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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8739855" data-attributes="member: 18"><p>The more things change, the more things stay the same, I guess! I knew people in 1992 who had 1E/2E games like this.</p><p></p><p>I think what you're facing is nothing to do with Gen Z specifically and everything to do with teenagers playing TT RPGs.</p><p></p><p>One thing that is an issue that's kind of modern though, if everyone is using D&D Beyond, is the way it presents Homebrewed stuff. Are you familiar with Beyond? If not now would be a very good time to familiarize yourself. If you're starting a new campaign, you probably want to tell people to create characters with the "Homebrew Content" switch to off.</p><p></p><p>The problem is, literally anyone can Homebrew content on Beyond and set it to Public, and they only do minimal checking to ensure it's not a rip-off of WotC material and not full of swears or whatever. So if you have a player who is adding Homebrew stuff, they can, if they go looking for it, add any kind of completely bonkers stuff some dude dreamed up, and it's not always immediately clear what is completely OP nonsense an what is reasonable at first glance.</p><p></p><p>Also, and this is in many ways likely to be a bigger problem is that players who have PCs in multiple campaigns will likely have some campaigns where the DM has selected "Allow Content Sharing". This is basically good because it allows them to use whatever books the DM has, but the problem is it also auto-shares any Homebrew content that DM has attached to their account on Beyond, and whilst that doesn't show up for the PC if they have "Homebrew Content" off, it does if they don't, and can include some very wacky stuff.</p><p></p><p>And there's no simple way around this, though people have asked D&D Beyond team for one many, many, many, many times and the Beyond team have said they "hear" and are "working on it".</p><p></p><p>For example, you might think "Well I'll attach only the Homebrew I want to allow for my campaign to my account, and have control of it!", but that only works if the players (not PCs) aren't in any other campaigns at all, and they probably are. So my best suggestion is just ensure every PC is made with "Homebrew Content" switched to Off, and if anyone has an extremely good reason for using some homebrew content, just let them enable it <em>after</em> they create their PC, and change the PC to the homebrew stuff after that so the player isn't distracted by all sorts of weird nonsense.</p><p></p><p>With my own players, the most casual ones were most "at risk" here I note. The min-maxers knew I'd go "Hahaha no" to homebrew weapons and the like, but the casuals couldn't immediately tell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8739855, member: 18"] The more things change, the more things stay the same, I guess! I knew people in 1992 who had 1E/2E games like this. I think what you're facing is nothing to do with Gen Z specifically and everything to do with teenagers playing TT RPGs. One thing that is an issue that's kind of modern though, if everyone is using D&D Beyond, is the way it presents Homebrewed stuff. Are you familiar with Beyond? If not now would be a very good time to familiarize yourself. If you're starting a new campaign, you probably want to tell people to create characters with the "Homebrew Content" switch to off. The problem is, literally anyone can Homebrew content on Beyond and set it to Public, and they only do minimal checking to ensure it's not a rip-off of WotC material and not full of swears or whatever. So if you have a player who is adding Homebrew stuff, they can, if they go looking for it, add any kind of completely bonkers stuff some dude dreamed up, and it's not always immediately clear what is completely OP nonsense an what is reasonable at first glance. Also, and this is in many ways likely to be a bigger problem is that players who have PCs in multiple campaigns will likely have some campaigns where the DM has selected "Allow Content Sharing". This is basically good because it allows them to use whatever books the DM has, but the problem is it also auto-shares any Homebrew content that DM has attached to their account on Beyond, and whilst that doesn't show up for the PC if they have "Homebrew Content" off, it does if they don't, and can include some very wacky stuff. And there's no simple way around this, though people have asked D&D Beyond team for one many, many, many, many times and the Beyond team have said they "hear" and are "working on it". For example, you might think "Well I'll attach only the Homebrew I want to allow for my campaign to my account, and have control of it!", but that only works if the players (not PCs) aren't in any other campaigns at all, and they probably are. So my best suggestion is just ensure every PC is made with "Homebrew Content" switched to Off, and if anyone has an extremely good reason for using some homebrew content, just let them enable it [I]after[/I] they create their PC, and change the PC to the homebrew stuff after that so the player isn't distracted by all sorts of weird nonsense. With my own players, the most casual ones were most "at risk" here I note. The min-maxers knew I'd go "Hahaha no" to homebrew weapons and the like, but the casuals couldn't immediately tell. [/QUOTE]
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