Hello I am trying to publish a homebrew subclass. It says I cannot because it is linked to the customized homebrew spells that I made for it. All of the customized spells are already published for the community. So I am asking you cannot publish a subclass if it is linked to the customized spells you made for it?
Publish your homebrew spells first. Then you'll be able to publish your subclass.
Edit: Oh, I see you already published them? Hrm... one moment. I have an item I published for 2 homebrew spells, and it published fine.
If you have hyperlinks to the published spells themselves, then that would be the problem. You can't have any links (like this one) within your descriptions.
Please give a link to your subclass so a staff member can take a look; a link to a character sheet using the subclass may also help narrow things down.
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I can't look at it myself, but I was doing some testing by adding my published spells to a subclass I'm working on, then unpublished spells. And it only complained when I added unpublished spells.
Do you have any hyperlinks in any feature descriptions within your subclass? Check to be sure they're all clean. This would include descriptions within Options as well.
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I went through them all. I found that there were 3 of them. I just got done cleaning them up. Give me a few moments to double-check everything else.
Update: I could not find any links but I have completely broken it down and am now trying to rebuild it back again piece by piece. I will simply have to reengineer it slowly, while carefully looking for things that cause unexpected errors.
Correct. Anything not in the "Basic Rules" category makes it unpublishable. Open licensing an all that.
That is incorrect. If the spells are published then any homebrewed anything else with those published spells mapped to it should be publishable. I have done it myself more than once.
Hello I am trying to publish a homebrew subclass. It says I cannot because it is linked to the customized homebrew spells that I made for it. All of the customized spells are already published for the community. So I am asking you cannot publish a subclass if it is linked to the customized spells you made for it?
Try re-saving the whole subclass using the main [SAVE CHANGES] button under Basic Information. After you published the spells mapped to the homebrewed subclass, if you didn’t re-save the whole subclass it would not have rechecked those compliances.
Correct. Anything not in the "Basic Rules" category makes it unpublishable. Open licensing an all that.
That is incorrect. If the spells are published then any homebrewed anything else with those published spells mapped to it should be publishable. I have done it myself more than once.
I have managed to completely rebuild one of my subclasses (they are each part of a 3 subclass set.) However after deconstructing it and rebuilding it, there still seems to be problems with the beast sense and summon beast spells. I am going to try and make copies of these spells without the hyperlinks in them to see if this removes the errors I am getting from these two.
I have managed to completely rebuild one of my subclasses (they are each part of a 3 subclass set.) However after deconstructing it and rebuilding it, there still seems to be problems with the beast sense and summon beast spells. I am going to try and make copies of these spells without the hyperlinks in them to see if this removes the errors I am getting from these two.
Hang on. Beast Sense and Summon Beast aren't from the Basic Rules or Elemental Evil, and can't be linked to published homebrew. You're also not allowed to publish copies of licensed material.
What you can do, however, is make an Additional Spell List in a subclass feature, and put the spells there (the official ones), which will make them available in the spell list to choose from for characters with your subclass. You can't grant them as "always known" or prepared, though.
Edit: Ah. I'm not sure you modified this homebrew spell enough to count as sufficiently different from Summon Beast. I can see where you'd want to have your version be the thing for your subclass, but it's skirting the line for publication...
Hello I am trying to publish a homebrew subclass. It says I cannot because it is linked to the customized homebrew spells that I made for it. All of the customized spells are already published for the community. So I am asking you cannot publish a subclass if it is linked to the customized spells you made for it?
Correct. Anything not in the "Basic Rules" category makes it unpublishable. Open licensing an all that.
But this is my own spells for the class. I am the author, the subclass does not make sense without them. Very frustrating.
Agreed.
Publish your homebrew spells first. Then you'll be able to publish your subclass.
Edit: Oh, I see you already published them? Hrm... one moment. I have an item I published for 2 homebrew spells, and it published fine.
If you have hyperlinks to the published spells themselves, then that would be the problem. You can't have any links (like this one) within your descriptions.
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I'll try and see if it will work after I remove the links.
I removed all of the hyperlinks, it still does not work.
Please give a link to your subclass so a staff member can take a look; a link to a character sheet using the subclass may also help narrow things down.
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Here you go. I would appreciate the help. link
https://www.dndbeyond.com/classes/sorcerer/subclass/1073276/edit
I can't look at it myself, but I was doing some testing by adding my published spells to a subclass I'm working on, then unpublished spells. And it only complained when I added unpublished spells.
Do you have any hyperlinks in any feature descriptions within your subclass? Check to be sure they're all clean. This would include descriptions within Options as well.
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I went through them all. I found that there were 3 of them. I just got done cleaning them up. Give me a few moments to double-check everything else.
Update: I could not find any links but I have completely broken it down and am now trying to rebuild it back again piece by piece. I will simply have to reengineer it slowly, while carefully looking for things that cause unexpected errors.
Update: I was going to get it to work by completely disecting it and rebuilding it bit-by-bit.
Update: I got it to work by completely disecting it and rebuilding it piece-by-piece.
That is incorrect. If the spells are published then any homebrewed anything else with those published spells mapped to it should be publishable. I have done it myself more than once.
Try re-saving the whole subclass using the main [SAVE CHANGES] button under Basic Information. After you published the spells mapped to the homebrewed subclass, if you didn’t re-save the whole subclass it would not have rechecked those compliances.
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Indeed. I was wrong.
I have managed to completely rebuild one of my subclasses (they are each part of a 3 subclass set.) However after deconstructing it and rebuilding it, there still seems to be problems with the beast sense and summon beast spells. I am going to try and make copies of these spells without the hyperlinks in them to see if this removes the errors I am getting from these two.
Hang on. Beast Sense and Summon Beast aren't from the Basic Rules or Elemental Evil, and can't be linked to published homebrew. You're also not allowed to publish copies of licensed material.
What you can do, however, is make an Additional Spell List in a subclass feature, and put the spells there (the official ones), which will make them available in the spell list to choose from for characters with your subclass. You can't grant them as "always known" or prepared, though.
Edit: Ah. I'm not sure you modified this homebrew spell enough to count as sufficiently different from Summon Beast. I can see where you'd want to have your version be the thing for your subclass, but it's skirting the line for publication...
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I couldn't use them. The subclass would not accept them anyhway. I deleted them and went with something else that I could use.
I do not totally understand the "always known" portion, but I would be happy to make sure this part says no.
I can make another spell to replace Summon Beast Spirit. Let me work on that. Does this spell work? link
I do not seem to be able to delete Summon Beast Spirit. Can you delete it for me?