Something I would love to see implemented. More of an quality of life function.
If I search, for example, Herbalist kit, it would be useful to have more than just the base information about it. I would love to see you all add links, and lists to sources that grant the kit. For example. Click on Herbalist click, and below the information on it, have links to backgrounds that grant it, links to Xanathar's section it and so on.
This would allow me, as a player, to quickly search for information on it all over your sight, vs have to hunt down each individual use or page back to search each time and look at each link.
I'm not sure listing proficiency sources would be practical since new backgrounds get added all the time and many of them let you pick from a list of tools.
A link or inclusion of the xanathar's info would be very helpful since the PHB barely says more than "this is a tool."
It would actually be easy enough to do. you could simply have any link that's added (official content only) create a link both ways. So any time they link an item like the Herbalist's Kit to a background or class, it would create a link on the Herbalist's page back to that background. It would just require them to title it.
It would actually be easy enough to do. you could simply have any link that's added (official content only) create a link both ways. So any time they link an item like the Herbalist's Kit to a background or class, it would create a link on the Herbalist's page back to that background. It would just require them to title it.
That would require them to program item descriptions to allow links to made by other compendium entries, then fix any bugs or security issues this causes. They would also have to retroactively go through the 50+ backgrounds (not to mention races, classes and subclasses) that exists and add those links wherever applicable.
That is not a small amount of work. That could easily take a month of development just to have tools list what options give proficiency in that tool, when the search bar can basically already do that.
I mean, let's be real.. my second suggestion could take a bit of work... but identifying '50+' entries isn't that hard. That said, one person could easily go in and just add the links to the items very quickly, which, was my original suggestion... The idea beyond D&D Beyond is to make the content easy to access, quick for people to use on the fly. This would help tremendously.
Search Herbalist's kit and all you see is the base information with a link to potions of healing. Nothing about the rules for crafting them, nothing about how you can use the kit. You have to get go on a hunt to find all the relevant information, which, defeats the idea of the web page.
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Something I would love to see implemented. More of an quality of life function.
If I search, for example, Herbalist kit, it would be useful to have more than just the base information about it. I would love to see you all add links, and lists to sources that grant the kit. For example. Click on Herbalist click, and below the information on it, have links to backgrounds that grant it, links to Xanathar's section it and so on.
This would allow me, as a player, to quickly search for information on it all over your sight, vs have to hunt down each individual use or page back to search each time and look at each link.
I'm not sure listing proficiency sources would be practical since new backgrounds get added all the time and many of them let you pick from a list of tools.
A link or inclusion of the xanathar's info would be very helpful since the PHB barely says more than "this is a tool."
It would actually be easy enough to do. you could simply have any link that's added (official content only) create a link both ways. So any time they link an item like the Herbalist's Kit to a background or class, it would create a link on the Herbalist's page back to that background. It would just require them to title it.
That would require them to program item descriptions to allow links to made by other compendium entries, then fix any bugs or security issues this causes. They would also have to retroactively go through the 50+ backgrounds (not to mention races, classes and subclasses) that exists and add those links wherever applicable.
That is not a small amount of work. That could easily take a month of development just to have tools list what options give proficiency in that tool, when the search bar can basically already do that.
I mean, let's be real.. my second suggestion could take a bit of work... but identifying '50+' entries isn't that hard.
That said, one person could easily go in and just add the links to the items very quickly, which, was my original suggestion... The idea beyond D&D Beyond is to make the content easy to access, quick for people to use on the fly. This would help tremendously.
Search Herbalist's kit and all you see is the base information with a link to potions of healing. Nothing about the rules for crafting them, nothing about how you can use the kit. You have to get go on a hunt to find all the relevant information, which, defeats the idea of the web page.