Sort by source/rarity

Pathfinder Nexus & Character Tools
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As I work to onboard players it would greatly help to have an option to sort by source and rarity. I’m thinking on the preferences page by variant rules, etc. there could be a selector for adventure or AP as well as possibly a sourcebook selection

When selecting Background for example as the next step it would have sections in the selection list, sorting options in this order

AP Backgrounds
Core Rules
= Player Core (Common/Uncommon/Rare)
= Player Core 2 (Common/Uncommon/Rare)
Extended Rules
= [Other main rule books sorted] (Common/Uncommon/Rare)
Setting Rules
= [Lost Omens books sorted] (Common/Uncommon/Rare)
Other sources
= [other APs, Adventures, Society, etc.]

For bonus points this would be a tree list to show/hide options

This would really help new (and even experienced) players a lot to build better characters faster… I think this sorting would help in particular for selecting backgrounds and deities which right now are pretty overwhelming.

Also, recently I built an Osiron Champion of Ra but using the search filter for Ra still left Ra several pages deep so the search seems to be using some kind of sorting but it’s not really clear so maybe this also needs a little tweaking.

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It makes sense to me, I’ve passed it along so that the dev team can investigate further.

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Something I just thought of that I wanted to make sure you know about. If you click on the filters button when looking at a list like this you can filter to only show common/uncommon/rare backgrounds. You can also use the filter to only show backgrounds from a specific source as well as a few other filter options.

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That’s a good point. I guess when walking a character through the creation process I could use those filters.