Allow DDB accounts to join a campaign before making a character
I know this is probably a big lift the way you have designed campaigns, but I'd like to request that players be allowed to join a campaign before he have a character sheet generated.
It's a practical request as the system exists now. I have a player or two who needs to use my shared content to create a character, but can't until they join the campaign, which they can't do until they have a character... so they make a dumb "empty" character and join with that, then change it. Clunky.
It's also practical for the future. In a future system where shared content is filtered by the sharing person (DM wants players to get shared classes but not shared dungeon), and hopefully is administered per campaign (ideally, letting me limit one campaign to only Kenku characters, and another to only minotaurs), they'd have to join before they were under those restrictions.
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Oh god, THIS.
About 50% of my table are people that are brand new to D&D. This has caused me all sorts of problems. ("I can only see a few domains for my Cleric, why aren't the ones in the book here also?")
To get around this problem, I have to literally have a 'Session 0' over coffee, get some of the basics settled with them (i.e. race/class), create a blank 'unclaimed' character for them, and then email the link over. Extra work for me.
I think a new DM's job is hard enough without something like this in the way.
And, it's a big negative to the new player experience. I've had to do some extra 'convincing' for new players to try the system because of that.
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I can dream:
[Join Campaign]
->
[ Choose one of your existing characters ] or [ Create a new character in this campaign ]
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You can currently create a character instead of adding an existing one when joining a campaign. It is a rather large, bright blue box that shows before the character selection: "CREATE A CHARACTER".
However, I upvoted this request because I would like for players to be able to see the Campaign Notes before making their character.
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What I'd love to see is a radio button toggle like the "MTG" and "Eberron" content with the name of the shared campaign. So if you were in two shared campaigns, you'd only be able to select one of those as valid character options for the rest of the creation and totally forgo the current steps of having to create the character inside the campaign's special button you only use once. At the end of the character creation, you could even add a new selector "Add this character to shared campaign" or just have it do that by default based on whatever shared campaign was selected at the start.
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This has already been a feature for as long as I can remember, and I've used the site for over 2 years. You click the campaign join link, and it gives you a list of your characters to choose from to add. At the bottom of that list is a create new character button, which creates the character within the campaign.
EDIT: It's actually a big blue button at the top of the list.
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