Okay. I can work with that until I hear otherwise.
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I'm not part of the management here, but in the spirit of the site, I would suggest somewhere in between, keeping to generalities unless the detail is likely to be useful for RPGs, fiction writing etc.
Ideally we want stuff that you can't just get from looking at Wikipedia - and a resident's perspective on things could be useful … we can put up with far less encyclopaedic content than Wikipedia.
That said we'll take a stub with a couple of links stapled to it over a red-link … assuming that the links aren't spam or suchlike.
I've seen a couple of states which have long descriptions of them and their history and many more which are just the bare bones. Which one would you guys prefer I emulate?
Could we bung a "culture" tab under people to include languages etc.? Or should it be more of a metagaming/setting building thing?
Any thoughts as how to link this into the Breadcrumb navigation? The best idea I've come up with so far is to link it to Fictional Places but that's not exactly accurate.
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist
…and the redirect page is now in place.
The draft page only had a basic template, so I deleted it.
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I was going to set up a re-direct page from Mongolian Death Worm, but the wiki claims that there's already a draft of it in place so I decided not to mess with it…
Anyone know how to re-size that image?
…assuming that it's not just me for whom it's immense…
I added a few bits to "Game and Adventure Use" to address this. Feel free to add to it if you think of any other ideas.
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist
That would make this entry more useful from a gaming perspective. And then we could also link this page to Library of Lost Books
"All the World's a Stage and Everyone's a Critic" — Mervyn Alquist
?Should this cover the sort of meta-Narritive that we use to illustrate our campaign settings?
I'm thinking of the "in game" works that NPCs quote at the characters - prophecies, histories, badly disguised Sun-Tzu knock offs etc. … including stuff like the biographical quotes used as chapter headers in Dune, purportedly taken from the works of Princess Irulian.
…I forgot the Princess Bride could supply flavour text … I had been wrestling with the idea of the Housman quote, but it goes on for ages…
Are we sure that human waste was used in wattle and daub? Cow crap I've heard of being used, but human waste seems unlikely due to the smell, if nothing else.
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…just opened this and got "Eunuch" "Ferret legging" "raccoons rescued from vending machine" - not so much an adventure seed but a hilarious character background (emasculated in a ferret-legging accident, he became a skunk whisperer…).
If the guy who spammed our other page really did find a blog entry about Francisco at "Makepocketpussy.com" then we can always revert it.
Over to the mods to deal with the poster in question.
Don't like the look of the URL for that "blog" re. Peter Franciso … given that the same poster's other visit to the site added three spam links to a page, I think we might usefully remove it. And him.
…found that I made the mess in the first place and so have set about fixing it.
Are we sure that the Romans didn't use iron or steel razors?
