Talk:DR Wiki

Rawb, Does it make sense to create categories for each province? this would require a bit of work on the map side, but would be a way to tie events and GMNPCs to maps. Just a thought-Pirates

Pirates: I think just making a category called "Theren" or "Zoluren" would be bad. What, exactly, would it mean if some GMNPC is in that province category? "Vorclaf" is in "Zoluren"... seems kinda vague. I much prefer groups like "Vorclaf" being in the "Zoluren Royal Family" category, and a list of events he was involved in. - Rawb

Sorry again about the categorization whatnot. I'll be sure to do that in the future.

One nitpick: I'm not sure that breaking people these down into [Category:BeforeLanival] and [Category:AfterLanival] or [Category:GMPC] and [Category:Historical] are a good idea. The first break would make it difficult to classify contemporaries of Lanival (does Arhat go before or after? He was both before and after) and very old characters (eg, Tezirah) that "come back". The second break seems both unnecessary (you're not going to have non-GMs playing, for example, Lanival) and also suffers from the same "Tezirah came back" problem.

My GMNPCs category is pretty vague, but all I'm trying to say there is that this is a character in the control of GMs, not players. It is not a player character. As for before / after Lanival, simply add his contemporaries to BOTH categories, as they were around before, and are around after. - Rawb

My solution? I can't say that I have one that will solve all the problems, but I have some suggestions. One categorization for mythical and/or dead characters (eg, Mhalush, Prince Sirolarn) and another for characters that are still alive and have been "active" or could be expected to become so (eg, Prince Vorclaf, Falken the tanner). This way, anybody in the first category could be expected to stay there (barring extreme necromancry) while those in the second category would only occasionally need to be moved into the first (when they die, as in the case of Jeladric Theren IV). Other categorizations (eg, Theren family) could be done on an ad hoc basis or as determined useful by those wiser than I. -Basselope

Why don't we have a category (under GMNPCs) called Mythical? That would get rid of the mythical people. Then we have the living / dead characters. Perhaps my before / after Lanival is too arbitrary, but I'm basically just trying to split things such as BC vs AD. Anyway, I've coppied over the timeline in full... it's over at Elanthian Timeline. I think we should extend it and start having it link to the characters mentioned in it. - Rawb