Need Ready-Made Monsters, NPCs, Styles, Spaceships etc. for Wiki Testing

[Jürgen Hubert]

I'm currently in the process of creating yet another wiki, this time for GURPS.

You may be asking: "But there are already several other GURPS wikis out there, so what makes this one different?" Well, the wiki system I am using (Wikidot.com) allows the use of submission forms and page templates - which means that people can quickly fill out data in standardized forms without knowing anything in the way of wiki coding and still generate new entries. This is perfect for many forms of GURPS rules stuff, as many of these have standardized formats.

However, this system requires some effort to set up properly and test. Thus, I need a few examples of the following for testing purposes:

- Character Templates
- Monsters (including simplified "generic NPCs" without character point costs)
- NPCs (fully statted with character point totals)
- Racial Templates
- Spaceships - what it says.
- Styles - these include both Martial Arts styles and thaumaturgical styles.


Now, I know that plenty of forumites have written up some of these things and posted them here. If you are willing to give me your permission to use them and add them to the wiki, please post here and link to them so that I can test the system with them. You will be credited in the entries, of course.

[Diomedes]

You can post the starships I put up here, and in the accompanying post reply #10.

[Mailanka]

You are, of course, free to everything here.

[Captain-Captain]

If I counted right here's 50 previously posted characters and a couple of racial templates.

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...506#post988506

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...045#post981045

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...540#post893540

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...990#post861990

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...512#post860512

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...822#post839822

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...611#post834611

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...691#post830691

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...324#post820324

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...630#post819630

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...699#post764699

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...418#post752418

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...705#post719705

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...644#post712644

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...638#post704638

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...562#post666562

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...596#post658596

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http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...105#post624105

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http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...850#post601850

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http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...355#post532355

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...238#post522238

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...299#post506299

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http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...712#post470712

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http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...478#post394478

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http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...219#post328219

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...851#post289851

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...596#post325596

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...994#post283994

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...612#post270612

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...547#post264547

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http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...432#post232432

http://forums.sjgames.com/showthread...976#post224976

[Jürgen Hubert]

Originally Posted by Diomedes

You can post the starships I put up here, and in the accompanying post reply #10.

Thanks. Since you were first, I also tried to implement spaceships first. Which was probably the trickiest of the templates (both because of its complexity and because I personally never did anything with GURPS Spaceships so far), so I am glad I got that out of the way.

With this template, just as I plan to do it with the others, I tried to adhere as close as possible to the published format (while still making it easy to use). Here is the result. I wasn't sure where to put all the details you posted - but at least for my purposes, the main thing was to get the basic formatting right. How does it look?

[Captain-Captain]

You might also want to link to here since it stores things you're asking for.

[Jürgen Hubert]

Originally Posted by Mailanka

You are, of course, free to everything here.

Thanks; I've created a template (based on the formatting in GURPS Dungeon Fantasy) and tested it on one of your monsters here.

Again, it is important to me that I get the formatting right from the very beginning - after all, all future pages in those categories will be based on them.

[Jürgen Hubert]

Originally Posted by Captain-Captain

If I counted right here's 50 previously posted characters and a couple of racial templates.

I've build a template for NPCs and put one of your NPCs into it. Again, double-checking the template format by someone would be nice.

(Oh, and while your NPC collection is awesome, the only racial template I could find among them was this one, and that is written up more like an NPC than a race - so I still need a template by someone...)

[Diomedes]

Originally Posted by Jürgen Hubert

With this template, just as I plan to do it with the others, I tried to adhere as close as possible to the published format (while still making it easy to use). Here is the result. I wasn't sure where to put all the details you posted - but at least for my purposes, the main thing was to get the basic formatting right. How does it look?

Looks good. I tried out the editing feature to expand the weapon stats (since I didn't actually LABEL them in my original!) and fill out the entries in the statline; It seems to work well.

[Jürgen Hubert]

Originally Posted by Diomedes

Looks good. I tried out the editing feature to expand the weapon stats (since I didn't actually LABEL them in my original!) and fill out the entries in the statline; It seems to work well.

OK, if you think it looks good, then maybe you could also try out the next step - skip over to the main page of the Spaceships Section and follow the instructions to create a new entry. After all, that's the point of the template system: Making it as easy as possible to enter new material. (The other sections I've linked to above should also work, but as I've pointed out I'd like to have others look over the finished results first...)

Another thing: I've permitted anonymous edits for the time being, but by the end of next week I will probably switch it off - sooner or later the spammers will unfortunately come circling. But all you need to do then is register and sign in at Wikidot.com - use the panel at the top and right of each page.