Planescape Full Index

Bumping this after over three years to say that the first phase of the index is now complete: I've finished indexing every single product in the Planescape main line as of yesterday. Next steps from here would include indexing the Planescape novels, Torment, any relevant Dragon or Dungeon articles, and selected relevant 3e and 3.5 books, but for now I'm pretty happy to have finally finished it this far.

I just figured it was a good way to help out for anyone running or writing Planescape stuff

Edit: some statistics from it:

• 2404 named NPCs.
• 254 cities, towns, or villages.
• 533 deities.
• 283 divine realms.
• 417 inns, temples, or other buildings, 129 in Sigil alone. (And of those 129, 65 of them are taverns)

Oh, I forgot I'd been uploading it there too; it's supposed to be, but that's an old copy. I'll need to set up a redirect or something.

Edit: Okay, they are the same thing now. Thanks for the reminder about that one!

Oh, very good suggestions; I've got the non-Planescape 2e stuff on my list too, but I actually had forgotten about Vortex of Madness and the pre-Planescape works. I know that some of the post-Planescape planar products were questionable in varying ways, but it's still worth adding them for certain. Die Vecna Die especially; I know it's derided, and rightly so I'll admit, but I've got a soft spot for it. The only question is how I'm going to index it; if I'm going to give it a full indexing, or come up with some rubric to restrict to only Planescape things in particular.

And yes, Torment is going to be something of a bear to go through and ensure I don't miss anything, but it has some good lore elements to it that definitely make it worthwhile. I can get a searchable/browseable text dump via that Infinity Engine utility easy enough, at least, but the other question is how to key entries. I ought to go back and see if/how Zavoda included the ToEE PC game in Encyclopedia Greyhawkia, see if I can do something like what he did if anything.

The question with that, though, is how exactly do you define the Planescape part of something? Take Vecna's realm in Ravenloft, for example; by a strict definition, it's not part of Planescape, true. But part of the purpose in mind for the index was to better help people writing articles or pieces on elements of Planescape. And if someone's writing on Vecna, for example, having his Ravenloft realm keyed could be helpful.

There's obviously some boundary line, sure: random NPCs in a non-Planescape product that live on the Prime and have never set foot on the planes are definitely out. Kingdoms or cities mentioned in a non-Planescape product should probably be out unless they're especially significant. But I think I want the border of the greyer areas a bit further from the core than you.

My standard for keying things was basically this: I keyed a mention of something if it gave some element of information for which someone looking up that thing might want or need to know in order to give them better insight. For example, I didn't key literally every single time "baatezu" was mentioned at all, only those times something was mentioned _about_ the baatezu. If someone said something was "as hot as Gehenna", I didn't key that sentence for Gehenna. And I think that's the basic standard I should carry over for indexing crossover products with a brief alteration: I'll key a mention of something if it is planar, or if it seems likely that someone working in planar things may have some chance of wanting to look it up in the future, and if it gave some element etc. etc.

On the d20 vs. AD&D, yeah, they'll all be in the same list. I figure if someone wants to restrict themselves to purely one or the other, they can just not look up some of the entries in other books.

Thanks for the comment about Black Spine, I actually hadn't heard of that one before. I'll add it to my source list!

Non-Planescape novels I actually hadn't thought on at all. That's a conundrum I hadn't considered, and you're right that for the most part probably not. But for books that have a significant amount of detail that could feasibly be relevant to someone some time...yeah, I think I ought include that. (Does remind me that I definitely need to add Tymora's Luck to my source list, at least, though; I'd forgotten about that one.)

And the Bloodwars CCG...I'm hesitant, because the only reason I'd have to key those informationally would be the art, and most of the art from Bloodwars was from existing products anyway. But I've gone both ways on it in my head, and I suppose for the sake of completion it wouldn't hurt; realistically there isn't _that_ much work to go through, after all, compared to a lot of stuff. Just a single "image of" entry for each card.