I'm a relatively new player to DnD. Recently, my friends and I have started a campaign together here in dnd beyond. For a more diverse experience (and because certain subclasses fit our characters much more), I have bought the player's handbook to unlock the 3 other subclasses in each class. The subclasses appear in my screen, but for some reason my friends can't see it. I swear I have seen somewhere in the internet that if just one person buys it, the whole campaign gets access to it. I really hop that's true, and it'd be a pity if we'd have to pay 30~50 bucks each just for a better experience. (I'm a player so maybe that's why? maybe the dm has to buy it?) Please tell me what I'm doing wrong here or if it's just wotc being greedy. Sorry for the terrible writing, I just woke up and I haven't had my cup of coffee. Thank you.
If someone in a campaign owns a book, it can be shared across the entire campaign. There are a couple places, however, that you can find points of failure that might result in your problems. I think the below are the big ones I see most often:
1. To share content, someone needs to have a Master Tier subscription in the campaign. This need not be the DM, but it must be one player.
2. Content sharing must be turned on for the campaign.
3. Players must enable the content on their character sheet (DM can also edit character sheets). Core Content has to be enabled.
4. The player receiving shared content must be making a character within the campaign - they cannot do it through the "my characters" page.
thank you for your response. what happens if I make the subscription, my friends select their wanted subclasses, and then I unsubscribe? Would they still remain as their chosen subclasses or would they be forced to change into the free one?
thank you for your response. what happens if I make the subscription, my friends select their wanted subclasses, and then I unsubscribe? Would they still remain as their chosen subclasses or would they be forced to change into the free one?
I believe they would keep it, but they would not be able to level up.
What they won't be able to do is add new stuff like spells that come from content sharing. If they ever remove the subclass, they won't be able to add them to add it again or add a Multi class using anything they haven't bought for themselves.
Most stuff is easy enough to just add to their character as DM. I do that anyway for magic items, and things like subclasses, it's rare that they add those so it's not too bad. The issue will be Spellcasters because they add spells somewhat regularly and particularly ones like Druids that can choose each day, it's too much work if they do actually change each day. However, the free spells may be enough for them.
So it's viable. The Spellcasters just have to be happy with the free spells, that's all.
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What they won't be able to do is add new stuff like spells that come from content sharing. If they ever remove the subclass, they won't be able to add them to add it again or add a Multi class using anything they haven't bought for themselves.
It's not quite that simple unfortunately. If there's spells granted by a subclass feature they may disappear if the content is no longer shared.
It may not affect all classes, but one of my players had an aberrant mind sorcerer which has the 1st level feature "Psionic Spells", which adds a few spells per spell level to your known spells. They own none of the books and were sharing the PHB and TCE under my subscription. When I cancelled my subscription the PHB and TCE spells from that feature disappeared from his sheet, leaving only the couple that are in the basic/free rules. This is despite them still having access to PHB\TCE spells that they picked during level up.
I reported it as a bug on Discord, as DDB do claim that existing characters are unaffected when sharing ends, but was told that this was "working as intended".
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I'm a relatively new player to DnD.
Recently, my friends and I have started a campaign together here in dnd beyond.
For a more diverse experience (and because certain subclasses fit our characters much more), I have bought the player's handbook to unlock the 3 other subclasses in each class.
The subclasses appear in my screen, but for some reason my friends can't see it. I swear I have seen somewhere in the internet that if just one person buys it, the whole campaign gets access to it. I really hop that's true, and it'd be a pity if we'd have to pay 30~50 bucks each just for a better experience. (I'm a player so maybe that's why? maybe the dm has to buy it?)
Please tell me what I'm doing wrong here or if it's just wotc being greedy.
Sorry for the terrible writing, I just woke up and I haven't had my cup of coffee.
Thank you.
Did your DM switch on “share content”?
If someone in a campaign owns a book, it can be shared across the entire campaign. There are a couple places, however, that you can find points of failure that might result in your problems. I think the below are the big ones I see most often:
1. To share content, someone needs to have a Master Tier subscription in the campaign. This need not be the DM, but it must be one player.
2. Content sharing must be turned on for the campaign.
3. Players must enable the content on their character sheet (DM can also edit character sheets). Core Content has to be enabled.
4. The player receiving shared content must be making a character within the campaign - they cannot do it through the "my characters" page.
thank you for your response.
what happens if I make the subscription, my friends select their wanted subclasses, and then I unsubscribe?
Would they still remain as their chosen subclasses or would they be forced to change into the free one?
I believe they would keep it, but they would not be able to level up.
They can level up normally.
What they won't be able to do is add new stuff like spells that come from content sharing. If they ever remove the subclass, they won't be able to add them to add it again or add a Multi class using anything they haven't bought for themselves.
Most stuff is easy enough to just add to their character as DM. I do that anyway for magic items, and things like subclasses, it's rare that they add those so it's not too bad. The issue will be Spellcasters because they add spells somewhat regularly and particularly ones like Druids that can choose each day, it's too much work if they do actually change each day. However, the free spells may be enough for them.
So it's viable. The Spellcasters just have to be happy with the free spells, that's all.
If you're not willing or able to to discuss in good faith, then don't be surprised if I don't respond, there are better things in life for me to do than humour you. This signature is that response.
It's not quite that simple unfortunately. If there's spells granted by a subclass feature they may disappear if the content is no longer shared.
It may not affect all classes, but one of my players had an aberrant mind sorcerer which has the 1st level feature "Psionic Spells", which adds a few spells per spell level to your known spells. They own none of the books and were sharing the PHB and TCE under my subscription. When I cancelled my subscription the PHB and TCE spells from that feature disappeared from his sheet, leaving only the couple that are in the basic/free rules. This is despite them still having access to PHB\TCE spells that they picked during level up.
I reported it as a bug on Discord, as DDB do claim that existing characters are unaffected when sharing ends, but was told that this was "working as intended".