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I'm not too keen on some parts of the game - I like it when most dice roll modifiers are based on the tactical situation rather than the narrative - but I think the Aspect-related parts of character creation is brilliant. It gets you in the right mood before the game starts - and it gives you a...

Given that the Wiki also lists a large number of Real World People of significance, I think I will also be able to add a "Major Personalities" category. These people should be seen as inspiration for similar NPCs, of course - you will get disbelief from your players if Isaac Newton shows up in...

That's what I thought. Only the smallest nations have a single terrain type, and for those you can limit yourself to a single dominant terrain. Unfortunately, the wiki software won't be able to avoid all inconsistencies - I can't really use a random result to have an influence on other random...

OK, I've created a first prototype for this generator. What do you think of it so far? Oh, and this has pretty much exhausted my Procrastination Time Bank for today... and tomorrow and Friday as well. Thus, I'd really appreciate it if someone would help me write up entries for the various...

Here's another suggestion from another forum: In addition to trade goods, we could also come up with a random economic system - such as barter, mercantilism, etcetera.

The problem with this is that the number of neighboring states is highly variable - as is the nature of those states.

Good point. I will probably make it an optional tab that the user can open if he wants such races. Hmmm... What kind of categories can you see for this? These shouldn't be any numerical values, but descriptors which wouldn't look too out of place in, say, the Wikipedia. Good idea, although...

I've mentioned the Arcana Wiki before. And now I'd like to start on a project which should be very useful for people here - a Random Nation Generator. Such a generator would work similarly to the Random Character Generator. It wouldn't bother with coming up with specific statistics (such as...

A setting should be exactly as original as it needs to be - no more, no less. Too little originality, and a setting will be dull. But too much originality, and a setting will end up being confusing instead of exiting. After all, you need to be able to explain the basics of the setting to all...

No, it was supposed to drop the amulet into it. V says so quite clearly in the first panel. Although it is quite possible that V reverses this instruction mentally later on. Which probably counts as cruelty to animals, but it would be entirely in character for hir.

"I won't be one of those suckers who will end up as demon chow! I'm brilliant and powerful - I deserve a position of authority in Hell!" A very few of these people will actually make it - but far more will die in the belief that they do. There are some parallels to this in real life. In...

Yes, I once pitched it to a writers' community - but unfortunately the response wasn't very enthusiastic, perhaps because the content was rather sparse at the time. But yes, I'm aware that the wiki could be used for more types of storytelling than just gaming - it's just that gaming is the form...

No, it's not. However, at least in the gaming groups I was a member of, we tended to want to try out something new after an extended campaign. Sometimes we preferred the high heroics of D&D, while at other times we wanted the gritty experience of WFRP or GURPS. Or the exploration of themes of...

For the last two months I had disabled anonymous editing because we had some problem with vandalism. However, now I have figured out that I can ban anonymous editors from the wiki as well, so I've opened up the possibility of anonymous editing again. I hope this will encourage more casual...

Anything can trigger inspiration. This was sort of the point I was trying to make when I created the Arcana Wiki - pretty much anything imaginable can be used as the basis for an adventure, a story, or even an entire campaign setting. And thus, pretty much anything is a valid subject matter for...

Dangerous Journeys. Never again. It's not that I mind crunchy rules as such, but I abhor pointless crunch. And that game had it in spades.

If you enjoy world-building, try out GURPS. Few systems are better for that.

I should also point out that another wiki contributor is developing Praxus, an even larger city. It's not as detailed as Dartmouth yet, but we are getting there...

So these guys effectively can't fail death saving throws later on?

Might I point out that Urbis now has its own RSS feed? :D It's a bit slow at the moment (since I'm writing my thesis), but hopefully things will pick up once I've finished...