So...let's talk for a second about how all pictures from legacy articles have been removed from beyond.
I have SO many sourcebooks for the forgotten realms and a couple of adventures that I started buying after the pandemic. I got really into the game lore and lo & behold, I'm now on the 4th session of my own campaign and everyone is having a great time! I'm getting more and more players every month too. So no hate on dnd. Love the game, wish my mom let me play it as a kid but satan and all that. Regardless, I was going through the monsters that are cool and weird, like you do, and I noticed something. Mind you, this is in the search tab. But the picture was gone! I was like what the hell! Thought it might be a glitch but I go to the actual digital page of the book and there it is! Red Abishai. I think "man that's weird. Maybe they're updating the art." NOPE. After I'd made this discovery, I'd started searching on the listings page and there it was. "LEGACY" Not as prominent in the search tab which I saw later, as it only searches installed content. I knew immediately what it meant. You want my money again so I can have easier access to creature images instead of searching for a page on a screen behind 4 links. I think this is awful and disgraceful to your explosion of popularity. We all know wizards is fine and dandy with their income so why're you milking an audience that will turn after too many mistakes like this book. You know, I pay for a master sub so my players don't have to buy any content yet, most are newer than I, so I think we'll make due with our outdated work. If you ask me, getting rid of the lore and stories and some of the stuff that made dms and players take their time to think about decisions is only one step closer to 4e again, which I've done some research on. I hope you'll consider returning the images to ALL articles that indeed have them.
So...let's talk for a second about how all pictures from legacy articles have been removed from beyond.
Can you link to any legacy articles (do you mean listings pages?) that have had images removed? I'm currently looking at several legacy pages such as Changeling, Kobold Dragonshield, Orc, Firbolg, and Goblin and they all have the same images they had before they were made legacy options.
Ever so often, thumbnails will turn up blank. Resetting the browser (cache and sometimes history and site settings) restores them, but I found that they also return on their own eventually. Other people can often still see those same thumbnails when I couldn't. Maybe that's what's happening?
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider. My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong. I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲 “It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
I've noticed it's been a lot better about how often the images go out lately. But Chromium based browsers like Edge and Chrome still tend to see this more often than Firefox. But a quick clearing of the cache will bring images back.
So...let's talk for a second about how all pictures from legacy articles have been removed from beyond.
I have SO many sourcebooks for the forgotten realms and a couple of adventures that I started buying after the pandemic. I got really into the game lore and lo & behold, I'm now on the 4th session of my own campaign and everyone is having a great time! I'm getting more and more players every month too. So no hate on dnd. Love the game, wish my mom let me play it as a kid but satan and all that. Regardless, I was going through the monsters that are cool and weird, like you do, and I noticed something. Mind you, this is in the search tab. But the picture was gone! I was like what the hell! Thought it might be a glitch but I go to the actual digital page of the book and there it is! Red Abishai. I think "man that's weird. Maybe they're updating the art." NOPE. After I'd made this discovery, I'd started searching on the listings page and there it was. "LEGACY" Not as prominent in the search tab which I saw later, as it only searches installed content. I knew immediately what it meant. You want my money again so I can have easier access to creature images instead of searching for a page on a screen behind 4 links. I think this is awful and disgraceful to your explosion of popularity. We all know wizards is fine and dandy with their income so why're you milking an audience that will turn after too many mistakes like this book. You know, I pay for a master sub so my players don't have to buy any content yet, most are newer than I, so I think we'll make due with our outdated work. If you ask me, getting rid of the lore and stories and some of the stuff that made dms and players take their time to think about decisions is only one step closer to 4e again, which I've done some research on. I hope you'll consider returning the images to ALL articles that indeed have them.
Can you link to any legacy articles (do you mean listings pages?) that have had images removed? I'm currently looking at several legacy pages such as Changeling, Kobold Dragonshield, Orc, Firbolg, and Goblin and they all have the same images they had before they were made legacy options.
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Ever so often, thumbnails will turn up blank. Resetting the browser (cache and sometimes history and site settings) restores them, but I found that they also return on their own eventually. Other people can often still see those same thumbnails when I couldn't. Maybe that's what's happening?
Human. Male. Possibly. Don't be a divider.
My characters' backgrounds are written like instruction manuals rather than stories. My opinion and preferences don't mean you're wrong.
I am 99.7603% convinced that the digital dice are messing with me. I roll high when nobody's looking and low when anyone else can see.🎲
“It's a bit early to be thinking about an epitaph. No?” will be my epitaph.
wow, what a rant over a browser cache issue.
This is a great post Houligan made on how to fix it:
https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d-beyond-general/bugs-support/142473-bug-uploaded-portraits-not-displaying#c2
I've noticed it's been a lot better about how often the images go out lately. But Chromium based browsers like Edge and Chrome still tend to see this more often than Firefox. But a quick clearing of the cache will bring images back.