D&D Beyond offers the ability to link certain aspects on the forum in mouse-over triggered tooltips, such as magic items, monsters or combat actions - examples being Adult Black Dragon and dash. To create tooltips in this way as these, use the appropriate [tag][/tag] around the desired subject.
These tooltips can be used in most text boxes on D&D Beyond, such as: forum posts; campaign notes section; homebrew descriptions.
Example: [magicitem]Sun Blade[/magicitem]
Use the following within the [ ][/ ] bracket system:
action - an action taken in combat - e.g. dodge, search and ready
condition - a condition afflicted upon a creature. These tooltips include both the 2014 and 2024 rules. - e.g. restrained, poisoned and prone
Additionally, tooltips support the written text of the tooltip being different from the actual item or monster text. This is great for plurals for example:
Ioun Stones of [magicitem]ioun stone of strength;Strength[/magicitem] and [magicitem]ioun stone of regeneration;Regeneration[/magicitem] would display as:
Note: Tooltips do not function in the character sheet. If you create an item with a tooltip to Magic Missile, the tooltip will not be active in the character sheet.
Tooltips can now specify sources for when you have content with legacy and non-legacy versions. This was introduced with the release Monsters of the Multiverse to allow tooltips to differentiate between content options that have more than one version.
You can specify the monster source within the opening clause of the tooltip by adding ' src=' in the opening tag, for example replacing [monster with [monster src= and then the source.
For example
[monster src=vgtm]Vegepygmy[/monster] will link to Vegepygmy from Volo's Guide to Monsters
[monster src=motm]Vegepygmy[/monster] will link to Vegepygmy from Monsters of the Multiverse
If you do not include the source opening tag, by default the tooltip will point to the legacy version
If in doubt as to what the src code is for a book, it's in the URL of that book after 'source/', but to save some time:
Volo's Guide to Monsters; vgtm
Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes: mtof
Monsters of the Multiverse: motm
Currently source tags are supported for [monster], [monimage] (monster image), and [magicitem] tooltips
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D&D Beyond offers the ability to link certain aspects on the forum in mouse-over triggered tooltips, such as magic items, monsters or combat actions - examples being Adult Black Dragon and dash. To create tooltips in this way as these, use the appropriate [tag][/tag] around the desired subject.
These tooltips can be used in most text boxes on D&D Beyond, such as: forum posts; campaign notes section; homebrew descriptions.
Example: [magicitem]Sun Blade[/magicitem]
Use the following within the [ ][/ ] bracket system:
Additionally, tooltips support the written text of the tooltip being different from the actual item or monster text. This is great for plurals for example:
Ioun Stones of [magicitem]ioun stone of strength;Strength[/magicitem] and [magicitem]ioun stone of regeneration;Regeneration[/magicitem]
would display as:
"Ioun Stones of Strength and Regeneration"
[monster]Wolf;Wolves[/monster] displays as Wolves
Note: Tooltips do not function in the character sheet. If you create an item with a tooltip to Magic Missile, the tooltip will not be active in the character sheet.
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Update:
The dev team have expanded how the tooltips work for MONSTER and MAGICITEM tooltips.
I have updated the post above with the information.
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Update:
The monimg tooltip can be used to display the image of a specific monster.
e.g. [monimg]ancient red dragon[/monimg]
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Update:
Added the vehicle tab, allowing tooltips currently for the ship types from Ghosts of Saltmarsh:
galley, keelboat, longship, rowboat, sailing ship, warship
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Update: This guide is for 2014 rules.
The rule tooltip can be used to display specific rules from the game.
e.g. [rule]falling[/rule] = falling
Here is the currently supported list of rules:
DAMAGE TYPE
Acid Damage
Bludgeoning Damage
Cold Damage
Fire Damage
Force Damage
Lightning Damage
Necrotic Damage
Piercing Damage
Poison Damage
Psychic Damage
Radiant Damage
Slashing Damage
Thunder Damage
COMBAT
Armor Class
Critical Hits
Damage Resistance
Damage Vulnerability
Death Saving Throws
Half Cover
Initiative
Instant Death
Hit Dice
Hit Points
Saving Throws
Surprise
Temporary Hit Points
Three-Quarters Cover
Total Cover
ALIGNMENT
Alignment
Chaotic Evil
Chaotic Good
Chaotic Neutral
Lawful Evil
Lawful Good
Lawful Neutral
Neutral
Neutral Evil
Neutral Good
MOVEMENT & EXPLORING
Climbing Swimming Crawling
Difficult Terrain
Falling
Flying
Heavily Obscured
Lightly Obscured
Speed
Suffocating
Underwater
GENERAL RULES
Ability Scores
Advantage / Disadvantage
Background
Bonds
Class
Experience Points
Flaws
Ideals
Inspiration
Level
Personality Traits
Proficiency Bonus
Race
Senses
Senses (Passive Checks)
Update: This guide is for 2024 rules.
The rules tooltip can be used to display specific rules from the game.
e.g. [rules]bloodied[/rules] = bloodied
Here is the currently supported list of rules:
COMBAT
Armor Class
Bloodied
Cover
Half Cover
Three-Quarters Cover
Total Cover
Critical Hit
Healing
Hit Point Dice
Hit Points
Immunity
Improvised Weapons
Initiative
Resistance
Spell Attack
Stable
Surprise
Target
Temporary Hit Points
Unarmed Strike
Vulnerability
Weapon
Weapon Attack
AREA OF EFFECT
Cone
Cube
Cylinder
Line
Emanation
Sphere
MOVEMENT & EXPLORING
Bright Light
Climbing
Crawling
Darkness
Difficult Terrain
Dim Light
Falling
Flying
Heavily Obscured
High Jump
Hover
Jumping
Lightly Obscured
Long Jump
Occupied Space
Passive Perception
Speed
Swimming
Unoccupied Space
ATTITUDE
Attitude
Ally
Enemy
Friendly
Hostile
Indifferent
HAZARDS
Hazard
Burning
Dehydration
Malnutrition
Suffocation
GENERAL RULES
Advantage / Disadvantage
Alignment
Attunement
Armor Training
Concentration
D20 Test
Damage Threshold
Dead
Difficult Terrain
Encounter
Experience Points
Expertise
Hazard
Heroic Inspiration
Illusions
Long Rest
Magical Effect
Object
Per Day
Possession
Resistance
Ritual
Round Down
Save / Saving Throw
Shape-Shifting
Short Rest
Simultaneous Effects
Telepathy
Teleportation
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Update:
Tooltips can now specify sources for when you have content with legacy and non-legacy versions. This was introduced with the release Monsters of the Multiverse to allow tooltips to differentiate between content options that have more than one version.
You can specify the monster source within the opening clause of the tooltip by adding ' src=' in the opening tag, for example replacing [monster with [monster src= and then the source.
For example
If you do not include the source opening tag, by default the tooltip will point to the legacy version
If in doubt as to what the src code is for a book, it's in the URL of that book after 'source/', but to save some time:
Currently source tags are supported for [monster], [monimage] (monster image), and [magicitem] tooltips