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Message: <blockquote data-quote="ryryguy" data-source="post: 4799919" data-attributes="member: 64945">Hi, I just discovered L4W and made a character hoping to join in.  It looks really fun!I though ask about a few things that came up as I started exploring the L4W wiki and make a character.1.  Making the character's wiki page is not too bad using the templates.  However, I found the "Show Math" section to be extremely tedious.  Especially so when tweaking the character, and changing a power or weapon choice required essentially double or triple edits.  I am using the DDI character builder, which is of course great at checking the math.  Now that the character builder can import a character's "Summary" data, why not just include that for "Show Math"?  A character checker can just import it into the builder and compare the generated character sheet with the wiki page summary, equipment list, etc. 2.  I am finding it a little bit hard to browse all the setting material on the wiki.  There are some links from the character building guidelines (stickied post and wiki page both).  So I followed those links, and links from those pages, and so forth.  But I felt a bit like I was exploring a cave with a flashlight.  there doesn't seem to be (or I couldn't find) a good "map" of the content overall.For example, <a href="http://www.enworld.org/wiki/index.php/The_Transitive_Isles" target="_blank">The Transitive Isles</a> page seems to be the closest thing to a top-level page for the setting.  When I found that it helped a lot, I could read the sub articles that are linked there.  But this page isn't called out for newbs in the character creation pages.  I'm not familiar with this particular Wiki software.  Maybe there are features I'm missing that would be helpful for browsing.  You can browse by category, but most of the L4W pages don't seem to be tagged, except for the character pages.  Tags like these would be useful: Setting, Near Land, Far Land, NPC, Organizations, History, Templates.3. Editing the wiki in general.  Are there any rules of thumb about editing the shared material?  For example, in my character background I wrote that Arek  Steelsheath used a fullblade.  Can/should I edit the Five page to say that?  I put a hook in my background about a second warforged forge.  I saw another PC background had reference to a second forge.  Can/should I make a new "Second Forge" stub page, referring to both characters, that could be added to when/if DMs follow up on those hooks?  (Seems like it would help if DMs were to try to weave a story across multiple PCs and adventures and DMs!)I wouldn't want or expect a lot of hard-and-fast rules about editing the wiki.  But any sort of unwritten rules or customs?  Someone or someplace to "sanity check" any edits?  Do the judges generally review edits to the main pages?  (At the least, I'd planned to wait until after character approval.)</blockquote>

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