Comments on: Dungeons & Dragons Reference Database

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 06:58:45 +0000

That’d be good. Unfortunately there is no such list. However, I suppose that a list of all official books can be found somewhere. Just compare it to the list of books on the site.

By: WeyrleaderZor

WeyrleaderZor — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 23:31:12 +0000

I’ll take a look at what you’ve got and don’t have (is there a list of “things not yet added” out there?) and I’ll try my best to fill in plug some holes for you. After all this is a very handy db for a lot of us gamers!

By: Tim

Tim — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 07:49:16 +0000

WeyrleaderZor: Thanks! Yes, MySQL is being used. If you want to help, see comment #6 on this post. You can separate the columns in whichever way you wish, just make sure that the delimiter is unique for that purpose, e.g. space would be a bad delimiter, tab is better.

I’m not a very active D&D player anymore, so I suppose that this list is quite outdated, especially due to the advent of 4.0. Help is very appreciated!

By: WeyrleaderZor

WeyrleaderZor — Tue, 22 Jul 2008 20:08:38 +0000

I wouldn’t mind helping out either. What kind of DB do you have this all running on? MySQL? And you mentioned text as your preferred format for submitted data, do you want that to be a CSV text file, tab-separated, or do you have some other delimiter character you prefer we use?

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 12 Oct 2007 14:28:26 +0000

I can not find Undead Stalker under classes.

By: Tim

Tim — Sat, 15 Sep 2007 08:09:12 +0000

Nick, that would be great! A text document would be the best. Thank you :)

By: Nick

Nick — Thu, 23 Aug 2007 11:55:30 +0000

Sweet mother of god. I came across this site just a minute ago, and the scope of the project astounds me. You are truly a saint among geeks. I have a pretty decent book collection, so if there are some books you need help with, send me an e-mail. I can follow the format you gave Alatar above. Would you prefer it in a text document?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 19:02:10 +0000

The one I described would be better, since Excel adds a lot of unnecessary information to its proprietary format. However, you can compile it in Excel for yourself or for convenience, and then export it (although I don’t know how). Send it to my email: gurktim@gmail.com.

Thank you :)

By: Alatar

Alatar — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 16:51:57 +0000

Cool. I can do that for what additional books I own. Two related questions:

1) Which would be more convenient, a comma separated list of the format described above, or an Excel spreadsheat of items with the four appropriate columns?

2) After compiling several books worth of data, where would be the best place to send the information?

By: Tim

Tim — Thu, 14 Jun 2007 11:34:11 +0000

Alatar, I would love any help. Currently, each row in the database is split into the following four columns: item name (e.g. Burnfang Malagar), item type (e.g. Magic Weapon), book name (e.g. Dragon 277 (3.0)), book page (e.g. 89). That would be the preferred format. You could make it as simple as a list of comma-separated values in a text-file, for example:

Armor of Coolness,Magic Armor,Book of Splat (3.5),128
Player Cheating,Rule,Dungeon Master's Guide 4,64
Alatar,Non-Player Character,Another Weird Book,256