A Homebrewers’ “How-To” FAQ*

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What am I doing wrong if my item is not "equipable," as in there isn't that little check box, but just a dash?

Only some types of items can be equipped with that checkbox. Which type is your item?

It's a cloak. I used the cloak of protection as a template, because plus 1 to AC is part of it's properties. So I believe it was already marked as "item" from the dropdown, as opposed to "armor." Should it be armor instead?

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It's a cloak. I used the cloak of protection as a template, because plus 1 to AC is part of it's properties. So I believe it was already marked as "item" from the dropdown, as opposed to "armor." Should it be armor instead?

 Yes, I just converted a weapon into armor, saved, refreshed and went back in and as armor, I was able to equip it. 

Shoot. I deleted it from my inventory, and now it won't come back when I search for it. I can still see it in my homebrew items, just not when I search. I'm frickin hopeless.

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Shoot. I deleted it from my inventory, and now it won't come back when I search for it. I can still see it in my homebrew items, just not when I search. I'm frickin hopeless.

You may have removed it from your homebrew "collection". If you add it back, you should see it in the character builder again.

Turn on homebrew under that character. It's wild that homebrew base weapon under 5.5e ruling shows up under 5e. 

It's still in my homebrew collection. Here's a question. Do items have to be "published" before they can be equipped? I noticed another item that I made awhile back doesn't come up when I search for it on the manage inventory part of my character sheet.

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It's still in my homebrew collection. Here's a question. Do items have to be "published" before they can be equipped? I noticed another item that I made awhile back doesn't come up when I search for it on the manage inventory part of my character sheet.

No, you should not need to publish it to use it yourself. "Publishing" is making it available for other users outside of your campaigns to use.

Just to double-check, if you go here, you see the item you're looking for in the list?

This was not selected, though it wasnt' when I first added this to my page a few weeks ago, so maybe that's a new change. But even when I click on that, it doesn't appear. Not only that, homebrew doesn't appear as a source category I can use to filter items. I clicked all the other ones, and they are visible as source categories.

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Quote from TheGrimshaw >>

It's still in my homebrew collection. Here's a question. Do items have to be "published" before they can be equipped? I noticed another item that I made awhile back doesn't come up when I search for it on the manage inventory part of my character sheet.

No, you should not need to publish it to use it yourself. "Publishing" is making it available for other users outside of your campaigns to use.

Just to double-check, if you go here, you see the item you're looking for in the list?

 Yes, I do see it there.

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Turn on homebrew under that character. It's wild that homebrew base weapon under 5.5e ruling shows up under 5e. 

 This was not selected, though it wasnt' when I first added this to my page a few weeks ago, so maybe that's a new change. But even when I click on that, it doesn't appear. Not only that, homebrew doesn't appear as a source category I can use to filter items. I clicked all the other ones, and they are visible as source categories.

I don't know when, I don't know how, but somehow it just appeared when I searched for it, and now I can equip it and attune to it and it works. 

I'm trying to create a homebrew magic weapon but it is not allowing me to select damage dice, wants me to pick a base weapon, and then adds text that I can't see from that base weapon. Is there something going on with the creator?

Is there something going on with the creator? I'm not able to create a magic item from scratch with adding what damage dice it does. I must select a base weapon. and then it adds all of the base weapon text to what I wrote.

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Is there something going on with the creator? I'm not able to create a magic item from scratch with adding what damage dice it does. I must select a base weapon. and then it adds all of the base weapon text to what I wrote.

That's how it works. What is it you're looking for it to do?

It never used to put the original text and it used to let you adjust the damage dice.

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It never used to put the original text and it used to let you adjust the damage dice.

That's never been the case with this tool as far as I know. People have been asking for the ability to change the damage dice on magic weapons (or make homebrew base weapons, which amounts to the same thing) for many years.

You can do that with a custom action on the character sheet; maybe that's what you're thinking of?

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It never used to put the original text and it used to let you adjust the damage dice.

 
You are incorrect in both cases. Maybe you're misremembering or maybe, as waggnarokkr suggests you're confusing it with custom actions.

The homebrew tool for magic items has always included the base weapon's original text and has never allowed you to change the base damage dice.

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Quote from Mwchris583 >>

It never used to put the original text and it used to let you adjust the damage dice.

 
You are incorrect in both cases. Maybe you're misremembering or maybe, as waggnarokkr suggests you're confusing it with custom actions.

The homebrew tool for magic items has always included the base weapon's original text and has never allowed you to change the base damage dice.

I can confirm this as I was frustrated by this in the past.  

Is there a way to simply add spells to a spell list? Not to automatically be usable, but to become available to choose? Similar to how a Warlock's expanded spell list works?