Hello, fellow DnD Beyond users. I'm an owner of few books on DnDB, Master Tier and DM. I have a few campaigns and some of them are with characters/players that are quite secretive. For example one of my players does not want for other players to know that he multiclassed in rogue unless there will be good RP reason to disclose this information. In another campaign, nobody should know that someone is a half-elf and so on. Unfortunately, when all of them transferred their characters to DnDB now every player can see these informations on character summary. Now every player knows that and their reaction in-game could be different than before.
Is there any way to hide everything except name and portrait from other players in a campaign?
Thank you for any advice on this matter.
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Yeah, this came up in my W:DH one-shot. One of my players wanted to play an Aasimar who thought he was Human until he gained level 3, where his heritage would reveal itself.
Unfortunately, everyone could see he was an Aasimar, which kinda ruined the fun for him.
The use of the private/public toggle is for whether the character is PUBLICLY visible and has no effect inside a campaign.
In a campaign, all characters are visible to other members of the campaign (you can click the VIEW link on them).
D&D Beyond includes the ability to link your character so that others can see it, outside of campaigns - this is what the toggle manages.
Um - if you select the Private option, the other members of the campaign can only see you name, race, level and class (not sub-class) as it appears in the campaign listing. The View button only appears if you are set to Public.
Yeah, this came up in my W:DH one-shot. One of my players wanted to play an Aasimar who thought he was Human until he gained level 3, where his heritage would reveal itself.
Unfortunately, everyone could see he was an Aasimar, which kinda ruined the fun for him.
I think the best way to handle this is to just change race; you can edit your race, background, class(es) etc. whenever you want.
The tricky part is that switching from human to aasimar will mess with your ability scores (humans having six +1's). As Ursus says though you could homebrew a temporary race, e.g- copy Aasimar and just rename it as human, and remove anything the player doesn't want at first and second level, that way when you swap to the proper Aasimar race later it shouldn't disrupt anything.
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I have unsubscribed from all topics and will not reply to messages. My homebrew is now 100% unsupported.
Just one more chipping in that this would honestly be a great help for some of us. I bet a lot of groups out there have at least one person who is too curious for his own good and can't not look into other players characters right from the get go. it can be for a matter of reasons, but we have one in our group that can't help it due to a diagnosis.
We could create different campaigns yes, but I can't see how that is the most efficient way.
Another DM here, i would love to hide everything except name from my current and future campaigns. Little mystery goes a long way in storytelling and even tho my players can behave themselves and not look into other players bags i would and my players would like to concentrate not to have that info even as a meta-knowledge. Thanks. This can't be be hard fix. I'd hate to do different campaigns even tho i have subscription for it. Seem's silly.
Another DM here, i would love to hide everything except name from my current and future campaigns. Little mystery goes a long way in storytelling and even tho my players can behave themselves and not look into other players bags i would and my players would like to concentrate not to have that info even as a meta-knowledge. Thanks. This can't be be hard fix. I'd hate to do different campaigns even tho i have subscription for it. Seem's silly.
If the character is not made "public" then I don't think others can view it.
As many of you suggested there are "workarounds" but why we need workarounds when we can have it as a proper feature? And doing it for every scenario is not something that I would consider user-friendly... But I thank every one of you who took their time and replied. It is nice to see that I'm not the only one who would like to have this feature implemented.
I'm really sad that this is not something anyone has noticed. Only one moderator replied here and was sympathetic. But since then, no official response. It will be 2 years since I post this and nothing. I know everyone has a lot to do, but simple "unfortunately this is not possible" or "we can look at it, but it will not be our priority" would be nice.
Feb of 2021 and it appears that there's still no graceful way to have characters in the campaign view that the other characters can't see. I want to throw my pc's up against another party of characters and use encounter builder to run the fight.
Bumping this. I'm running a campaign where it would really help the first session if players couldn't see each others' races/classes from the campaign page (and I only realized there was no option to hide it afterward X_X).
Simplest version seems like it would be just having a toggle-able, generic "Anonymous Character" block on the campaign page, controlled with a privacy option somewhere like "Hide from Other Players".
If the toggle's on, you see the normal mini-block with name/race/class/picture/account name.
If the toggle's off, other players in the campaign only see "Anonymous Character", with all details but account name hidden.
BUMPING THIS!!! Please please please implement this!! As a DM, I want to do cool story stuff for specific characters but I don't want it to be ruined by the fact that they can see all the homebrew :(
Hello, fellow DnD Beyond users.
I'm an owner of few books on DnDB, Master Tier and DM. I have a few campaigns and some of them are with characters/players that are quite secretive.
For example one of my players does not want for other players to know that he multiclassed in rogue unless there will be good RP reason to disclose this information.
In another campaign, nobody should know that someone is a half-elf and so on. Unfortunately, when all of them transferred their characters to DnDB now every player can see these informations on character summary. Now every player knows that and their reaction in-game could be different than before.
Is there any way to hide everything except name and portrait from other players in a campaign?
Thank you for any advice on this matter.
I think this reply from Stormknight to a similar question is the most authoritative one I know of:
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The use of the private/public toggle is for whether the character is PUBLICLY visible and has no effect inside a campaign.
In a campaign, all characters are visible to other members of the campaign (you can click the VIEW link on them).
D&D Beyond includes the ability to link your character so that others can see it, outside of campaigns - this is what the toggle manages.
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ModeratorYeah, this came up in my W:DH one-shot. One of my players wanted to play an Aasimar who thought he was Human until he gained level 3, where his heritage would reveal itself.
Unfortunately, everyone could see he was an Aasimar, which kinda ruined the fun for him.
Um - if you select the Private option, the other members of the campaign can only see you name, race, level and class (not sub-class) as it appears in the campaign listing. The View button only appears if you are set to Public.
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So there is no option to hide Race, and/or Class. Sad. But thank you for the provided information.
Surprised this hasn't been addressed. Happened in a recent campaign.
Sorry to revive a dead thread.
Yeah same.
I had to make separate campaigns for each player so they can use my books but not disclose their secrets.
Really feel like something they could implement fairly easy?
A simple workaround would be for the DM to create a homebrew 'race' with a misleading name for the character until the truth is revealed.
Depending on your subscription level, you could also host the characters in separate campaigns if secrecy is that much of an issue.
I think the best way to handle this is to just change race; you can edit your race, background, class(es) etc. whenever you want.
The tricky part is that switching from human to aasimar will mess with your ability scores (humans having six +1's). As Ursus says though you could homebrew a temporary race, e.g- copy Aasimar and just rename it as human, and remove anything the player doesn't want at first and second level, that way when you swap to the proper Aasimar race later it shouldn't disrupt anything.
Former D&D Beyond Customer of six years: With the axing of piecemeal purchasing, lack of meaningful development, and toxic moderation the site isn't worth paying for anymore. I remain a free user only until my groups are done migrating from DDB, and if necessary D&D, after which I'm done. There are better systems owned by better companies out there.
I have unsubscribed from all topics and will not reply to messages. My homebrew is now 100% unsupported.
Just one more chipping in that this would honestly be a great help for some of us.
I bet a lot of groups out there have at least one person who is too curious for his own good and can't not look into other players characters right from the get go.
it can be for a matter of reasons, but we have one in our group that can't help it due to a diagnosis.
We could create different campaigns yes, but I can't see how that is the most efficient way.
Another DM here, i would love to hide everything except name from my current and future campaigns. Little mystery goes a long way in storytelling and even tho my players can behave themselves and not look into other players bags i would and my players would like to concentrate not to have that info even as a meta-knowledge. Thanks. This can't be be hard fix. I'd hate to do different campaigns even tho i have subscription for it. Seem's silly.
If the character is not made "public" then I don't think others can view it.
They can still see race and class, which is the part we are mostly asking at, to be hidden too.
As many of you suggested there are "workarounds" but why we need workarounds when we can have it as a proper feature? And doing it for every scenario is not something that I would consider user-friendly... But I thank every one of you who took their time and replied. It is nice to see that I'm not the only one who would like to have this feature implemented.
I'm really sad that this is not something anyone has noticed. Only one moderator replied here and was sympathetic. But since then, no official response. It will be 2 years since I post this and nothing. I know everyone has a lot to do, but simple "unfortunately this is not possible" or "we can look at it, but it will not be our priority" would be nice.
Hi,
I’m guessing that a feature for this hasn’t been implemented? Guess I’ll bump as I’d love this option as a DM.
Feb of 2021 and it appears that there's still no graceful way to have characters in the campaign view that the other characters can't see. I want to throw my pc's up against another party of characters and use encounter builder to run the fight.
I wish there was a non cludgey way to do this.
Bumping this. I'm running a campaign where it would really help the first session if players couldn't see each others' races/classes from the campaign page (and I only realized there was no option to hide it afterward X_X).
Simplest version seems like it would be just having a toggle-able, generic "Anonymous Character" block on the campaign page, controlled with a privacy option somewhere like "Hide from Other Players".
If the toggle's on, you see the normal mini-block with name/race/class/picture/account name.
If the toggle's off, other players in the campaign only see "Anonymous Character", with all details but account name hidden.
I don't understand why such an easy thing isn't implemented :(
BUMPING THIS!!! Please please please implement this!! As a DM, I want to do cool story stuff for specific characters but I don't want it to be ruined by the fact that they can see all the homebrew :(