With the update of the d2etracker site, there is now a handy new page which can help you find the ideal monsters to use as an open group in your quest.

If you use the tracker it will even show a selection specifically for the encounter you are playing (based on traits and selected expansions, but you can use it even if you don't make use of the website.

You can find it here:

http://d2etracker.com/stats_monster_attributes.php

It allows you to filter monsters based on what their abilities do, as well as based on health, speed and even their attack/defense dice.

For example: A monster that can poison, has at least 7 health, and a black defense die .

I'm still looking for feedback though. Maybe there are more filters that people are interested it? Maybe there are some additions you'd like to see in the 'monsters that can' dropdown?

Let me know!

Wow, Atom4geVampire, you knocked it out of the park again. This is a tool we've been waiting for, and it works marvelously!

I glanced through the list of possible filters and it seems to me that you've included just about everything.

Thanks once again, and keep up the good work!

Things like this makes me wish I could afford a tablet. It would be super-helpful at the table, but unfortunately, yeah, no.

For a second I thought it was something like pokemon go.

Amazing work - thanks!

I've improved the filtering functionality a bit. It was really wonky before

I've also added traits (still a work in progress) so you don't necessarily need to visit the page from your campaign to find monsters suitable for a certain quest.

(Of course, this will not take into account which expansions you might have)

Atom, I really love your Monster characteristics page! I am in the middle of creating a campaign right now and your tools are very, very helpful.

A few suggestions:

1) Maybe have the monster trait in the table rather than as a filter option? (Add the picture of the traits maybe?)

2) Could you also add the lieutenant characteristics?

3) Hero-characteristics could you add the heroic abilities/heroic feats?

4) You have item-stats, but no item characteristics yet. I guess you plan to add items and relics as well?

It must be a lot of work to type all this stuff, so I feel kind of bad to demand all this from you. So maybe I can help? If you tell me the format, I could type the item stats and send them to you for example.

1) I was thinking about that, and adding some more stuff like group limits, but it's already a bit cramped as it is.

2) I was planning to, but I think there was some reason that I didn't do it in the end but I can't remember right now, I will take a look again.

3) Yeah, they are in the database, but not yet shown

4) I can add something like this, I'm just not sure about how to show their 'abilities'. With monsters it's easy, they have actual ability names. Weapons on the other hand sometimes have just whole sentences written on them that are never found on any other weapon, so it would be more work/less straight forward than the way I did it for the monsters. I'll think about it.

Hmm, a table showing Act, gold cost, dices, item type and a large space showing the text shouldn't be a big problem. For the filters, I would restrict it to pierce, reach, blast, +x damage, +x range, deal condition X, +x HP and +x to stats. This should be a start at least. For the more fancier abilities, one would have to read the text, but I guess there is no way around it.

I am fairly new to this forum, therefore I am not sure if this has been raised already. if so, my apologies.

Is it / will it be possible to also filter the monster characteristics by expansions?

I saw the "Add Conversion Kit" button, but I could not find any filter option for the other expansions.

I recognised, that the Expansion abbreviations are shown after each Monster Name, therefore you can already now see, which Monster belongs to which expansion.

Nevertheless a filtering, to reduce it just to a list of Monsters, you own, might be a nice add-on.