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Phandelver and Below Compendium Issues

Hey folks,  I just want to make you aware that the compendium entries for Phandelver and Below aren't linked properly. When you click on the module image (out-of-game-Compendium) it takes you back to the Marketplace entry. There you can scroll down to the 'This Package Includes:' section, click on the Compendium image, which takes you to the Marketplace compendium entry - where you can then click on the large purple Compendium button which will finally take you to the out-of-game Compendium.  Since the implementation of the new in-game-Compendium, Phandelver and Below is not included. It's included among the selectable filters when searching for monsters or items, but searching with that filter yields the error message 'No Matching Results.'  The monsters and items where there yesterday (10/3/23). Thanks to all who make Roll20 such a great VTT!
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Hi Patrick! I believe that Roll20 just posted an official feedback thread. If you copy your post to there , it's far more likely to be seen by the Powers That Be.
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Riley D.
Roll20 Team
We did also see this though (I'd say we see everything, but that's just not true, but this time we did :-). Working on a fix for Phandelver and Below now. In the mean time you can opt-out in the Settings tab if you have a game tonight and need to access it using the older interface.
Thanks guys!
Can you check and see if this is resolved now for you? Thanks!
Sorry for the late reply, just got up. I work nights. The first bullet point above is not fixed. The out-of-game Compendium is still linked to the Marketplace entry but is still accessible via the method outlined above.  However, the compendium is now searchable in the new and the old in-game Compendiums, so that is an improvement. The entire adventure comes up when you search Adventures, but only a few others do (Eberron, Ravnica, A Night of Masks and Monsters). It's quite a jumble though with no filters to sort it. The second bullet point is improved (no longer gives an error message), but not yielding as many returns as it did before in the old in-game Compendium. It is incomplete by comparison. Previously it included every NPC and creature, but now it is only the ones listed in the out-of-game Compendium. The module specific NPCs are no longer there. These can be transmogrified though... Also, opting out is no longer a viable option for filtering monsters. When filtering monsters in the old in-game Compendium the Source pull-down no longer works. You can't even type anything into it. This makes for a complete mess when you have several monster books. I don't suppose this matters though as it will likely be phased out soon. New hiccups I've discovered in the interim: Adventures, Backgrounds, Feats, Lore, Other Options and Features, Proficiencies, Races, Rules, Sub-classes, etc. all could use search filters. With the slower load speed of the new display this is now tedious to scroll through alphabetically. Several categories simply give error messages: Category, Content, Impressum, Misc, Retainers, Weapon (longsword, shortsword, rapier, or dagger). Perhaps these are featured more in other (besides 5e) compendiums. You can no longer search for all of the books by title. For example, searching for Dungeon Master's Guide will yield entries from that book, but not a link to the entire book (table of contents) like it used to. You can, however, still scroll up to the top right of each entry to find the table of contents. After going through every single book I own on Roll20, these are the books searchable by title: Phandelver and Below The Shattered Obelisk, Explorer's Guide to Wildemount, Bigby Presents - Glory of the Giants, Strixhaven a Curriculum of Chaos, Fizban's Treasury of Dragons, Mythic Odysseys of Theros, and Eberron - Rising from the Last War. Books not searchable by title: Dungeon Master's Guide, Player's Handbook, Guild Master's Guide to Ravnica, Xanathar's Guide to Everything, Tasha's Cauldron of Everything, Monster Manual, Tales from the Yawning Portal, Lost Mine of Phandelver, Essentials Kit, Icewind Dale Rime of the Frost Maiden, Sword Coast Adventurer's Guide, Spelljammer Adventures in Space, Mordenkainen Presents - Monsters of the Multiverse, Volo's Guide to Monsters, Mordenkainen's Tome of Foes, Tomb of Annihilation, Keys from the Golden Vault, Dragonlance Shadow of the Dragon Queen, Creature Codex, Tome of Beasts, Tome of Beasts II. Entries from blocked books (items, creatures, etc.) now show up in searches, whereas before if they were blocked it would say, for example, 42 items were blocked. These entries are still blocked insofar as they can't be drug into the game, though. Does every entry need the larger display box/tab? It seems like only entries that benefit from a pull-down (spells, monsters, items) truly benefit from this larger box. Otherwise, it seems to be slowing down load times a ton. If one can scroll faster than it loads, is it worth it? Rhetorical questions, no need to reply. The old way wasn't as feature rich, but it sure loaded quickly and would scroll quickly. After pointing out all of these issues, I would love to rave about how the new compendium sorts spells, this is truly an improvement. Being able to search with filters and have the spells displayed in the right hand scroll with a pull-down is superb. Monster searches also benefit from this. My player's will love being able to finally filter spell searches in-game by class, level, etc. in a timely manner. The old out-of-game menu was/is still brutally slow and prone to freezing. I also love the new UI and Measuring Tools. I really benefit from having the layer tabs on the left hand side and I have learned the hot-keys for the entire UI quickly from having them in the mouse-overs. I really appreciate the continuing upgrades. These things have made running games much easier and more fluid. I hope this feedback is useful. I did not expect my reply to be this long, but the more I dug in, the more issues popped up. I only point these things out to help make Roll20 a better experience for everyone.  Thanks again for all the hard work!
It seems like the entirety of Phandelver and Below adventure is accessible to players and myself in all of my games.. like all the encounters and everything. I have turned off the new compendium and its still there in the old version.