Template Plan

How many templates must a man walk down, before you can call him a <div> ?

Current Templates

Characters

• CharacterInfoBox - made by David, has information that should be relevant to player and non-player characters

• PCInfobox - made by Rahul to get initial test pages up, updated to have all relevant player stuff
• NPCInfoBox - made by David, inherits from CharacterInfoBox. Incomplete.

Locations

• LocationInfoBox - made by David, generic location information, try to use a more specific one
• CityInfoBox - made by David, has all the information the location has, with demonym and districts
• StateInfoBox - made by David, has extra information like ruling faction, capital city and status

Scoped Templates

Event Infobox (Parent)

Inherited by Arc and Incident infoboxes

Name:

Notable Location(s):

Involved Elements:

Preceding Events:

Leads to (succeeding Events):

Arc Infobox:

Inherits from Event

Name: Name of the arc

Inciting Incident: The event that started the arc – ideally should link to an event page

Climax: The event that ended the arc – ideally should link to an event page

Notable Events: Other relevant events, does not have to include the Inciting Incident and Climax events a second time

Notable Locations: Places the above events in a geographical context, ideally should link to location events.

Involved Groups: Involved Factions, Groups of Interest, Parties (if multiple) etc. Should link to the appropriate pages.

Incident Infobox:

Inherits from Event

Name: Name of the Incident, e.g. “The Battle with Darvissa”

Result: Victory? Loss? Deaths?

Occurred on: Most precise date info available

Location(s): Where did the incident occur? Can be multiple values, should link to Location pages if possible.

Involved Groups: Involved Factions, Groups of Interest, Parties (if multiple) etc. Should link to the appropriate pages.

Group Infobox

Inherited by Faction, Party, State and Group of Interest infoboxes

Name/Title: Name of the org

Aliases/Alternate names: Alternates to the above

Current Members: Can be other groups, or individuals

Origins: Founded by/date/reason etc. For example: “Formed around Thoradin Clearsight to stop Vistrum and save the Village of Gorhart”

Current status: Active/Defunct/On Standby etc.

Faction Infobox

Inherits from Group

Name: Name of Faction

Important Locations: States/provinces, individual locations, cities/towns

Population: Total, civilian + military

Military: Should be split into Infantry, Cavalry, Ranged, Support, Ships (Fleet size) and Mages.

Power Status: Major/Minor Leader(s): Should link to Character pages

Party Infobox

Inherits from Group

Name: Party name (oh god no)

Aliases: Other names

Important Locations: Bases of operations, continents/states active in, should link to Location pages

Current Members: Should be PC pages

Past Members: Should be PC pages

Party level: Integer, 0<n<21

Group of Interest Infobox

Inherits from Group

Name: Name of organisation, if publicly known

Aliases: Other names

Important Locations: Bases of operations, continents/states active in, should link to Location pages

Current Known Members: Should be character pages

Past Members: Should be character pages

Leaders: Should be character or other group pages (if Faction/Party)

State Infobox

Inherits from Location

Name: E.g. Federation of Rathir

Faction: Whomst owns it

Capital City: If there’s only one City, i.e. Alabastra, or one town, i.e. Glendara, just put that

Location/Territories: Provinces, other territories if needed

Status: At peace, at war, occupied etc.  

Population: Integers only please

Continent Infobox

Inherits from Location

Name: E.g. Amalur, Seheron, Derem

States: E.g. Quanri Empire, Federation of Rathir. Should link to state + smaller pages

Population: Integers only please

Province Infobox

Inherits from Location

Name: E.g. Arkalis Barony

Member of/Parent location: Should either say "independent" or state a State (hehe)

Contains: Cities, Towns, Points of Interest, etc.

Population: Integers only please

City Infobox

Inherits from Location

Current version is here
Population: Integers only please

Town Infobox

Inherits from Location/Town

Basically the same as City, might not even need a different one. No districts though

Population: Integers only please

District Infobox

Inherits from Location

Parent location (City/Town): City or Town page

Places of Interest: Shops, Libraries etc. Should be Place of Interest pages

Village Infobox

Inherits from Location/Town/City

Basically the same as City, might not even need a different one. No districts though
Population: Integers only please

Needed Templates

• Continent
• State
• Province
• Town
• District
• Village

Place of Interest, either a building/collective/something else akin to a Fallout Marker for "somewhere worth going"

Event, something that happened - likely fields include Name, which party was involved, when/where it occured, duration(?), other involved elements.

Item - magic items, or other items of particular note. Super-template, which is inherited from:

• Magic Items (in the DnD sense of being weapons/armour/wonderourous etc.)
• Noteworthy items (can still be magical in nature)

Documents and Resources:

• Books
• Notes
• Other written material