If I DM a campaign and invite players on this site to my campaign and I purchase all the applicable books can they use them as well if they are a part of my campaign or would all 5 people all need to purchase there own copies?
If I DM a campaign and invite players on this site to my campaign and I purchase all the applicable books can they use them as well if they are a part of my campaign or would all 5 people all need to purchase there own copies?
The other campaign members can use the books you've purchased IF someone has the master tier subscription and enables sharing on this campaign.
"allows you to share all of your unlocked official content with other players within your campaigns so content does not have to be unlocked individually"
It applies to every “book” or “guide.” It does not apply to the tactical maps reincarnated.
Note that when content sharing is turned on in a campaign players can see all the compendium content (unless the DM has turned some off). They also have access to character options, but only for characters in the campaign in which content sharing has been turned on.
So I have a master Tier, and I would like to help my high school students who wish to start a DND club by sharing my resources. Can they a start a campaign that includes me, and that I share my resources to, without requiring me to actually be in the campaign? Or if I am in the campaign, is there some way to deactivate me, or can they just play as if I am not active, or does that somehow mess up the tools... I am trying to think through this. I would like to help them play and have all the tools they might want to use. Obviously, they can just use the basic free materials, but maybe down the road. A lot of my students lack $$$ and certainly lack access to credit cards.
So I have a master Tier, and I would like to help my high school students who wish to start a DND club by sharing my resources. Can they a start a campaign that includes me, and that I share my resources to, without requiring me to actually be in the campaign? Or if I am in the campaign, is there some way to deactivate me, or can they just play as if I am not active, or does that somehow mess up the tools... I am trying to think through this. I would like to help them play and have all the tools they might want to use. Obviously, they can just use the basic free materials, but maybe down the road. A lot of my students lack $$$ and certainly lack access to credit cards.
Thanks!
Mark
You can have a character of yours join and turn on content sharing. Nothing prevents them from playing when you or your character are not present/involved. The only place it makes any difference is the encounter builder and combat tracker; the DM would have access to the builder, but not (currently) the tracker if they themselves don't have a subscription. But even there it is easy to deal with. In the encounter builder, if they choose the campaign it is connected to. They can click on "manage characters" and then click the icon that looks like an eye by your character in order to ignore it in calculations and the initiative tracker.
Note: Once the combat tracker is out of alpha, it will be available to non-subscribers.
Is there any option to turn off parts of a book that players have access to? For instance in Acquisitions Inc, the player character options are in the same book as the adventure. I want to try this adventure out but do not necessarily want my players to have access to the adventures themselves.
Unfortunately not yet. It has been mentioned previously on Dev Updates as something they want to get to when they have the resources. Which is sometime in The Future (we don’t know when it will happen, and DDB usually do not give ETAs for features.)
Unfortunately not yet. It has been mentioned previously on Dev Updates as something they want to get to when they have the resources. Which is sometime in The Future (we don’t know when it will happen, and DDB usually do not give ETAs for features.)
Thanks haggis_mchaggis. I figured that would be the answer but just wanted to be sure.
Is there any option to turn off parts of a book that players have access to? For instance in Acquisitions Inc, the player character options are in the same book as the adventure. I want to try this adventure out but do not necessarily want my players to have access to the adventures themselves.
You can do this already: turning "off" a book only turns off the compendium parts (i.e. the Adventure if the book is an adventure book), not the player options,
Is there any option to turn off parts of a book that players have access to? For instance in Acquisitions Inc, the player character options are in the same book as the adventure. I want to try this adventure out but do not necessarily want my players to have access to the adventures themselves.
You can do this already: turning "off" a book only turns off the compendium parts (i.e. the Adventure if the book is an adventure book), not the player options,
That's what I was thinking.
So you can't block certain chapters, but you can block the whole book from being read without blocking character options from being used.
Is there any option to turn off parts of a book that players have access to? For instance in Acquisitions Inc, the player character options are in the same book as the adventure. I want to try this adventure out but do not necessarily want my players to have access to the adventures themselves.
You can do this already: turning "off" a book only turns off the compendium parts (i.e. the Adventure if the book is an adventure book), not the player options,
Thanks ArwensDaughter. Unfortunatley it looks like Acquisitions Inc is listed as a sourcebook and within that book, Chapter 4 is an adventure that will help your players establish an Acq Inc franchise. It doesn't appear that I can turn off just certain chapters (which is a bummer). So my players will have access to all the player options, which is good, but then I need to trust them to NOT read about the adventure or any DM specific material. Hmm, if I could add my own PDFs to my campaign then I could work something out but I have not found a way to do that or if it is even possible.
Is there any option to turn off parts of a book that players have access to? For instance in Acquisitions Inc, the player character options are in the same book as the adventure. I want to try this adventure out but do not necessarily want my players to have access to the adventures themselves.
You can do this already: turning "off" a book only turns off the compendium parts (i.e. the Adventure if the book is an adventure book), not the player options,
Thanks ArwensDaughter. Unfortunatley it looks like Acquisitions Inc is listed as a sourcebook and within that book, Chapter 4 is an adventure that will help your players establish an Acq Inc franchise. It doesn't appear that I can turn off just certain chapters (which is a bummer). So my players will have access to all the player options, which is good, but then I need to trust them to NOT read about the adventure or any DM specific material. Hmm, if I could add my own PDFs to my campaign then I could work something out but I have not found a way to do that or if it is even possible.
Even with "sourcebooks" you can turn off sharing for the book, which just turns off the compendium. So your player couldn't go to Sources>Aquisitions incorporated and see anything there if you turn it off. Not the adventure, not the other chapters. But in the character builder and in the spell listings, the could still access AI stuff.
Now, if what you are wanting is more granular control, where you could either turn off specific chapters and/or turn off specific character options, that cannot yet be done. I would love to see it, because I'd like to be able to turn off everything from AI, for example, and turn off certain but not all races from Volos.
But in the character builder and in the spell listings, the could still access AI stuff.
This is the part that (pardon my French), pisses me off. It is still mind-boggling to me that content not shared is still available in the character builder. If I, as the DM with a Master Tier invite players to a campaign with content sharing enabled, but do not share SCAG, for example, the "stuff" from SCAG should NOT be options the players can select from on their character sheets. It is beyond frustrating to have players inadvertently select character features (e.g. spells, feats, backgrounds) from sources intentionally not shared.
I purchased the annual Master Tier subscription for the last couple of years, but deliberately allowed my subscription to lapse because of this shortcoming in content sharing.
It's a shame, because I love D&D Beyond (and have purchased literally every single adventure and sourcebook except one), but regret many of those purchases because if I didn't own them, my players wouldn't have access to them in the character builder. And learning during a recent Dev update that it (enhanced content management) is not exactly on the near-term roadmap was just disheartening since I have been clamoring for it since at least 2017, so going on four years now!
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If I DM a campaign and invite players on this site to my campaign and I purchase all the applicable books can they use them as well if they are a part of my campaign or would all 5 people all need to purchase there own copies?
The other campaign members can use the books you've purchased IF someone has the master tier subscription and enables sharing on this campaign.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/subscribe
"allows you to share all of your unlocked official content with other players within your campaigns so content does not have to be unlocked individually"
Thank you, I am new to the site so I missed that, much appreciated
Sorry that I’m responding to something so old, but does that include the players handbook and other guides? Or just the campaign info?
It applies to every “book” or “guide.” It does not apply to the tactical maps reincarnated.
Note that when content sharing is turned on in a campaign players can see all the compendium content (unless the DM has turned some off). They also have access to character options, but only for characters in the campaign in which content sharing has been turned on.
Trying to Decide if DDB is for you? A few helpful threads: A Buyer's Guide to DDB; What I/We Bought and Why; How some DMs use DDB; A Newer Thread on Using DDB to Play
Helpful threads on other topics: Homebrew FAQ by IamSposta; Accessing Content by ConalTheGreat;
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So I have a master Tier, and I would like to help my high school students who wish to start a DND club by sharing my resources. Can they a start a campaign that includes me, and that I share my resources to, without requiring me to actually be in the campaign? Or if I am in the campaign, is there some way to deactivate me, or can they just play as if I am not active, or does that somehow mess up the tools... I am trying to think through this. I would like to help them play and have all the tools they might want to use. Obviously, they can just use the basic free materials, but maybe down the road. A lot of my students lack $$$ and certainly lack access to credit cards.
Thanks!
Mark
You can have a character of yours join and turn on content sharing. Nothing prevents them from playing when you or your character are not present/involved. The only place it makes any difference is the encounter builder and combat tracker; the DM would have access to the builder, but not (currently) the tracker if they themselves don't have a subscription. But even there it is easy to deal with. In the encounter builder, if they choose the campaign it is connected to. They can click on "manage characters" and then click the icon that looks like an eye by your character in order to ignore it in calculations and the initiative tracker.
Note: Once the combat tracker is out of alpha, it will be available to non-subscribers.
Trying to Decide if DDB is for you? A few helpful threads: A Buyer's Guide to DDB; What I/We Bought and Why; How some DMs use DDB; A Newer Thread on Using DDB to Play
Helpful threads on other topics: Homebrew FAQ by IamSposta; Accessing Content by ConalTheGreat;
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Is there any option to turn off parts of a book that players have access to? For instance in Acquisitions Inc, the player character options are in the same book as the adventure. I want to try this adventure out but do not necessarily want my players to have access to the adventures themselves.
Hello there Menium_Greystar,
Unfortunately not yet. It has been mentioned previously on Dev Updates as something they want to get to when they have the resources. Which is sometime in The Future (we don’t know when it will happen, and DDB usually do not give ETAs for features.)
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Thanks haggis_mchaggis. I figured that would be the answer but just wanted to be sure.
You can do this already: turning "off" a book only turns off the compendium parts (i.e. the Adventure if the book is an adventure book), not the player options,
Trying to Decide if DDB is for you? A few helpful threads: A Buyer's Guide to DDB; What I/We Bought and Why; How some DMs use DDB; A Newer Thread on Using DDB to Play
Helpful threads on other topics: Homebrew FAQ by IamSposta; Accessing Content by ConalTheGreat;
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That's what I was thinking.
So you can't block certain chapters, but you can block the whole book from being read without blocking character options from being used.
Thanks ArwensDaughter. Unfortunatley it looks like Acquisitions Inc is listed as a sourcebook and within that book, Chapter 4 is an adventure that will help your players establish an Acq Inc franchise. It doesn't appear that I can turn off just certain chapters (which is a bummer). So my players will have access to all the player options, which is good, but then I need to trust them to NOT read about the adventure or any DM specific material. Hmm, if I could add my own PDFs to my campaign then I could work something out but I have not found a way to do that or if it is even possible.
Even with "sourcebooks" you can turn off sharing for the book, which just turns off the compendium. So your player couldn't go to Sources>Aquisitions incorporated and see anything there if you turn it off. Not the adventure, not the other chapters. But in the character builder and in the spell listings, the could still access AI stuff.
Now, if what you are wanting is more granular control, where you could either turn off specific chapters and/or turn off specific character options, that cannot yet be done. I would love to see it, because I'd like to be able to turn off everything from AI, for example, and turn off certain but not all races from Volos.
Trying to Decide if DDB is for you? A few helpful threads: A Buyer's Guide to DDB; What I/We Bought and Why; How some DMs use DDB; A Newer Thread on Using DDB to Play
Helpful threads on other topics: Homebrew FAQ by IamSposta; Accessing Content by ConalTheGreat;
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ArwensDaughter - really? excellent I will take a look at that and see. I appreciate the insight!
that's my understanding. it's hard for me to test without help from one of my players to verify, but that is how I have understood it to work.
Trying to Decide if DDB is for you? A few helpful threads: A Buyer's Guide to DDB; What I/We Bought and Why; How some DMs use DDB; A Newer Thread on Using DDB to Play
Helpful threads on other topics: Homebrew FAQ by IamSposta; Accessing Content by ConalTheGreat;
Check your entitlements here. | Support Ticket LInk
This is the part that (pardon my French), pisses me off. It is still mind-boggling to me that content not shared is still available in the character builder. If I, as the DM with a Master Tier invite players to a campaign with content sharing enabled, but do not share SCAG, for example, the "stuff" from SCAG should NOT be options the players can select from on their character sheets. It is beyond frustrating to have players inadvertently select character features (e.g. spells, feats, backgrounds) from sources intentionally not shared.
I purchased the annual Master Tier subscription for the last couple of years, but deliberately allowed my subscription to lapse because of this shortcoming in content sharing.
It's a shame, because I love D&D Beyond (and have purchased literally every single adventure and sourcebook except one), but regret many of those purchases because if I didn't own them, my players wouldn't have access to them in the character builder. And learning during a recent Dev update that it (enhanced content management) is not exactly on the near-term roadmap was just disheartening since I have been clamoring for it since at least 2017, so going on four years now!