As a Dungeon Master it is getting harder and harder to use the site as-intended to selectMonsters, Magic Items and Spells when planning sessions as more and more paid content is added to DnD Beyond. This source filter list has become nearly unmanageable.
The "old" method of selecting from source is getting too cumbersome to use because there is so much content. I would like to see an additional search toggle option to show owned/shared content ONLY or a way to save the list like in this gif example so you can set it once for all searches. This would help me and likely other Dungeon Masters to select interesting content to my games. All to often, there is so much content that our group does not collectively own, it takes a lot longer to prep and plan games because of the lack of this option.
If there are other workarounds for this, I'd love to learn about them.
What do other Dungeon Masters think? Should this be a higher priority feature request for the Web Development team?
Best current workaround: set your filters once, hit search and bookmark your results. The filters are included in the URL, so if you then go straight to that bookmark every time, you'll already have your results filtered by book, and you can then filter from there if you need to do further filtering (eg, you're specifically looking for monsters in forest terrain, or specifically looking for wizard spells). If you acquire a new book, go to your bookmark, add the new book to the filters, then update the bookmark URL with the new results.
Adding links to similar posts for reference, primarily to avoid the circular discussion and demonstrate this is something that has been needed for a while.
Best current workaround: set your filters once, hit search and bookmark your results. The filters are included in the URL, so if you then go straight to that bookmark every time, you'll already have your results filtered by book, and you can then filter from there if you need to do further filtering (eg, you're specifically looking for monsters in forest terrain, or specifically looking for wizard spells). If you acquire a new book, go to your bookmark, add the new book to the filters, then update the bookmark URL with the new results.
Oh interesting, thank you for this workaround! I didn't think to bookmark the results.
Hi DnD Beyond devs and DM community,
As a Dungeon Master it is getting harder and harder to use the site as-intended to select Monsters, Magic Items and Spells when planning sessions as more and more paid content is added to DnD Beyond. This source filter list has become nearly unmanageable.
The "old" method of selecting from source is getting too cumbersome to use because there is so much content. I would like to see an additional search toggle option to show owned/shared content ONLY or a way to save the list like in this gif example so you can set it once for all searches. This would help me and likely other Dungeon Masters to select interesting content to my games. All to often, there is so much content that our group does not collectively own, it takes a lot longer to prep and plan games because of the lack of this option.
If there are other workarounds for this, I'd love to learn about them.
What do other Dungeon Masters think? Should this be a higher priority feature request for the Web Development team?
Best current workaround: set your filters once, hit search and bookmark your results. The filters are included in the URL, so if you then go straight to that bookmark every time, you'll already have your results filtered by book, and you can then filter from there if you need to do further filtering (eg, you're specifically looking for monsters in forest terrain, or specifically looking for wizard spells). If you acquire a new book, go to your bookmark, add the new book to the filters, then update the bookmark URL with the new results.
Birgit | Shifter | Sorcerer | Dragonlords
Shayone | Hobgoblin | Sorcerer | Netherdeep
Adding links to similar posts for reference, primarily to avoid the circular discussion and demonstrate this is something that has been needed for a while.
Edits: add additional link
Oh interesting, thank you for this workaround! I didn't think to bookmark the results.