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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Bacon Bits" data-source="post: 8048220" data-attributes="member: 6777737">Oh, I would also absolutely believe that it's a single 3-ring binder that contains several documents that now no longer exist anywhere else. Even some so old that they're typewritten on a TSR letterhead. Yes, even for an IP as valuable as D&D.I hope it's a Word document or series of Word documents in a shared folder called D&D Internal Setting Continuity. It's virtually inconceivable that it's a wiki. It should not need to change that often, the number of editors is not high enough to warrant a system to manage the content modifications, and nobody should be spending that much time managing the hyperlinks between articles. Plus it's another system to buy -- corporations avoid FOSS -- and another system to manage and train new staff on. That means it's expensive, while you're already paying for Word. It's trivial to get people to take ownership of Word documents. It's significantly harder to do the same for a system like a wiki. That means your team is less likely to actually reference the content.That's why I say that Word is the epitome of "good enough". It does the lion's share of the work, doesn't intimidate the people who have to learn and use it, and the features it lacks are things that most users won't complain about having to manage themselves because they naturally think in terms of personal document management.OTOH, there will absolutely be some who complain that the wiki interface isn't as friendly or familiar as Word or that they don't want to use one tool for authoring and another to document lore. We know that WotC uses Word; every playtest and UA document they've released since 2014 clearly uses the default Word template class formatting. All they've done is enabled is two column mode.</blockquote>

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