I often find myself wanting to search for monsters from the main sourcebooks ie Monster Manual, Volo's Guide, Mordenkainen's Tome, Van Richten's Guide etc. In other words, I want to exclude any monsters that appear in adventure modules. Partly this is to help narrow my search, and partly because I don't want to have adventures spoiled that I haven't played through yet (I am both a DM and a player, so I try to read adventures that I might play in).
Setting those filters every time I search D&D Beyond is becoming a bit frustrating, and it's only going to get more fiddly over time as more sourcebooks get released (like Fizban's Treasury coming up). Initially I thought that this was what the "Core D&D" source category filter would do, but that's not the case. I think a "Non-Adventure Sourcebooks" source category filter would be helpful to a lot of DM,s and probably players too.
The filters are part of the URL, so if 99% of the time you’re always going to filter to the same thing, you can do that base filtering once, and bookmark the results. Then search using the bookmark, and update the bookmark when a new relevant (non-adventure) book comes out.
I often find myself wanting to search for monsters from the main sourcebooks ie Monster Manual, Volo's Guide, Mordenkainen's Tome, Van Richten's Guide etc. In other words, I want to exclude any monsters that appear in adventure modules. Partly this is to help narrow my search, and partly because I don't want to have adventures spoiled that I haven't played through yet (I am both a DM and a player, so I try to read adventures that I might play in).
Setting those filters every time I search D&D Beyond is becoming a bit frustrating, and it's only going to get more fiddly over time as more sourcebooks get released (like Fizban's Treasury coming up). Initially I thought that this was what the "Core D&D" source category filter would do, but that's not the case. I think a "Non-Adventure Sourcebooks" source category filter would be helpful to a lot of DM,s and probably players too.
The filters are part of the URL, so if 99% of the time you’re always going to filter to the same thing, you can do that base filtering once, and bookmark the results. Then search using the bookmark, and update the bookmark when a new relevant (non-adventure) book comes out.
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