I have a strange question here. If I were to buy an adventure for DnD Beyond, will the compendium material be shared with the players in the campaign or can the DM prevent that information from being shared to prevent spoilers and such.
Right now, the sharing is all-in. Devs are looking into this, to implement a selective sharing.
The partial solution I can propose you now, its to enable sharing just for the time necessary for the players to create/modify the characters, then you can disable sharing to avoid "spoliers".
I have some questions around this as well, wouldn't turning off sharing modify there characters? Would that effect play if using the electronic sheet at the table? I would really like the ability to be selective on the books or content being shared. Some groups would only be the PHB while another campgain would be PHB and Volo's Guide. Or after the adventure is over sharing the book so we can all see what was missed.
First -- best way to find out is to try. Second, I believe it was previously stated that once the character is created, nothing will be "removed' unless done so by the player or the DM (the system won't remove items/spells that were previously shared). However, after sharing is disabled you won't be able to add new pieces that are from the "shared" sources.
For example, if you don't have any purchased material, and create a character with sharing enabled that has the Chromatic Orb spell, which the DM shared with you via the PHB they purchased, then after character creation the PHB sharing is disabled you still have that spell. However you cannot add a different spell that you don't already have that's only in that PHB, such as Bigby's Hand.
I can confirm that the character sheets are untouched after sharing is disabled, but it also means that editing them by the players becomes an issue. Managing the inventory from the View Character area is fine, but you don't want to level them up with content sharing disabled.
Until such a selective sharing functionality is released, your best bet is to enable content sharing anytime they need to make a change to the character, and then disable it again. It's quite frankly a bit of a PITA.
My ideal scenario would be one where players get access to all the character creation stuff from all sources (So if a new campaign adds a background, for instance, it's tagged in their database as "player visible" or something, and that's available to them, but not the rest of the campaign stuff).
To clarify, is this an issue sharing the entirety of a book, or the entirety of a collection?
What I mean is, say I have the PHB and CoS. I want to share the PHB with my players, but don't want to share CoS. I don't want them to even know that I purchased it. Is that possible? Or does the "all-in" sharing include all books?
To clarify, is this an issue sharing the entirety of a book, or the entirety of a collection?
What I mean is, say I have the PHB and CoS. I want to share the PHB with my players, but don't want to share CoS. I don't want them to even know that I purchased it. Is that possible? Or does the "all-in" sharing include all books?
For now, the content sharing is an "all-in" of all the books purchased by DM and players.
Just to add my feedback that it's awesome we can share content with our players, but I would definitely like to have more granular control over what is shared on a campaign by campaign basis, please. :)
I think that in the most recent developer update on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/dndbeyond) BadEye said the ability for selective sharing of content was in the pipeline.
For my two cents... the only reason I am not purchasing module content in digital form is that I do not want to share these assets with the players. So...you *are losing substantial revenue by not addressing this feature request.
I have a strange question here. If I were to buy an adventure for DnD Beyond, will the compendium material be shared with the players in the campaign or can the DM prevent that information from being shared to prevent spoilers and such.
Right now, the sharing is all-in. Devs are looking into this, to implement a selective sharing.
The partial solution I can propose you now, its to enable sharing just for the time necessary for the players to create/modify the characters, then you can disable sharing to avoid "spoliers".
That can certainly work. Thank you for the advice.
I have some questions around this as well, wouldn't turning off sharing modify there characters? Would that effect play if using the electronic sheet at the table? I would really like the ability to be selective on the books or content being shared. Some groups would only be the PHB while another campgain would be PHB and Volo's Guide. Or after the adventure is over sharing the book so we can all see what was missed.
This.
What is the effect of disabling content sharing once they've created their characters? Can they level up and get non SRD spells and gear?
First -- best way to find out is to try. Second, I believe it was previously stated that once the character is created, nothing will be "removed' unless done so by the player or the DM (the system won't remove items/spells that were previously shared). However, after sharing is disabled you won't be able to add new pieces that are from the "shared" sources.
For example, if you don't have any purchased material, and create a character with sharing enabled that has the Chromatic Orb spell, which the DM shared with you via the PHB they purchased, then after character creation the PHB sharing is disabled you still have that spell. However you cannot add a different spell that you don't already have that's only in that PHB, such as Bigby's Hand.
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Thanks for the information Mehetmet.
I didn't want to risk breaking my player's character's, that's why I didn't try it myself.
I can confirm that the character sheets are untouched after sharing is disabled, but it also means that editing them by the players becomes an issue. Managing the inventory from the View Character area is fine, but you don't want to level them up with content sharing disabled.
Until such a selective sharing functionality is released, your best bet is to enable content sharing anytime they need to make a change to the character, and then disable it again. It's quite frankly a bit of a PITA.
My ideal scenario would be one where players get access to all the character creation stuff from all sources (So if a new campaign adds a background, for instance, it's tagged in their database as "player visible" or something, and that's available to them, but not the rest of the campaign stuff).
To clarify, is this an issue sharing the entirety of a book, or the entirety of a collection?
What I mean is, say I have the PHB and CoS. I want to share the PHB with my players, but don't want to share CoS. I don't want them to even know that I purchased it. Is that possible? Or does the "all-in" sharing include all books?
Just to add my feedback that it's awesome we can share content with our players, but I would definitely like to have more granular control over what is shared on a campaign by campaign basis, please. :)
I think that in the most recent developer update on Twitch (https://www.twitch.tv/dndbeyond) BadEye said the ability for selective sharing of content was in the pipeline.
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Not entirely useful raising my hand here but I believe at least a toggle of "don't share campaign modules" is an excellent quick solution here.
Hoping to see that soon.
For my two cents... the only reason I am not purchasing module content in digital form is that I do not want to share these assets with the players. So...you *are losing substantial revenue by not addressing this feature request.
Not that substantial. Also the feature has already been confirmed and BadEye went into a little detail about it in the last development review.
Glad to hear. I can't wait to stop carrying the rest of my books around!