for the spells items and monsters search pages, you should include the text summary of each category at the top of the search page ... so that if I click the "abberations" icon to search through only abberations, I should get the text summary of what an abberation is at the top of that page ( rather than having to switch to the manual ). This will really help new players, because sometimes people will be searching for something, and not really knowing what they're looking for ( particularly newbies ), so this helps them see a quick description of the category or specific item they're looking at.
Great idea, they might already have this planned as they are planning to add hover text descriptions to a lot of things already. Hopefully this can be included in that!
I did notice just now that the summary for individual items does come up within the search field if you select them, but the category summary does not ... so I'll edit my post to remove the bit about using it for item summaries as that is redundant
Actually there is something else those summaries need ... which is more key information about the items ( which doesn't even appear on the full item page ), such as:
Time and material cost to manufacture ( work hours / days )
mass, volume, number of pieces / parts, weight / volume breakdown per piece / part, other material statistics
environmental interactions / vulnerabilities ( does it rust, sink, combust, smell, shatter - and under what conditions )
environmental variables for alternate dimensions / planes
I think the rest of the information you are looking for would normally largely be up to the DM to give as it might different from campaign to campaign. Non-the-less perhaps a good content idea for Home Brew content in phase 3?
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for the spells items and monsters search pages, you should include the text summary of each category at the top of the search page ... so that if I click the "abberations" icon to search through only abberations, I should get the text summary of what an abberation is at the top of that page ( rather than having to switch to the manual ). This will really help new players, because sometimes people will be searching for something, and not really knowing what they're looking for ( particularly newbies ), so this helps them see a quick description of the category or specific item they're looking at.
Great idea, they might already have this planned as they are planning to add hover text descriptions to a lot of things already. Hopefully this can be included in that!
I did notice just now that the summary for individual items does come up within the search field if you select them, but the category summary does not ... so I'll edit my post to remove the bit about using it for item summaries as that is redundant
Actually there is something else those summaries need ... which is more key information about the items ( which doesn't even appear on the full item page ), such as:
I think all the information that is currently there is SRD content only. As described by the devs here:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/beta-testing-feedback/568-beta-phase-one-basic-rules-content-only
I think the rest of the information you are looking for would normally largely be up to the DM to give as it might different from campaign to campaign. Non-the-less perhaps a good content idea for Home Brew content in phase 3?