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<blockquote data-quote="Jürgen Hubert" data-source="post: 4400525" data-attributes="member: 7177"><p>I've mentioned the <a href="http://arcana.wikidot.com/" target="_blank">Arcana Wiki</a> before - an attempt to collect real world information and distilling it for gaming. Now I've hit on another idea for expanding it - adding entries for specific tropes. After all, RPGs use tropes just as much as any other story-telling medium, if not more so - so examining how specific tropes can be used in adventures and campaign settings is certainly a worthwhile task.</p><p></p><p>For this endeavor I'm building on the structure and knowledge of the <a href="http://tvtropes.org/" target="_blank">TV Tropes Wiki</a>, probably the largest accumulation of tropes on the Internet, and a must-read for gamers and anyone else interested in deconstructing storytelling. If you want to help out by adding specific tropes to the <a href="http://arcana.wikidot.com/trope" target="_blank">Tropes section of the Arcana Wiki</a>, please follow these guidelines:</p><p></p><p></p><p><strong>Mirror the TV Tropes Wiki</strong></p><p></p><p>There is no need to reinvent the wheel, so just follow the overall structure of the TV Tropes Wiki - use the same name for tropes, and link the relevant TV tropes wiki from each trope entry in the Arcana Wiki.</p><p></p><p><strong>Give examples of how to use the trope in an RPG</strong></p><p></p><p>The Arcana Wiki is supposed to <em>complement</em> the TV Tropes Wiki, not supplant it. Therefore, lists of television, movie, literature and other examples where the trope appears are <em>not</em> appropriate - readers who want to learn about those should follow the links to the TV Tropes Wiki for them. Instead, come up with examples on how to use the trope within an adventure or campaign setting (if your idea closely mirrors a movie plot element, then that's okay - tropes aren't about originality anyway...).</p><p></p><p></p><p>I hope to see some of you over there!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Jürgen Hubert, post: 4400525, member: 7177"] I've mentioned the [url=http://arcana.wikidot.com/]Arcana Wiki[/url] before - an attempt to collect real world information and distilling it for gaming. Now I've hit on another idea for expanding it - adding entries for specific tropes. After all, RPGs use tropes just as much as any other story-telling medium, if not more so - so examining how specific tropes can be used in adventures and campaign settings is certainly a worthwhile task. For this endeavor I'm building on the structure and knowledge of the [url=http://tvtropes.org/]TV Tropes Wiki[/url], probably the largest accumulation of tropes on the Internet, and a must-read for gamers and anyone else interested in deconstructing storytelling. If you want to help out by adding specific tropes to the [url=http://arcana.wikidot.com/trope]Tropes section of the Arcana Wiki[/url], please follow these guidelines: [b]Mirror the TV Tropes Wiki[/b] There is no need to reinvent the wheel, so just follow the overall structure of the TV Tropes Wiki - use the same name for tropes, and link the relevant TV tropes wiki from each trope entry in the Arcana Wiki. [b]Give examples of how to use the trope in an RPG[/b] The Arcana Wiki is supposed to [i]complement[/i] the TV Tropes Wiki, not supplant it. Therefore, lists of television, movie, literature and other examples where the trope appears are [i]not[/i] appropriate - readers who want to learn about those should follow the links to the TV Tropes Wiki for them. Instead, come up with examples on how to use the trope within an adventure or campaign setting (if your idea closely mirrors a movie plot element, then that's okay - tropes aren't about originality anyway...). I hope to see some of you over there! [/QUOTE]
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