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I have to admit that I haven't paid much attention to general layouting issues recently, since I was distracted by other projects like the United States tour. But I'm glad that others are carrying on the torch.
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Excellent!
Quark and Colonel, I think those are great ideas. I've got a minute or two to spare, so I'll go implement them.
EDIT #4: Done. There's a "magic" tab on the top navigation bar, and quarks letter to first-time visitors is on the main page now.
…or wherever that bar of category tabs along the top of the screen lives:
Should we have another one for "magic" to go along side our "science" and "technology" ones?
Funny thing. As I was posting that piece it occured to me that the "Game and Story Use" section of the page format was pretty useless for the essays. But reading your comment here made me realize that it is a good spot to attach additional remarks. Which is what I did.
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist
Not sure that it would be good form to edit someone else's essay, but the mention of CoC reminds me that there's a third form of development out there: the usage based improvement (as per RuneQuest, CoC and other Chaosium products) - tag up skills used during the session, test at the end to see if they improve. Also used by cRPGs (notably the Elder Scrolls) series.
Did it anyway.
One of the contributors to Daily Kos works for a group in Albuquerque which is trying to develop sustainable commercial space travel. Over the past year he has posted a series of pieces based on their ideas and their research. I haven't been ambitious enough to distill his pieces into Arcana entries, (except for the one I just posted about the Z-1 Suit ) but they are worth reading for any "Twenty-Minutes Into the Future" campaign involving space.
There are a few other regular contributors to DKos who post interesting diaries on science, technology and history, and one of these days I'll try to gather some more of them.
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist
Not sure if the Se'irim should get their own page or not - a lot of sources identify them directly as Satyrs, others call them demons. The link below for example…
…I've mainly stored that there in case I want it later. But it's quite good.
I guess if a party has re-spawned repeatedly we could put each incarnation as a sub-heading on one page - so, for example a single page would trace each version of the Democratic Party from Jefferson to Obama or the British Tories from the Exclusion Bill through to the current settlement.
However I suspect we'll end up with a lot of red links and plenty of stuff with very limited RP relevance… so it may not be worth the effort.
That's a good question. That's why I prefaced the list as "Some Notable Parties Past and Present". Each individual page (when I or whoever gets around to it) should give a brief history of the Party In Question and note when that party is no longer active.
In assembling the list and comparing to the Other Wiki I noticed that Wikipedia has multiple pages for the Progressive Party, regarding each incarnation of it as a separate entity. Which is probably accurate enough, because it was pretty intermittant in the early 20th Century, but I think if I ever get around to writing our own entry on the subject, I'd probably bundle them all together for convenience sake.
Technically speaking, we could probably do with a seperate entry on the Democratic-Republican Party of the Jeffersonian Era distinct from the Modern Day Democratic Party, but I don't know if we want to get that nit-picky.
Then again, we have the American and British versions of the Whigs, which share the same name and some degree of political philosophy, but really have no connection beyond that. Those would require seperate entries.
Then AGAIN… there's the Socialist Party. Pretty much every nation on earth that has political parties has a Socialist one, and some of them have more than one. Some of them aren't particularly Socialist either. In that case, I think we'd do better to have an entry on Socialism in general and individual entries on notable parties as we feel the Spirit move us to write something.
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist
Is it worth splitting each entry between historical and current parties? Damned confusing for respective foreigners if they were expecting the Whigs to still be active in UK politics or the Know Nothings or Locofocos to still be at work in the US…
Thanks for pointing that out, Colonel. I fixed the link and also threw together a rough Political Party page. It could use some refinement, but 'twill serve for now.
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist
I guess a "political party" page would be as good a parent as any, so if you're up to building one…
BTW, both of those links point to the wikipedia entry…
I came across a piece on the Locofocos on Dkos and thought it was too weird not to bring here. I'm not sure what parent to link it to, though. The closest thing I could find was Non-Religious Organizations, but we really ought to have a branch of the Breadcrumb linkings for political groups.
Maybe I'll work on that tomorrow.
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist
If anyone here is on Google+, check out the Suppressed Transmissions Community there which I created last year.
The kind of stuff that's prime fodder for the Arcana Wiki pops up there regularly, and in fact I've added more than a few articles mentioned there to the wiki.
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Makes sense - I wasn't sure if there was an order so I just bunged it on the bottom of the list.
I placed the Media Blackwash link higher up on the list of Tropes on this page. In the source for the list, the tropes are ordered from most truthful to least, and so I tried to place the new link in it's proper place on the continnuum. Feel free to argue with my placement. Or not, if you don't care.
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist
Well, I did something to it. At least it's a page now.
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist
…now this actually is a trope, but it's about a meme I have no patience with.
