Is this going anywhere? I'm already annoyed with having to click all the books I "own" when making encounters. I also can't remember the well so at the moment I hold my phone up with the list of owned books so I can click those. Then it saves my filter which is fine until I want to use a homebrew monster, which doesn't show up if you have ANY sourcebooks chosen as a filter. homebrew should show up regardless of filter or there should be a source for it. And, as stated above, there really should just be an "owned content" filter.
I too want to put a vote in for being able to reference content by page number. Often on forums people say "see p176 in the DMG" which is currently impossible to do on DnDBeyond which is pretty frustrating, because it is often very hard to find the material referenced just from the TOC.
I put a ticket in asking for an owned content filter a while back. Only just saw that people been asking the same thing for years and years. That is really discouraging. I feel like owning more content is kinda annoying, because filtering takes longer and longer every time. That's really a point towards not buying additional content imo.
Hey all, this is still something that we want to tackle, it is just bundled with some larger efforts that need to be addressed in concert. I hear that many of you are frustrated about the delay and that is valid and understandable. We hear you.
Regarding page numbers, yeah, this is a challenge when we convert a physical book to a digital compendium-style book. It's kind of like the difference between reading a webcomic versus the printed version of the same. Lore Olympus and Space Boy fan here! Point is, the page numbers don't quite align and that could cause some frustration. It's something we've thought about, and I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on it, maybe in a new thread?
You're going to have to be clearer on what you mean by the page numbers not aligning, because there's currently only one set of page numbers -- those in the physical book. This should be part of the basic metadata any publication system outputs. We're not referencing in two directions, where you need to align an ebook and a print book. You have an unpaginated database, and a print document (which may have multiple printings, but rarely will it change pagination -- and when it's a big enough change to update pagination, you're usually making the kind of change that gets published errata to the web database, so now you're just updating an additional field in your database).
Hey all, this is still something that we want to tackle, it is just bundled with some larger efforts that need to be addressed in concert. I hear that many of you are frustrated about the delay and that is valid and understandable. We hear you.
This thread started a couple years ago has a lot of feedback about the difficulty of filtering down to content we can use which has only gotten worse as the amount of material expands. buying more content makes it worse as there is more to remember to filter out when trying to create an encounter or just looking through the list of monsters for inspiration on what to use. https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/55029-filters-for-showing-only-owned-content
Another thing I just noticed that makes a separate 'Owned content' filter separate from book/source selection is that I cannot filter by source AND have it return my custom created content at the same time in the Encounter Builder. If I check any source on the source list it will not return custom content at all. So I can either check the 20 or so sources I own to keep out of the 75 source options from getting Rick and Morty or Ravnica monsters I don't own, or I can get all the junk and my custom content, but not down to owned and custom content. This makes the encounter builder really difficult to use to create something that has a single customized creature and regular creatures in the same encounter.
The increasing volume of content makes using the encounter builder a pain to use.
Okay, I am here for the "Filter for owned/shared" part in all the Lists.
If you think that not showing it could lead to people not buying it then here are some options that should be easy to integrate : -move the owned content to the top of the dropdown when choosing sources -make them a different color in the dropdown when choosing sources
Also personally; if I'm frustrated I don't like to pay whoever frustrated me so I rather homebrew it than buy the source in the current situation.
I put a ticket in asking for an owned content filter a while back. Only just saw that people been asking the same thing for years and years. That is really discouraging. I feel like owning more content is kinda annoying, because filtering takes longer and longer every time. That's really a point towards not buying additional content imo.
This request was made several years ago, several times. It has been "on the radar" for over a year and a half. Obviously customer satisfaction is highly prioritized.
Hey all, this is still something that we want to tackle, it is just bundled with some larger efforts that need to be addressed in concert. I hear that many of you are frustrated about the delay and that is valid and understandable. We hear you.
Regarding page numbers, yeah, this is a challenge when we convert a physical book to a digital compendium-style book. It's kind of like the difference between reading a webcomic versus the printed version of the same. Lore Olympus and Space Boy fan here! Point is, the page numbers don't quite align and that could cause some frustration. It's something we've thought about, and I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on it, maybe in a new thread?
I just came back to D&D from years of break, and starting to consider the website instead of buying books for 5E etc, and this seems to be my biggest stumbling block to being willing to sign up for a master tier subscription.
If I'm going to be building campaigns, I don't want to browse monsters and encounter only 1 in 5 are accessbile, but I'd have to spend a few thousand dollars to get 50% accessible. An "Owned" or "Accessible" filter would stop me having to put in all the sources. I've got a bookmark that does the specific sources that I have access to (which isn't much right now anyway) but if I start buying monsters from various sources without buying the whole module, that filter is going to be pointless.
Buying the physical books means harder work in searching for things, but if I'm going to have to sift through a thousand monsters I don't have access to and will get prompted to buy, just to find an interesting creature I do have access to, I'm going to ditch the website and go for the physical books. I get that the financial model is "Put stuff up in front of them all the time to be purchased", but if you can't do either a filter to "Accessible" content, or thin out the ranks of inaccessible stuff between each accessible one, you're going to lose more money as people using physical books won't think to try new monsters they'll never see from that obscure module. Not having the filter actually reduces your chance of selling things at all, because I'm going to be in my local comic store whose selection is limited to what sells, not on the website.
If it's a choice between wading through knee deep mud on a supposedly shourter route (too many inaccessible options) vs taking the longer route on a paved road (paper copies and looking up the page index in the back), I'm going to choose the longer easier route.
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Is this going anywhere? I'm already annoyed with having to click all the books I "own" when making encounters. I also can't remember the well so at the moment I hold my phone up with the list of owned books so I can click those. Then it saves my filter which is fine until I want to use a homebrew monster, which doesn't show up if you have ANY sourcebooks chosen as a filter. homebrew should show up regardless of filter or there should be a source for it. And, as stated above, there really should just be an "owned content" filter.
I have a suggestion that goes against what everyone is sugesting.
Why not have all payed content showing first in the listing and the rest showing below.
That can even be applied on search result.
Like that you can find out if what you are searching for already exist even if you don't have access to it.
That make it easyer to know if you have access or not and what you need to buy if you really want access.
That is something you will often find on a travel agency web site.
This isn’t a bad idea! Especially if there is a clear divide on the page.
I too want to put a vote in for being able to reference content by page number. Often on forums people say "see p176 in the DMG" which is currently impossible to do on DnDBeyond which is pretty frustrating, because it is often very hard to find the material referenced just from the TOC.
I put a ticket in asking for an owned content filter a while back. Only just saw that people been asking the same thing for years and years. That is really discouraging. I feel like owning more content is kinda annoying, because filtering takes longer and longer every time. That's really a point towards not buying additional content imo.
Hey all, this is still something that we want to tackle, it is just bundled with some larger efforts that need to be addressed in concert. I hear that many of you are frustrated about the delay and that is valid and understandable. We hear you.
Regarding page numbers, yeah, this is a challenge when we convert a physical book to a digital compendium-style book. It's kind of like the difference between reading a webcomic versus the printed version of the same. Lore Olympus and Space Boy fan here! Point is, the page numbers don't quite align and that could cause some frustration. It's something we've thought about, and I'd love to hear everyone's thoughts on it, maybe in a new thread?
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You're going to have to be clearer on what you mean by the page numbers not aligning, because there's currently only one set of page numbers -- those in the physical book. This should be part of the basic metadata any publication system outputs. We're not referencing in two directions, where you need to align an ebook and a print book. You have an unpaginated database, and a print document (which may have multiple printings, but rarely will it change pagination -- and when it's a big enough change to update pagination, you're usually making the kind of change that gets published errata to the web database, so now you're just updating an additional field in your database).
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This thread started a couple years ago has a lot of feedback about the difficulty of filtering down to content we can use which has only gotten worse as the amount of material expands. buying more content makes it worse as there is more to remember to filter out when trying to create an encounter or just looking through the list of monsters for inspiration on what to use. https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/d-d-beyond-feedback/55029-filters-for-showing-only-owned-content
Another thing I just noticed that makes a separate 'Owned content' filter separate from book/source selection is that I cannot filter by source AND have it return my custom created content at the same time in the Encounter Builder. If I check any source on the source list it will not return custom content at all. So I can either check the 20 or so sources I own to keep out of the 75 source options from getting Rick and Morty or Ravnica monsters I don't own, or I can get all the junk and my custom content, but not down to owned and custom content. This makes the encounter builder really difficult to use to create something that has a single customized creature and regular creatures in the same encounter.
The increasing volume of content makes using the encounter builder a pain to use.
Okay, I am here for the "Filter for owned/shared" part in all the Lists.
If you think that not showing it could lead to people not buying it then here are some options that should be easy to integrate :
-move the owned content to the top of the dropdown when choosing sources
-make them a different color in the dropdown when choosing sources
Also personally; if I'm frustrated I don't like to pay whoever frustrated me so I rather homebrew it than buy the source in the current situation.
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Came to the forums because I noticed I need a "Owned" filter. Add me to the list of folks that wants it.
This is epic
This request was made several years ago, several times. It has been "on the radar" for over a year and a half. Obviously customer satisfaction is highly prioritized.
Disgusting.
I just came back to D&D from years of break, and starting to consider the website instead of buying books for 5E etc, and this seems to be my biggest stumbling block to being willing to sign up for a master tier subscription.
If I'm going to be building campaigns, I don't want to browse monsters and encounter only 1 in 5 are accessbile, but I'd have to spend a few thousand dollars to get 50% accessible. An "Owned" or "Accessible" filter would stop me having to put in all the sources. I've got a bookmark that does the specific sources that I have access to (which isn't much right now anyway) but if I start buying monsters from various sources without buying the whole module, that filter is going to be pointless.
Buying the physical books means harder work in searching for things, but if I'm going to have to sift through a thousand monsters I don't have access to and will get prompted to buy, just to find an interesting creature I do have access to, I'm going to ditch the website and go for the physical books. I get that the financial model is "Put stuff up in front of them all the time to be purchased", but if you can't do either a filter to "Accessible" content, or thin out the ranks of inaccessible stuff between each accessible one, you're going to lose more money as people using physical books won't think to try new monsters they'll never see from that obscure module. Not having the filter actually reduces your chance of selling things at all, because I'm going to be in my local comic store whose selection is limited to what sells, not on the website.
If it's a choice between wading through knee deep mud on a supposedly shourter route (too many inaccessible options) vs taking the longer route on a paved road (paper copies and looking up the page index in the back), I'm going to choose the longer easier route.