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<blockquote data-quote="Lanefan" data-source="post: 7991387" data-attributes="member: 29398">Those to me are not the priority in a setting guide.&nbsp; I want the guide to tell me about the physical-cultural-historical aspects of the setting itself, i.e. do all that grunt work for me so I don't have to do it.You can rest assured that Elminster's scorecard wouldn't be in any FR book I ever wrote. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />As for the rest of those examples, while all cool stuff they should IMO be collected in a rulebook, not scattered across setting guides; as any of those things - particularly the naval combat stuff - could and IMO should be seen as setting-agnostic.Wikis, in my experience, are both useful and useless at the same time.Useful in that in theory they have loads of information.&nbsp; Useless in that you've often no idea how accurate (or in this case, 'official') any of it is, unless you refer back to the given source.Further, wikis are online; a drawback to old-schoolers like me who don't have a computer behind the screen (and my phone browser is hopeless <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile&nbsp; &nbsp; :)"&nbsp; data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" /> ) nor really anywhere to put one.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Lanefan, post: 7991387, member: 29398"] Those to me are not the priority in a setting guide. I want the guide to tell me about the physical-cultural-historical aspects of the setting itself, i.e. do all that grunt work for me so I don't have to do it. You can rest assured that Elminster's scorecard wouldn't be in any FR book I ever wrote. :) As for the rest of those examples, while all cool stuff they should IMO be collected in a rulebook, not scattered across setting guides; as any of those things - particularly the naval combat stuff - could and IMO should be seen as setting-agnostic. Wikis, in my experience, are both useful and useless at the same time. Useful in that in theory they have loads of information. Useless in that you've often no idea how accurate (or in this case, 'official') any of it is, unless you refer back to the given source. Further, wikis are online; a drawback to old-schoolers like me who don't have a computer behind the screen (and my phone browser is hopeless :) ) nor really anywhere to put one. [/QUOTE]

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