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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Lord Sessadore" data-source="post: 4654373" data-attributes="member: 57255">Sounds pretty good to me, Raven. I've raked my brains for a few comments and suggestions ... well, maybe not 'few' <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f631.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":o" title="Eek!    :o"  data-smilie="9"data-shortname=":o" />.[sblock=12 Gods]Disclaimer: I consider myself a bit of a Greek mythology geek, so I'm probably thinking about this a bit more in-depth than most L4W members. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />On the 12 Gods, I was thinking that the parallel to the Greek/Roman gods is more a point of reference. It connects them to a group of more or less well known figures in mythology, making it easier to detail them, since there's so much detail and myth about them already available. For example, their various titles and the symbolism associated with each, as well as general spheres of influence and behavioural traits.But even then, the gods of classical Greco-Roman mythology were certainly not always consistent between stories (heck, most often the stories have multiple versions), and there are definitely large differences between the Greek and Roman conceptions of each deity, so tying L4W's pantheon to the Greco-Roman pantheon doesn't really pin anyone down. [/sblock][sblock=Shared NPCs]As for the sharing of characters between stories, I think that's a great idea. The tricky part is the consent issue: I agree that people should only be able to use those personae and organizations that the creators have consented to, but then you need involvement of the whole community to build the list of 'useable' characters. It's tricky, like I said, but I don't think it's impossible. Definitely a worthwhile pursuit, in any case. Tying the world together like that is a valuable opportunity in a living world, so we should take advantage of it - it should make things a lot more cooler and interesting. [/sblock][sblock=Organization]  About formatting and links and such, I also have a few ideas. If I can find some time I might work a bit on this too, but I thought I'd throw out my ideas in case anyone else wants to run with them.I think it would be good to have a sort of 'table of contents' page, sort of like covaithe suggested in another thread. Basically just a page with a list of links, each one going to the central page of a section of the wiki. It would take some crawling to figure out what the ideal sections would be, but, say, a link to the character creation section, a link to the character sheets section, another to the setting info section, etc... Depending on the size of the table of contents, it could either be included as a section on the main page or as a separate page, with a link to it on the main page. I think it would be a good move to put a link to the main L4W page in every L4W page (except perhaps character sheets or the like), especially if/once the table of contents is in place. If there are enough pages to group them into sections (as I suggested above when I was talking about the table of contents), it would also likely be a good idea to link each page in a section to the central page of that section. One last small thing I was thinking about: putting links in each of the character list pages to the others. As far as I know, we've got 3 character lists: one which contains all L4W character sheets with no regard to approval or submission; the Approved Characters list, and the Requesting Approval list. All I was thinking was putting a link to the other two lists at the top of each list. I think that's for now. Hopefully it made some sense and didn't bore anyone out of their skulls. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" /> Like I said, if I get some time I might do some work on this as well, but I can't really make any promises.      EDIT: Seems you've added a bit since I started typing. Those are some good ideas, similar to what I was thinking. I think if the list of main sections is small enough (which I imagine it should be), having a standardized "navigation bar" somewhere on each page would be a good move. Probably be easiest to implement that as a template or something ... I'm not too familiar with the capabilities of the wiki, but there's got to be something better than copy-&-pasting the same set of links into the bottom of each page.[/sblock]Thoughts on my thoughts?</blockquote>

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