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kjenks 02-02-06, 10:14 AM	The Wizards.com Spell Index and other documents use the three-letter abbreviation SpC to refer to the Spell Compendium. Our document uses the two-letter SC. We should change them all to SpC for consistency. http://www.wizards.com/default.asp?x=dnd/lists/spells Check with Wizards to see if this is the official abbreviation. While we're at it, the official abbreviation of the Player's Handbook seems to be the two-letter PH, not the three-letter PHB.
Arvagor 02-02-06, 10:59 AM	FWIW, I believe the two-letter notation derives from the fact that the campaign cards all use 2-letter notations -- thus, why we have "CV" for Complete Adventurer ;) ). The Player's Handbook needs to be PHB to distinguish it from the Planar Handbook (PH). It would be beneficial (and consistent) to note abbreviations at the beginning of Chapter 9 also, at least for those titles where an abbreviation has not already been given in chapter 5. This presents some conflicts -- as we see in the PHB/PH example -- for several titles: Libris Mortis and Lords of Madness Sandstorm and Savage Species Races of Destiny and Races of the Dragon I would suggest the following: Arms & Equipment Guide (AE) Book of Exalted Deeds (BE) Book of Vile Darkness (BV) Dungeon Master's Guide II (DMG2) Fiend Folio (FF) Libris Mortis (LI) Lords of Madness (LM) Manual of the Planes (MP) Monster Manual II (MM2) Monster Manual III (MM3) Planar Handbook (PH) Races of the Dragon (RR) - Can be amended once some campaign cards are released (as is likely) Savage Species (SP)
WotC_Tulach 02-02-06, 11:09 AM	We only use abbreviations for books that are generally available in the campaign, otherwise the source should be fully written out (such as Libris Mortis, Savage Species, etc.).
Samwise 02-02-06, 11:58 AM	Chris noted the policy of writing things out, which of course holds for all documents. If anyone wants the "official" abbreviations, just check one of the Consolidated Lists available here. It has a Product Key. I've noted the things listed on page 62 of the draft below for reference. AE Arms and Equipment Guide BE Book of Exalted Deeds BV Book of Vile Darkness CAd Complete Adventurer CAr Complete Arcane CD Complete Divine CW Complete Warrior Dr Draconomicon DMG Dungeon Master's Guide v.3.5 DMG2 Dungeon Master's Guide II FF Fiend Folio Fr Frostburn HB Heroes of Battle HH Heroes of Horror LoM Libris Mortis: The Book of the Dead (actually, it is LM in the key, and LoM in the lists) LM Lords of Madness MP Manual of the Planes MH Miniatures Handbook MM3 Monster Manual III MM2 Monster Manual II MM Monster Manual v.3.5 PlH Planar Handbook PH Player's Handbook v.3.5 RD Races of Destiny RS Races of Stone RW Races of the Wild Sa Sandstorm SpC Spell Compendium (not in the list yet, but that's how it appears in the Spell Index as Ken has noted) SS Savage Species Sto Stormwrack Perhaps all abbreviations used should be changed to these.