It took a little while but I went through Volo's Guide to Monsters and noticed the following things that might warrant changing.
Chapter 1: Monster Lore
In the Variant Abilities section, there is an extra space before the period at the end of the first sentence in the 3rd paragraph.
Chapter 2: Character Races
In the Light Bearer feature of the Aasimar Traits section, the word light in the first sentence should link to the light spell.
Chapter 3: Bestiary
In the introduction, the words chapter 1 at the end of the 1st paragraph and in the fourth sentence of the last paragraph should link to chapter 1 of VGtM. Also the words chapter 2 in the last sentence of the last paragraph should link to chapter 2 of VGtM.
Monsters A-E
In the Ravaged Soul feature of the Bodak section, the word wish in the second sentence should link to the wish spell.
In the Boggle Oil feature of the Boggle stat block, the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs should be their own paragraphs instead of separated by a line break. Also, in the Oil Puddle feature, the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs have an extra line-break in front of them.
In the Cave Fisher section, the word Ambushers at the start of the 2nd paragraph should be italicized as well.
In the Chitine stat block, the titles of the Fey Ancestry, Sunlight Sensitivity, Web Sense, and Web Walker features should also be italicized.
In the Shoosuva stat block, the words Con +6, Wis +5 should not be bolded.
In the Imprison Soul feature of the Devourer stat block, the words zombie, ghoul, and wight should link to the zombie, ghoul, and wight monsters respectively.
In all of the stat blocks in the Dinosaurs section, the titles of the various features and actions should be bolded and italicized.
Monsters F-H
In the Firenewt Warrior stat block, the title of the Amphibious feature should also be italicized.
In the Firenewt Warlock of Imix stat block, the titles of the Amphibious and Spellcasting features should also be italicized.
In the Bite action of the Froghemoth stat block, there is an extra line-break before the second paragraph.
In the Mouth of Madness feature of the Mouth of Grolantor stat block, the second sentence should be its own paragraph rather than separated by a line-break.
In the Hobgoblin Devastator stat block, the word Arcana in the title of the Army Arcana feature should not link to the Arcana skill.
Monsters K-M
In the Regional Effects subsection of the Ki-rin section, the words control weather in the fourth bullet point should link to the control weather spell.
In the Weapon Invention feature of the Kobold Inventor stat block, the words swarm of insects in the 3rd and 8th options should link to the swarm of insects monster, the words swarm of rot grubs in the 5th option should link to the swarm of rot grubs monster, and the word scorpion in the 6th option should link to the scorpion monster
In the Sorcery Points feature of the Kobold Scale Sorcerer stat block, the Subtle Spell option should be its own paragraph.
In the Innate Spellcasting feature of the Korred stat block, the words galeb duhr, gargoyle, earth elemental, and xorn should link to their respective monsters.
In the Alhoon stat block, the words Armor Class, Hit Points, and Speed in the first section should be bolded.
In the Variant: Mind Flayer Lich (Illithilich) side bar, the formatting should mirror that of a monster stat block with each ability being its own paragraph rather than separated by line breaks and with appropriate Action and Legendary Action section headers.
In the Lair Actions subsection of the Elder Brain section, the words wall of force in the first bullet point should link to the wall of force spell.
In the Lair Actions subsection of the Morkoth section, the words darkness, dispel magic, and misty step in the second bullet point should link to their respective spells.
In the Hypnosis action of the Morkoth stat block, the word Dash in the fourth sentence should link to the Dash action.
Monsters N-O
In the Nilbogism feature of the Nilbog stat block, there is an extra line-break before the 2nd paragraph. Also, in the Nimble Escape feature, the word Disengage should link to the Disengage action.
In the Cunning Action feature of the Orc Red Fang of Shargaas stat block, the words Dash and Disengage should link to the Dash and Disengage actions respectively.
In the Sea Spawn of Purple Rocks side bar, the word kraken should link to the kraken in both paragraphs. Also, in the 2nd paragraph the words Kraken priests, merfolk, and merrow should link to the Kraken priest, merfolk, and merrow monsters respectively.
In the Slithering Tracker stat block, there is a blank line at the start of the feature section that should be removed. Also, the word Stealth in the the title of the Watery Stealth feature should not link to the Stealth skill.
Monsters Q-S
In the Outsize Strength feature of the Redcap stat block, the word heavy should link to the heavy weapon property.
Apendix B: Nonplayer Characters
In the Archdruid section, the word druids in the third paragraph should link to the druids monster.
In the Archer stat block, in the Senses list the word passive should not be bolded and the word Perception should not link to the Perception skill.
In the Bard stat block, the word Perception in the Senses list should not link to the Perception skill.
In the Kraken Priest section, the word kraken (when not followed by the word priest) should link to the kraken monster.
In theVoice of the Kraken feature of the Kraken Priest stat block, the word kraken in the first and second sentences should link to the kraken monster.
In the Cunning Action feature of the Master Thief stat block, the words Dash and Disengage should link to the Dash and Disengage actions respectively.
In the Lightfooted feature of the Swashbuckler stat block, the word Dash should link to the Dash action.
Thank you for this list. I have gone through it and fixed the majority of these. There were one or two I was unable to fix, and will pass those along.
Thanks for the fast work! You got most of them! For ease of reference, here are the ones I noticed still needed to be changed (as well as two new ones in the Dinosaur section).
Chapter 3: Bestiary
In the Ravaged Soul feature of the Bodak section, the word wish in the second sentence should link to the wish spell.
In the Boggle Oil feature of the Boggle stat block, the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs should be their own paragraphs instead of separated by a line break.
In the Hadrosaurus stat block, the Actions header should be changed to match other stat blocks.
In the Stegosaurus stat block, the Actions header should be changed to match other stat blocks.
In the Variant: Mind Flayer Lich (Illithilich) side bar, the formatting should mirror that of a monster stat block with each ability being its own paragraph rather than separated by line breaks and with appropriate Action and Legendary Action section headers.
In the Hypnosis action of the Morkoth stat block, the word Dash in the fourth sentence should link to the Dash action.
In the Slithering Tracker stat block, the Ambusher feature should be changed to match the other features in the feature section (it currently is set to class 'Stat-Block-Styles_Stat-Block-Bar-Object-Space--Last-Bar-' instead of 'Stat-Block-Styles_Stat-Block-Body' like the other features in that section).
Apendix B: Nonplayer Characters
In the Bard stat block, the word Perception in the Senses list should not link to the Perception skill.
In the Kraken Priest section, there is a [Tooltip Not Found] error in the middle of the second sentence of the 2nd paragraph that should link to the kraken monster.
I've also noticed two subtle issues with the Actions headers for a few monsters. For the Devourer and Vargouille stat blocks, the Actions header is formatted slightly differently than that of other creature stat blocks and there is a red horizontal line before the Actions header rather than after. Also, for the stat blocks of the Brontosaurus, Dimetrodon, Stegosaurus, Guard Drake, and Tlincalli, there is an extra horizontal line before the Actions header.
And lastly, at least on my end of thing it looks like the red horizontal lines after the Actions and Legendary Actions headers is thinner than the horizontal lines separating the other sections within the various monster stat blocks. This isn't a major issue but it might be something worth looking into.
I fixed the Devourer and Varouille problem, but for the rest, the red line after the "Challenge" section is consistent with the rest of the books. Here an example.
Ah I see, those lines mark the end of the Abilities section (or at least what I call it). And checking with the books this is indeed how the formatting should look. This also explains the difference in the line thickness I noted for the lines underneath the headers for the Actions, Reactions, and Legendary Actions section. Everything looks good then! Thanks again for all the help!
I was reading through the mind flayer section of chapter 1 in Volo's Guide to Monsters and came across a few typesetting and linking issues.
Mind Flayers: Scourge of Worlds
In the section "The Elder Brain", in the last paragraph "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
In the section "Strategic Principles", the first sentence of the second, third, and fourth paragraphs ("Control.", "Destruction.", and "Subversion." respectively) should be bolded and italicized.
In the section "Qualith", in the last sentence the term "comprehend languages" should link to the comprehend languages spell.
In the section "Mindwitnesses", in the last sentence "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
In the section "Neothelids", in the last sentence "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
In the section "Arcane Magic", in the last paragraph "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
In the section "Divine Magic", the first sentence of the second and third paragraphs ("Maanzecorian." and "Ilsensine." respectively) should be bolded and italicized.
In the section "Survival Mantle", in the last sentence the terms "cloudkill" and "stinking cloud" should link to the cloudkill and stinking cloud spells respectively.
You got most of them, but it looks like the lead sentences in "Strategic Principles" still need to be bolded and italicized (looking later in the chapter it looks like class="Serif-Character-Style_Inline-Subhead-Serif" is what's needed to get the formatting correct), and in "Qualith" the link to the comprehend languages spell appears to be missing the final "]".
I took a look through the Beholders section of chapter 1 as well and found some additional typesetting and linking issues.
Beholders: Bad Dreams Come True
In the section "Birth of a Beholder", in the fifth sentence of the second paragraph "Beholder-Kin" should link to the "Beholder-kin" section of the same chapter.
In the section "Beholder-kin", in the first sentence of the second paragraph "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters. Also in the same paragraph, "death kiss" in the second sentence should link to the death kiss monster, "Gazers" in the third sentence should link to the gazer monster, "spectator" in the fourth sentence should link to the spectator monster, and "gauth" in the fifth sentence should link to the gauth monster.
In the Beholder Ideals table, the inline header for each line of the "Ideal" column should be bolded and not italicized (should have class="Sans-Serif-Character-Styles_Bold-Sans-Serif" instead of class="CharOverride-1").
In the section "Use Antimagic Freely", in the first sentence of the first paragraph "blur" and "invisibility" should link to the blur and invisibility spells respectively.
In the first sentence of the last paragraph "wall of fire" and "wall of force" should link to the wall of fire and wall of force spells respectively.
In the section "Treasure", in the last paragraph "eversmoking bottle" in the third sentence should link to the eversmoking bottle magic item, and "staff of the python" in the fourth sentence should link to the staff of the python magic item.
In the Beholder Lesser Minions table, in the third row "bugbear chiefs" should link to the bugbear chief monster. Also the last row should be left aligned, there should be a line break between "zombies." and "**", and "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
In the Beholder Pets table, the text in the last row should be left aligned and "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
The monsters linked in the above three tables should be updated to use the new linking options for linking to plural monster names, e.g., "bandits" should link to bandits instead of bandits. The way these are now looks fine in the browser version of the book but look off in the mobile app version.
Hi samthnnud, I have fixed those. Still haven't solved the left alignment in the tables (the code seems to have the left alignment but it is not reproduced). Anyway, thank you deeply. Now, where is the Iron Flask...
Here are a few more linking issues from chapter 1.
Beholders: Bad Dreams Come True
In the section "Beholder-kin", in the first sentence of the second paragraph "Chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monster.
Giants: World Shakers
In the section "Giants and Magic", in the third sentence of the last paragraph "glyph of warding" and "symbol" should link to the glyph of warding and symbol spells respectively.
Gnolls: The Insatiable Hunger
In the Special Creatures table, the monster links should be updated to use the new linking options for linking to plural monster names.
Hags: Dark Sisterhood
In the section "Weird Magic", in the last sentence of the second paragraph "Charms" should link to https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg/other-rewards#Charms instead of https://www.dndbeyond.com/compendium/rules/dmg/treasure#Charms (this won't entirely fix the link though, since the header for the Charm section in this chapter doesn't have an anchor id assigned to it, so that should probably be changed as well, but it at least will take you to the right half of chapter 7 in the DMG). Also, I'm not sure of the exact policy on this, so this may be a non-issue, but in the same sentence both "chapter 7" and "Dungeon Master’s Guide" don't link to anything.
In the sections "Types of Hags", in the first sentence of the second paragraph "Annis hags" should link to the annis hag monster, in the first sentence of the third paragraph "Bheur hags" should link to the bheur hag monster, in the first sentence of the fourth paragraph "Green hags" should link to the green hag monster, in the first sentence of the fifth paragraph "Night hags" should link to the night hag monster, and in the first sentence of the last paragraph "Sea hags" should link to the sea hag monster.
In the section "Lair Actions", in the first sentence of the second paragraph "annis hag" should link to the annis hag monster, in the first sentence of the third paragraph "bheur hag" should link to the bheur hag monster, in the first sentence of the fourth paragraph "green hag" should link to the green hag monster, in the first sentence of the fifth paragraph "night hag" should link to the night hag monster, and in the first sentence of the last paragraph "sea hag" should link to the sea hag monster.
In the section "Regional Effects", in the first sentence of the second paragraph "annis hag" should link to the annis hag monster, in the first sentence of the third paragraph "bheur hag" should link to the bheur hag monster, in the first sentence of the fourth paragraph "green hag" should link to the green hag monster, in the first sentence of the fifth paragraph "night hag" should link to the night hag monster, and in the first sentence of the last paragraph "sea hag" should link to the sea hag monster.
In the Servants table, the monster links should be updated to use the new linking options for linking to plural monster names.
In the Brutes table, the monster links should be updated to use the new linking options for linking to plural monster names.
Thanks again. Some of your suggestions don't match the branding and style rules agreed between D&D Beyond and Wizards of the Coast for representing the sourcebooks. We'll definitely be taking a pass through this sourcebook to look for quality improvements.
Your suggestions are appreciated, as it gives us an idea where to look for improvements.
Thanks Stormknight! I expect that at least some of the things I point out won't need to be changed for those reasons. Over time I've picked up on some of the nuances but I'm certain there are many that still elude me. As always, thanks for taking the time to look through these posts and keep up the great work!
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It took a little while but I went through Volo's Guide to Monsters and noticed the following things that might warrant changing.
Chapter 1: Monster Lore
In the Variant Abilities section, there is an extra space before the period at the end of the first sentence in the 3rd paragraph.
Chapter 2: Character Races
In the Light Bearer feature of the Aasimar Traits section, the word light in the first sentence should link to the light spell.
Chapter 3: Bestiary
In the introduction, the words chapter 1 at the end of the 1st paragraph and in the fourth sentence of the last paragraph should link to chapter 1 of VGtM. Also the words chapter 2 in the last sentence of the last paragraph should link to chapter 2 of VGtM.
Monsters A-E
In the Ravaged Soul feature of the Bodak section, the word wish in the second sentence should link to the wish spell.
In the Boggle Oil feature of the Boggle stat block, the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs should be their own paragraphs instead of separated by a line break. Also, in the Oil Puddle feature, the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs have an extra line-break in front of them.
In the Cave Fisher section, the word Ambushers at the start of the 2nd paragraph should be italicized as well.
In the Chitine stat block, the titles of the Fey Ancestry, Sunlight Sensitivity, Web Sense, and Web Walker features should also be italicized.
In the Shoosuva stat block, the words Con +6, Wis +5 should not be bolded.
In the Imprison Soul feature of the Devourer stat block, the words zombie, ghoul, and wight should link to the zombie, ghoul, and wight monsters respectively.
In all of the stat blocks in the Dinosaurs section, the titles of the various features and actions should be bolded and italicized.
Monsters F-H
In the Firenewt Warrior stat block, the title of the Amphibious feature should also be italicized.
In the Firenewt Warlock of Imix stat block, the titles of the Amphibious and Spellcasting features should also be italicized.
In the Bite action of the Froghemoth stat block, there is an extra line-break before the second paragraph.
In the Mouth of Madness feature of the Mouth of Grolantor stat block, the second sentence should be its own paragraph rather than separated by a line-break.
In the Hobgoblin Devastator stat block, the word Arcana in the title of the Army Arcana feature should not link to the Arcana skill.
Monsters K-M
In the Regional Effects subsection of the Ki-rin section, the words control weather in the fourth bullet point should link to the control weather spell.
In the Weapon Invention feature of the Kobold Inventor stat block, the words swarm of insects in the 3rd and 8th options should link to the swarm of insects monster, the words swarm of rot grubs in the 5th option should link to the swarm of rot grubs monster, and the word scorpion in the 6th option should link to the scorpion monster
In the Sorcery Points feature of the Kobold Scale Sorcerer stat block, the Subtle Spell option should be its own paragraph.
In the Innate Spellcasting feature of the Korred stat block, the words galeb duhr, gargoyle, earth elemental, and xorn should link to their respective monsters.
In the Alhoon stat block, the words Armor Class, Hit Points, and Speed in the first section should be bolded.
In the Variant: Mind Flayer Lich (Illithilich) side bar, the formatting should mirror that of a monster stat block with each ability being its own paragraph rather than separated by line breaks and with appropriate Action and Legendary Action section headers.
In the Lair Actions subsection of the Elder Brain section, the words wall of force in the first bullet point should link to the wall of force spell.
In the Lair Actions subsection of the Morkoth section, the words darkness, dispel magic, and misty step in the second bullet point should link to their respective spells.
In the Hypnosis action of the Morkoth stat block, the word Dash in the fourth sentence should link to the Dash action.
Monsters N-O
In the Nilbogism feature of the Nilbog stat block, there is an extra line-break before the 2nd paragraph. Also, in the Nimble Escape feature, the word Disengage should link to the Disengage action.
In the Cunning Action feature of the Orc Red Fang of Shargaas stat block, the words Dash and Disengage should link to the Dash and Disengage actions respectively.
In the Sea Spawn of Purple Rocks side bar, the word kraken should link to the kraken in both paragraphs. Also, in the 2nd paragraph the words Kraken priests, merfolk, and merrow should link to the Kraken priest, merfolk, and merrow monsters respectively.
In the Slithering Tracker stat block, there is a blank line at the start of the feature section that should be removed. Also, the word Stealth in the the title of the Watery Stealth feature should not link to the Stealth skill.
Monsters Q-S
In the Outsize Strength feature of the Redcap stat block, the word heavy should link to the heavy weapon property.
Apendix B: Nonplayer Characters
In the Archdruid section, the word druids in the third paragraph should link to the druids monster.
In the Archer stat block, in the Senses list the word passive should not be bolded and the word Perception should not link to the Perception skill.
In the Bard stat block, the word Perception in the Senses list should not link to the Perception skill.
In the Kraken Priest section, the word kraken (when not followed by the word priest) should link to the kraken monster.
In theVoice of the Kraken feature of the Kraken Priest stat block, the word kraken in the first and second sentences should link to the kraken monster.
In the Cunning Action feature of the Master Thief stat block, the words Dash and Disengage should link to the Dash and Disengage actions respectively.
In the Lightfooted feature of the Swashbuckler stat block, the word Dash should link to the Dash action.
In the Warlock of the Archfey section, the words boggles, quicklings, redcaps, satyrs, and sprites should link to the boggle, quickling, redcap, satyr, and sprite monsters respectively.
In the Warlock of the Fiend section, the words imps and quasits should link to the imp and quasit monsters respectively.
Hello samohtnnud!
Thank you for this list. I have gone through it and fixed the majority of these. There were one or two I was unable to fix, and will pass those along.
A dwarf with a canoe on his back? What could go wrong?
Thanks for the fast work! You got most of them! For ease of reference, here are the ones I noticed still needed to be changed (as well as two new ones in the Dinosaur section).
Chapter 3: Bestiary
In the Ravaged Soul feature of the Bodak section, the word wish in the second sentence should link to the wish spell.
In the Boggle Oil feature of the Boggle stat block, the 2nd and 3rd paragraphs should be their own paragraphs instead of separated by a line break.
In the Hadrosaurus stat block, the Actions header should be changed to match other stat blocks.
In the Stegosaurus stat block, the Actions header should be changed to match other stat blocks.
In the Variant: Mind Flayer Lich (Illithilich) side bar, the formatting should mirror that of a monster stat block with each ability being its own paragraph rather than separated by line breaks and with appropriate Action and Legendary Action section headers.
In the Hypnosis action of the Morkoth stat block, the word Dash in the fourth sentence should link to the Dash action.
In the Slithering Tracker stat block, the Ambusher feature should be changed to match the other features in the feature section (it currently is set to class 'Stat-Block-Styles_Stat-Block-Bar-Object-Space--Last-Bar-' instead of 'Stat-Block-Styles_Stat-Block-Body' like the other features in that section).
Apendix B: Nonplayer Characters
In the Bard stat block, the word Perception in the Senses list should not link to the Perception skill.
In the Kraken Priest section, there is a [Tooltip Not Found] error in the middle of the second sentence of the 2nd paragraph that should link to the kraken monster.
Hi samohtnnud
I fixed the rest of those issues. It remains only the sidebar of the Illithilich. Need to check with the staff.
Thank as always!
Looks good filcat!
I've also noticed two subtle issues with the Actions headers for a few monsters. For the Devourer and Vargouille stat blocks, the Actions header is formatted slightly differently than that of other creature stat blocks and there is a red horizontal line before the Actions header rather than after. Also, for the stat blocks of the Brontosaurus, Dimetrodon, Stegosaurus, Guard Drake, and Tlincalli, there is an extra horizontal line before the Actions header.
And lastly, at least on my end of thing it looks like the red horizontal lines after the Actions and Legendary Actions headers is thinner than the horizontal lines separating the other sections within the various monster stat blocks. This isn't a major issue but it might be something worth looking into.
I fixed the Devourer and Varouille problem, but for the rest, the red line after the "Challenge" section is consistent with the rest of the books. Here an example.
Ah I see, those lines mark the end of the Abilities section (or at least what I call it). And checking with the books this is indeed how the formatting should look. This also explains the difference in the line thickness I noted for the lines underneath the headers for the Actions, Reactions, and Legendary Actions section. Everything looks good then! Thanks again for all the help!
I was reading through the mind flayer section of chapter 1 in Volo's Guide to Monsters and came across a few typesetting and linking issues.
Mind Flayers: Scourge of Worlds
In the section "The Elder Brain", in the last paragraph "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
In the section "Strategic Principles", the first sentence of the second, third, and fourth paragraphs ("Control.", "Destruction.", and "Subversion." respectively) should be bolded and italicized.
In the section "Qualith", in the last sentence the term "comprehend languages" should link to the comprehend languages spell.
In the section "Mindwitnesses", in the last sentence "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
In the section "Neothelids", in the last sentence "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
In the section "Arcane Magic", in the last paragraph "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
In the section "Divine Magic", the first sentence of the second and third paragraphs ("Maanzecorian." and "Ilsensine." respectively) should be bolded and italicized.
In the section "Survival Mantle", in the last sentence the terms "cloudkill" and "stinking cloud" should link to the cloudkill and stinking cloud spells respectively.
These are fixed. Thanks!
Thanks for the quick fixes!
You got most of them, but it looks like the lead sentences in "Strategic Principles" still need to be bolded and italicized (looking later in the chapter it looks like class="Serif-Character-Style_Inline-Subhead-Serif" is what's needed to get the formatting correct), and in "Qualith" the link to the comprehend languages spell appears to be missing the final "]".
Ops, yep, now there are fixed. Thanks again!
I took a look through the Beholders section of chapter 1 as well and found some additional typesetting and linking issues.
Beholders: Bad Dreams Come True
In the section "Birth of a Beholder", in the fifth sentence of the second paragraph "Beholder-Kin" should link to the "Beholder-kin" section of the same chapter.
In the section "Beholder-kin", in the first sentence of the second paragraph "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters. Also in the same paragraph, "death kiss" in the second sentence should link to the death kiss monster, "Gazers" in the third sentence should link to the gazer monster, "spectator" in the fourth sentence should link to the spectator monster, and "gauth" in the fifth sentence should link to the gauth monster.
In the Beholder Ideals table, the inline header for each line of the "Ideal" column should be bolded and not italicized (should have class="Sans-Serif-Character-Styles_Bold-Sans-Serif" instead of class="CharOverride-1").
In the section "Use Antimagic Freely", in the first sentence of the first paragraph "blur" and "invisibility" should link to the blur and invisibility spells respectively.
In the first sentence of the last paragraph "wall of fire" and "wall of force" should link to the wall of fire and wall of force spells respectively.
In the section "Variant Abilities", in the Slowing Ray entry "bestow curse" should link to the bestow curse spell.
In the section "Treasure", in the last paragraph "eversmoking bottle" in the third sentence should link to the eversmoking bottle magic item, and "staff of the python" in the fourth sentence should link to the staff of the python magic item.
In the Beholder Lesser Minions table, in the third row "bugbear chiefs" should link to the bugbear chief monster. Also the last row should be left aligned, there should be a line break between "zombies." and "**", and "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
In the Beholder Greater Minions table, the text in the last row should be left aligned.
In the Beholder Pets table, the text in the last row should be left aligned and "chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monsters.
The monsters linked in the above three tables should be updated to use the new linking options for linking to plural monster names, e.g., "bandits" should link to bandits instead of bandits. The way these are now looks fine in the browser version of the book but look off in the mobile app version.
Hi samthnnud, I have fixed those. Still haven't solved the left alignment in the tables (the code seems to have the left alignment but it is not reproduced). Anyway, thank you deeply. Now, where is the Iron Flask...
Thanks filcat! Looks like you got them all, including updating the monster links in the minion tables. Great work!
Here are a few more linking issues from chapter 1.
Beholders: Bad Dreams Come True
In the section "Beholder-kin", in the first sentence of the second paragraph "Chapter 3" should link to chapter 3 of Volo's Guide to Monster.
Giants: World Shakers
In the section "Giants and Magic", in the third sentence of the last paragraph "glyph of warding" and "symbol" should link to the glyph of warding and symbol spells respectively.
Gnolls: The Insatiable Hunger
In the Special Creatures table, the monster links should be updated to use the new linking options for linking to plural monster names.
Hags: Dark Sisterhood
In the section "Weird Magic", in the last sentence of the second paragraph "Charms" should link to https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/dmg/other-rewards#Charms instead of https://www.dndbeyond.com/compendium/rules/dmg/treasure#Charms (this won't entirely fix the link though, since the header for the Charm section in this chapter doesn't have an anchor id assigned to it, so that should probably be changed as well, but it at least will take you to the right half of chapter 7 in the DMG). Also, I'm not sure of the exact policy on this, so this may be a non-issue, but in the same sentence both "chapter 7" and "Dungeon Master’s Guide" don't link to anything.
In the sections "Types of Hags", in the first sentence of the second paragraph "Annis hags" should link to the annis hag monster, in the first sentence of the third paragraph "Bheur hags" should link to the bheur hag monster, in the first sentence of the fourth paragraph "Green hags" should link to the green hag monster, in the first sentence of the fifth paragraph "Night hags" should link to the night hag monster, and in the first sentence of the last paragraph "Sea hags" should link to the sea hag monster.
In the section "Treasure, Treasure Everywhere", in the last sentence "One-of-a-Kind Objects" should link to the "One-of-a-Kind Objects" section later in the chapter.
In the section "Lair Actions", in the first sentence of the second paragraph "annis hag" should link to the annis hag monster, in the first sentence of the third paragraph "bheur hag" should link to the bheur hag monster, in the first sentence of the fourth paragraph "green hag" should link to the green hag monster, in the first sentence of the fifth paragraph "night hag" should link to the night hag monster, and in the first sentence of the last paragraph "sea hag" should link to the sea hag monster.
In the section "Regional Effects", in the first sentence of the second paragraph "annis hag" should link to the annis hag monster, in the first sentence of the third paragraph "bheur hag" should link to the bheur hag monster, in the first sentence of the fourth paragraph "green hag" should link to the green hag monster, in the first sentence of the fifth paragraph "night hag" should link to the night hag monster, and in the first sentence of the last paragraph "sea hag" should link to the sea hag monster.
In the Servants table, the monster links should be updated to use the new linking options for linking to plural monster names.
In the Brutes table, the monster links should be updated to use the new linking options for linking to plural monster names.
Thanks again. Some of your suggestions don't match the branding and style rules agreed between D&D Beyond and Wizards of the Coast for representing the sourcebooks. We'll definitely be taking a pass through this sourcebook to look for quality improvements.
Your suggestions are appreciated, as it gives us an idea where to look for improvements.
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Thanks Stormknight! I expect that at least some of the things I point out won't need to be changed for those reasons. Over time I've picked up on some of the nuances but I'm certain there are many that still elude me. As always, thanks for taking the time to look through these posts and keep up the great work!