Monsters are missing image source portrait data

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Combat tracker for Dungeons and Dragons (D&D) 5th Edition

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Monsters are missing image source portrait data #474

Closed Dan503 closed 4 years ago

Dan503 commented 4 years ago

I'm surprised that none of the monsters in the data base have D&D image source data attached to them.

Is there any chance that monster image data can get saved into the data base?

coreyjkelly commented 4 years ago

The only creature/spell/other data that is included is what's covered under the OGL/SRD for D&D 5E. For creatures, this includes names, stats, abilities, etc, but not artwork. The art in the Monster Manual, or on D&D Beyond, for example, belongs to Wizards of the Coast.

Short of someone compiling a library of free-to-use art for the entire OGL, and hosting it somewhere relatively permanent, this wouldn't really be possible.

cynicaloptimist commented 4 years ago

Corey's comments are spot-on here. I wouldn't want to take a dependency on someone else's image URLs.