I have seen a decent amount of Shared Content posts, and even did a few quick searches in the Forums to see if anyone posted this prior, and I couldn't find anything.
The Majority of One-Shots and short Campaigns that I have DM'd for, were all 3rd party content so I was not worried about Players being able to see the info for the Campaign.
Obviously we all love the ability to share our Purchased content with those in our Campaigns, giving them more available options for Characters, etc.
I am planning to run some official D&D Campaigns this year, and I was wondering how to remove access to the purchased Campaign, so players only in that Campaign cannot see the Campaign book (unless they own it themselves)?
I know when you build characters, you can specify what you want that character to have access to, but I am not sure if DMs can specify a specific book not to have access to.
Any help is appreciated, even if it's just an answer stating "yea, you can't get that specific".
Cheers!
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After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
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After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
The way I usually handle character creation when using DDB is after my players join the campaign with their characters, I go into the settings for each of their sheets and check the boxes for the content I am allowing.
After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
It won't prevent them creating characters with shared content either. It only applies to reading shared books.
Being able to block someone from using or reading their own content would be terrible
After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
It won't prevent them creating characters with shared content either. It only applies to reading shared books.
Being able to block someone from using or reading their own content would be terrible
People just want to prevent players from showing up with material they ban as a DM, & want Beyond to help facilitate such by being able to choose books to bad for campaigns hosted on Beyond.
I.e. being able to choose to ban elements in a campaign from character creation like
the Pugilist Class
Silvery Barbs, and/or
the adventure module being run in the campaign.
There is likely a way to do this w/o preventing someone from reading their own private material on their own time.
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DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
It won't prevent them creating characters with shared content either. It only applies to reading shared books.
Being able to block someone from using or reading their own content would be terrible
weird to insist that if the campaign is set in Strixhaven it must accept Grim Hollow characters
Even WotC campaign settings suggest talking to a DM before crossing the soft boundaries around certain core species. Allowing that type of conversation to occur within the platform would be wonderful.
After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
It won't prevent them creating characters with shared content either. It only applies to reading shared books.
Being able to block someone from using or reading their own content would be terrible
weird to insist that if the campaign is set in Strixhaven it must accept Grim Hollow characters
Even WotC campaign settings suggest talking to a DM before crossing the soft boundaries around certain core species. Allowing that type of conversation to occur within the platform would be wonderful.
You're drawing a completely unfounded and illogical conclusion. There's no insistence regarding what content must be used, I was simply clarifying the functionality (and limits thereof) of the content sharing toggles.
If a DM wants to run a Strixhaven campaign that doesn't allow Grim Hollow content, there are two simple steps that need to be followed:
The DM tells their players "Don't select Grim Hollow content"
The players not select Grim Hollow content
What content the character builder allows is not an indication of what content must be permitted in a campaign, and suggesting that it is could quite possibly be one of the most bizarre takes I've heard this year.
After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
It won't prevent them creating characters with shared content either. It only applies to reading shared books.
Being able to block someone from using or reading their own content would be terrible
weird to insist that if the campaign is set in Strixhaven it must accept Grim Hollow characters
Even WotC campaign settings suggest talking to a DM before crossing the soft boundaries around certain core species. Allowing that type of conversation to occur within the platform would be wonderful.
You're drawing a completely unfounded and illogical conclusion. There's no insistence regarding what content must be used, I was simply clarifying the functionality (and limits thereof) of the content sharing toggles.
If a DM wants to run a Strixhaven campaign that doesn't allow Grim Hollow content, there are two simple steps that need to be followed:
The DM tells their players "Don't select Grim Hollow content"
The players not select Grim Hollow content
What content the character builder allows is not an indication of what content must be permitted in a campaign, and suggesting that it is could quite possibly be one of the most bizarre takes I've heard this year.
As I already said...people want the ability to make individual campaign-based banlists via DND Beyond, enforced via taking options off of the character creator when a level 1 character is made & added to said campaign. It shouldn't affect the individual's own content they purchased if implemented properly.
I received the answer I needed from Spamandtuna, and this discussion has diverged from the original question I asked.
Spamandtuna, can you close this thread?
I hope everyone has a great weekend :)
Cheers!
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Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty. Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers; Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas. Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
It won't prevent them creating characters with shared content either. It only applies to reading shared books.
Being able to block someone from using or reading their own content would be terrible
After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
It won't prevent them creating characters with shared content either. It only applies to reading shared books.
Being able to block someone from using or reading their own content would be terrible
weird to insist that if the campaign is set in Strixhaven it must accept Grim Hollow characters
Even WotC campaign settings suggest talking to a DM before crossing the soft boundaries around certain core species. Allowing that type of conversation to occur within the platform would be wonderful.
You're drawing a completely unfounded and illogical conclusion. There's no insistence regarding what content must be used, I was simply clarifying the functionality (and limits thereof) of the content sharing toggles.
If a DM wants to run a Strixhaven campaign that doesn't allow Grim Hollow content, there are two simple steps that need to be followed:
The DM tells their players "Don't select Grim Hollow content"
The players not select Grim Hollow content
What content the character builder allows is not an indication of what content must be permitted in a campaign, and suggesting that it is could quite possibly be one of the most bizarre takes I've heard this year.
People are asking to be able to do that within the platform.
You are suggesting that limiting purchased content would be unfair, and yet you suggest doing that by word along rather than within the system.
Robust Campaign design within Beyond would help DMs immensely. I can set up a campaign to be ONLY Grim Hollow or ONLY Dragonlance, or I can set it to use everything. A DM shouldn't need to inspect character sheets and within a digital tool the limits shouldn't be set to "trust" especially when modern play is frequently between people who start as strangers.
After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
It won't prevent them creating characters with shared content either. It only applies to reading shared books.
Being able to block someone from using or reading their own content would be terrible
After Content Sharing has been activated for a campaign, the DM will see a Content Management button at the top of their campaign page. That can be used to prevent people from reading specific shared books. (It won’t stop them from reading any books they own or that are shared from another campaign, and it won’t restrict the use of any character options from that book.)
Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
It won't prevent them creating characters with shared content either. It only applies to reading shared books.
Being able to block someone from using or reading their own content would be terrible
weird to insist that if the campaign is set in Strixhaven it must accept Grim Hollow characters
Even WotC campaign settings suggest talking to a DM before crossing the soft boundaries around certain core species. Allowing that type of conversation to occur within the platform would be wonderful.
You're drawing a completely unfounded and illogical conclusion. There's no insistence regarding what content must be used, I was simply clarifying the functionality (and limits thereof) of the content sharing toggles.
If a DM wants to run a Strixhaven campaign that doesn't allow Grim Hollow content, there are two simple steps that need to be followed:
The DM tells their players "Don't select Grim Hollow content"
The players not select Grim Hollow content
What content the character builder allows is not an indication of what content must be permitted in a campaign, and suggesting that it is could quite possibly be one of the most bizarre takes I've heard this year.
People are asking to be able to do that within the platform.
You are suggesting that limiting purchased content would be unfair, and yet you suggest doing that by word along rather than within the system.
Robust Campaign design within Beyond would help DMs immensely. I can set up a campaign to be ONLY Grim Hollow or ONLY Dragonlance, or I can set it to use everything. A DM shouldn't need to inspect character sheets and within a digital tool the limits shouldn't be set to "trust" especially when modern play is frequently between people who start as strangers.
You're making things up. I'm not suggesting anything of the sort. What I was actually doing was pointing out that the content toggle doesn't affect the character creator at all—useful information to have if someone is unaware.
You then made a bizarre claim that WotC is trying to force DMs to allow all content in all campaigns, which is nonsense. I then offered a retort to that absurd claim by pointing out that currently all a DM has to do is tell a player to not select that content.
I 100% agree that it'd be useful to be able to apply content toggles prescriptively for campaigns. But that's not currently the case unfortunately. However, that does not mean WotC is trying to force people to use content. That's pure bizarro land thinking.
Greetings D&D Beyond and Community,
I have seen a decent amount of Shared Content posts, and even did a few quick searches in the Forums to see if anyone posted this prior, and I couldn't find anything.
The Majority of One-Shots and short Campaigns that I have DM'd for, were all 3rd party content so I was not worried about Players being able to see the info for the Campaign.
Obviously we all love the ability to share our Purchased content with those in our Campaigns, giving them more available options for Characters, etc.
I am planning to run some official D&D Campaigns this year, and I was wondering how to remove access to the purchased Campaign, so players only in that Campaign cannot see the Campaign book (unless they own it themselves)?
I know when you build characters, you can specify what you want that character to have access to, but I am not sure if DMs can specify a specific book not to have access to.
Any help is appreciated, even if it's just an answer stating "yea, you can't get that specific".
Cheers!
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
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Sadly it won't prevent them from creating characters using non-shared content
Read my D&D thoughts at FullMoonStorytelling.com
The way I usually handle character creation when using DDB is after my players join the campaign with their characters, I go into the settings for each of their sheets and check the boxes for the content I am allowing.
It won't prevent them creating characters with shared content either. It only applies to reading shared books.
Being able to block someone from using or reading their own content would be terrible
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
People just want to prevent players from showing up with material they ban as a DM, & want Beyond to help facilitate such by being able to choose books to bad for campaigns hosted on Beyond.
I.e. being able to choose to ban elements in a campaign from character creation like
the Pugilist Class
Silvery Barbs, and/or
the adventure module being run in the campaign.
There is likely a way to do this w/o preventing someone from reading their own private material on their own time.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
weird to insist that if the campaign is set in Strixhaven it must accept Grim Hollow characters
Even WotC campaign settings suggest talking to a DM before crossing the soft boundaries around certain core species. Allowing that type of conversation to occur within the platform would be wonderful.
Read my D&D thoughts at FullMoonStorytelling.com
You're drawing a completely unfounded and illogical conclusion. There's no insistence regarding what content must be used, I was simply clarifying the functionality (and limits thereof) of the content sharing toggles.
If a DM wants to run a Strixhaven campaign that doesn't allow Grim Hollow content, there are two simple steps that need to be followed:
What content the character builder allows is not an indication of what content must be permitted in a campaign, and suggesting that it is could quite possibly be one of the most bizarre takes I've heard this year.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here
As I already said...people want the ability to make individual campaign-based banlists via DND Beyond, enforced via taking options off of the character creator when a level 1 character is made & added to said campaign.
It shouldn't affect the individual's own content they purchased if implemented properly.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Greetings Everyone,
I received the answer I needed from Spamandtuna, and this discussion has diverged from the original question I asked.
Spamandtuna, can you close this thread?
I hope everyone has a great weekend :)
Cheers!
Breathe, dragons; sing of the First World, forged out of chaos and painted with beauty.
Sing of Bahamut, the Platinum, molding the shape of the mountains and rivers;
Sing too of Chromatic Tiamat, painting all over the infinite canvas.
Partnered, they woke in the darkness; partnered, they labored in acts of creation.
People are asking to be able to do that within the platform.
You are suggesting that limiting purchased content would be unfair, and yet you suggest doing that by word along rather than within the system.
Robust Campaign design within Beyond would help DMs immensely. I can set up a campaign to be ONLY Grim Hollow or ONLY Dragonlance, or I can set it to use everything. A DM shouldn't need to inspect character sheets and within a digital tool the limits shouldn't be set to "trust" especially when modern play is frequently between people who start as strangers.
Read my D&D thoughts at FullMoonStorytelling.com
You're making things up. I'm not suggesting anything of the sort. What I was actually doing was pointing out that the content toggle doesn't affect the character creator at all—useful information to have if someone is unaware.
You then made a bizarre claim that WotC is trying to force DMs to allow all content in all campaigns, which is nonsense. I then offered a retort to that absurd claim by pointing out that currently all a DM has to do is tell a player to not select that content.
I 100% agree that it'd be useful to be able to apply content toggles prescriptively for campaigns. But that's not currently the case unfortunately. However, that does not mean WotC is trying to force people to use content. That's pure bizarro land thinking.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here