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Access to compendium not possible

D&D 5E  Compendium Browser: Chrome Screenshot of the error: Please help. Kind regards
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keithcurtis
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Is this for all Compendium access, or only certain pages?
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Hi, I used the menu Tool -> compendiun then searched the word:  feat then clicked in any of the multiple "feats" links I also noticed that the charactermancer for level 2+ is not showing the feat options (the tab is grey) but only the ability score increment.
I've noticed throughout the week random Compendium entries timing out.  Was there like server updates happening or something? EDIT:  One example of compendium entry not working for me.  In Volo's Guide to Monsters,  the Beholder subsection of Lore chapter. EDIT 2: I can also confirm timing out on feats - with the caveat that on one of the feats links it did work though it took a long time before loading. It would be nice to get some kind of information on this from the Roll20 staff, because I'm pretty sure other people noticed other compendium pages not being accessible.
I found few more broken links/wrong links/time outs in the compendiums.&nbsp; Here, I'll try to document all of the ones that I and others found and will edit further as I find them (or others find them). NOTE: I only have access to PHB, Xanathar and VGtM compendiums. PHB : Personality and Background link is broken.&nbsp; The link is&nbsp; <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Personality%20and%20Background#h-Personality%20and%20Background" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Personality%20and%20Background#h-Personality%20and%20Background</a> &nbsp;which goes to non-existent page. PHB : Feats link times out (though sometime will work but takes a long time to load).&nbsp; The link is&nbsp; <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Rules:Feats/#h-Feats" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Rules:Feats/#h-Feats</a> VGtM : Beholder lore link times out.&nbsp; The link is&nbsp; <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Lore:Beholders" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Lore:Beholders</a> VGtM : Yuan-ti lore link times out.&nbsp; The link is&nbsp; <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Lore:Yuan-ti" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Lore:Yuan-ti</a> VGtM : Spells &amp; Items link, links to some other compendium - namely&nbsp; <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Creature%20Codex#h-Spells%20%26amp%3B%20Items" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Creature%20Codex#h-Spells%20%26amp%3B%20Items</a> MM : The Items chpater link links to Mrodenkainen's Tome of Foes instead, namely&nbsp; <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Mordenkainen%27s%20Tome%20of%20Foes#h-Items" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Mordenkainen%27s%20Tome%20of%20Foes#h-Items</a> PHB : If you click on "Subclasses" link (from the Classes and Subclasses heading, not sure why there is two links to begin with - are these auto-made?) it takes you to the same page as if you clicked Barbarian which doesn't make sense.&nbsp; The link is&nbsp; <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Barbarian#h-Subclasses" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Barbarian#h-Subclasses</a> PHB : Speaking of, if you click on Barbarian, you get a sort of disambiguation page where it purports to find three different barbarian instances (one of them which links to Xanathar's barbarian info page and two of them are the same link).&nbsp; It should just link directlly to PHB barbarian page.&nbsp; When you click Barbarian in Xanathar it behaves as it should and links directly to Xanathar's barbarian page. XGtE : Downtime link times out.&nbsp; The link is&nbsp; <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Rules:Downtime%20Activities?order=6#content" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Rules:Downtime%20Activities?order=6#content</a> VGtM : There seems to be a slew of links in the compendium that behave similar to the barbarian page in the PHB, namely that they link to some kind of "disambiguation" page that in large part seems unnecessary (as all the links link to the same page) and should ideally behave like the Barbarian link in XGtE in that they should know to link directly to the page in the appropriate compendium given the context.&nbsp; I'm assuming these class of bugs all have the same underlying cause.&nbsp; Every link under the "Spells &amp; Items" section of Volo's behave this way, the links are (there are probably more that I missed): <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Wall%20of%20Water#h-Wall%20of%20Water" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Wall%20of%20Water#h-Wall%20of%20Water</a> <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Funerary%20Brain%20Jar#h-Funerary%20Brain%20Jar" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Funerary%20Brain%20Jar#h-Funerary%20Brain%20Jar</a> <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Mind%20Blade#h-Mind%20Blade" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Mind%20Blade#h-Mind%20Blade</a> <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Mind%20Carapace%20Armor#h-Mind%20Carapace%20Armor" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Mind%20Carapace%20Armor#h-Mind%20Carapace%20Armor</a> <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Mind%20Lash#h-Mind%20Lash" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Mind%20Lash#h-Mind%20Lash</a> <a href="https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Shield%20of%20Far%20Sight#h-Shield%20of%20Far%20Sight" rel="nofollow">https://roll20.net/compendium/dnd5e/Shield%20of%20Far%20Sight#h-Shield%20of%20Far%20Sight</a>
Hi, is anybody looking into this?
^ I second this.&nbsp; I've added couple of more odd behaviors in the compendium.&nbsp; I hope at least some of the simpler bugs, like linking to wrong entries and broken links are fixed right away (though links that time out is really annoying because there is no way to access that content at all).&nbsp; It's slightly disappointing that you pay good money for these compendiums (more expensive than their physical counterpart for the most part) but they aren't QA'd properly.&nbsp; (Xanathar seems to be the only one that I haven't found any broken or wrong links or links that time out, in so far - whoever QA'd that kudos to you.)
In general I'm finding that PHB compendium is bit of a mess with number of odd link behavior, wrong links, and a broken one.&nbsp; Maybe this was one of the earlier ones you guys made and just hasn't been properly updated?&nbsp; I don't know but it's definitely a bit disappointing as a customer.
Bugs happen :) I just hope I did not post this in the wrong forum.
Apparently this&nbsp; thread &nbsp;is more visible to the Roll20 devs regarding bugs related to WotC products.&nbsp; So I've copy pasted my list there.&nbsp; Hopefully, someone will address it there.&nbsp; I understand bugs happen.&nbsp; It just seems there are some obvious things that they missed in the QA process - like the broken link for the "Personality and Background".&nbsp; Moreover, those links that time out essentially block us from content that is part of our purchase.&nbsp; That seems serious enough to look into right away.
Hello all, Thank you for this information about issues with the compendium. I have passed it along to the devs. We hope to have more information for you soon.
Thank you for the reply!