Forum:CT Archive/Articles on RPG character templates

Those of you who have played tabletop RPGs such as West End Games' d6 or Wizards of the Coast's d20 are no doubt aware that character templates, such as "Smuggler," "Jedi Healer," or "Mon Calamari Professor" are game mechanics and are not intended to represent specific characters. This TC thread came about after the creation of an article based on the WEG "Iotran Bounty Hunter" template but written as though it represented a single specific (but unnamed) individual.

This resulted in the proposal that we permit articles on character templates. Consult the TC link above for some arguments for and against this.

Don't allow character template articles at all

 * 1) This would basically be an exception to our rule against game mechanics and would set a dangerous precedent. It wouldn't be long before we started getting articles on Dark Side Points and (as I mentioned in the other thread) damage codes for blaster pistols. Wookieepedia omits lots of "valuable information" if it doesn't exist IU and this is a good example of that.  Gonk  ( Gonk! ) 12:52, 4 February 2008 (UTC)