Encyclopedia: Discussion Thread

I've had Roolebook, planar materials and quite a few different spellings of tanar'ri....it happens I'd choose the Give to someone else button, and if they're not completed in a week, delete them.

One way to handle it could be to create a post called: "Non-Planescape information" (or something). Then anyone could put the keywords of non-related searches into that post and new searches would lead to that post. Guess it would be a little clumsy and high-maintenance, but it would preserve the wikisophy of it all.

For races, we could always put how they're mostly centralized on the planes....Half-orcs on Archeron and all

I added an article on Rao. I'll add a list of sources later.

Anyway, that should take care of the problem. A search still brings up the Egyptian pantheon as well, but with only two hits to choose from it's not a big deal.

Yeah, the search engine doesn't read anything after an apostrophe (which was a big problem in the Chinese pantheon). I'll have to change the links, as I did with the Chinese gods, so they go to the articles directly instead of bothering with the search function. Al'Asran is Pelor and Al'Zarad is Boccob, by the way.

Thank you.

There's an alternate way to spell Chinese words, called Pinyin, that doesn't use apostrophes. But using it in the Encyclopedia would just really confuse people if that's not the spelling used in Planescape books.

I think I'll add the Pinyin forms as keywords to the Chinese god articles, though, in case anybody searches for them by name.

I found other powers with the same problem: Bes, a minor Egyptian power; Shar a Torillean power; and Sss'thasine'ss and M'daess of the Scaly Pantheon.
None of them have articles, searching for them brings up other names instead (Beshaba, Sharess, Anshar, Sss, etc.)

I don't actually know Chinese characters, so I can't help you with that. But if you like I can go through the god articles and add keywords for all the alternate names given in the Gods-List pdf. Some gods have several alternative names that people might search for.

The Encyclopedia have been below the 2000 mark a little too long I think. Being 15 posts short of hitting the goal is a bit strange.

I've been drained of ideas. Is there any chance we can include the old failed search-entries again Clueless? Just to get my creative pinky-fingers itchin' again?

I got the entries above 2000, mostly with minor Greyhawk deities, gods of the wind and sea, and cities in Arborea.

I'm experiencing some trouble with the "smart searches," though. I tried to link to "slaadi Lords of Chaos," which should have worked, as all those words are in the keywords in the Lords of Chaos article. However, it didn't work, and instead I got three new blank "Lords of Chaos" entries and three blank "slaadi lords of chaos" entries" as I tried variations of the above.

I deleted the blank entries, and just linked from the article (the Telchur article, as it happens) directly, as the ability to search for that particular article seems to have been completely lost.

Even the blank entries that my search generated didn't turn up on the search, so I ended up with a million redundant blank entries. And by "a million" I mean six.

I tried searching for "world serpent inn" and the same thing happened to me. It claimed the article didn't exist, and created a new blank article (which I deleted).

The new search engine failed to find "fey pantheon," generating a new entry instead. It also only identified Titania on a search for "seelie court. Part of this is because I had been relying on the old way's wonkiness so that anything with "unseelie court" in it - like the fey pantheon article - would turn up. Now I've got to add "seelie" as a separate key word.

Edit: Which I'm not going to do, as it won't find "fey pantheon" anyway. Any chance of moving back to the old system? It was quirky, but it worked.

"Plane of Water" refuses to be found (it used to summon up "Water, Elemental Plane of" but even when I temporarily created a new entry for "Plane of Water," the search engine couldn't find it).

Added "Ring" and "Givers" to the keywords for the Ring-Givers. Part of the reason I didn't find it first time when I was looking was that I didn't know it was hyphenated.

It's still refusing to find "Tyr."

It seems to work great, now.

I did a major revision of the Norse Pantheon, by the way.

Great job, again!

Since this is a Planescape site, I think we should exclusively use the 2nd edition names. All of the gods of Faerun have official places in the Great Wheel cosmology. In 2nd edition, Lurue was listed as dwelling on the Prime Material Plane, so that stands.

The gods who in 3e are mentioned as living in the "House of Nature" are Chauntea, Eldath, Gwaeron, Lathander, Lurue, Mielikki, Nobanion, Shiallia, Silvanus, and Ubtao. In the Planescape cosmology, they have the following realms:

Chauntea: Elysium/Eronia/Great Mother's Garden
Eldath: Elysium/Eronia/The True Grove
Gwaeron Windstrom: Prime Material Plane
Lathander: Elysium/Eronia/Morninglory
Lurue: Prime Material Plane
Mielikki: Beastlands/Krigala/Grove of the Unicorns
Nobanion: Beastlands/Krigala/Pridelands
Shiallia: Beastlands/Krigala/High Glade
Silvanus: Outlands/Tir na Og (Summeroak)
Ubtao: Outlands/Labyrinth of Life and Beastlands/Krigala/Forbidden Plateau

I've seen several references online that put Eldath in a realm called The True Grove in Eronia. Is that fan-created then, and not official?

So... I'm too clueless overall to actually volunteer for the Encyclopedia, plus I don't own any D&D books at all. But I'd still like to help.

The Gods List pdf has lots of alternate names for different powers and I was thinking of putting those aliases in the articles as keywords, which would prevent some failed searches probably. But I don't want to edit the Encyclopedia a bunch without asking first if you think it will do any good.