Hi all! I'm new to DMing and have been homebrewing and putting in other creators' homebrews into my homebrew collection. But without knowing, the people in the campaign that I play as a character in can still see my homebrews. I've removed them in my collection so I have to add hem again but they appearently can still see them. How do I make my homebrews 100% private?
Hi all! I'm new to DMing and have been homebrewing and putting in other creators' homebrews into my homebrew collection. But without knowing, the people in the campaign that I play as a character in can still see my homebrews. I've removed them in my collection so I have to add hem again but they appearently can still see them. How do I make my homebrews 100% private?
You don't. If someone has content management enabled, it shares all content everyone has in that campaign with each other, and there is no toggle to just disable homebrew content.
More granular content management is something some folks have been asking for for a while, including homebrew. I can totally appreciate a DM wanting to use the homebrew tools as a workshop space, and not spoil a homebrew surprise by having enterprisingly. curious players come across it. I mean if they can put a little "do you like how this page works" poll on every page you look at (I don't know if they're still doing it), I imagine it wouldn't be hard to toggle on/toggle off given content for a DMs campaign. It might be apples and organges, but if they're able to gather that granular data, management of said content at a similar granular level shouldn't be that hard to implement. I may result in a bunch of DMs losing their stuff, but that's sort of on them, the DMs, I feel.
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It is possible to search for items, spells, and monsters filtering by author. So as previously stated, players can peek at all of your creations.
One thing you can do is give some things names that don't match what it actually is. Like naming a mini boss Pouch of Holding or Goblin Scout.
The other thing you can do - which many many GMs do, is use a monster or thing and alter its stats. Even if it is your homebrew doesn't mean you can't give it more HP or different number of attacks or whatever.
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Hi all! I'm new to DMing and have been homebrewing and putting in other creators' homebrews into my homebrew collection. But without knowing, the people in the campaign that I play as a character in can still see my homebrews. I've removed them in my collection so I have to add hem again but they appearently can still see them. How do I make my homebrews 100% private?
You don't. If someone has content management enabled, it shares all content everyone has in that campaign with each other, and there is no toggle to just disable homebrew content.
Content sharing isn’t even necessary. All Homebrew in everybody’s collections is automatically shared within every campaign.
4 years later and I'm STILL wishing this were a function. I didn't even know someone in my campaign had access to one of my homebrew things until he asked our dm about it thinking it was something the dm had made- no, that's one of my homebrews and you aren't supposed to be able to access it bro 😭 dndbeyond please please PLEASE make completely private homebrews a thing!!!!
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Hi all! I'm new to DMing and have been homebrewing and putting in other creators' homebrews into my homebrew collection. But without knowing, the people in the campaign that I play as a character in can still see my homebrews. I've removed them in my collection so I have to add hem again but they appearently can still see them. How do I make my homebrews 100% private?
You don't. If someone has content management enabled, it shares all content everyone has in that campaign with each other, and there is no toggle to just disable homebrew content.
More granular content management is something some folks have been asking for for a while, including homebrew. I can totally appreciate a DM wanting to use the homebrew tools as a workshop space, and not spoil a homebrew surprise by having enterprisingly. curious players come across it. I mean if they can put a little "do you like how this page works" poll on every page you look at (I don't know if they're still doing it), I imagine it wouldn't be hard to toggle on/toggle off given content for a DMs campaign. It might be apples and organges, but if they're able to gather that granular data, management of said content at a similar granular level shouldn't be that hard to implement. I may result in a bunch of DMs losing their stuff, but that's sort of on them, the DMs, I feel.
Jander Sunstar is the thinking person's Drizzt, fight me.
It is possible to search for items, spells, and monsters filtering by author. So as previously stated, players can peek at all of your creations.
One thing you can do is give some things names that don't match what it actually is. Like naming a mini boss Pouch of Holding or Goblin Scout.
The other thing you can do - which many many GMs do, is use a monster or thing and alter its stats. Even if it is your homebrew doesn't mean you can't give it more HP or different number of attacks or whatever.
"Sooner or later, your Players are going to smash your railroad into a sandbox."
-Vedexent
"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
Content sharing isn’t even necessary. All Homebrew in everybody’s collections is automatically shared within every campaign.
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4 years later and I'm STILL wishing this were a function. I didn't even know someone in my campaign had access to one of my homebrew things until he asked our dm about it thinking it was something the dm had made- no, that's one of my homebrews and you aren't supposed to be able to access it bro 😭 dndbeyond please please PLEASE make completely private homebrews a thing!!!!
If I fits, I sits. And it just so happens to be that I fits--