Bumping again. I wanted to find the entry for this dragon in the book that's its from. I can find the stats for the dragon but finding where it is in the book is a practice of hunting and pecking through the chapter links. What's especially frustrating is that the monster entry has a page number in it!
I realize that the books get reformatted but leaving the page numbers in, regardless, would still give us a valuable way to look for things.
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I realize from your post you probably already found it, but just in case:
Speaking as a web developer, you are wrong about this, its actually REALLY easy, you wrap the page text from the source in a div, set the id of the div to the page number from the source, then a link with #[num] will automatically go to that section, an a tag can then be made for that or a box to enter a page number which sets the hash.
You can even make a css with and :after having the content of the page number and put a little page box around the page if you like.
If they are using a load-as-you-go approach, which it kinda looks like they are, you can load pages at a time, one up, current, and one down, since they are wrapped in div's they are even easier to load via Ajax.
How is this not a thing yet? Essentially, customers that own books exclusively on dndbeyond.com are at a severe disadvantage when referencing information for OTHER people to use and also have to spend more time searching through the sourcebooks they own to find information that others reference.
Page numbers or at least page number references are absolutely essential, especially for the PHB and DMG.
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I realize from your post you probably already found it, but just in case:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/wdotmm/terminus-level#18dOverseer
Agreed though, there should be a way to put in the page number and get some kind of rough indicator where to find things. :)
I am amazed after two years still nothing. This is one of the reasons I stopped using Beyond years ago. The functionality just wasn’t worth it
Speaking as a web developer, you are wrong about this, its actually REALLY easy, you wrap the page text from the source in a div, set the id of the div to the page number from the source, then a link with #[num] will automatically go to that section, an a tag can then be made for that or a box to enter a page number which sets the hash.
You can even make a css with and :after having the content of the page number and put a little page box around the page if you like.
If they are using a load-as-you-go approach, which it kinda looks like they are, you can load pages at a time, one up, current, and one down, since they are wrapped in div's they are even easier to load via Ajax.
How is this not a thing yet? Essentially, customers that own books exclusively on dndbeyond.com are at a severe disadvantage when referencing information for OTHER people to use and also have to spend more time searching through the sourcebooks they own to find information that others reference.
Page numbers or at least page number references are absolutely essential, especially for the PHB and DMG.