Dungeons and Dragons Cross-Reference

This site contains cross-references for various D & D books. By cross-referencing everything, the hassle of determining which of several books something is in is reduced. Rudimentary data on spell details is included so that spells with the same name but different uses (for different classes, for example) can be differentiated. This is intended to be a useful tool in addition to, but not a replacement for, the books themselves.

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Formats:

• Alphabetical listing, legal text format. Paginated to 60 lines per page in a two-column format. Reminiscent of a legal cross-reference, hence the name.
• Alphabetical listing, legal format for -me macro package. Download and troff -me alpha-legal.me | lpr.
• Alphabetical listing, legal format as PDF file. -me macro package run through groff -me alpha-legal.me | ps2pdf.
• Alphabetical listing, HTML format. A big table. May annoy your browser.

Available:

• All editions Listings include all spells, items, tables, and other stuff from all books listed for individual editions below.
  • Legal - text
  • Legal - groff
  • HTML Table
  • Legal - PDF file
• First edition Listings include Players Handbook (spells).

  Format	All	All Spells	Cleric	Druid	Illusionist	Magic-User
  Legal - text	alpha.txt	spells.txt	cleric.txt	druid.txt	illusionist.txt	magic-user.txt
  Legal - groff/nroff -me	alpha.me	spells.me	cleric.me	druid.me	illusionist.me	magic-user.me
  HTML Table	alpha.html	spells.html	cleric.html	druid.html	illusionist.html	magic-user.html
  Legal - PDF file	alpha.pdf	spells.pdf	cleric.pdf	druid.pdf	illusionist.pdf	magic-user.pdf

• Second edition Listings include spells, items and tables (unless otherwise noted) from the following books: Players Handbook (generic stuff not listed), Dungeon Master's Guide, Druid's Handbook (includes herbal brews too), Book of Elves, Tome of Magic, Wizard's Handbook.

  Format	All	All Spells	Wizard	Priest
  Legal - text	alpha.txt	spells.txt	wizard.txt	priest.txt
  Legal - groff/nroff -me	alpha.me	spells.me	wizard.me	priest.me
  HTML Table	alpha.html	spells.html	wizard.html	priest.html
  Legal - PDF file	alpha.pdf	spells.pdf	wizard.pdf	priest.pdf

  All contains spells, items, tables, herbal brews.
• Third edition Listings include Players Handbook (spells up to 'Lesser Blanar Binding').

  Format	All
  Legal - text	alpha.txt
  Legal - groff/nroff -me	alpha.me
  HTML Table	alpha.html
  Legal - PDF file	alpha.pdf

Submitting files

If you have a book that's not cross-referenced, you can submit it, preferably as a plain-old ASCII file. I can handle spreadsheet files too, but they need to be exported to text (sometimes called CSV files); in this case, the colons in the sample represent separate columns. Here are some example files:

• Players Handbook, second edition cross-reference, multi-edition source. You can use the multi-edition format for a single edition, but it's more typing. A single-edition source file may be converted to multi-edition with the vi command in the comment at the top of the file.
• Complete Druids Handbook, second edition cross-reference, single-edition source.

Here are pieces of a file with some comments:

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System  Advanced Dungeons & Dragons
Book    The Complete Druid's Handbook
Short   Druid's Handbook
Abbrev  Druids
Edition 2
ISBN    1-56076-886-X
# Header order isn't important.
 
# Groups are: Priest, Wizard, Item, Herbal, Table
Group   Priest
Level   1
 
# Data lines are composed of colon-separated fields.
# Item/Spell name is always first.  Other fields occur in any order.
# A number is the page number, an unnamed field is the school or category.
# Expand spheres of the form 'Elemental (Air, Water)' to 'Elemental (Air),
# Elemental (Water)'.
 
Beastmask:Illusion/Phantasm:Sphere Animal:86
Puffball:Alteration:Sphere Plant:87
Whisperward:Alteration:Sphere Guardian, Weather:87
Animal Spy:Divination:Sphere Animal:87
Beastspite:Enchantment/Charm:Sphere Animal:88
Fortifying Stew:Necromancy:Sphere Healing:88
 
# To continue a line across a carriage-return,
# put a colon at the end of one line and at the start of the next.
# Here's a sample with a reversible spell:
 
Transmute Water to Dust:aka Water to Dust:Alteration:
        :Reverse Transmute Dust to Water:aka Dust to Water:
        :Sphere Elemental (Water), Elemental (Earth):291
 
# If a reverse spell doesn't have a name, just tag it Reversible.
Succor:Alteration, Enchantment:Reversible:Sphere Summoning:299
 
# Comments start with a #.
 
# Here's what a Web spell will look like, when supported:
http    www.barella.org/perette/Dnd/newspells.html
Aerate Dead:Necromancy:Sphere Necromantic, Elemental (Air):http #aeratedead
# The tag after http will just get added to the value on http line.

For third edition:

# Use the same header.
 
# Use Spell instead of Priest or Mage, and use
# the Level field instead of line.  You do not have to use the sphere
# field. Use the third-edition abbreviations for classes - Brd, Clr,
# Pal, Rgr, Sor, Wiz.  Domains should be spelled out.  Unknown classes
# will be treated as a domain.
Group   Spell
Cure Critical Wounds:Conjuration (Healing):
        :Level Brd 4, Clr 4, Drd 5, Healing 4:190
Daze:Enchantment (Compulsion):Level Brd 0, Sor/Wiz 0:191
Death Knell:Necromancy:Level Clr 2, Death 2:191
Deathwatch:Necromancy:Level Clr 1:191
Delay Poison:Conjuration (Healing):Level Brd 2, Clr 2, Drd 2, Pal 2, Rgr 1:191

Send completed files to OWNER_NAME.