Hello Guys, I'm kinda new at buying books as a master on a campaign that I'm starting, and it was my understading that I could share the books that I buy with the players that enter my campaign, am I right or do they have to buy it themselves in order to see what they need?
If you have the master tier subscription, you can enable sharing of any books in your digital library but toggling the "content sharing" switch I think on the upper right of the campaign dashboard. You can then actually choose all or only specific books. At this time, you can only do whole books, there isn't a a way to limit player access to specifics parts of the books like blocking certain spells, subclasses, and the like. It would be cool if you could though.
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To add to (and amend) what MidnightPlat wrote, you don’t need to be the actual DM to enable content sharing, you can even donit as a player as long as you have a Master Tier Sub. And it doesn’t only share your purchased content, it shares all content that has been purchased by anyone in the campaign with the entire campaign. So if you have the Core 3, and three other people each have one other book (like one has Xanathar’s, another has Volo’s, and the third has Tasha’s for example) then all of those books will be shared with the entire campaign.
However, once Content Sharing has been enabled, only the DM can select compendiums to not get shared. But that only restricts access to read the actual compendiums, all of the players’ options (like subclasses etc.) in those books will still be selectable on character sheets within that campaign. Those are two bummers.
But to finish on another high note, all homebrewed content in everyone’s collections is automatically shared within campaigns, no subscription required whatsoever.
Hello Guys, I'm kinda new at buying books as a master on a campaign that I'm starting, and it was my understading that I could share the books that I buy with the players that enter my campaign, am I right or do they have to buy it themselves in order to see what they need?
If you have the master tier subscription, you can enable sharing of any books in your digital library but toggling the "content sharing" switch I think on the upper right of the campaign dashboard. You can then actually choose all or only specific books. At this time, you can only do whole books, there isn't a a way to limit player access to specifics parts of the books like blocking certain spells, subclasses, and the like. It would be cool if you could though.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
To add to (and amend) what MidnightPlat wrote, you don’t need to be the actual DM to enable content sharing, you can even donit as a player as long as you have a Master Tier Sub. And it doesn’t only share your purchased content, it shares all content that has been purchased by anyone in the campaign with the entire campaign. So if you have the Core 3, and three other people each have one other book (like one has Xanathar’s, another has Volo’s, and the third has Tasha’s for example) then all of those books will be shared with the entire campaign.
However, once Content Sharing has been enabled, only the DM can select compendiums to not get shared. But that only restricts access to read the actual compendiums, all of the players’ options (like subclasses etc.) in those books will still be selectable on character sheets within that campaign. Those are two bummers.
But to finish on another high note, all homebrewed content in everyone’s collections is automatically shared within campaigns, no subscription required whatsoever.
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