Im co-dming with a friend and we want to have the characters on dndbeyond but cant really share an account. Is there a way to give another person DM privileges on this website?
Are you both running the same campaign or are you taking turns with your own? If it's the former there isn't really a way to co-DM the same campaign on here. If it's the latter you both can create your own campaigns and add each other to them as players.
we are running the same campaign at the same time, the thing is that one of us has all the sourcebooks for the players to use and share while the other doesnt.
Does one of you (or one of your players) have a Master Tier sub here? If so, whoever has that sub could turn on content sharing for the campaign. In that scenario, the DM who doesn’t have any content here should be the “official” DM as far as DDB is concerned. That is, they should set up the campaign here. They can then control what compendiums (compendia?) are shared with the players, but they themselves would be able to see the adventure and all the compendiums. The co-DM who has the material will still be able to see it because they own it, but the players won’t unless they also own it.
Only the “official’ DM will be able to edit characters or make changes to the campaign page, but you both should be able to see the characters as long as they are set to Public.
I wanted to know about this too. I am DMing for a large party and wanted my Co-DM to be able to see the Monsters and NPCs in an encounter and roll for them while I focus on the narration. Is there a way to assign a monster character to a player duing an enounter? So far I've been building blank character sheets and importing the stats, but you can't get specific monster feats this way.
If anyone has a simplier suggestion too, I am eager to hear!
I really wish this was a thing. I am hosting a Game Club and have so many players that I had to recruit a second DM and wish desperately that I could Edit their access in the campaign to be able to be a DM and have the same abilities I have as the DM for the group. Would make things so much simpler since I am the one with the sourcebooks and they aren't.. DndBeyond needs to get this in the works. I'd even pay a bit more to be able to have that ability as an account holder.
If it's helpful, the workaround I have is to send my cohort a D&D Beyond link to the monster's stat block and then I just roll based on what he says. Not perfect, but it gets the job done.
Content sharing can be done without them being a GM. However, for communication and encounter planning and such, you have to use other tools outside of Dnd beyond. I mainly use google drive applications for stuff like sharing notes, planning and stuff. Can post links to monsters and encounters without other players seeing it necessarily.
This is obviously a feature people have wanted for at least 4 years, and simple content sharing is NOT good enough. I am co-DMing a party of 7, so we both want/need access to the full range of DM tools & permissions.
So let me speak directly to Hasbro/WotC’s corporate financial interests here: I already have a Premium DM account, and my co-DM would be THRILLED to sign up & pay for a Premium account also - but without this feature there is ZERO motivation for him to subscribe to a paid DM plan. You’re missing out on potential revenues & leaving money on the table. Given how many people have been asking for this and for such a long time, it is obviously a significant amout of potential revenue that you are missing out on.
I can’t make it any clearer than that! WotC Product Managers, run this by your Accounting people and make this happen! Provide the features we need & ask for, and we will be happy to pay for them!
P.S. I’m not interested in workarounds, suggestions on how to do content sharing, any of that noise - that’s not what this is about. This is about co-DMs sharing DM responsibilities at the same time in the same campaign, sometimes swapping some roles mid-session. I *usually* handle mechanics, combat, mobs, etc while my DM partner manages narrative, storytelling, etc. We have a very effective & fun partnership but the inability to both have DM permissions directly within DNDB makes our jobs more difficult. As a professional software developer, I suspect this feature would NOT be especially difficult to implement if WotC just decided they wanted to. The community has been asking for this for a long time. Please listen to your customers.
I'm also running a game with a friend and we're both DMing it would be so helpful for us both to be able to see edit; encounters, full character sheets and so on.
We do this on o w l b e a r . r o d e o all the time. I wish we could do it in DND beyond. We have a DM narrating and the players can set up their own icons and set up initiative. We can also change names of the monsters so the DM can throw out Six Kobolds (for example) and continue with narration while one of us renames them Kobold 1, Kobold 2, etc. It is a really nice way to run a campaign.
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Im co-dming with a friend and we want to have the characters on dndbeyond but cant really share an account. Is there a way to give another person DM privileges on this website?
Are you both running the same campaign or are you taking turns with your own? If it's the former there isn't really a way to co-DM the same campaign on here. If it's the latter you both can create your own campaigns and add each other to them as players.
we are running the same campaign at the same time, the thing is that one of us has all the sourcebooks for the players to use and share while the other doesnt.
Does one of you (or one of your players) have a Master Tier sub here? If so, whoever has that sub could turn on content sharing for the campaign. In that scenario, the DM who doesn’t have any content here should be the “official” DM as far as DDB is concerned. That is, they should set up the campaign here. They can then control what compendiums (compendia?) are shared with the players, but they themselves would be able to see the adventure and all the compendiums. The co-DM who has the material will still be able to see it because they own it, but the players won’t unless they also own it.
Only the “official’ DM will be able to edit characters or make changes to the campaign page, but you both should be able to see the characters as long as they are set to Public.
Trying to Decide if DDB is for you? A few helpful threads: A Buyer's Guide to DDB; What I/We Bought and Why; How some DMs use DDB; A Newer Thread on Using DDB to Play
Helpful threads on other topics: Homebrew FAQ by IamSposta; Accessing Content by ConalTheGreat;
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I wanted to know about this too. I am DMing for a large party and wanted my Co-DM to be able to see the Monsters and NPCs in an encounter and roll for them while I focus on the narration. Is there a way to assign a monster character to a player duing an enounter? So far I've been building blank character sheets and importing the stats, but you can't get specific monster feats this way.
If anyone has a simplier suggestion too, I am eager to hear!
I really wish this was a thing. I am hosting a Game Club and have so many players that I had to recruit a second DM and wish desperately that I could Edit their access in the campaign to be able to be a DM and have the same abilities I have as the DM for the group. Would make things so much simpler since I am the one with the sourcebooks and they aren't.. DndBeyond needs to get this in the works. I'd even pay a bit more to be able to have that ability as an account holder.
If it's helpful, the workaround I have is to send my cohort a D&D Beyond link to the monster's stat block and then I just roll based on what he says. Not perfect, but it gets the job done.
Content sharing can be done without them being a GM. However, for communication and encounter planning and such, you have to use other tools outside of Dnd beyond. I mainly use google drive applications for stuff like sharing notes, planning and stuff. Can post links to monsters and encounters without other players seeing it necessarily.
This is obviously a feature people have wanted for at least 4 years, and simple content sharing is NOT good enough. I am co-DMing a party of 7, so we both want/need access to the full range of DM tools & permissions.
So let me speak directly to Hasbro/WotC’s corporate financial interests here: I already have a Premium DM account, and my co-DM would be THRILLED to sign up & pay for a Premium account also - but without this feature there is ZERO motivation for him to subscribe to a paid DM plan. You’re missing out on potential revenues & leaving money on the table. Given how many people have been asking for this and for such a long time, it is obviously a significant amout of potential revenue that you are missing out on.
I can’t make it any clearer than that! WotC Product Managers, run this by your Accounting people and make this happen! Provide the features we need & ask for, and we will be happy to pay for them!
P.S. I’m not interested in workarounds, suggestions on how to do content sharing, any of that noise - that’s not what this is about. This is about co-DMs sharing DM responsibilities at the same time in the same campaign, sometimes swapping some roles mid-session. I *usually* handle mechanics, combat, mobs, etc while my DM partner manages narrative, storytelling, etc. We have a very effective & fun partnership but the inability to both have DM permissions directly within DNDB makes our jobs more difficult. As a professional software developer, I suspect this feature would NOT be especially difficult to implement if WotC just decided they wanted to. The community has been asking for this for a long time. Please listen to your customers.
I'm also running a game with a friend and we're both DMing it would be so helpful for us both to be able to see edit; encounters, full character sheets and so on.
This is pretty helpful.
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This is a feature that our group need also.
We do this on o w l b e a r . r o d e o all the time. I wish we could do it in DND beyond. We have a DM narrating and the players can set up their own icons and set up initiative. We can also change names of the monsters so the DM can throw out Six Kobolds (for example) and continue with narration while one of us renames them Kobold 1, Kobold 2, etc. It is a really nice way to run a campaign.