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[Dahrk]

One of the features that relatively few mods make use of is book titles. It's very easy to do and adds a lot of flavour to legends mode.

Over the years, I've collected a number of titles that I paste into every game. They're based on various titles of real works from around the right time in history. There are 300 possible knowledge topics and at least as many art topics as there are historical figures, sites, creatures, and other books. I've taken care to keep the names as generic as possible to avoid obvious recurring patterns or unnatural sounding word combinations.

I'm aiming for clarity, variety and consistency. For now, assume that books with odd titles are allegorical or poorly translated

Some of the combinations are still a bit iffy, especially the sagas. Feedback and contributions are welcome!

I made this list quite a while ago, so forgive me if I get these wrong, but I know of the following tags:

• [ADJ] (Adjective. My favourite, probably overused.)
  e.g. Epic of the Musty Ones
• [NAME] (place or person)
  e.g. Book of Adoreroard (A site)
• [NOUN] (I haven't used this one much, but can't remember why not. Possibly, not related to the book topic.)
  e.g. Conquerors and the Blind Flight
• [NO_ART_NAME] (Noun, refers to the topic of the book. My use of this is clumsy.)
  Chronicle of Tekkud Ardenttowns
• [PHRASE] (I haven't used this one yet. Injects a seemingly random aphorism or quote.)

The raws below generate such gems as:

• Principles of the Truth
• Book of Animal Courtship
• Canon of Animal Diets
• A Study of the Mountain Halls
• The Slim Discourses
• The Insensitive Tract
• On the Nature of the Elf
• The Decent Book
• The Modest Migration
• The Whimsical Observation
• Treatise on the Moon and Tides
• Report on Animal Societies
• Saga of Comedic Shames

raw\objects\text\book_instruction.txt

Code: [Select]

On the Nature of the [NO_ART_NAME]
The [ADJ] [NO_ART_NAME]
Book of [NAME]
Canon of [NAME]
The [ADJ] Book
Principles of [NAME]
Treatise on [NAME]
A Study of [NAME]
Report on [NAME]
The [ADJ] Discourses
The [ADJ] Tract

raw\objects\text\book_art.text

Code: [Select]

[NAME]'s Saga
Saga of [NAME]
Saga of [ADJ] [NO_ART_NAME]
Epic of [NAME]
Book of [NOUN]
[NAME] and the [ADJ] [NOUN]
Song of [NAME]
Epic of the [ADJ] Ones
Legend of [NAME]
[PHRASE], concerning [NAME]
The [NAME] Tales
Revelations of [ADJ] [NO_ART_NAME]
Canticles of [ADJ] [NO_ART_NAME]
Deeds of the [NO_ART_NAME]
Annals of [NAME]
Epistles on [NAME]
[ADJ] Anecdotes
Story of [NAME]
Romance of [NAME]
[ADJ] Comedy
Chronicle of [NO_ART_NAME]

[gentgeen]

Hmmmm. There was another thread back in December about book titles, but the post above seems to have more useful info in it. Thank you for putting that together.

For those looking for the other thread: http://www.bay12forums.com/smf/index.php?topic=168669.0

[Dahrk]

Thanks for linking to the thread! I took a look and, although it's a cool idea, the problem is that the game will use Cure for [NOUN] Fever etc. for all kinds of instructional books. So, you'll end up with books like Cure for Axe Boils, a book about Star magnitude classification. It'd be good if there was a more topic related form of [NOUN].