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Partial compendium sharing

Hi - I was wondering if it is possible to only share part of a compendium with my players? I have the Acquisitions Incorporated resource, which contains both players options and an adventure, which I am planning to run my players through. When I turn on the sharing of the Acq Inc compendium my players can see all of the adventure in-game, which is obviously not great. I'd like to be able to turn those elements off, but still give them access to the backgrounds, character options etc. that come with the Acq Inc kit. Thanks for your help
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keithcurtis
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Absolutely. This feature was added a couple of weeks ago. On your game settings page, there is now a Compendium Sharing Settings flip down section. You can select exactly which compendiums are available in your campaign. Details .
But I think the OP wants to share only the player options from a book, and not the adventure in the same book. I would say, cheaters are cheating themselves. But if you find them acting on "forbidden knowledge," be prepared to move some creatures around or swap them entirely to keep them surprised.
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keithcurtis
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They shouldn't be seeing the adventure. That's module content, presented as handouts in-game, not Compendium content. Can you give an example of an adventure bit they are seeing?
See the screenshot below. If a player goes to the 'compendium' tab and looks at items with the category 'adventure', they can see the module text (below is from the hook for the module, but should be GM only). I took this from my account logged in as a player, but I have tested with a player account and they can see it too. They don't see anything in the handout tab.
I complained about this sort of thing a week or two ago. Although the update to include or not include purchased content in a game's compendium is a great feature, it does need the extra step of limiting content at the player level. For example, I want the Monster Manual available to me as DM/Creator of my game, but I don't want my players access to it in Roll20. And I know "you can't prevent players from accessing it from other sources", I just don't want it to be like placing the Monster Manual on the table as if on a silver platter.