I was looking at the monster page, and realized that the first page is 100% useless. This is just bad UX, as there is exactly zero people who use the page where its ordered in alphabetical order.
I got an idea that would be extremely beneficial for me as a DM when needing a monster in a hurry. Keep the normal monster search feature at the top, thats fine. But change the first results to Three dropdown buttons. 1. Campaign - Pick a campaign and its actors, like what we have in the encounter builder. 2. Enviornment - Pick an (or multiple) enviornment (optional) 3. Types - Pick a monster type (or multiple) (optional)
The search would then be for monsters that are within the DMGs guide for appropriate CR's, and could be ordered into buckets of how dangerous they are. Buckets like minions, standard and elite or something, (each "bucket" is a column you can scroll freely in)
So I could scroll down in each and find monsters that make sense, also I would be able to see a elite monster and scroll to find a corresponding minion monster to have by its side. Just imagine how fast that would be, also it would have no negative effect on the general user, as no-one actually uses that first result page anyway.
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I was looking at the monster page, and realized that the first page is 100% useless.
This is just bad UX, as there is exactly zero people who use the page where its ordered in alphabetical order.
I got an idea that would be extremely beneficial for me as a DM when needing a monster in a hurry.
Keep the normal monster search feature at the top, thats fine.
But change the first results to Three dropdown buttons.
1. Campaign - Pick a campaign and its actors, like what we have in the encounter builder.
2. Enviornment - Pick an (or multiple) enviornment (optional)
3. Types - Pick a monster type (or multiple) (optional)
The search would then be for monsters that are within the DMGs guide for appropriate CR's, and could be ordered into buckets of how dangerous they are.
Buckets like minions, standard and elite or something, (each "bucket" is a column you can scroll freely in)
So I could scroll down in each and find monsters that make sense, also I would be able to see a elite monster and scroll to find a corresponding minion monster to have by its side.
Just imagine how fast that would be, also it would have no negative effect on the general user, as no-one actually uses that first result page anyway.