DM - Campaign hide PC details from other PCs
A few of my PC's have class or races that they are actively trying to hide from the other PCs (taking a subclass in Warlock or their half-orc heritage). But anyone who clicks into the Campaign can see the race and class of the other characters. Maybe have that info be able to have a setting as public or private?
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I would greatly appreciate this feature as a player and a DM. I've had annoyed players with hidden races [changeling/shifter] refusing to use DDB because of this, it's incredibly frustrating to have spent so much money on the full book collection, only to be unable to use it for some of my games.
The ability to change this manually from a drop-down would be exceptional; defaulting to correct information, but with the option to edit it to however you're presenting - would also be great for people playing genduer-fluid characters. -
This is really important when characters are pretending to be something else, either to surprise the party with abilities, races, links to campaigns! The GM will be able to see it all.
Being able to have FULL privacy is good.
Being able to toggle on or off each of race and class, OR can there be an option of what race to show (including 'blank') and classes (free text box)
So race: elf (default) OR select to have a text box (user beware of spelling mistakes!)
Class the same.
So GM/Player would see:
Race /class : Changeling Wizard 5
Visible race/class : Elf Bard 5
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Bumping this. There are several posts in the forum requesting this and I definitely want it for my campaign. Ideally each element of the character sheet would have an individual privacy tab, but that may be a substantial amount of effort. A simpler solution that would fix the problem in the short term is not to display class, race, and level in the character tile in campaign screen when the sheet is set to a third drop down option, something like 'very private' or simply 'private - no info'.
Forum posts: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/100781-hiding-info-on-character-sheet
Also, this other feature request which could be merged: https://dndbeyond.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/community/posts/360028778333-Hiding-Character-Sheets-from-other-players-in-the-campaign
Note: This isn't necessary just from a PvP perspective. Many campaigns have characters who initially prefer to hide aspects of themselves to enable role play.
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This is HUGE. People who are trying to have a hidden backstory regarding their race or class that lead up to a big reveal just can't do it here. I've seen people mention changlings and aasimar in particular with this. I am also playing a live campaign where the DM is playing a party NPC to tank for us, and we didn't really know his class or level, and that was a bit of a reveal later on as well. These things just can't happen without being able to toggle to fully private even within the campaign--Just include the ability to make everything private but their name! Seems super easy, barely an inconvenience.
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