Forgotten Realms Wiki:Community Portal

Community Portal
The page to see the goings on of the FR Wiki, includes a To-Do list, featured article/archive and collaboration of the week.

To Do

 * Expand all stubs
 * Create stuff for red links.
 * Create a character template table, Ideas, add to this list
 * Top: Character picture
 * Row 2: Gender
 * Row 3: Race
 * Row 4: Age
 * Row 5: Appearance
 * I have made this and used it in Drizzt, any comments? Poulsen 11:08, 20 January 2006 (UTC)
 * I'm using the character template that Poulsen created. It's already implemented on Mirt the Moneylender's page.

Will the age category not be "unknown" in alot of NPCs? Just a thought, it might be a bit superflous. I also added a Deity Template based on one from Wikipedia, let me know what you think (it's based on the Faith and Pantheons layout. Zerak-Tul 16:12, 20 March 2006 (UTC)

Rewrote the Mirt article, go take a look and let me know what you think, though I still think the Age cateogry is a bit unneeded as it will be "Unknown" for the majority of characters Zerak-Tul 21:15, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Hows about we come up with an organization template? Ideally it should include the approx. no. of members, General alignment, What type it is (e.g. Expansive Government, Minor Mercenary, etc.), possibly the leaders/authority figures.

On the topic of "To Do" check out the Wanted Page. Zerak-Tul 16:06, 21 March 2006 (UTC)

Extent of the Project
Are we going to create articles for base DnD concepts like character clasess, alignments, ability scores etc. Which are not unique to the Forgotten Realms setting?
 * Not sure yet. I added red links for 'cleric' and 'Wizard' so far but I might remove them. We should definitely cover the Realms-specific classes and PrCs, if not all of them but I'm pretty set on not including any that are unique to Greyhawk, Eberron, Ravenloft, Dragonlance, Dark Sun, etc. etc.


 * I think that these D&D concepts must link somewhere to maintain ease of use, so I have created a number of stubs for things like character classes and races. I think it is important to detail Forgotten Realms-specific information in these articles (such as how FR clerics differ from clerics in generic D&D) but then it's a toss-up between duplicating generic class information from Wikipedia or merely linking there. Fw190a8 04:43, 5 July 2006 (UTC)

Dale Reckoning Years
Just a poll to gauge peoples opionon on articles on dale reckoning years (e.g. 1358 DR).

How should we tackle these? I see a few different options:

1. Each year gets its own article with or without the DR suffixed ('1357 DR', '1358 DR' Pros:
 * Some years have alot of events, and so deserve their own articles.
 * Easy to keep the same style for all the articles.

Cons:
 * Almost endless amount of articles.
 * Some (early) year articles would be very short.

2. Years are bunched into groups (e.g. The Days of Thunder) with year numbers redirecting to the appropriate article (e.g. '~34000 DR' would redirect to 'The Days of Thunder'). Pros:
 * Far less stubs.
 * Creates bigger(better) articles.

Cons:
 * Requires alot of cooperation and planning (deciding how to divide up the years).
 * Needs alot of redirects (I don't really see this as a con, but listing it, because some might be opposed to this).

3. Some variation of the above, or something else entirely (comment below)..


 * A brief question here: what would happen if there was a group of years for which we had no name? What would the article be called? Simply (for example) 1250 to 1280 DR? I think articles for a group of years would be better, because, as mentioned, otherwise there will be some very short articles. On the issue of creating redirects from individual years to their associated group of years article, I don't see that as a problem either, and if there weren't redirects, it would be unreasonable to expect article authors to look up the exact name of the group of years they were looking for. With redirects, they can just wiki link to the specific year they're writing about. Fw190a8 14:27, 13 January 2007 (UTC)