I am running Princes of the Apocalypse and for a story reason I wanted to see if the book had any mention of The Stone Bridge, and so I opened the book prepared to search for "The Stone Bridge" to see if the phrase showed up anywhere and imagine my surprise to learn that the books are not searchable.
What's the justification for not including such an obviously useful tool?
I'm talking about searching within a specific book. It's just baffling to me that such a simple tool does not exist. If I open a PDF I can search for a word or phrase, but not in D&D Beyond book?
Valid point, but I doubt we are getting any QOL new features in D&D Beyond for a while so I was just offering an alternative approach to using the awful search tools within D&D Beyond. It's not ideal but it is fairly quick.
I'm talking about searching within a specific book. It's just baffling to me that such a simple tool does not exist. If I open a PDF I can search for a word or phrase, but not in D&D Beyond book?
Ahh, I get it. Yes, I 100% agree with you.
Especially now that legacy items do not appear in lists like Spells, I am finding that I have to search the 2014 PHB for content.
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I am running Princes of the Apocalypse and for a story reason I wanted to see if the book had any mention of The Stone Bridge, and so I opened the book prepared to search for "The Stone Bridge" to see if the phrase showed up anywhere and imagine my surprise to learn that the books are not searchable.
What's the justification for not including such an obviously useful tool?
The "Search Everything" box at the top searches the text of all the books. If you filter the results to "Compendium" you'll just get text results.
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Are you referring to the search box powered by wild magic? Searching on this site is like investing in scratch off lottery tickets.
Google:
"the stone bridge" site:dndbeyond.com
I'm talking about searching within a specific book. It's just baffling to me that such a simple tool does not exist. If I open a PDF I can search for a word or phrase, but not in D&D Beyond book?
Open the book in D&D Beyond, CTRL - F.
The problem with this approach is that each chapter is a separate page. You can't search the entire book at once this way.
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Valid point, but I doubt we are getting any QOL new features in D&D Beyond for a while so I was just offering an alternative approach to using the awful search tools within D&D Beyond. It's not ideal but it is fairly quick.
Ahh, I get it. Yes, I 100% agree with you.
Especially now that legacy items do not appear in lists like Spells, I am finding that I have to search the 2014 PHB for content.