D&DB's monster search is a great tool that I use regularly to find appropriate monsters for my players to face. And, there are some issues that crop up when I use it.
I love that the search includes NPC's from various adventures. I'd like the ability to weed them out (without having to eliminate the entire adventure). I don't want to have them cluttering up the list of otherwise generic monsters and NPC's that the search gives me.
Similarly, sometimes, I am looking for NPC classes for my party to face (like spy or commoner or veteran or bard) that I can then apply race traits to. When I use the "NPC" tag as a filter in the monster search, it not only shows me a lot of NPCs from specific adventures, it also doesn't show me all of the NPC classes from the monster books (like, it'll exclude the Bard from Mordenkainen's book).
Ideally, I'd like to be able to (a) remove adventure-specific characters (like "Agdon Longscarf") from any search, and (b) search for "generic" NPC monsters like assassin, mage, black earth cultist, etc. with a tag that doesn't include the adventure-specific characters.
I came here to make a very similar request and found this when I searched to see if anyone had already asked. I very much agree with this. Having a lot of specific NPCs from adventures in the list is a pain, not a major one but still, and I don't think it would be difficult to add a filter.
At the moment there is an NPC tag which includes things like "Bandit Captain" and "Berserker" that I want to see when looking for monsters to build encounters but it also includes "Belak the Outcast" and "Embric" which I don't want to include.
I'd be happy if there were tags for "Individual" and "Generic" (or something similar) that would allow me to search only for generic creatures and exclude individuals like Embric.
I'm amazed this post doesn't have more traction. I absolutely agree! Searches for Humanoid monsters get very cluttered with the NPCs and I can't even use the vast majority of their stat blocks because I don't own any adventures on D&D Beyond.
I sometimes try to use the source filters to achieve this same effect, but it's cumbersome. Having a single click filter would be fantastic.
I'm here for the same reason. When looking for stat blocks to assign to my NPCs, its very hard to find the base-level commoner, guard, thug, etc., like stat blocks amongst the hundreds of NPCs, and that doesn't even account for us not being able to filter out the Legacy versions yet.
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D&DB's monster search is a great tool that I use regularly to find appropriate monsters for my players to face. And, there are some issues that crop up when I use it.
I love that the search includes NPC's from various adventures. I'd like the ability to weed them out (without having to eliminate the entire adventure). I don't want to have them cluttering up the list of otherwise generic monsters and NPC's that the search gives me.
Similarly, sometimes, I am looking for NPC classes for my party to face (like spy or commoner or veteran or bard) that I can then apply race traits to. When I use the "NPC" tag as a filter in the monster search, it not only shows me a lot of NPCs from specific adventures, it also doesn't show me all of the NPC classes from the monster books (like, it'll exclude the Bard from Mordenkainen's book).
Ideally, I'd like to be able to (a) remove adventure-specific characters (like "Agdon Longscarf") from any search, and (b) search for "generic" NPC monsters like assassin, mage, black earth cultist, etc. with a tag that doesn't include the adventure-specific characters.
Whatcha think?
I came here to make a very similar request and found this when I searched to see if anyone had already asked. I very much agree with this. Having a lot of specific NPCs from adventures in the list is a pain, not a major one but still, and I don't think it would be difficult to add a filter.
At the moment there is an NPC tag which includes things like "Bandit Captain" and "Berserker" that I want to see when looking for monsters to build encounters but it also includes "Belak the Outcast" and "Embric" which I don't want to include.
I'd be happy if there were tags for "Individual" and "Generic" (or something similar) that would allow me to search only for generic creatures and exclude individuals like Embric.
I'm amazed this post doesn't have more traction. I absolutely agree! Searches for Humanoid monsters get very cluttered with the NPCs and I can't even use the vast majority of their stat blocks because I don't own any adventures on D&D Beyond.
I sometimes try to use the source filters to achieve this same effect, but it's cumbersome. Having a single click filter would be fantastic.
I'm here for the same reason. When looking for stat blocks to assign to my NPCs, its very hard to find the base-level commoner, guard, thug, etc., like stat blocks amongst the hundreds of NPCs, and that doesn't even account for us not being able to filter out the Legacy versions yet.