I'm the GM for a group of middleschool kids. I just created a new DDB campaign site, and four my players from my previous campaign want to migrate their 7th-level characters from that campaign into my new campaign, where I'll invite a few additional players to create their characters. I noticed that when I go to "My Characters" (some created outside of campaigns), there's a button to "Leave a Campaign". Why isn't there a button to "Join a Campaign"?
Since it's my account, the resources available to the migrated character data are identical across all of my campaigns, so data corruption won't be an issue.
Worst case scenario is for each of migrating players to rebuild their characters from scratch in my new campaign, but that seems pretty awkward for such a nice tool.
Ish Kabibal
P.S. And yes, I suppose I could just invite the 2-3 new players to my last campaign and rename, but that seems.... clumsy. Still, if that's what it takes, I suppose I could send the new players to the old campaign site using its invite code.
on the campaign page, there is a link that says 'click to join', paste that link into a new tab and it will allow you to select a character to join the campaign, as long as they arent already in one, so you might need the characters to leave the first campaign to join the second
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"The D&D rules help you and the other players have a good time, but the rules aren't in charge. You're the DM, and you are in charge of the game" - Dungeon Masters Guide
You can also make duplicates of characters from the My Characters page if you wanted characters in both campaigns. However the copy is a second character, so changes to the copy do not affect the original (and vice versa).
Yeehaw. It took some juggling and fiddling, but this works.
Ish Kabibal
I sent the following steps out to the kids today:
Login to your Champions of Aptosia site using that special invite code you used in the past to get in; it’s https://blah blah blah
Go to your characters page (the same button where you see your login name).
Make a copy of your 7th level character. You’re going to migrate the copy over to Explorers of Aptosia; the original will remain in “Champions”.
Create a second tab in your web browser. Stay logged in to your Champions of Aptosia account.
Copy and paste the following invite link into the second tab (while still logged into “Champions of Aptosia” in the other tab): https://blah blah blah
In the new tab, you’ll be taken to the D&D Beyond “Join a Campaign” window. On that page, you’ll see two blue buttons:
Create a Character: Don’t touch this button. You can create new characters once you’ve joined.
You’ll see a list of the characters you’ve created during Champions of Aptosia that reside in your personal account. Below them, you’ll see the second button “Join with this Character”.
Select your “Copy of XXXX” character, not the original one.
Click “Join with This Character” button found below your existing characters.
See my reply to Zephr1 where I included your wisdom into what I hope are the correct instructions that the kids can follow to migrate the copies of their characters into the new campaign.
I'm the GM for a group of middleschool kids. I just created a new DDB campaign site, and four my players from my previous campaign want to migrate their 7th-level characters from that campaign into my new campaign, where I'll invite a few additional players to create their characters. I noticed that when I go to "My Characters" (some created outside of campaigns), there's a button to "Leave a Campaign". Why isn't there a button to "Join a Campaign"?
Since it's my account, the resources available to the migrated character data are identical across all of my campaigns, so data corruption won't be an issue.
Worst case scenario is for each of migrating players to rebuild their characters from scratch in my new campaign, but that seems pretty awkward for such a nice tool.
Ish Kabibal
P.S. And yes, I suppose I could just invite the 2-3 new players to my last campaign and rename, but that seems.... clumsy. Still, if that's what it takes, I suppose I could send the new players to the old campaign site using its invite code.
on the campaign page, there is a link that says 'click to join', paste that link into a new tab and it will allow you to select a character to join the campaign, as long as they arent already in one, so you might need the characters to leave the first campaign to join the second
"The D&D rules help you and the other players have a good time, but the rules aren't in charge. You're the DM, and you are in charge of the game" - Dungeon Masters Guide
You can also make duplicates of characters from the My Characters page if you wanted characters in both campaigns. However the copy is a second character, so changes to the copy do not affect the original (and vice versa).
Zephr1,
Yeehaw. It took some juggling and fiddling, but this works.
Ish Kabibal
I sent the following steps out to the kids today:
Thanks much, BigHearted Guy,
See my reply to Zephr1 where I included your wisdom into what I hope are the correct instructions that the kids can follow to migrate the copies of their characters into the new campaign.
Ish Kabibal
Ish_Kabibal, glad to hear your helping bring more people to the game, hope some of the kids fall in love with it like so many of us have.