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Tomb of Horrors Marketplace Module Monsters not appearing in the D&D 5E Compendium

I bought the Tomb of Horrors in the Roll20 Marketplace to get access to the monster stats and token in the D&D 5E Compendium. I do not see an entry for any of the monsters specific to that module in the D&D 5E Compendium (Giant Skeleton, Siren, Greater Zombie etc). I thought any official Wizards of the Coast Module in Roll20 Marketplace would add those NPC's, Monsters, Items into the Compendium. Is this a bug with the module or what?
I think it only adds them to the compendium of the game it is loaded on too. As it doesn't have its own compendium entry listed on the module. But I am not 100% sure.
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Nick
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Even when I load the module the monsters do not show up in the compendium (they only show up as tokens). Monsters from other marketplace modules like Descent Into Avernus show up in the compendium without loading the module.
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Nothing in the Accessing Your Content section on the Marketplace page for Tomb of Horrors ( <a href="https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/gameaddon/163/tomb-of-horrors-tales-from-the-yawning-portal" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/gameaddon/163/tomb-of-horrors-tales-from-the-yawning-portal</a> ) says it includes Compendium content. Compare that with the Accessing Your Content section for Icewind Dale: Rime of the Frostmaiden ( <a href="https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/bundle/5999/icewind-dale-rime-of-the-frostmaiden" rel="nofollow">https://marketplace.roll20.net/browse/bundle/5999/icewind-dale-rime-of-the-frostmaiden</a> ) which has a Compendium piece called out. The monster's stats might be included as a character sheet in the Journal. If so, you could use the Character Vault to move it to another game. Not as convenient as drag-and-drop, but it beats manually re-typing. If you do not find a character sheet for the creature, it is likely its stats are included in the text of the adventure. Hope this helps.
Got it and thank you. That's a real bummer because for some reason I was under the impression buying official WotC content increased what was in your compendium. Guess, I didn't realize not everything would add that content into the Compendium even though I don't see why it couldn't (and probably should) since that is true with DnDBeyond.
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keithcurtis
Forum Champion
Marketplace Creator
API Scripter
Part of the issue is that the Compendium and module conversions developed side-by-side. Originally, only specific books were converted, i.e. the Monster Manual. The tools were not in place to do this for modules, which are used to build games. Actually, they are essentially just copied pre-set games. As the systems matured, it became possible to tie elements from modules into compendium entries. Virtually every sizable module since this tech became available has had compendium access as part of its purchase. I believe I have heard (though this could be my faulty memory) that it is a commitment from Roll20 to eventually add compendium elements to older modules. When in doubt, check the Marketplace page. It should tell you if there is Compendium content. Finally, DnDBeyond has a lot of features that are not possible with Roll20, because they have a deeper partnership with WotC than any other developer, sharing marketing, for instance.