A few things on monster use - I hope this hasn't been hashed out somewhere else already.
I've purchased the Monster Manual. I found a few issues regarding some monster entries and the corresponding Monster Manual entries, I'm assuming tere are other instances of the listed behaviors.
I'll use the Salamander as my First example:
There is no indication in the monsters section/listing that the Fire Snake is type of Salamander. Additionally, since there is no linking from the monsters section entry to the corresponding monster in the compendium monster manual, you would somehow need to know that this relationship exists, because there is no listing for the Fire Snake in the Monster Manual index. Searching for fire snake linkd to the Monster section entry first (good), and the MM listing 7th in the results (not so good). I don't see a way to search the actual text of just one compendium source.
The point? well I think there should be a direct link from the Monster section entries to the corresponding compendium content. If there is one I'm not seeing it. Also, I love the "search everything" capability. It is great. Also, I love the filters on the monsters, items, and spells section. But I think there should be a targeted text search in the compendium sources as well.
Second I'll pick on Aboleth:
The monster entry does not contain Lair actions. And, unless I go seek out the MM entry, I would never know that the Aboleth has lair actions (which as mentioned above is not linked)
ALSO, On the Aboleth, the "source" shown at the bottom is the "basic rules" which is of course correct. However, I need to just somehow know that the Aboleth is also listed in the MM in order to look it up and know it has Lair actions.
A quick fix for these issues would be to list ANY compendium source the Monster is found in at the bottom of the entry, and make those links to the entry in the compendium source.
Of course it is also possible that I'm "doing it wrong" please let me know if that is true.
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A few things on monster use - I hope this hasn't been hashed out somewhere else already.
I've purchased the Monster Manual. I found a few issues regarding some monster entries and the corresponding Monster Manual entries, I'm assuming tere are other instances of the listed behaviors.
I'll use the Salamander as my First example:
There is no indication in the monsters section/listing that the Fire Snake is type of Salamander. Additionally, since there is no linking from the monsters section entry to the corresponding monster in the compendium monster manual, you would somehow need to know that this relationship exists, because there is no listing for the Fire Snake in the Monster Manual index. Searching for fire snake linkd to the Monster section entry first (good), and the MM listing 7th in the results (not so good). I don't see a way to search the actual text of just one compendium source.
The point? well I think there should be a direct link from the Monster section entries to the corresponding compendium content. If there is one I'm not seeing it. Also, I love the "search everything" capability. It is great. Also, I love the filters on the monsters, items, and spells section. But I think there should be a targeted text search in the compendium sources as well.
Second I'll pick on Aboleth:
The monster entry does not contain Lair actions. And, unless I go seek out the MM entry, I would never know that the Aboleth has lair actions (which as mentioned above is not linked)
ALSO, On the Aboleth, the "source" shown at the bottom is the "basic rules" which is of course correct. However, I need to just somehow know that the Aboleth is also listed in the MM in order to look it up and know it has Lair actions.
A quick fix for these issues would be to list ANY compendium source the Monster is found in at the bottom of the entry, and make those links to the entry in the compendium source.
Of course it is also possible that I'm "doing it wrong" please let me know if that is true.
Legendary Bundle ~ Master Tier