How to Compile All the Spells Printed? Help!

[Fayredeth]

I, as I would imagine many others, have several accesory books, each with numerous spells within the covers. These books haven't gotten enough use out of them to warrant their purchase yet, however, and I believe that the key problem lies in the distribution of information throughout the different sources. We (the group) wish to play the game smoothly instead of flipping through books, looking for a little rule on page 78 of the Manual of the Planes, and then a minute later looking up a spell on page 128 of Relics and Rituals.

For the solution to this problem, I turn to you, the good folks on these boards. What course of action would you deem most beneficial? Typing up all the spells into a hefty spell compilation? Just making a spell list with page numbers? Index cards? Online source? I am unsure as to what to do now, and I would appreciate hearing your wise voices with insightful and creative solutions and perspectives.

Thank you!

 

[UD]

PCGen's cahracter sheets: go to www.sourceforge.net and search for PCGen

 

[Humanophile]

Well, if you're playing a wizard/sorcerer/bard/paladin/ranger (Basically, any class that has a small chosen selection of spells, be it full access to a small list of limited access to a large one), I'd reccomend typing up spell cards/a spellbook to keep track of all your options.

If you're going cleric/druid, you're kind of screwed, as a full spell list would be about as cumbersome as all the books you have, but I would reccomend an Excel style listing of pertinent info (range/duration/etc), as well as a listing of what book and page you'd find the full spell info in.

 

[Doc_Souark]

Or you could go here------> Cyberzombie's place and find all the WoTC spells in thier 1 line descriptions. Except for The Master's of the Wild I need to copy that one down for him, o well back to the keyboard I go !!

 

[omedon]

I just copied the SRD spells list into MS Word.

Now whenever I get a new book I add the new spells. I put them in alphebetical order and include both the spell name and the short description. For example:

From the SRD
"Endure Elements. Ignores 5 damage/round from one energy type."

This was particularly easy to do with BoEM and BoEM II because they are PDF/TXT I could just copy their spell lists into word and then go about cutting and pasting; combining them with the spells in my Master List.

The Master Spell List contains Spell lists for every casting class, Assasin, Bard, Rgr, Sor/Wiz, etc. It is organized the same as the PHB Lists by Class, Level, School (For Sor/Wiz), and then Alphabeticaly. I have added all the non-SRD spells into all the classes spell lists that their description says can cast them.


All spells not from the SRD are labeled in coloured superscript so I can easily identify their source. For example:

E1 precedes spells from the BoEM
E2 precedes spells from BoEM II
TB precedes spells from Tome & Blood
MW precedes spells from Masters of the Wild

With WotC books labeled and Blue and Monte's in red (matching his colour scheme btw) When a player says he is going to cast spell X I can just look at my Master Spell List alphabetically to find out which book to look in for the full spell description.

I plan to do the same for other books eventually.

This system works well for me, it is a fair bit of work but I think it is worth it.

 

[d20Dwarf]

You can add Spells & Spellcraft to your list, it just arrived at our offices and it looks great!

Forgive me, its my first book for FFG and I'm a bit excited.

 

[Henrix]

I prefer the shorthand format used in the lists on DnD ToyTools.
Sadly he has only listed the spells in the PHB, and it is pre-errata as well.
But this is the most useful format I've seen to date.

 

[Hard8Staff]

The Kalamar Player's Guide (at the printer right now) has a compiled listing of all D&D spells published through March '02.

Dave