your characters will ALWAYS have access to all of the core D&D items/spells/etc. Beyond that, you can turn off all content sharing in your campaigns, but then the character would still have access to whatever the player has in their sourcebook library. Beyond that, just make sure your characters have only the "Homebrew" toggle turned on in their character settings. That's the closest that you can get to what you desire, to my knowledge.
That's exactly what this thread is asking for official support to obtain. So you're repeating the OP's question of allowing us to have folders for our content so, in my case, I could have a Humblewood folder, a Cthulhu folder, and a Tome of Beasts folder...just for example. It's not there yet, and I have not seen anything officially stating they are working on implementing this :/
Sorry, I was a little vague. I want filer homebrew items to my list of homebrew items, not the entire list of home brew items.
I presume you mean you only want to allow your homebrew, and not those that other people in the campaign have in their collections. Unfortunately, no, there is not a way to limit it that way. I wish there was.
Yup, we need this, especially if DM plans to run campaing for two different groups at once. It's mind boggling that Custom Homebrew Collections sharing with Campaign is not a thing yet.
Folders would be amazing, especially with individual share options. My opinions in its favor:
1) Greatly cut down on confusing fellow players who don't realize that 'Thing' they see as an option is a homebrew thing that they can't just use without getting our GM's permission.
2) I would love to keep the homebrew subclass that's more of a class with it's 120+ spell/item variants in its own folder out of the way of my miscellaneous feats, items, etc..
I personally would love to have folders as a feature because I organise everything i do that's D&D related, and I'm working on an entire new school of magic so that would be very useful.
This would work for private homebrew stuff that you made yourself and that hasnt been made public. If its been made public and you allow homebrew in the game, unless the homebrew is specific for a world/campaign/area, your players in that campaign where the homebrew isnt available are going to be asking for an explanation if the homebrew isnt allowed. Even though you are the DM and and can say no to the homebrew, the fact that you made it public, your name is on it so they will question.
Being the DM and that, if the homebrew is Campaign specific, just put in the text part of the item description that it's only found in the world/campaign/area so isnt available outside that area. If it gets taken from that region, then it crumbles to dust, or disappears from the person's inventory by some mystical means.
PS: If you are worried about someone stealing your homebrew idea, then re-writing it as their own and then making it public. If you see such happen, you can actually report that homebrew by clicking the Report link and reporting it as Copyright. I'm not sure of what you need to put past that option under the Report button, but since you would have an earlier copy within your own account, you can show that its there, and if that person that made it public was ever in your campaigns in the past, it would show in the logs.
I actually posted a thread poll that kinda touches on the published homebrew problem of being unmodifiable.
Not to shamelessly plug my shit but it seems relevant in my opinion to this thread as well.
For those who do browse that thread, one point of clarification I'll add is when I say "view or modify published homebrew" I mean we should be able to make a copy of the pubbed homebrew and modify said copy as we want. This would then by proxy solve the issue mentioned in the quote block of this comment. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
Would love to revisit this and give it more attention to the developers. I would love to have some organization in my homebrew collections, it make it much easier to create and find my items.
I was just lamenting that i needed something like this, I run and play in a lot of campaigns and because of the lack of modability of character sheets (ex, making a usable magic weapon right in the sheet) i end up having to make a lot of homebrew for specific players/my characters that other players in other games start asking about.
I would love to be able to have folders, or even just add certain homebrew to certain campaigns without a folder function. Just SOMETHING to give me better control over what my players are able to see vs what i've collected and made.
My best advice is to use the 'Version' dialog box in the Basic Information section. I use 'Med', 'Key', 'Weapon', 'Potion', etc. to easily sort the list by the item I'm looking for.
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I think it would be fantastic if we could create folders within homebrew collections and then set sharing to specific campaigns at the folder level. e.g. I create a folder for Campaign 1 and share it with said campaign. Anything I stick in that folder is automatically shared with the people in that campaign based on the parent folder level. I create a folder for Campaign 2 and share it with the corresponding campaign. Same as before, anything in that folder is automatically shared with people in that campaign based on the parent folder. People in Campaign 1 cannot see homebrew for people in Campaign 2 and vice versa. This has the added benefit of allowing me to sort homebrew items to more easily find things. I see this working in conjunction with the current filters.
This allows for a few other possibilities as well:
TL;DR: a sharing system similar to Google Drive would be fantastic for Homebrew content I have created.
This would work for private homebrew stuff that you made yourself and that hasnt been made public. If its been made public and you allow homebrew in the game, unless the homebrew is specific for a world/campaign/area, your players in that campaign where the homebrew isnt available are going to be asking for an explanation if the homebrew isnt allowed. Even though you are the DM and and can say no to the homebrew, the fact that you made it public, your name is on it so they will question.
Being the DM and that, if the homebrew is Campaign specific, just put in the text part of the item description that it's only found in the world/campaign/area so isnt available outside that area. If it gets taken from that region, then it crumbles to dust, or disappears from the person's inventory by some mystical means.
PS: If you are worried about someone stealing your homebrew idea, then re-writing it as their own and then making it public. If you see such happen, you can actually report that homebrew by clicking the Report link and reporting it as Copyright. I'm not sure of what you need to put past that option under the Report button, but since you would have an earlier copy within your own account, you can show that its there, and if that person that made it public was ever in your campaigns in the past, it would show in the logs.
All of my stuff (so far anyways) is private. I am not super worried about the people I play with taking credit for anything I have created, more just I have players that like to poke around looking for items. From an organizational standpoint as well as a sharing standpoint to potentially stop players from finding plot spoiling items, I thought this would be a very useful combination of tools. You are correct, however, that the sharing portion of this idea would be most beneficial to homebrew that has not been publicly shared - almost an extension of the private sharing model while public sharing would remain largely untouched.
I like the safeguard of putting text in the description as a workaround for some non-plot specific stuff, but it wouldn't help much with other things. It would not address the potential of players seeing plot spoiling homebrew if they happen to search for the right thing or have the right filters set while poking around, looking for items/spells, leveling up and looking at feats, etc. Also does not allow granularity to make something available to a specific player in the campaign, but not to others.
I have been creating a ton of new homebrew spells, items, languages, etc. for my campaign worlds. I have thought, several times, that not allowing folders is a drastic oversight. That way I don't have to remember exactly what an item is named, I can just look up the "Campaign A -> Weapons" folder and get what I was looking for.
Devs, please please please make this a functionality!
Is there a way to allow only my own homebrew items in a campaign? I have been poking around and not having any luck figuring out how to limit the list my players can see
thank you in advance.
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No. Your characters will ALWAYS have access to all of the core D&D items/spells/etc. Beyond that, you can turn off all content sharing in your campaigns, but then the character would still have access to whatever the player has in their sourcebook library. Beyond that, just make sure your characters have only the "Homebrew" toggle turned on in their character settings. That's the closest that you can get to what you desire, to my knowledge.
Sorry, I was a little vague. I want filer homebrew items to my list of homebrew items, not the entire list of home brew items.
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That's exactly what this thread is asking for official support to obtain. So you're repeating the OP's question of allowing us to have folders for our content so, in my case, I could have a Humblewood folder, a Cthulhu folder, and a Tome of Beasts folder...just for example. It's not there yet, and I have not seen anything officially stating they are working on implementing this :/
I presume you mean you only want to allow your homebrew, and not those that other people in the campaign have in their collections. Unfortunately, no, there is not a way to limit it that way. I wish there was.
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Yup, we need this, especially if DM plans to run campaing for two different groups at once. It's mind boggling that Custom Homebrew Collections sharing with Campaign is not a thing yet.
Folders would be amazing, especially with individual share options. My opinions in its favor:
1) Greatly cut down on confusing fellow players who don't realize that 'Thing' they see as an option is a homebrew thing that they can't just use without getting our GM's permission.
2) I would love to keep the homebrew subclass that's more of a class with it's 120+ spell/item variants in its own folder out of the way of my miscellaneous feats, items, etc..
I personally would love to have folders as a feature because I organise everything i do that's D&D related, and I'm working on an entire new school of magic so that would be very useful.
Thumbs up to this, even just an option so that players can only see their own, or my homebrew, would be great.
I've had players pick homebrew spells another DM in my group created
I second this so much. I would love that feature!
Is there any news on this? I desperately need to group my homebrew collection...
I would love this as a feature. I didn’t think about having a folder for homebrew only you can use.
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I actually posted a thread poll that kinda touches on the published homebrew problem of being unmodifiable.
Not to shamelessly plug my shit but it seems relevant in my opinion to this thread as well.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/144149-poll-d-d-beyond-features
For those who do browse that thread, one point of clarification I'll add is when I say "view or modify published homebrew" I mean we should be able to make a copy of the pubbed homebrew and modify said copy as we want. This would then by proxy solve the issue mentioned in the quote block of this comment. 👆🏻👆🏻👆🏻
Would love to revisit this and give it more attention to the developers. I would love to have some organization in my homebrew collections, it make it much easier to create and find my items.
I was just lamenting that i needed something like this, I run and play in a lot of campaigns and because of the lack of modability of character sheets (ex, making a usable magic weapon right in the sheet) i end up having to make a lot of homebrew for specific players/my characters that other players in other games start asking about.
I would love to be able to have folders, or even just add certain homebrew to certain campaigns without a folder function. Just SOMETHING to give me better control over what my players are able to see vs what i've collected and made.
My best advice is to use the 'Version' dialog box in the Basic Information section. I use 'Med', 'Key', 'Weapon', 'Potion', etc. to easily sort the list by the item I'm looking for.