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New Compendium settings toggle appears in game that doesn't use Compendium

February 22 (5 months ago)
Gold
Forum Champion

It's a Jumpgate game that has a community-created Character Sheet for a game system that doesn't have Roll20 Compendium.

The New Compendium toggle doesn't need to appear in Settings here when Compendium isn't an available tab. 


February 23 (5 months ago)

This Button is ALWAYS there. YES it is unnecessary when compendium in general is not available (because you use a community sheet), but I highly doubt this is going to change...

February 23 (5 months ago)
Gold
Forum Champion

It'll become a useful button whenever Roll20 pays attention to this Top Suggestion in the suggestions forum:

https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/2940484/custom-compendium


February 26 (5 months ago)

Gold said:

It'll become a useful button whenever Roll20 pays attention to this Top Suggestion in the suggestions forum:

https://app.roll20.net/forum/post/2940484/custom-compendium


Whenever is the keyword here... They are afraid of copyright infringements due to sharing custom content which can be basically anything... Given that it is not possible to completely delete messages in chat but only hide them points to that as well (in case they need those messages, Roll20 can save and use them...)

February 27 (5 months ago)
Gold
Forum Champion

Anything you could put into a Custom Compendium you could already put into a Handout, so that's not it. 

February 27 (5 months ago)

Or a character sheet. My "library" game contains scores of tweaked NPC character sheets based on ones pulled from purchased compendiums, and as a Pro subscriber I can use transmogrify to copy them between all of my games. If I would make them as PC character sheets, I could even use the character vault to import then into games on other accounts.

Gold said:

Anything you could put into a Custom Compendium you could already put into a Handout, so that's not it. 


February 27 (5 months ago)


Gold said:

Anything you could put into a Custom Compendium you could already put into a Handout, so that's not it. 

You can share a Handout with your Players in that game, but unless Players save the contents of said handout, they cannot use it in other games! IF however those contents were part of a compendium that you share, than your players have access to this even outside this game and can do whatever they want with it... and THAT's the Problem here... Please correct me if I am wrong.

February 28 (4 months ago)
Gold
Forum Champion

Roll20 Staff has posted saying the obstruction to Custom Compendium was the format/difficulty of the data entry. 

Is there any statement from Roll20 that sharing is a factor in implementing Custom Compendiums? (No, there is not)