The point of the tool is to provide ease of use, and it would give greater visibility back to the source books they're selling rather than making me as a consumer look up a reference manually. The work itself is easy as it would be replacing one html/xml tag with another in the front end code and probably altering a column in some database to have new values by replacing a String with some URL or relevent segment of a URL, but it would be time consuming due to the number of rows unless they have a programmatic way of making a conversion like that.
Maybe you don't find the feature useful because you have all that lore in your head or don't care, but myself and newer players like me could find such a feature helpful.
It's not that I have a lot of lore memorized, it is just that most monsters don't have more lore than what's already on their page. Others have more lore in multiple places (particularly demons and devils).
Also it should be noted that compendium content (the stuff with lore) and listings (the stuff you want to link to the lore) can be two separate purchases and thus it makes sense not to include cross linking for when people buy listing but no compendium.
Any chance of getting a link to relevant lore rather than a non-link page number on the various monster and spell pages etc?
What do you mean by a "link to relevant lore"?
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If you buy the books, the monsters will have their descriptions. But no, they don't link to random lore not specifically in their description.
For instance the following page
https://www.dndbeyond.com/monsters/adult-blue-dragon
Could link to this page
https://www.dndbeyond.com/sources/mm/monsters-d#Dragons (Even nicer if it went straight to Blue Dragons)
You mean page a could have a link to page b?
Sounds like a lot of work and only worthwhile for a relatively small handful of creatures. But for those small handful of creatures it would be nice.
The point of the tool is to provide ease of use, and it would give greater visibility back to the source books they're selling rather than making me as a consumer look up a reference manually. The work itself is easy as it would be replacing one html/xml tag with another in the front end code and probably altering a column in some database to have new values by replacing a String with some URL or relevent segment of a URL, but it would be time consuming due to the number of rows unless they have a programmatic way of making a conversion like that.
Maybe you don't find the feature useful because you have all that lore in your head or don't care, but myself and newer players like me could find such a feature helpful.
It's not that I have a lot of lore memorized, it is just that most monsters don't have more lore than what's already on their page. Others have more lore in multiple places (particularly demons and devils).
Also it should be noted that compendium content (the stuff with lore) and listings (the stuff you want to link to the lore) can be two separate purchases and thus it makes sense not to include cross linking for when people buy listing but no compendium.
Find my D&D Beyond articles here