I want to give a homebrewed monster of mine to summon another homebrewed monster I made, but everytime I put in the link it tells me that I can't publish it because it contains external links (even though i made both monsters on D&D beyond). Does anyone know how to fix this?
Do you need to publish the monster? You should be able to include links if you keep it private, and it’ll be available for you and anyone in your campaigns to use even if it’s not published.
I'm not sure how well that would work out. I've been inserting a hyperlink to the summoned monster's page in the summoner's stat block, but it tells me that the link is external and I can't put it in.
For example, I'll write it as "Bob can summon Ted and Ned as a bonus action on his turn." Then I look at the details page for Bob and it tells me that he contains external links so I can't publish him.
It'd be fine if I just wrote it normally but I want the stats for Ted/Ned to be accessible right from Bob's stat block.
For security issues, to prevent people from implanting malicious/inappropriate hyperlinks in published content. You will not be able to link Bob to Ned and Ted if you want to publish Bob. You can do it and keep it private, but not published.
My suggestion to use the same rule as the summoner mephits was under the assumption that Bob could summon mor Bobs.
I want to give a homebrewed monster of mine to summon another homebrewed monster I made, but everytime I put in the link it tells me that I can't publish it because it contains external links (even though i made both monsters on D&D beyond). Does anyone know how to fix this?
Just copy and paste the abilities.
Can you clarify this some more please? I do not understand what you are saying.
Just copy certain traits or whatever from one monster and add it to another by copying and pasting it (Ctrl c to copy and Ctrl v to paste).
Do you need to publish the monster? You should be able to include links if you keep it private, and it’ll be available for you and anyone in your campaigns to use even if it’s not published.
I'd be okay with keeping it private if I was still able to share the link but I can't do that.
I'm not necessarily concerned about it being public, I just want my friends (some of whom don't use this site) to be able to see it.
I'm not trying to copy a trait, I'm trying to give one monster the ability to summon another.
Oh. Interesting.
Why don’t you use the “summoning variant” rule that the Mephits get?
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I'm not sure how well that would work out. I've been inserting a hyperlink to the summoned monster's page in the summoner's stat block, but it tells me that the link is external and I can't put it in.
For example, I'll write it as "Bob can summon Ted and Ned as a bonus action on his turn." Then I look at the details page for Bob and it tells me that he contains external links so I can't publish him.
It'd be fine if I just wrote it normally but I want the stats for Ted/Ned to be accessible right from Bob's stat block.
For security issues, to prevent people from implanting malicious/inappropriate hyperlinks in published content. You will not be able to link Bob to Ned and Ted if you want to publish Bob. You can do it and keep it private, but not published.
My suggestion to use the same rule as the summoner mephits was under the assumption that Bob could summon mor Bobs.
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Yeah that makes sense to me, I understand why they don't allow external links, but I don't see how a link to the same site counts as external.
Plus, I had no problem adding Ted and Ned to a cleric ability and it still got published, but I can't add it to Bob.
It doesn't make sense to me that I can link Ted and Ned to a cleric subclass but not Bob, or that a link to the same site counts as "external".