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<blockquote data-quote="MNblockhead" data-source="post: 9307168" data-attributes="member: 6796661"><img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f923.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":ROFLMAO:" title="ROFL&nbsp; &nbsp; :ROFLMAO:"&nbsp; data-smilie="18"data-shortname=":ROFLMAO:" /> Touché.&nbsp; Most of what I don't own are adventure books. I generally don't buy the adventures, but every now and then they have a good discount on the ultimate bundle and after it subtracks the amount of I've already spent, the amount is low enough that I say &quot;why not.&quot;&nbsp; My son is the main user of my DDB account these days as I'm currently not running D&amp;D. But after my Warhammer Fantasy campaign ends near the end of the year, I'll probably go back to running a 5e campaign with the 2024 rules.But this brings me to my second gripe with DDB. Even if you have all the stuff, the filtering and search options are not great. It is often quicker to browse through the PHP to look up a rule than to search for it. If really wish there were a way to limit your search to specific books or to filter out adventure books from your search.&nbsp; Clicking on the compendium filter helps quite a bit in that the rules from the core books will generally jump to top, as long as you remember to use the right term (e.g., &quot;hide&quot; versus &quot;hiding&quot;). But for as long as I've been using DDB, it still find that I often have to manually click on the PHB or DMG and navigate to the proper section of the rules to find what I want. Or at least that is often quicker than searching with search terms.&nbsp; I expect that this issue is harder to resolve than adding an &quot;owned content&quot; filter. Chris Cox spoke recently about how they are testing uses of AI. This is one use case I would welcome. Already, I can find good rules answers on Chat GPT than search in DDB.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="MNblockhead, post: 9307168, member: 6796661"] :ROFLMAO: Touché. Most of what I don't own are adventure books. I generally don't buy the adventures, but every now and then they have a good discount on the ultimate bundle and after it subtracks the amount of I've already spent, the amount is low enough that I say "why not." My son is the main user of my DDB account these days as I'm currently not running D&D. But after my Warhammer Fantasy campaign ends near the end of the year, I'll probably go back to running a 5e campaign with the 2024 rules. But this brings me to my second gripe with DDB. Even if you have all the stuff, the filtering and search options are not great. It is often quicker to browse through the PHP to look up a rule than to search for it. If really wish there were a way to limit your search to specific books or to filter out adventure books from your search. Clicking on the compendium filter helps quite a bit in that the rules from the core books will generally jump to top, as long as you remember to use the right term (e.g., "hide" versus "hiding"). But for as long as I've been using DDB, it still find that I often have to manually click on the PHB or DMG and navigate to the proper section of the rules to find what I want. Or at least that is often quicker than searching with search terms. I expect that this issue is harder to resolve than adding an "owned content" filter. Chris Cox spoke recently about how they are testing uses of AI. This is one use case I would welcome. Already, I can find good rules answers on Chat GPT than search in DDB. [/QUOTE]

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