WTH? I can hardly find anything I'm looking for. For 7 years I have gotten used to and efficient with getting in here daily and getting a lot done, but this threw a massive wrench in those smoothly working gears. I am working on a huge campaign right now and this has tacked a lot of extra wasted time on to it. Hiding everything in sub menus is never, never a good idea. Sure, we all want a clean interface, but there is way, way too much material here to hide it all away behind a few tabs. This site seems to be more geared towards the continuous pursuit of selling something over actually taking care of the ones who have purchased it all (and continue to).
Okay, lets say I need to reference base armor quickly. I click Rules, then Equipment, and instead of listing categories (weapons, armor, adventuring gear, etc) I get a short, multi-page list and have to filter the results. I actually have to type Armor before getting a multi-page list of armor. Then I have to skim for base armor choices. This is obnoxious. It used to be Rulebooks, Players Handbook, armor. Who is making these design decisions? Do they actually play? I can go through the book faster.
DnD Beyond, I CAN GO THROUGH THE BOOK FASTER.
Read that several times and consider what your core purpose is? Please. Please. Get someone who thinks like a player.
Okay, lets say I need to reference base armor quickly. I click Rules, then Equipment, and instead of listing categories (weapons, armor, adventuring gear, etc) I get a short, multi-page list and have to filter the results. I actually have to type Armor before getting a multi-page list of armor. Then I have to skim for base armor choices. This is obnoxious. It used to be Rulebooks, Players Handbook, armor. Who is making these design decisions? Do they actually play? I can go through the book faster.
DnD Beyond, I CAN GO THROUGH THE BOOK FASTER.
Read that several times and consider what your core purpose is? Please. Please. Get someone who thinks like a player.
The click path for equipment hasn't changed? Selecting equipment from the drop-down always took you to that search page
Yeah, I can still go Library > Player's Handbook through my favorites (and, really, the core rulebooks should be their own category in that menu, but that's beside the point).
I have to say I dislike the fact that you can no longer open a menu from the top bar by just hovering over it. I know one extra click isn't a huge deal, but it's still a step in the wrong direction.
I have to say I dislike the fact that you can no longer open a menu from the top bar by just hovering over it. I know one extra click isn't a huge deal, but it's still a step in the wrong direction.
This change is actually better for accessibility reasons. I know my wife will appreciate that I'll stop ranting about it every time I go to click Manage on a character and end up on the Classes page instead.
I have to say I dislike the fact that you can no longer open a menu from the top bar by just hovering over it. I know one extra click isn't a huge deal, but it's still a step in the wrong direction.
This change is actually better for accessibility reasons. I know my wife will appreciate that I'll stop ranting about it every time I go to click Manage on a character and end up on the Classes page instead.
People with repetitive stress injuries to their hand would say this isn't accessible.
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Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
I have to say I dislike the fact that you can no longer open a menu from the top bar by just hovering over it. I know one extra click isn't a huge deal, but it's still a step in the wrong direction.
This change is actually better for accessibility reasons. I know my wife will appreciate that I'll stop ranting about it every time I go to click Manage on a character and end up on the Classes page instead.
People with repetitive stress injuries to their hand would say this isn't accessible.
And people with hand tremors will say hover menus are not accessible.
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WTH? I can hardly find anything I'm looking for. For 7 years I have gotten used to and efficient with getting in here daily and getting a lot done, but this threw a massive wrench in those smoothly working gears. I am working on a huge campaign right now and this has tacked a lot of extra wasted time on to it. Hiding everything in sub menus is never, never a good idea. Sure, we all want a clean interface, but there is way, way too much material here to hide it all away behind a few tabs. This site seems to be more geared towards the continuous pursuit of selling something over actually taking care of the ones who have purchased it all (and continue to).
Extremely frustrated with this mess.
Okay, lets say I need to reference base armor quickly. I click Rules, then Equipment, and instead of listing categories (weapons, armor, adventuring gear, etc) I get a short, multi-page list and have to filter the results. I actually have to type Armor before getting a multi-page list of armor. Then I have to skim for base armor choices. This is obnoxious. It used to be Rulebooks, Players Handbook, armor. Who is making these design decisions? Do they actually play? I can go through the book faster.
DnD Beyond, I CAN GO THROUGH THE BOOK FASTER.
Read that several times and consider what your core purpose is? Please. Please. Get someone who thinks like a player.
The click path for equipment hasn't changed? Selecting equipment from the drop-down always took you to that search page
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Yeah, I can still go Library > Player's Handbook through my favorites (and, really, the core rulebooks should be their own category in that menu, but that's beside the point).
I have to say I dislike the fact that you can no longer open a menu from the top bar by just hovering over it. I know one extra click isn't a huge deal, but it's still a step in the wrong direction.
This change is actually better for accessibility reasons. I know my wife will appreciate that I'll stop ranting about it every time I go to click Manage on a character and end up on the Classes page instead.
People with repetitive stress injuries to their hand would say this isn't accessible.
DM, player & homebrewer(Current homebrew project is an unofficial conversion of SBURB/SGRUB from Homestuck into DND 5e)
Once made Maxwell's Silver Hammer come down upon Strahd's head to make sure he was dead.
Always study & sharpen philosophical razors. They save a lot of trouble.
Why is the little red notifications dot so slow to go away after you've read what it's indicating??
I agree, I hate it.
Charles P. Morris II
And people with hand tremors will say hover menus are not accessible.