Wizard tomes! (new stuff!)

[alsih2o]

now including an optimizer(the munchkinizer) and a greyhawk nook sampling...

 

[Hand of Evil]

This is a very good tool...

Ontology of Historiography
Recitations on Nether Harrowings
Tales of Ur-Logic
Utterances of Battle Angel Lothar
The Wit and Wisdom of Saint Kurzbar

 

[mmadsen]

Bookmarked!

Since the code is client-side JavaScript, you can actually save the HTML page, and it'll work without a net connection. And you can edit the code. Even if you're not a techie, you can look at the lists of "ingredients" and add your own.

Some of the lists are quite a bit of fun. For instance, the first list is the material list:

document.HPLMaterialList = new Array(
    "Bone",
    "Horn",
    "Obsidian",
    "Slate",
    "Granite",
    "Golden",
    "Adamantine",
    "Pewter",
    "Ivory",
    "Clay",
    "Orichalk",
    "Brass",
    "Malachite",
    "Onyx",
    "Ebony");

Even with no coding skill, you can insert a few more elements onto that list. Off the top of my head, I came up with: "Bloodstone", "Nephrite", "Azurite", and so on.

The "tome of" list might be a bit harder to add to:

document.TomeOfSubjectList =  new Array(
    "Tales of",
    "Etiology of",
    "Scribblings on",
    "The Tome of",
    "On",
    "Tome of",
    "Book of",
    "The Hours of",
    "Codex of",
    "The Book of",
    "Gleanings about",
    "A History of",
    "A Thesis on",
    "Libram of",
    "Manual of",
    "A Tract on",
    "The Joy of",
    "A Volume on the Topic of", 
    "Recitations on", 
    "A Panegyric on", 
    "A Guide to",
    "Cyclopedia of", 
    "Lexicon of", 
    "Thesaurus of", 
    "Handbook of",
    "Atlas of",
    "Chapbook of",
    "Treatise on", 
    "Monograph on",
    "Essays on", 
    "Dissertation on", 
    "Know Your",
    "Odes to",
    "Songs of",
    "Questions Pertaining to",
    "Ripping Yarns about",
    "My Life in",
    "How the Third Eye Perceives",
    "Complete Idiot's Guide to",
    "Coping With",
    "Why It's Futile to Resist the Lure of",
    "Ontology of",
    "Unwisely Unearthed Scrolls on",
    "Tablets of",
    "Ruminations on",
    "Meditations on",
    "Antebellum Pamphlets on",
    "A Hagiography of",
    "Why You Need",
    "Recent Epiphanies Concerning",
    "Life, Death, and",
    "Legends of","Journal of",
    "Hushed Rumors about",
    "A Gazetteer of",
    "What They Don't Want You to Know about",
    "Speaking of",
    "Baby's First Book of",
    "A Primer on",
    "Popular Elegies on",
    "Dabblings in",
    "Everything No One Should Ever Know About",
    "Voyage of the H.M.S.",
    "The Man Who Knew Too Much About",
    "100 Years of",
    "Euphemisms for",
    "Leaves of","Flowers of",
    "Poor Richard's Almanac of",
    "A Compendium on",
    "Ye Sothly Antick Grymoire of");

I particularly liked "Baby's First Book of".

 

[Darraketh]

More For the Lists

Material List
Silver
Silk
Vellum
Parchment

Tome of List
Whispers of
Demonic Whispers of
Sacred Truths about
Divination of
Canon of
Canticles of
Cant of
Tales of
Fables of
Myths and Legends about
Answers to Questions about
101 Lessons of
My Life's Work on

 

[mmadsen]

Re: More For the Lists

Tome of List
Whispers of
...
Canticles of

Ooh, I like your list. I especially like those two above. Bonus points for using "canticle" -- in any context.

 

[ColonelHardisson]

The word "grizzly" is improperly used. It should be its homonym, "grisly."

 

[tarchon]

The word "grizzly" is improperly used. It should be its homonym, "grisly."

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

1 griz·zly
Pronunciation: 'griz-lE
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): griz·zli·er; -est
Date: 1594
: GRIZZLED
2 grizzly
variant ofGRISLY
3 grizzly bear
Function: noun
Date: 1791
: a very large brown bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) of the uplands of western No. America -- called also grizzly

 

[Fast Learner]

http://www.m-w.com/cgi-bin/dictionary

1 griz·zly
Pronunciation: 'griz-lE
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): griz·zli·er; -est
Date: 1594
: GRIZZLED
2 grizzly
variant ofGRISLY
3 grizzly bear
Function: noun
Date: 1791
: a very large brown bear (Ursus arctos horribilis) of the uplands of western No. America -- called also grizzly

Precisely why "grizzly" is the wrong word -- as a variant form of "grisly" it's much less clear than the normal word:

Main Entry: gris·ly
Pronunciation: 'griz-lE
Function: adjective
Inflected Form(s): gris·li·er; -est
Etymology: Middle English, from Old English grislic, from gris- (akin to Old English AgrIsan to fear); akin to Old High German grIsenlIh terrible
Date: 12th century
1 : inspiring horror or intense fear <houses that were dark and grisly under the blank, cold sky -- D. H. Lawrence>
2 : inspiring disgust or distaste <a grisly account of the fire>
synonym see GHASTLY

 

[Fast Learner]

Oh, and very cool tool!

 

[tarchon]

Precisely why "grizzly" is the wrong word -- as a variant form of "grisly" it's much less clear than the normal word:

UK, France, Russia.