Catgod is a program to read Dominions 3's pretender god files. For example:

>catgod /Users/evil/dominions3/savedgames/newlords/early_arcoscephale_0.2h 
Fred, the Earth Monster, Lord of Courage, God of Mountains
Arcoscephale, Early Era
Cyclops (Body 156, 91 hits)
Magic:  Earth 9
Dominion 5
Scales:  Order 1  Productivity 1  Fortune 1  Magic 1
Dormant

Catgod is command-line only. Arralen has released a GUI for Windows. The readme that comes with the GUI explains how to install and use it.

Catgod understands wildcards as you'd expect:

>catgod /Users/evil/dominions3/savedgames/newlords/early_arcoscephale_?.2h

----/Users/evil/dominions3/savedgames/newlords/early_arcoscephale_0.2h----

Fred, the Earth Monster, Lord of Courage, God of Mountains
Arcoscephale, Early Era
Cyclops (Body 156, 91 hits)
Magic:  Earth 9
Dominion 5
Scales:  Order 1  Productivity 1  Fortune 1  Magic 1
Dormant

----/Users/evil/dominions3/savedgames/newlords/early_arcoscephale_1.2h----

Jane, Mother of Fishes, Goddess of Rivers
Arcoscephale, Early Era
Mother of Rivers (Body 1342, 95 hits)
Magic:  Water 9
Dominion 5
Scales:  Order 2  Productivity 2  Fortune 2  Magic 1
Imprisoned

Binaries are available for Linux/Intel, Macintosh OS X/PPC, and Windows.

Download catgod for Linux/Intel.

Download catgod for Macintosh OS X/PPC.

Download catgod for Windows.

For Linux and Mac OS:

Download catgod into any convenient directory. Start a shell (Terminal in Mac OS), cd to that directory, and

chmod +x catgod

in case it didn't download as executable.

For Windows:

Download catgod.zip into any convenient directory. Extract catgod.exe with your favorite archiver.

If you used the default Dominions installation, your pretender files will be in

/your home directory/dominions3/savedgames/newlords

so,

./catgod /your home directory/dominions3/savedgames/newlords/*.2h

will display all your pretenders. If this doesn't make sense to you, ask your local computer geek for help.

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Last updated 26 October 2008