This is pretty silly for a whole new thread, but is there a tooltip snippet that you can use that would link, or show the Table of Contents, or the main Marketplace page for a Sourcebook or Adventure? I know it's stupid, I'm just trying to be one of the cool kids by learning the various in's and outs of both the forums and the site in general.
I would like to point out that "tooltip" and "snippet" are very different things on here, and people get them confused all the time. For clarity's sake, a tooltip is... well, it's like this: fireball. You can hover over it for a preview and click it to go to the full page. Tooltips are usable in things like forum posts, PMs, campaigns, and the main text boxes in homebrews. Here's a list of tooltips and how to use them. It's really helpful.
A snippet, on the other hand, is completely useless except in those little simplified text boxes in homebrews. Those text boxes exist to facilitate an abbreviated display on the character sheet. You can use various codes to have the sheet do various calculations (so if you wanted a feature to be usable a number of times equal to your STR modifier, you could put something like "You can use this {{modifier:str}} times per long rest," or you could have it connected directly to the "Limited Use" functionality in the homebrew itself. Snippets are a lot more complicated than tooltips and less generally useful. This is a great guide to help you get going.
Okay... You probably only wanted like 5% of that information, but I just thought it would be good to distinguish between the two things.
Oh, one more thing. It doesn't directly apply to your question, but for anyone who see this and doesn't already know this, IamSposta's homebrew FAQ is amazingly useful.
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It's something I'd very much like to see; I've created a few things recently which can potentially trigger a madness, but if I want to publish these then I have to list these as "long-term madness (DMG p.258)" then post a comment with a link after publishing, as a link in the homebrew will prevent it being published (even though it's not an external link, sigh).
Tooltips for a source book, optionally with a page reference of some kind would be very useful, as it would let us refer to rules not currently covered by the [rule] tooltip, as well as things that aren't rules, or are optional etc.
We're also still missing tooltips for a bunch of different types of content like classes, sub-classes, feats, races and others.
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This is pretty silly for a whole new thread, but is there a tooltip snippet that you can use that would link, or show the Table of Contents, or the main Marketplace page for a Sourcebook or Adventure? I know it's stupid, I'm just trying to be one of the cool kids by learning the various in's and outs of both the forums and the site in general.
No, there isn't. It's an interesting idea, though.
I would like to point out that "tooltip" and "snippet" are very different things on here, and people get them confused all the time. For clarity's sake, a tooltip is... well, it's like this: fireball. You can hover over it for a preview and click it to go to the full page. Tooltips are usable in things like forum posts, PMs, campaigns, and the main text boxes in homebrews. Here's a list of tooltips and how to use them. It's really helpful.
A snippet, on the other hand, is completely useless except in those little simplified text boxes in homebrews. Those text boxes exist to facilitate an abbreviated display on the character sheet. You can use various codes to have the sheet do various calculations (so if you wanted a feature to be usable a number of times equal to your STR modifier, you could put something like "You can use this {{modifier:str}} times per long rest," or you could have it connected directly to the "Limited Use" functionality in the homebrew itself. Snippets are a lot more complicated than tooltips and less generally useful. This is a great guide to help you get going.
Okay... You probably only wanted like 5% of that information, but I just thought it would be good to distinguish between the two things.
Oh, one more thing. It doesn't directly apply to your question, but for anyone who see this and doesn't already know this, IamSposta's homebrew FAQ is amazingly useful.
Paladin main who spends most of his D&D time worldbuilding or DMing, not Paladin-ing.
It's something I'd very much like to see; I've created a few things recently which can potentially trigger a madness, but if I want to publish these then I have to list these as "long-term madness (DMG p.258)" then post a comment with a link after publishing, as a link in the homebrew will prevent it being published (even though it's not an external link, sigh).
Tooltips for a source book, optionally with a page reference of some kind would be very useful, as it would let us refer to rules not currently covered by the [rule] tooltip, as well as things that aren't rules, or are optional etc.
We're also still missing tooltips for a bunch of different types of content like classes, sub-classes, feats, races and others.
Former D&D Beyond Customer of six years: With the axing of piecemeal purchasing, lack of meaningful development, and toxic moderation the site isn't worth paying for anymore. I remain a free user only until my groups are done migrating from DDB, and if necessary D&D, after which I'm done. There are better systems owned by better companies out there.
I have unsubscribed from all topics and will not reply to messages. My homebrew is now 100% unsupported.