I am trying to change my friend's cantrip. This is my first time running a campaign and my friend sent me a High elf rouge character who has a cantrip slot. I have access to Tasha's Cauldron of Everything and so should be able to select the Booming blade cantrip which he wants to select. However, I am not getting this option. Can anyone help?
For some reason, I think buying Tasha’s on DnD Beyond doesn’t actually let you own Booming Blade/GFB, despite it being in the book. This has to do with it originally being in Sword Coast Adventure guide. I might be wrong, however.
One thing you can do though, because you can view the contents of the book, is go the details for the spell and create it as your own Homebrew. This is allowed by DnD Beyond’s rules as long as you don’t try to publish it. However, you and anybody in your campaigns will be able to use it as long as they have the Homebrew slider on, even if you don’t publish it, so it’s pretty great.
I am trying to change my friend's cantrip. This is my first time running a campaign and my friend sent me a High elf rouge character who has a cantrip slot. I have access to Tasha's Cauldron of Everything and so should be able to select the Booming blade cantrip which he wants to select. However, I am not getting this option. Can anyone help?
As all options from Tasha's are optional, your friend has to enable 'Optional Class Features' in the home tab of the character editor. Then they should be able to choose the cantrip.
As mentioned above re activating the optionals. If you are the dm you can also do it for them. The actual spell though can only be changed in the character builder because it is a racial ability. You can’t change it in the manage spells tab when looking at the sheet.
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I am trying to change my friend's cantrip. This is my first time running a campaign and my friend sent me a High elf rouge character who has a cantrip slot. I have access to Tasha's Cauldron of Everything and so should be able to select the Booming blade cantrip which he wants to select. However, I am not getting this option. Can anyone help?
For some reason, I think buying Tasha’s on DnD Beyond doesn’t actually let you own Booming Blade/GFB, despite it being in the book. This has to do with it originally being in Sword Coast Adventure guide. I might be wrong, however.
One thing you can do though, because you can view the contents of the book, is go the details for the spell and create it as your own Homebrew. This is allowed by DnD Beyond’s rules as long as you don’t try to publish it. However, you and anybody in your campaigns will be able to use it as long as they have the Homebrew slider on, even if you don’t publish it, so it’s pretty great.
Official stance on recreating official content: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/general-discussion/49072-recreating-offical-content-as-homebrew
As all options from Tasha's are optional, your friend has to enable 'Optional Class Features' in the home tab of the character editor. Then they should be able to choose the cantrip.
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/bugs-support/87774-tashas-cauldron-of-everything-issues-and-support?comment=1
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As mentioned above re activating the optionals. If you are the dm you can also do it for them. The actual spell though can only be changed in the character builder because it is a racial ability. You can’t change it in the manage spells tab when looking at the sheet.