Canon talk:Main

How to go on

What would be needed to expand this page with the help of queries? On the one hand we have the general distinctions already there:

• Terms
• Creatures
• Deities
• Classes
• Locations (maybe, instead of campaign settings)

In addition:

• Characters (NPCs)
• Items - mundane equiment and magical items, general stuff and unique things
• Spells

And I also encountered:

• Organisations
• Events (including longer eras)
• ?

Would races fall within creatures?

Those distinctions could be further distinguished with the help of queries by:

• Campaign setting
• Publisher
• ?

Probably we do not need to distinguish by edition, as that would mainly be important for stats, and those are not the focus of the canon section?

Any thoughts on that?

For all the distincions above we would then have a category each, right? So far my ideas. Daranios 17:11, 5 July 2011 (UTC)

I had completely forgotten about characters and items and spells, those should probably be at the same level as the creatures and deities. I had originally intended for races to fall into creatures, since they're just a creature type that happens to be playable by default, but it could get it's own page too. Organizations could live at that level as well, since there are a large number of those that are campaign independent(ish).

I've got mixed feelings on locations and events. There are less of these that are campaign independent, and the ones that are strongly tied to a campaign seem like they'd be better served by tying them to a campaign setting page instead of mixing them all together.

So, the main level would have -

• Terms
• Creatures
• Characters
• Deities
• Classes
• Items
• Spells
• Organisations
• Publisher

and then CS would have some sub levels for each CS

• Campaign setting

• History (incl events)
• Locations
• Characters
• Religion
• Organizations
• (etc.)

for items directly related to that CS (and would exclude articles not directly in that CS). I think of a lot of DnD in terms of campaign setting, and putting the campaign settings up as a top level nav item with the rest fits with how I think about things (which I am generalizing to assume it would help others too :-p). I think that's pretty close to what you were suggesting anyway, does it look workable? - Tarkisflux ^Talk 18:12, 5 July 2011 (UTC)