Its been there for some time as a sort of test to see how it'd look.  Didn't tell anyone, so you are not last to the party.  When the time is right, I hope to see if it is something good to go.  But I'll be sure to announce things should I get the OK and am ready.

ShaneG.

Plaag wrote:Well I'm pleased to announce Bob has given permission to create the Judges Guild Compendium.  The Compendium can currently be found linked to the word 'Compendium' on the Booty List main page: http://www.acaeum.com/jg/ or more easily here: http://www.acaeum.com/jg/Compendium/Jud ... mMain.html
This Compendium will be a list of the people, places, etc from the various Judges Guild related products with small blurbs about each. It would be very bare bones, and provide an encyclopedic guide rather than a true game-level guide.
So how can you help: Any amount of information you can provide will be appreciated, just look in your various Judges Guild materials and jot down a list of names, page numbers and/or any related information pertaining to those names.  Do not post any material to forums, rather send them to JudgesGuild(at)Acaeum.com with Compendium someplace in the title preferably.  Alternatively if you have any Web Based design experience I may need some help with that.

Thanks for your time,
ShaneG.
JudgesGuild(at)Acaeum.com

That's a wonderful project. I'll help out any way I can. Is it for the older material only or are you including the recently published/reprinted stuff as well?

Plaag wrote:
Everything, but things will be delegated as to the source, so if there are two versions of some person for example, they will be listed as version JG, Nec, AGP, etc.

ShaneG.

When I did the Greyhawk index one of the things that helped was to make a note as I went along as to what type of thing was being listed, person, place or thing, and to make it as specific as possible. I normally used three letters such as NPC for people, MON for monster, KNG for kingdom and so on.  There is also the question of how to list characters with more than one name. Do they have family names, are they the Smith's, for example or would you list John Smith under J or under S. Easy to say with the names that we use, but difficult with fantasy names.

Plaag wrote:Yeah have been pondering how the names will go, and may stick with NPS being the name as written, while places with 'of' or 'of the' like Isle of Taka becoming Taka, Isle of or City State of the Invincible Overlord becoming Invincible Overlord, City State of the.
Nothing is set in stone though, so open to ideas.

ShaneG.

you might want to have multiple listings of some names and categorize types of places, such as having all the cities tagged CTY and all the forests or woods tagged WD, same with bodies of water, towns, villages, manors, castles, etc... tagged specificly so they can be searched for as a specific type of listing. Of course the type of indexing I worked on in the past was one monster document but now a search engine could find and retrieve seperate keyword listings.  

The thing is that you save a vast amount of time by gathering and organizing the data by a specific method the first time around rather than going back over the same source material again, and again, and again.

But you can just harvest nouns the first time. There are problems when further information is only refrenced by pronoun, such as having a woman's name mention on one page and then having her refered to simply as 'she' or 'her' for the next half-dozen pages.

I'm starting on the new Wilderlands boxed set and I can send you a few pages of rough data when I've typed it up if you'd like.

Under the 'T' list can be found some entires regarding people and places, if its a monster may just include a physical description and perhaps location (not hex #, but like is found near the mouth of River Modron).

Oh and good point about underlining words that could be entries, you'll see that in some of my examples.

ShaneG.

Plaag wrote:http://www.acaeum.com/jg/Compendium/JGC ... slore.html

While not every entry is in the Lettered lists, just wanted to show something fairly complete and get input (what may need to be added, changed, etc.)

ShaneG.

It looks good so far. Something like this is going to get fairly massive. You may want to work on basic information formats such afor specific types of entries such as

Characters

name:
title/rank/alias:
race:
level:
description from text:
etc...

Cities/towns/Villages

name:
Location:
Allegiance:
Population:
etc...

Geoff Dale wrote:Bump.  Can you give us a project status Plaag??

Kind of on hold..RL taking up my time.

ShaneG.

Plaag wrote:If you haven't been checking the updates, I've slowly been working on this again.  Would still love help of course.  Only Mines of Custalcon has been added fully though there is still a couple of pictures that need to be put up.  Just need to figure out what size I want them at and placement.
Right now I'm working on Spies of Lightelf.

ShaneG.

Any chance of a Wiki instead?