As it is, the search function is only useful if you already know what you want to find.
Case in point - I was trying to find the rules about how long one can hold their breath underwater before drowning.
Of course none of the keywords like "hold breath", "drown", "drowning", "holding breath", "underwater" or any imanigable combination or mutation would show any relevant information that I was looking for. Turns out that you have to be very specific and search for "Suffocating" (not, for example "Suffocate") to accidentally stumble upon the rules in PHB related to this question. C'mon, guys, I know you can do better.
Still, it is not the first nor the only time where I have struggled to find relevant rules information on DDB, and as such feel that there is some significant UX improvement to be made.
Yeah, the search should sort be relevancy (rules references should be most relevant), it should search different tenses of the word and related terms, and it should support searching phrases with quotations and exclude terms with a minus. This is search engine 101, standards set like 20 years ago.
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TLDR: Please fix search.
As it is, the search function is only useful if you already know what you want to find.
Case in point - I was trying to find the rules about how long one can hold their breath underwater before drowning.
Of course none of the keywords like "hold breath", "drown", "drowning", "holding breath", "underwater" or any imanigable combination or mutation would show any relevant information that I was looking for. Turns out that you have to be very specific and search for "Suffocating" (not, for example "Suffocate") to accidentally stumble upon the rules in PHB related to this question. C'mon, guys, I know you can do better.
If you search for Hold Breath and filter on compendium results, suffocating and the rules you were looking for are the first result.
Thank you, dndmd, it's good to know!
Still, it is not the first nor the only time where I have struggled to find relevant rules information on DDB, and as such feel that there is some significant UX improvement to be made.
Yeah, the search should sort be relevancy (rules references should be most relevant), it should search different tenses of the word and related terms, and it should support searching phrases with quotations and exclude terms with a minus. This is search engine 101, standards set like 20 years ago.