I just had an idea a little bit ago, not really about this page, but about the whole variety of characters and characterization tropes pages.
We have various reasons to want to include pages here for every character concept from the Tropes wiki (most notably because they can feed the random character generator), but I'm always feeling it's weird that we have all these pages that just summarize that other site, often with only a little bit of additional input on our part.
I think it would be really cool to add an extra section to character and characterization pages. Either just before or just after the "Game And Story Use" section, we could have a section on how to build that type of character. We'd keep it fairly basic and simple, in generic terms, because we don't want to wed this site to mechanics from any particular games. But there's a certain body of generic / re-used gaming terminology that could be appropriated for this purpose - lots of games use strength and intelligence, for example. You'd list whether the character type was primarily physical, social or mental in it's focus. Any attributes or traits that they seemed likely to have. Any skills that they'd need (or be likely to have picked up). Don't mention specific feats or edges or spells or the like, but use the more general terms.
I think it would go a long way to making the site more useful to players. Right now we seem to have more of a "GM's toolbox" focus, and I think this could help make Arcana Wiki more appealing to those who play more often than they GM.
What do you guys think?
Good idea or bad one?
The idea hit me while writing the "Game and Story Use" blurb on the Rodeo Rider page - I was writing about what made that character different from other cowboys, and it was real easy to put into gaming terminology.
I put the discussion post here on the Characters page, because if we choose to go ahead with this idea, it'll be nice to have an explanation of it somewhere that's easy to direct people to.
