D&D 5E dndbeyond questions

ManBagel

Messing up everything in DnD since 2019
So I found out when I was making homebrew in DnD beyond you can create spells and stuff that are an exact copy of official subclasses and spells. I was wondering if there is a website where I could get the celestial off of to use as homebrew. I have bought the books and that’s what I’m copying it out of and that’s why I ask since I don’t want to have to pay more then once.
 

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If it's not something you have access to on Beyond, you have to manually construct it - you can't pull from any websites other than Beyond or anything, that I'm aware of, not with all the syntax done right and stuff.

So if you have something in a physical book, but want it on Beyond without paying the slightly exorbitant single-item fees, you're going to need to just write it up yourself. Which may mean learning a bit of syntax and so on. The easiest way to do this is to copy the most similar subclass/spell/monster/whatever, then just work from there. I suspect there's a good summary of all the syntax somewhere but I have yet to find it so you may want to make copies of a few things to see how they work. I managed to put together a Druid subclass which functions entirely correctly (the Sacrifice Druid from Odyssey of the Dragonlords) recently myself.

Please note they Beyond is totally clear that manually recreating stuff from books (even ones you don't own) is absolutely fine. You can absolutely do this, you just can't share outside campaigns you're linked to (i.e. you can't upload it to the central store thing they have).
 


I recently created a buffed-up version of a monster in my DndBeyond account but I couldn't share it if I wanted to because it's too similar to the base version. So finding actual monsters? Not going to happen.

But there are a lot of custom monsters that could potentially fill the role that are not the official version. You might want to check that out.
 

If you get a simple scanner app (like the one built into Dropbox) that can speed up the process. You can scan the book you own, have the app run OCR (optical character recognition) and then cut-and-paste the text into DnDBeyond, fixing any errors.

But, as has been stated above, this needs to be private and for personal use.
 

Ok. I need to know how to give cantrips then. For celestial and a homebrew warlock subclass where you have made a pact with an elemental prince. Earth got I think Mold Earth and something else
 

Ok. I need to know how to give cantrips then. For celestial and a homebrew warlock subclass where you have made a pact with an elemental prince. Earth got I think Mold Earth and something else
Just copy the base monster and add the details to the actions descriptions with a link to the spells.
 


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