Hi!

I love tooltips, and try to use them whenever I create homebrew for my campaigns. I've noticed what I believe to be a malformed tooltip link for the 2024 rules for "Opportunity Attacks" and I'm hoping to either report it to the appropriate DDB staff or to be helped to understand this odd Tooltip.

It's entirely possible I haven't understood why the Tooltip for the "Opportunity Attacks" rule doesn't seem to work with [rules] tags the same way all of the other rules in the Rule Glossary of the 2024 Player's Handbook that I've used seem to work. Maybe there's a quirky intersection with the Public rules vs. the Proprietary ones and licenses? But, it seems possible this is a genuine and simple mistake in the Tooltips database.

The quick gist is just below. Details are further down. Any insights, advice, or helpful comments are appreciated!

tl;dr:

• I believe maybe the "Opportunity Attack" (singular) Tooltip is broken in the 2 main ways:
  • It uses the [action] tags instead of what it should use, which is [rules] tags
  • Clicking the Tooltip Link takes the user to the D&D Beyond Basic Rules for Actions, which is inconsistent with other Rules found in the Player's Handbook's Rules Glossary
  • This currently works and is the only way I can find to make a Tooltip for OAs.
• I believe the correction to make would be:
  • Use [rules] tags to link to the "Opportunity Attacks" (plural) entry in the Rules Glossary of the 2024 Player's Handbook
    • This currently does not work, in spite of that entry being the mouse-over preview

Details

What Doesn't Work, But Should:

• Using [rules] tags to surround "Opportunity Attacks" to link to the 2024 Player's Handbook Rules Glossary entry on "Opportunity Attacks" (plural).
  • Here is an exploded view of the what I think should work for Opportunity Attacks:
    • [ rules ] Opportunity Attacks [ /rules ]
    • I have added spaces inside the [ ]s to disrupt the tooltip for this example
  • Removing the spaces within the [ ]s in the above string creates a broken tooltip
    
    • [Tooltip Not Found]
  • Using the singular "Opportunity Attack" with [rules] tags results in a failed Tooltip

What Works, But Shouldn't: (Maybe?)

• Using the "action" [tag][/tag] around the string "Opportunity Attack" (singular)
  • Here is an exploded view of the only currently-working tooltip I can find for "Opportunity Attack"
    • [ action ] Opportunity Attack [ /action ]
    • I have added spaces inside the [ ]s to disrupt the tooltip for this example
  • Removing the spaces within the [ ]s in the above string creates a working tooltip
    
    • Opportunity Attack
  • Using the plural "Opportunity Attacks" with [action] tags results in a failed Tooltip

Why I Believe this Tooltip & Link is Malformed:

• The Opportunity Attack Tooltip Should Use [rules] Tags Instead of [action] Tags
  • An Opportunity Attack is not an Action. It's something you can use your Reaction to do if certain triggers happen.
  • While this sounds nit-picky, all other values that you can use the [action] tags to link a tooltip to are full, main Actions (e.g. Attack, Magic, Dash, Disengage, etc.).
  • The [action] tags very much do not include other things you can do, like "Bonus Action" or "Reaction"
    • Putting these in [action] tags will result in a "tool tip not found" error.
• That's because "Bonus Action" and "Reaction" have their own Rules entries in the 2024 Player's Handbook Rules Glossary
• This means you can use the [rules] tags to create tooltips for them

• But, "Opportunity Attack" also has a Rules entry
  • In fact, it's this Rules entry that is seen as the mouse-over preview on my "malformed" link above
  • So, why doesn't surrounding "Opportunity Attack" with [rules] tags result in a valid Tooltip? It does not.
• Weirdly, while the mouse-over pop-up preview of the [Tooltip Not Found] Tooltip seems to show the text from the 2024 Player's Handbook Rules Glossary, clicking the link itself does not take you there
  • Instead, it takes you to the Basic Public Rules section on "Actions", which only mentions Opportunity Attacks in the definition of the Disengage Action.

If you made it this far, thanks for reading!