Pathfinder Spell Facets: a spell searching tool


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There have been a number of different spell search utilities released recently. Here is one more that I've been tinkering on for several years:

Pathfinder Spell Facets

The idea here was to use faceted classification to let you drill down to a subset of spells relevant to your interests. Are you playing an Eldritch Knight and desperately want a comprehensive list of Wizard spells that lack somatic components? Hit the plus button next to Wizard, and the minus button next to Somatic, then click the Search button. And boom, there you go: all the wizard spells that have no chance of arcane spell failure.

Or perhaps your wizard has taken the arcane discovery Yuelral's Blessing, which grants +1 CL and +1 save DC to spells that appear on both the Wizard and Druid spell lists. Use the plus buttons to require both Wizard and Druid, then hit search. Tada!

Occasionally you will see spells appear more than once in results. This is usually because it exists in multiple sources with slight variations. For example, the spell Brightest Light was printed twice, once in the Adventurer's Guide and once in Inner Sea Intrigue, and the two (AG version, ISI version) are not identical.

It should work tolerably well on mobile, though I only have one phone to test it with. It is not compatible with Internet Explorer. If you are still using Internet Explorer, I urge you to move on to some other browser. It's time to let it go.

I would like to acknowledge the hard work of Tyler Beck from PathfinderCommunity.net, whose painstaking work building a spreadsheet of all Pathfinder spells provided the raw data that made this possible. And also to Paizo, for making their work available under the Paizo Community License for this kind of thing.


Wow, that's a nice one, great work!

I tested around a little and found 2 things to note:

When you've already done a search (yielding some results) and then do another search (that yields no results), the old results simply remain instead of no results being shown.

The Divine Anthology sourcebook is a little flawed, giving spells to clerics but not to oracles, and wizards but not sorcerers despite the same spell list. Iirc then Tyler Beck fixed those mistakes in his spreadsheet, however there are a few spells with the new "meditative" descriptor, that require spell preparation, but this descriptor isn't available in your great tool (yet?).

Arigato!


I really like the feature of excluding spells. For example it works pretty well when you look for witch spells you could pick up with the samsaran alternate trait.

The user interface is clean and well-colored, but still takes a bit to get used to. Personally I'd hide the bolded "Results" as long as there is no search yet. The search magnifying glass has a good size, but is a bit far to the right - it's the second step of interaction (after selecting facets), after all. Usually an user doesn't want to deal with all the facets, so it wouldn't hurt if these long lists are collapsed by default and have to be opened with a click. The additional click would be easily compensated by less (or even no) scrolling involved.


Please pardon the necro. I could not find any other way to contact you.

A bug occurs when I try to look for all 0 level spells not on the wizard's spell list (+ 0 - wizard). The search results in over a thousand spells when there are only 51 0 level spells in the whole database.

Further examination shows the same number of spells regardless of spell level. Its like it only searched for spells not on the wizard's spell list and completely ignored spell level.

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