Community Suggestion: Add an INTANGIBLES Category | For Weather Types, Special Conditions, etc.
Add an INTANGIBLES Category | For Weather Types, Special Conditions, etc.
Feature Upgrade · Articles & templates · Created by FenixGraey
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What functionality is missing? What is unsatisfying with the current situation?
Currently there is no way to write articles (other than by commandeering another article type) to write out ambient conditions, weather types, natural hazards, shared moods, status of various societal situations, happenstances of note as events that can occur anytime, generic elements of an ettiquette, an atmosphere as a result of certain influences, things that are subject matter on a wide variety of topics and could easily be connected to multiple other Categories, etc. I propose an "INTANGIBLES" category. It would be useful if one could have them separated out from any one type of "thing". Then also be able to add them to various articles, especially the Building, Condition, Conflict, Ethnicity, Geography, Natural Law, Organization, Religion, Settlement, and Species categories asHow does this feature request address the current situation?
What are other uses for this feature request?
Follow up
*continuing* -as intangibles common to the area, people, natural laws, etc. How does this feature request address the current situation? It adds additional functionality that would likely improve a wide variety of aspects across all article types and speed some integration across the various features by consolidating a lot of contextual information into referenceable articles that can be accessed by hyperlinking and not necessarily have to be added onto the already extensive list of fiction-specific or tool-specific features. This would bypass a lot of work in the organization of thoughts and lore-building, that the world-building need not necessarily be tied to a single thing but that can exist as a bridge between things. What are other uses for this feature request? An additional Category, "ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS" might need to be added to differentiate between something completely intangible and the more ambient effects of something like Weather (for Calendar weather condition implementation, via hyperlink probably just under a single symbol for "Special Event") and Environmental Hazards. And for integration with Events, it might be good for Events to be a category that's available on the Dashboard for easier access and less possible confusion.
The Team's Response
Thanks for your suggestion! Most, if not all, the examples you gave can be written with templates that already exist; some users gave you suggestions in the comments. If something really doesn't fit, you can use the Generic Article, that's why it's there! Additionally, as a Sage, you can also create custom templates if you really want a more specific template. It's a bit of an advanced feature, but here's how you can create one: https://www.worldanvil.com/learn/article-guides/custom-templates
Current score
15/300 Votes · -705 points
Votes Cast
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by tjtrewin
on 2024-08-27 17:37In addition to what other folks have mentioned - the generic article template is a catch-all situation for this, too. If you need a dedicated template, Grandmaster+ accounts can make custom article templates :D (not sure if articleblocks here but there is a link on the WA Codex, and likely on the new Learn section too)
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by Nubs
on 2024-08-23 09:11 -
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by Amancham
on 2024-08-18 07:15As said before. many of the examples can be covered by other article types. I guess the suggestion is for a new template but with such a broad use it would be pretty hard to create useful prompts that fit for all the mentioned examples.
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by Pete Nelson
on 2024-08-16 07:22I am not totally clear what is being proposed here, but it seems like there are already article types (templates) appropriate for the things mentioned, and for those that aren't, the generic article template or other features cover them adequately.
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by DesNordlund
on 2024-08-16 07:22I'm on. The more templates, the merrier. The more likely you find a template fit, the more likely you get it the way you want it. An alternative would be a far more easier and flexible way to make your own templates.
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by RandomD&DNerd
on 2024-08-14 01:56 -
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by Endrise
on 2024-08-12 11:17Most of the examples given feel like they can be handled by other templates as said before (etiquette for tradition, weather and atmosphere for law, intangible curses for conditions, go for a generic article, etc ), or you can just add them to the existing article and mention back to said article too. So I don't really see the benefit here that a pre-existing template can't add.
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by A Rambunctious Elf
on 2024-08-12 10:23 -
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by The Big G
on 2024-08-11 07:43"Intangible" is too broad and vague to be its own category. This is what the Generic template is for. Besides, many intangibles are already covered by other templates. Weather is a Natural Law, etiquette is a Tradition, natural hazards are Geography (if not also Natural Law), a social atmosphere is a Condition.
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by A Roaring Dwarf
on 2024-08-11 07:19I have reservations about Intangibles as a new category. In order for it to make sense as a category (versus just an attribute of an event) it has to represent something reusable but in almost all examples I can think of the intangible would be event specific (e.g. weather conditions at a battlefield). Maybe that's just my limited imagination, though. But the main problem is that intangible is, well, intangible, making the properties that can sensibly be shared with all other generic intangibles very vague. This doesn't lend itself to the kind of useful prompts that are the basis of good categories in my opinion. A generic article is going to let you do more or less whatever you want and I don't really see what is gained from a category here.
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by A Goodhearted Velociraptor
on 2024-08-11 07:02That is the "Law" template
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by Rilameth
on 2024-08-10 06:48I like the idea of some kind of 'atmospheric weather' template, if that's what you're trying to describe here.
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by A Uncontrollable Dryad
on 2024-08-10 03:14 -
+300
by FenixGraey
on 2024-08-10 02:24
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