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<blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 8984059" data-attributes="member: 18">Did they have fix Supernatural Gifts and Dark Gifts, from Theros and Ravenloft respectively, or Piety, from Theros? They repeatedly promised it would be doable by the code-changes they needed to make for Tasha's, then when Tasha's came out, they again promised it would be &quot;soon&quot; for a while before going radio silent about it.What's a particular bonus is you can create the Gifts as Feats, and bizarrely, Beyond has for a very long time let you just arbitrarily add Feats to a character (?! why they picked this particular house rule/behaviour to allow, I have no idea), so the obvious fix would be to do that.Except the absolute brain-geniuses at Beyond coded it so if you share a Feat that looks like a Supernatural Gift or Dark Gift to the system - EVEN THOUGH THOSE GIFTS ARE NOT IN THE SYSTEM IN ANY CLIENT ACCESSIBLE WAY - it locks it down as copied WotC content (even though you had to type it in and make it work yourself!) and won't let you share it - meaning every single DM who want to run Theros or Ravenloft with Beyond has to PERSONALLY MANUALLY CREATE the gifts they're using. Which is non-trivial, I can tell you.There was an obvious solution to that, too, of course - Beyond could just create the gifts as Feats and thus people who owned the right books could use them. And indeed the Beyond team explicitly acknowledged they could do this. But then refused to, because at any moment now, they'd be able to do it the &quot;right way&quot;. AFAIK, close on 3 years later, we're still waiting...</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Ruin Explorer, post: 8984059, member: 18"] Did they have fix Supernatural Gifts and Dark Gifts, from Theros and Ravenloft respectively, or Piety, from Theros? They repeatedly promised it would be doable by the code-changes they needed to make for Tasha's, then when Tasha's came out, they again promised it would be "soon" for a while before going radio silent about it. What's a particular bonus is you can create the Gifts as Feats, and bizarrely, Beyond has for a very long time let you just arbitrarily add Feats to a character (?! why they picked this particular house rule/behaviour to allow, I have no idea), so the obvious fix would be to do that. Except the absolute brain-geniuses at Beyond coded it so if you share a Feat that looks like a Supernatural Gift or Dark Gift to the system - EVEN THOUGH THOSE GIFTS ARE NOT IN THE SYSTEM IN ANY CLIENT ACCESSIBLE WAY - it locks it down as copied WotC content (even though you had to type it in and make it work yourself!) and won't let you share it - meaning every single DM who want to run Theros or Ravenloft with Beyond has to PERSONALLY MANUALLY CREATE the gifts they're using. Which is non-trivial, I can tell you. There was an obvious solution to that, too, of course - Beyond could just create the gifts as Feats and thus people who owned the right books could use them. And indeed the Beyond team explicitly acknowledged they could do this. But then refused to, because at any moment now, they'd be able to do it the "right way". AFAIK, close on 3 years later, we're still waiting... [/QUOTE]

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