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The History I am not too worried about either, but honestly most of the wiki is set in the post Time of Troubles era, where its of most use to me, if that changes to post-wailing years this wiki is far less useful from my perspective. We may just be able to get by with dual entries for the portals like deities and geography, and maybe dual maps on regions and geopolitical areas. |
The History I am not too worried about either, but honestly most of the wiki is set in the post Time of Troubles era, where its of most use to me, if that changes to post-wailing years this wiki is far less useful from my perspective. We may just be able to get by with dual entries for the portals like deities and geography, and maybe dual maps on regions and geopolitical areas. |
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+ | |This is turning out to be a jolly mess. |
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+ | |Heh, Jolly mess maybe. I do see that they don't intend to publish much beyond the source book for perhaps quite some time. Source book is still a couple months away... so maybe we can just ignore it for a while. And I do like SkyeNiTessine's suggestion of making a pilot project of one of the new areas... Akanûl replacing parts of Chondath+Chessentea seems an excellent example... and until that works for us, keeping the rest of the wiki focused on the Realms as of the 1370s-ish. Where regional maps and currently active deities are concerned. |
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+ | |Actually, I've already gone ahead and wrote a post-spellplague article. Check out [[Winterhaven]]. Because this location was not previously detailed in 3.5E it was straightforward to write. The only difficult thing was to make it clear to the reader that "the present" was not 1375 DR. Let me know if the context made this clear and I succeeded. This is necessary in the short-term, as people's mindset is still 3.5E, but that will change, just as it did when the Time of Troubles was first unveiled and all the "old-timer" players grumbled about the deicide and the confusion it would cause. |
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+ | When the new 4E FRCS is released I'll look into updating the Chessentea and Chondath articles. Note that I intend to preserve all existing info, as I will just be updating it with the current events and will never remove any content. For now there's just so little info that I thought it doesn't warrant it yet. Though I might write an article on [[Akanûl]] in the meantime, since it's brand new and hence there's less concern about making the article 1375 DR relevant. (if you're curious about Akanul you can check out the [[Living Forgotten Realms:Akanûl region|LFR page]] on that region, which has some info) |
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+ | |[[User:SkyeNiTessine|SkyeNiTessine]] 01:59, 16 June 2008 (UTC) |
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+ | |Hi all, long-time lurker here about to dive on in to help with 4th ed stuff. With regard to [[Forgotten_Realms_Wiki:Proposal_to_Remove_Wiki_from_Timeline|this published policy]], the whole point is that there IS no present age. All entries should be written in a historical tense, eg. instead of "Currently Deneir's whereabouts is unknown" we would write "As of 1479DR, Deneir's whereabouts remains unknown". I'm going to make a start on updating deity entries where appropriate. The portal pages and categories will all need to be restructured to break away from organising anything by edition-specific qualities - this is probably the major challenge. |
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So maybe, you are right: Let all the speculations go by, and see what the real changes are going to be when the new FR CS is released. And - on the other hand... there is more than enough FR 3.0 and 2.0 stuff out there to chronicle accurately the timeline from the Days of Thunder to Present Age and compile it here on the Wikia. Should keep us busy until... 2100 AD? ;-)
We know a few things that will happen, but only in broad terms and in no detail. Until we do, we should just keeping updating articles with the information we have. One of the great things about a living setting is that, even if things change dramatically, what used to be current simply adds to the rich history that makes the FR appealing to so many.
In my mind, Realms people are too slow to change. Look at candlekeep.com. Looks like it was designed in the mid-90s. Until Gleemax, Wizards has nothing more advanced than a simple forum for their fans to talk on. They still operate a mailing list! Those date back to before the fall of Netheril, I'm sure. A wiki is just too "new" and "radical" to a lot of Realms people. It's like coming out with the Earth being round all of a sudden.
I really hope 4th edition will bring about a technological revolution for the game. Just about every sensible DM carries a laptop around now, and I'm sure a great deal of players do the same. Sure, you can work out the mathematics on pen and paper, but a computer is designed to do that, and speeds up the game, keeping it interesting. In fact, that's probably where the wiki comes into play. Suppose you're DMing a game and your players are adamant they want to visit Mirabar, even though you have nothing prepared. A quick look at the Mirabar entry on the wiki will give you everything you need to know, without slowing the game down too much.
If there is an official wiki, I think I will wait to see how the policies there work out. My primary concern is creating a verifiable encyclopedia of Realms information, and if there are suddenly two, no doubt the official one will win the day, so I will probably jump over there. The fact that I have put hundreds of hours into nearly 10,000 edits here isn't important and I wouldn't see that time as having gone to waste - in fact, much of the information here could just be transplanted to any official wiki. Still, I don't see an official one happening. We'll see.
Hard to imagine how this wiki can handle representing the geopolitical entries, or deities for two such varied sources with only a tenuous connection between them.
The History I am not too worried about either, but honestly most of the wiki is set in the post Time of Troubles era, where its of most use to me, if that changes to post-wailing years this wiki is far less useful from my perspective. We may just be able to get by with dual entries for the portals like deities and geography, and maybe dual maps on regions and geopolitical areas.
When the new 4E FRCS is released I'll look into updating the Chessentea and Chondath articles. Note that I intend to preserve all existing info, as I will just be updating it with the current events and will never remove any content. For now there's just so little info that I thought it doesn't warrant it yet. Though I might write an article on Akanûl in the meantime, since it's brand new and hence there's less concern about making the article 1375 DR relevant. (if you're curious about Akanul you can check out the LFR page on that region, which has some info)