I would like to use D&D Beyond to have all my players add their character sheets to my campaign so that I as the DM can view their character sheets and I can share my D&D Beyond content with them. Unfortunately, however, players are able to view all other players' character sheets.
Is there any to prevent players in the in the same campaign from view other players' character sheets?
currently this isn't possible - it may be added when staff implement granular permissions.
You could ask them not to look at each other's sheets?
It's worth noting that when another player views a character they cannot see the DESCRIPTION tab and the information underneath that - Background / Traits / Ideals / Bonds / Flaws etc.
Set the character privacy to Private and the only persons who can see the sheet is the GM and player, no one else. They will still be able to view the thunmbnail in the campaign which has the race and classes listed on it though.
While the "private" feature prevents other characters from seeing your sheet, it does not prevent them from seeing your level, race and class, which can completely ruin a story if your background is based on this.
In these cases, the only workaround that I have found is to create individual campaigns for each character and title them thusly. For instance, if my campaign is called "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant" for instance, I would have "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant-Character A", "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant-Character B", "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant Character C" and so-on, just so everyone could benefit from my content services, without being able to see each other's information.
While the "private" feature prevents other characters from seeing your sheet, it does not prevent them from seeing your level, race and class, which can completely ruin a story if your background is based on this.
In these cases, the only workaround that I have found is to create individual campaigns for each character and title them thusly. For instance, if my campaign is called "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant" for instance, I would have "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant-Character A", "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant-Character B", "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant Character C" and so-on, just so everyone could benefit from my content services, without being able to see each other's information.
The only problem with this is that DDB only lets you share content with a limited number of campaigns.
While the "private" feature prevents other characters from seeing your sheet, it does not prevent them from seeing your level, race and class, which can completely ruin a story if your background is based on this.
In these cases, the only workaround that I have found is to create individual campaigns for each character and title them thusly. For instance, if my campaign is called "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant" for instance, I would have "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant-Character A", "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant-Character B", "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant Character C" and so-on, just so everyone could benefit from my content services, without being able to see each other's information.
The only problem with this is that DDB only lets you share content with a limited number of campaigns.
Yes and no.
One player can only actively enable content sharing on a fixed number of campaigns, that is correct.
But the person who owns the content does not have to be the person who enables content sharing. Anyone in any campaign can use one of their Content Sharing Slots, and every book purchased chases by any of the people in that campaign will automatically get shared. As long as someone in that campaign enables sharing, a person could conceivably share their content with an infinite number of campaigns.
As long as they have a Master Tier sub, and they enable sharing, then everyone in that campaign can use everyone’s everything. But only in that campaign, nowhere else.
While the "private" feature prevents other characters from seeing your sheet, it does not prevent them from seeing your level, race and class, which can completely ruin a story if your background is based on this.
Under what circumstances would you need to be so secretive from the party?
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While the "private" feature prevents other characters from seeing your sheet, it does not prevent them from seeing your level, race and class, which can completely ruin a story if your background is based on this.
Under what circumstances would you need to be so secretive from the party?
Changelings, Half-elves with minimal Elven features, or any character that completely covers with a mask or helmet, maybe.
I'm about to start a campaign where one of my players wants to play a cursed human who slowly turns into a Kenku (raven in this case). She took Kenku as her race to get all the proper stats, but now the other players can see that on her sheet. We were working on her character together, and we thought it would be so much fun to slowly but surely reveal her curse to the other players, but oh well.
No issue with D&DBeyond though. This game has infinite possibilities, so there's always going to be something they need to retrofit and fix. Hopefully, they come up with a privacy setting in the future that just shows a super simple character thumbnail; character name, player name, and level, that's it.
Yes, I think a lot of people have this idea that a secretive character requires that the players all be tricked. I've seen this fall flat many times - generally because it turns out that the whole table doesn't see the changeling (or whoever it is) to be the main character of the story so their eventual reveal isn't all that earth-shattering.
What you're actually doing there is denying those other players the chance to roleplay their characters. It can actually be a lot of fun when the whole table knows what the changeling is but everyone is roleplaying characters that don't. Now you're all in on it. That is how collaborative storytelling works.
I can totally see your perspective, but I'm trying to respect the wishes of my player who wants the big reveal later. And yes, it's of course for a Changeling. But she's going to try and tell the party that she's just using spells to change her appearance for a while. Either way, just wanted to see if the issue had been addressed in the time since this thread was last updated.
And while I have a theatre background and truly value collaborative art forms, meta-gaming is a thing, and those who are more casual players, are much more susceptible to the temptations there provided. I believe the choice of what a player wishes to reveal should be respected if they feel it will help them feel more comfortable and get a more enjoyable experience out of it.
The best thing they can do currently is to make a homebrewed race using the Changeling as a Template and change the name of it to whatever they are pretending to be, and then set their character sheet to Private. It will only display PC name that they enter (whatever they enter doesn’t actually have to be the PC’s real name if they wish to hide it), whatever race they are pretending to be, class(es) & subclass(es), and whatever alignment they list (even if it’s not their real alignment). That’s at least what everyone else does for their Changeling PCs.
I would like to use D&D Beyond to have all my players add their character sheets to my campaign so that I as the DM can view their character sheets and I can share my D&D Beyond content with them. Unfortunately, however, players are able to view all other players' character sheets.
Is there any to prevent players in the in the same campaign from view other players' character sheets?
Hi there,
currently this isn't possible - it may be added when staff implement granular permissions.
You could ask them not to look at each other's sheets?
It's worth noting that when another player views a character they cannot see the DESCRIPTION tab and the information underneath that - Background / Traits / Ideals / Bonds / Flaws etc.
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Set the character privacy to Private and the only persons who can see the sheet is the GM and player, no one else. They will still be able to view the thunmbnail in the campaign which has the race and classes listed on it though.
Thank you AdeP! That's what I needed!
While the "private" feature prevents other characters from seeing your sheet, it does not prevent them from seeing your level, race and class, which can completely ruin a story if your background is based on this.
In these cases, the only workaround that I have found is to create individual campaigns for each character and title them thusly. For instance, if my campaign is called "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant" for instance, I would have "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant-Character A", "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant-Character B", "Wrath of the Lich Tyrant Character C" and so-on, just so everyone could benefit from my content services, without being able to see each other's information.
Thank you for the thread, I also needed this!
This is very helpful and saves me a question, Thanks!
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The only problem with this is that DDB only lets you share content with a limited number of campaigns.
Yes and no.
One player can only actively enable content sharing on a fixed number of campaigns, that is correct.
But the person who owns the content does not have to be the person who enables content sharing. Anyone in any campaign can use one of their Content Sharing Slots, and every book purchased chases by any of the people in that campaign will automatically get shared. As long as someone in that campaign enables sharing, a person could conceivably share their content with an infinite number of campaigns.
I hope that helps.
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So a player with no purchases in the campaign could enable sharing and use my purchases? That's wild and I wish I had known this sooner.
As long as they have a Master Tier sub, and they enable sharing, then everyone in that campaign can use everyone’s everything. But only in that campaign, nowhere else.
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Under what circumstances would you need to be so secretive from the party?
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"real life is a super high CR."
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Changelings, Half-elves with minimal Elven features, or any character that completely covers with a mask or helmet, maybe.
I'm about to start a campaign where one of my players wants to play a cursed human who slowly turns into a Kenku (raven in this case). She took Kenku as her race to get all the proper stats, but now the other players can see that on her sheet. We were working on her character together, and we thought it would be so much fun to slowly but surely reveal her curse to the other players, but oh well.
No issue with D&DBeyond though. This game has infinite possibilities, so there's always going to be something they need to retrofit and fix. Hopefully, they come up with a privacy setting in the future that just shows a super simple character thumbnail; character name, player name, and level, that's it.
Has any progress been made on this topic as of yet? Does anyone know?
Thank you in advance!
Yes, I think a lot of people have this idea that a secretive character requires that the players all be tricked. I've seen this fall flat many times - generally because it turns out that the whole table doesn't see the changeling (or whoever it is) to be the main character of the story so their eventual reveal isn't all that earth-shattering.
What you're actually doing there is denying those other players the chance to roleplay their characters. It can actually be a lot of fun when the whole table knows what the changeling is but everyone is roleplaying characters that don't. Now you're all in on it. That is how collaborative storytelling works.
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I can totally see your perspective, but I'm trying to respect the wishes of my player who wants the big reveal later. And yes, it's of course for a Changeling. But she's going to try and tell the party that she's just using spells to change her appearance for a while. Either way, just wanted to see if the issue had been addressed in the time since this thread was last updated.
And while I have a theatre background and truly value collaborative art forms, meta-gaming is a thing, and those who are more casual players, are much more susceptible to the temptations there provided. I believe the choice of what a player wishes to reveal should be respected if they feel it will help them feel more comfortable and get a more enjoyable experience out of it.
The best thing they can do currently is to make a homebrewed race using the Changeling as a Template and change the name of it to whatever they are pretending to be, and then set their character sheet to Private. It will only display PC name that they enter (whatever they enter doesn’t actually have to be the PC’s real name if they wish to hide it), whatever race they are pretending to be, class(es) & subclass(es), and whatever alignment they list (even if it’s not their real alignment). That’s at least what everyone else does for their Changeling PCs.
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Which already makes it suspicious.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
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"real life is a super high CR."
-OboeLauren
"............anybody got any potatoes? We could drop a potato in each hole an' see which ones get viciously mauled by horrible monsters?"
-Ilyara Thundertale