Could you come up with associated monsters as a field as well? It would make building encounters significantly easier if you know for instance that Behir are associated with Stone Giants friendly, while Behir hate dragons.
Its a Mechanical Turk job. You'd have to read the monster description in the existing manual and then check off in an Excel &/or Database what they work with or oppose. They've already done something similar to this for the area where monsters are located. The current monster manuals don't include this, but D&D Beyond does. Hence why D&D Beyond > Paper Monster Manual.
Like I said, if WotC does it, it will be on DDB. Also, there are 11 environments, but a list of allies and enemies would have to crossreference hundreds of monsters.
Just base it off the monster manual(s) for 5E and its good. You don't have to review 4E and earlier for this. Again, its a relatively easy thing to do. It would take me less than 8 hours to build the database and web forms to do the data input. But even then, they already have that capability in house.
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Could you come up with associated monsters as a field as well? It would make building encounters significantly easier if you know for instance that Behir are associated with Stone Giants friendly, while Behir hate dragons.
That would be kind of setting specific, but not a bad idea.
I don't see DDB making a tag/lists like this without WotC making an official tag/list first.
Its a Mechanical Turk job. You'd have to read the monster description in the existing manual and then check off in an Excel &/or Database what they work with or oppose. They've already done something similar to this for the area where monsters are located. The current monster manuals don't include this, but D&D Beyond does. Hence why D&D Beyond > Paper Monster Manual.
The environment tags come from DMG: https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg/appendix-b-monster-lists
Like I said, if WotC does it, it will be on DDB. Also, there are 11 environments, but a list of allies and enemies would have to crossreference hundreds of monsters.
Just base it off the monster manual(s) for 5E and its good. You don't have to review 4E and earlier for this. Again, its a relatively easy thing to do. It would take me less than 8 hours to build the database and web forms to do the data input. But even then, they already have that capability in house.