What sort of protections are there for people who have published on the DMs guild? It seems like anyone will be able to take homebrew from there and publish it here for anyone with a subscription.
What sort of protections are there for people who have published on the DMs guild? It seems like anyone will be able to take homebrew from there and publish it here for anyone with a subscription.
Hi there JJ_Ellis,
this is something that we discussed in some depth actually.
Homebrew content created by others. You may not add public homebrew, that has been created by other people, to D&D beyond, unless you have their permission to do so (e.g. content from other websites).
Every piece of homebrew that a user publishes has to go through moderation first and it's a manual moderation process, where the moderators do their best to check each submission doesn't break the rules.
If we're aware that a submission is work that is available on another site, we'll reject it on that basis, or contact the submitter to request they evidence that they are the content owner (depends on circumstance).
We can't guarantee that we'll catch everything and I am pretty sure we won't.
So the fallback is reporting.
If someone spots homebrew content on D&D Beyond that they don't believe should be there, they can make a report and a moderator will review the content. If it is a match for content taken from another site, then we'll remove it from public view.
Along a similar line to that asked by JJ_Ellis, what happens if two people develop very similar pieces of homebrew separately, as what happened with Calculus, and try and publish them?
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Along a similar line to that asked by JJ_Ellis, what happens if two people develop very similar pieces of homebrew separately, as what happened with Calculus, and try and publish them?
Hi Tyriuth,
in that case, as long as both homebrew submissions adhered to the homebrew rules & guidelines, they would both be accepted.
We have a team of moderators who are responsible for keeping the forums in order and homebrew moderation, so there's a good chance that each of those homebrew submissions would be reviewed by a different moderator, with no knowledge of the other homebrew.
Homebrew magic items I see can contain spells (I recently created a ring of the cant homebrew item that allows wearer to cast disguise self and message spells) which was approved but then I went to create a new version of the ring with disguise self and a homebrew spell whispering wind (which I also created that was approved as a homebrew spell) it does not appear in the spell list to select. So homebrew spells cannot be used in homebrew items or I am missing something or the spell was so newly approved it just didn't appear in the dropdown spell list yet when I went to make a new version of the ring???
Homebrew magic items I see can contain spells (I recently created a ring of the cant homebrew item that allows wearer to cast disguise self and message spells) which was approved but then I went to create a new version of the ring with disguise self and a homebrew spell whispering wind (which I also created that was approved as a homebrew spell) it does not appear in the spell list to select. So homebrew spells cannot be used in homebrew items or I am missing something or the spell was so newly approved it just didn't appear in the dropdown spell list yet when I went to make a new version of the ring???
If you are referring to the Tooltips - we currently do not support tooltipping for Homebrew. Staff are looking at ways to add that functionality in after launch.
Homebrew magic items I see can contain spells (I recently created a ring of the cant homebrew item that allows wearer to cast disguise self and message spells) which was approved but then I went to create a new version of the ring with disguise self and a homebrew spell whispering wind (which I also created that was approved as a homebrew spell) it does not appear in the spell list to select. So homebrew spells cannot be used in homebrew items or I am missing something or the spell was so newly approved it just didn't appear in the dropdown spell list yet when I went to make a new version of the ring???
If you are referring to the Tooltips - we currently do not support tooltipping for Homebrew. Staff are looking at ways to add that functionality in after launch.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about adding homebrew spells to homebrew items.
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Homebrew magic items I see can contain spells (I recently created a ring of the cant homebrew item that allows wearer to cast disguise self and message spells) which was approved but then I went to create a new version of the ring with disguise self and a homebrew spell whispering wind (which I also created that was approved as a homebrew spell) it does not appear in the spell list to select. So homebrew spells cannot be used in homebrew items or I am missing something or the spell was so newly approved it just didn't appear in the dropdown spell list yet when I went to make a new version of the ring???
If you are referring to the Tooltips - we currently do not support tooltipping for Homebrew. Staff are looking at ways to add that functionality in after launch.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about adding homebrew spells to homebrew items.
Yes that's it exactly Matthais, thank you. First I heard term Tooltips and tried to look over other posts with them and just get the impression what I am wanting might fall under that but just not sure if it was a bug or something yet to come or just not permitted either way I will look for a work around to what I am trying to do.
Q: Will I be able to homebrew RACES/SUBRACES or CLASS? A: For now, homebrew is limited to Monsters, Spells & Magical Items. The staff development team are continuing to work to bring more content and tools to D&D Beyond and expansion of Homebrew is part of that. It has been confirmed that Races & Sub-classes will be included in the future.
Is there any context of timing for the ability to homebrew Races/sub-races, Classes/sub-classes? Right now this is the main thing I am waiting for so that I can get my group leveraging the platform. Often enough a player will want to have a variant of an existing class, or leverage a UA class, and I need to ultimately tweak it further to fit within our campaign. I suspect the tools already exist, since the classes, and races that come with the books will have to be generated from somewhere, but I haven't seen a lot of details surrounding the timing.
Is there any context of timing for the ability to homebrew Races/sub-races, Classes/sub-classes? Right now this is the main thing I am waiting for so that I can get my group leveraging the platform. Often enough a player will want to have a variant of an existing class, or leverage a UA class, and I need to ultimately tweak it further to fit within our campaign. I suspect the tools already exist, since the classes, and races that come with the books will have to be generated from somewhere, but I haven't seen a lot of details surrounding the timing.
It will be one of the improvements being made after launch - I don't have a date.
Staff have also confirmed that there will be a formal mechanism for using Unearthed Arcana playtest rules as well at some point in the future.
I know that this is a fair amount of, "in the future" but the staff are committed to continuing to add features, further increasing the usefulness of D&D Beyond.
Homebrew magic items I see can contain spells (I recently created a ring of the cant homebrew item that allows wearer to cast disguise self and message spells) which was approved but then I went to create a new version of the ring with disguise self and a homebrew spell whispering wind (which I also created that was approved as a homebrew spell) it does not appear in the spell list to select. So homebrew spells cannot be used in homebrew items or I am missing something or the spell was so newly approved it just didn't appear in the dropdown spell list yet when I went to make a new version of the ring???
If you are referring to the Tooltips - we currently do not support tooltipping for Homebrew. Staff are looking at ways to add that functionality in after launch.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about adding homebrew spells to homebrew items.
Yes that's it exactly Matthais, thank you. First I heard term Tooltips and tried to look over other posts with them and just get the impression what I am wanting might fall under that but just not sure if it was a bug or something yet to come or just not permitted either way I will look for a work around to what I am trying to do.
Ahhh, so short answer is No - it's not available and staff will be looking at improved functionality later.
Looking at the approved Homebrew Item currently - https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/13534-ring-of-the-cant - I can't see any descriptive text that talks about the spells, that's usually where you'd have the tool tips to the non-homebrew spells so someone reading the item knows what it is capable of doing. I can see you've added the spells into the item's properties (someone browsing homebrew wouldnt see these spell abilities until they added the item to their character, which I'd say may not sit well with some DMs if they didn't check this themselves). For now homebrew cant be tooltipped OR added in as properties, however staff will be looking at ways in order to achieve some of this later.
Homebrew magic items I see can contain spells (I recently created a ring of the cant homebrew item that allows wearer to cast disguise self and message spells) which was approved but then I went to create a new version of the ring with disguise self and a homebrew spell whispering wind (which I also created that was approved as a homebrew spell) it does not appear in the spell list to select. So homebrew spells cannot be used in homebrew items or I am missing something or the spell was so newly approved it just didn't appear in the dropdown spell list yet when I went to make a new version of the ring???
If you are referring to the Tooltips - we currently do not support tooltipping for Homebrew. Staff are looking at ways to add that functionality in after launch.
I'm pretty sure he's talking about adding homebrew spells to homebrew items.
Yes that's it exactly Matthais, thank you. First I heard term Tooltips and tried to look over other posts with them and just get the impression what I am wanting might fall under that but just not sure if it was a bug or something yet to come or just not permitted either way I will look for a work around to what I am trying to do.
Ahhh, so short answer is No - it's not available and staff will be looking at improved functionality later.
Looking at the approved Homebrew Item currently - https://www.dndbeyond.com/magic-items/13534-ring-of-the-cant - I can't see any descriptive text that talks about the spells, that's usually where you'd have the tool tips to the non-homebrew spells so someone reading the item knows what it is capable of doing. I can see you've added the spells into the item's properties (someone browsing homebrew wouldnt see these spell abilities until they added the item to their character, which I'd say may not sit well with some DMs if they didn't check this themselves). For now homebrew cant be tooltipped OR added in as properties, however staff will be looking at ways in order to achieve some of this later.
Yes my first time doing that I thought selecting the spells would also add them below the basic description but it didn't do that when I looked at the approved item. So I attached the item and could see the spells attached listed there. That was version 1.1 of the item I corrected my mistake in version 2.0 of the time with the spells also listed in the description and resubmitted for approval which i am has yet to come through. To me it just wasn't clear the the spells should have been also listed in the description area... live and learn I guess. Thanks for the clarification I have a much better handle on how the homebrew works now and what it can and cannot do.
Yes my first time doing that I thought selecting the spells would also add them below the basic description but it didn't do that when I looked at the approved item. So I attached the item and could see the spells attached listed there. That was version 1.1 of the item I corrected my mistake in version 2.0 of the time with the spells also listed in the description and resubmitted for approval which i am has yet to come through. To me it just wasn't clear the the spells should have been also listed in the description area... live and learn I guess. Thanks for the clarification I have a much better handle on how the homebrew works now and what it can and cannot do.
Think of the description as the information you would see for an item in the DMG, or a spell in the PHB - you need all the information listed there so the DM or the PC is able to use the content. The properties are back of house and are used to make the content integrate and work in certain ways on Beyond. This means that when you have the spells listed on an item in the spells properties section, you'll see them to be used linked to the item on a character sheet for the character that has that item equipped/attuned.
Technically you could ignore all the back of house properties when creating Homebrew, but when the homebrew is added to a character, the item/spell would not integrate properly and have incorrect displays within the character sheet. Once voting/commenting is added for homebrew, creators who have ignored the back of house properties would see less votes for their work (we assume - who knows how people on the interwebz will react).
Yes my first time doing that I thought selecting the spells would also add them below the basic description but it didn't do that when I looked at the approved item. So I attached the item and could see the spells attached listed there. That was version 1.1 of the item I corrected my mistake in version 2.0 of the time with the spells also listed in the description and resubmitted for approval which i am has yet to come through. To me it just wasn't clear the the spells should have been also listed in the description area... live and learn I guess. Thanks for the clarification I have a much better handle on how the homebrew works now and what it can and cannot do.
Think of the description as the information you would see for an item in the DMG, or a spell in the PHB - you need all the information listed there so the DM or the PC is able to use the content. The properties are back of house and are used to make the content integrate and work in certain ways on Beyond. This means that when you have the spells listed on an item in the spells properties section, you'll see them to be used linked to the item on a character sheet for the character that has that item equipped/attuned.
Technically you could ignore all the back of house properties when creating Homebrew, but when the homebrew is added to a character, the item/spell would not integrate properly and have incorrect displays within the character sheet. Once voting/commenting is added for homebrew, creators who have ignored the back of house properties would see less votes for their work (we assume - who knows how people on the interwebz will react).
Quick question: I've created some homebrew spells that are in my campaign, but I did not publish them. Should my players be able to search for them? Neither they nor I could see them using the global search tool. I added them to one of my players' character sheet manually, and he could see it on his sheet. Is there something I am doing wrong?
Quick question: I've created some homebrew spells that are in my campaign, but I did not publish them. Should my players be able to search for them? Neither they nor I could see them using the global search tool. I added them to one of my players' character sheet manually, and he could see it on his sheet. Is there something I am doing wrong?
Private homebrew will not be available in Global Search. You would always have to navigate to those at your homebrew/creations on the site.
Any PC's in your campaign should see them in the list of spells that they can add on their character sheet in the Add Spells option.
What sort of protections are there for people who have published on the DMs guild? It seems like anyone will be able to take homebrew from there and publish it here for anyone with a subscription.
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Along a similar line to that asked by JJ_Ellis, what happens if two people develop very similar pieces of homebrew separately, as what happened with Calculus, and try and publish them?
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Thanks, I'm glad it's on the radar, and honestly, there's not much more you can do than that.
How about if we try to add homebrew that is free for use, such as some of Matt Mercier's stuff?
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Homebrew magic items I see can contain spells (I recently created a ring of the cant homebrew item that allows wearer to cast disguise self and message spells) which was approved but then I went to create a new version of the ring with disguise self and a homebrew spell whispering wind (which I also created that was approved as a homebrew spell) it does not appear in the spell list to select. So homebrew spells cannot be used in homebrew items or I am missing something or the spell was so newly approved it just didn't appear in the dropdown spell list yet when I went to make a new version of the ring???
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Quick question: I've created some homebrew spells that are in my campaign, but I did not publish them. Should my players be able to search for them? Neither they nor I could see them using the global search tool. I added them to one of my players' character sheet manually, and he could see it on his sheet. Is there something I am doing wrong?
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