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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Alzrius" data-source="post: 2357957" data-attributes="member: 8461">As usual, Clueless tagged it perfectly. As I said in the opening part of the file, this is meant to be a reference work. That's because of two reasons: because it seemed both rude and illegal to freely distribute more information than that, and also because any more info on the gods would have taken an exponentially larger effort to catalogue...not to mention that not all gods have more info available, compromising the uniformity even more. I agree that a domain listing would have been great, but as Clueless said, the majority of the time that information just wasn't available, and I didn't want to just make up any of the information.When I initially started this project, I was also going to have cross-indexed lists for where (on what planes) each god lived, and have a pantheon list. Both projects rapidly fell by the wayside, however. The realm list fell apart mostly because only a small fraction of these gods even had it listed where they lived, to say nothing of the FR change from the Great Wheel, etc. Likewise, the pantheon list broke down when I hit the racial pantheons, because I started second-guessing just what constituted being in a racial pantheon. Reorx, for example, is worshipped by dwarves...is he thus a member of the dwarven pantheon? Ghaunadaur is considered a member of the drow pantheon, but there's nothing drow about him (something Lords of Madness points out), so should he be listed there? Questions like that pretty much spelled the death of that work.A database project is something I haven't ruled out yet though (more on that below).Well, I presumed that if you knew the name of the god you wanted to find (and it wasn't an alias), then it'd be easy to just zip down to his alphabetical listing. Want Pan, just look after Paladine and before Panu, for example. Bookmarks could be a good idea, but A) I wouldn't be sure what to bookmark...having one for every god seems a bit crazy, and just having one for the beginning of each new letter of the alphabetical listing doesn't seem like enough. Also B) I don't know diddly about PDF-making. The PDF incarnation of this list is the work of Clueless, who is really great for helping out with the technical aspects of all this.As far as a database goes, I'm currently working on something like that with Static. Right now it's in XML format, and we're seeing what we can do from there.</blockquote>

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