The Tome v2.0 available - updated attachment

[Horst F. JENS]

The original description of the spells is int the tome, in the sheet "spells". You need to hover the mouse pointer over the cell with the spell name, and a comment field with the original description will appear.
For other stuff (Items, Gods..) you have to look into the game itself..

[Endoperez]

Or the manual. It's handy. Just a few days ago I realized that there aren't Ring of Fire/Ice/Poison/Lighting, or Ring of X Resistance, but instead Rings of Fire and Frost, that of Tamed Lightning, and Snake Ring.Little things have surprisingly big effect on the scale of things.

[daesthai]

To add to what Horst said, spell descriptions are in the tome (along with references to manual page numbers), as are descriptions of pretenders and units. Admitedly, the unit descriptions need an update to match those of Edi's UnitDB.

As for descriptions of magic items....hmmmmm.....:rokes chin thoughtfully::....Horst, I think I know what I want to work on for version 3.0. =)

Good grief, I hope I can get that done before Dom3 gets here....

[B0rsuk]

I'd like to create a primitive database of, say, spells (all in 1 file; 1 line - 1 spell) and then write some stupid bash/awk/grep script to display the spells I want.

For example: grep fire | grep conjuration | awk ' $4<=5 && $5<=3 {print $0}'

Such a stupid script would print me exactly what I want - in this case, fire conjuration 5 (or less) spells with fire path of 3 or less. Not really possible with manual. I guess I'll have to retype everything manually.
XLS files and heavy office software is not really my thing.

[Endoperez]

There's also The Grimoire online. http://www.sangster.org/dominions/grimorie.php
Not just that many options, but pretty close, and it's faster. Or at least, browsers open faster than Excel/OpenOffice.

[daesthai]

B0rsuk, that's exactly what the .xls autofilters allow you to do and the reason I created the page in the first place.

The filters I'm referring to are those grey arrow boxes on the column headings.

Using your example, go to the "School" column, click the grey arrow, and from the drop box select "Conjuration". Now only conjuration spells will be listed. If you then go to the "1st path" column and use the arrow box to select "Fire", only fire based conjuration spells are listed. If you wanted, you could continue to do additional filters for the levels of the schools or paths...or ANY of the columns. You can do that with any combination of any number of columns in any order to get very specific lists.

It's also possible to do compound filters by clicking on the arrow and selecting "Custom". Now there will be a dialogue box that lets you set multiple rules like "only list spells that equal Fire OR Water". Or list everything that is NOT a Evocation spell.

It's really simple to use those filters, let me know if you have any questions about it.