Searchable & Sortable 3.5 Spell List

[BeerSkunk]

Wow, something useful!

I've been working a lot with XML lately, and in the process I've done some dabbling with XSL. After doodling stick figures and marring the walls with finger paints, I stepped back and admired my creation. A searchable 3.5 Spell List!

Mingling stick figures, finger paints, and XML hints to my mental imbalance, yet madness does oft produce greatness. I took the 3.5 Spell List available from DnDResources, formatted it with XSL, and added some search functionality to it. After all the time spent looking up spells during my game session this past weekend, I decided there had to be a better way. I've tried numerous solutions, but nothing yet has been very useful. However, I think I may finally have something here.

The searchable spell list is available on my website. You can access it from there, or you can download the files for use locally.

I will begin adding, updating, and maintaining the spell list immediately in order to keep it up to date.

Enjoy!

 

[ciaran00]

Hi. Thanks for doing this; this is very cool. Was there a way to organise them by class and level, say... Wiz 1/2 etc or Brd2/3 or whatever?

ciaran

 

[ciaran00]

... also, that's a pretty cool site. Had to bookmark it.

ciaran

 

[BeerSkunk]

I'm still looking at some other ways to go about enhancing the search features. It would be trivial to do with ASP, but I'm trying to avoid that in order to make it easy for people to just download and use of it without needing a web server to run it on.

I'll look into some way to sort the spells. Hopefully today I'll have a breakthrough. =)

 

[DMFTodd]

Was there a way to organise them by class and level, say... Wiz 1/2 etc or Brd2/3 or whatever?

The spells database in DM's Familiar can do that. I had to split the class info out to make it happen "Sor 1, Wiz 1". You may want to look at doing that.

Also, there's an online spellist by class here: http://www.cooleys.org/ogc/spells/
It's not searchable though.

There's some spells on there I don't recognize (Zone of Silence). 3.5 maybe? Or you have more than the SRD?

I don't see an OGL note anywhere.

 

[tburdett]

Would it be possible to make this work with a Pocket PC?

 

[BeerSkunk]

Would it be possible to make this work with a Pocket PC?

I'm working on that as I type this actually. I tried to get it to work on my PPC last night with no luck, but it should be possible. I'll make sure to announce it when I get it working.

 

[BeerSkunk]

Update

New update today includes an advanced search function and filters.

Enjoy!

 

[tburdett]

Any luck getting it to work on a PDA?

 

[BeerSkunk]

I'm still working on a PDA version.