So I'm fairly new to DM'ing and I often find myself reading through the monster manual and other books for ideas on encounters and such but I only own a handful of the content books so far. When I'm looking through these lists of monsters or using the encounter builder I have to activate the filter for which sources I have and although it only takes a minute, having to do it repeatedly when I do a new search or start a new encounter becomes slightly tedious. But at the same time I don't want the lists of creatures to be bogged down with content I don't have access to.
Is there a way to quickly activate the filters so that it only shows the content I own or that is currently shared with me? If not could it possible to add such a thing to the 'sources' filter option?
P.S. I'm not saying that the filters are bad or anything, this is still way faster than going through the physical books. It's just something I was curious about to see if other people have a similar opinion or if there is a solution I don't know of.
I think the best you can do so far is to select the books you own on the "Source" filter, than check the box "Remember my Filters", than always you start a new encounter it will be already set to that filter. However, I'm not sure if any changes you do during a specific encounter (as monster type, CR limit, etc) must be undone before you left the page in order to keep that previous filter you've set.
I don't know of any other way to do that. The Encounter Builder still in BETA thou, maybe there's plans to have a filter checkbox "show owned only" as much like the "show homebrew only" and "show official only" in the future. I think the DDB team looks closely on the forum Encounter Builder - Feedback & Development Beta and can welcome that suggestions there.
I don’t know about the encounter builder, but on the monsters page the filters are part of the URL, so once you set your filters you can just bookmark the results, maybe change the bookmark name to ‘DDB owned monsters’ or something. You’d only need to update it as you bought new books, and then it would just be opening it, adding the new book to the filter, and putting that new URL into the bookmark.
I think the best you can do so far is to select the books you own on the "Source" filter, than check the box "Remember my Filters", than always you start a new encounter it will be already set to that filter. However, I'm not sure if any changes you do during a specific encounter (as monster type, CR limit, etc) must be undone before you left the page in order to keep that previous filter you've set.
I don't know of any other way to do that. The Encounter Builder still in BETA thou, maybe there's plans to have a filter checkbox "show owned only" as much like the "show homebrew only" and "show official only" in the future. I think the DDB team looks closely on the forum Encounter Builder - Feedback & Development Beta and can welcome that suggestions there.
Thanks , I didn't even see that check box. That definitely saves a bunch of time. I'll put something on the encounter builder forum as well just in case.
I don’t know about the encounter builder, but on the monsters page the filters are part of the URL, so once you set your filters you can just bookmark the results, maybe change the bookmark name to ‘DDB owned monsters’ or something. You’d only need to update it as you bought new books, and then it would just be opening it, adding the new book to the filter, and putting that new URL into the bookmark.
I think I'll start doing that from now on, great idea, thanks!
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So I'm fairly new to DM'ing and I often find myself reading through the monster manual and other books for ideas on encounters and such but I only own a handful of the content books so far. When I'm looking through these lists of monsters or using the encounter builder I have to activate the filter for which sources I have and although it only takes a minute, having to do it repeatedly when I do a new search or start a new encounter becomes slightly tedious. But at the same time I don't want the lists of creatures to be bogged down with content I don't have access to.
Is there a way to quickly activate the filters so that it only shows the content I own or that is currently shared with me? If not could it possible to add such a thing to the 'sources' filter option?
P.S. I'm not saying that the filters are bad or anything, this is still way faster than going through the physical books. It's just something I was curious about to see if other people have a similar opinion or if there is a solution I don't know of.
I think the best you can do so far is to select the books you own on the "Source" filter, than check the box "Remember my Filters", than always you start a new encounter it will be already set to that filter. However, I'm not sure if any changes you do during a specific encounter (as monster type, CR limit, etc) must be undone before you left the page in order to keep that previous filter you've set.
I don't know of any other way to do that. The Encounter Builder still in BETA thou, maybe there's plans to have a filter checkbox "show owned only" as much like the "show homebrew only" and "show official only" in the future. I think the DDB team looks closely on the forum Encounter Builder - Feedback & Development Beta and can welcome that suggestions there.
I don’t know about the encounter builder, but on the monsters page the filters are part of the URL, so once you set your filters you can just bookmark the results, maybe change the bookmark name to ‘DDB owned monsters’ or something. You’d only need to update it as you bought new books, and then it would just be opening it, adding the new book to the filter, and putting that new URL into the bookmark.
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Thanks , I didn't even see that check box. That definitely saves a bunch of time. I'll put something on the encounter builder forum as well just in case.
I think I'll start doing that from now on, great idea, thanks!