Intro to the Wiki System

For those of you who are new to ORPGSoc Society Games, this page is here to serve as a primer to the wiki and how we use it for the game.

As always, if you have any questions regarding any of this, please don't hesitate to email the GM team at gm@scoop.oxfordrpg.com or message us on Discord.

The wiki is primarily used to store all the information you need to know about the game's setting in one place (at game start, anyway; as the game progresses, the information may become out of date, and you will need to find in-game sources to keep up). Also, the wiki is used for players to submit their Turnsheets, which is how we facilitate actions between sessions (see the page on Downtime and Turnsheets).

You won't be able to edit most of the pages on the wiki — the GMs keep on top of that — but you will be able to edit the Turnsheets and other pages in your user space, as well as the Playground, which is an OC page for game-related stuff. To get to your user page, you need to use the buttons at the top right of the page to log in, and then navigate the wiki.

Most formatting that you may want to put into a page can be accessed by the buttons in the toolbar. Alternatively, details of the wiki syntax can be found on the syntax page.

Once you have come up with a character concept and gone through the Character Creation process, you will need to submit a character via the character creation form. If you are balloted to participate, you will receive confirmation and an email for your wiki account before the start of the game. This will be under the name of your character, and will provide you with access to a user page with Turnsheets and up to date information about all of the mechanical details of your character.

This page is private, so only you can see it — you cannot see the user pages of any other players. You can, however, see their public bios in the Player Characters page, and will be required to submit your own as part of character creation.

On your user page should be a series of red links, named 'Turnsheet #'. These link to pages that don't exist yet, so when you are ready to begin writing up your actions, click on the link for that week and then click 'Create this page' on the right-hand toolbar on the subsequent page.

The Turnsheet will have a template prepared to show you the basic layout. Please try to stick to the format as much as possible, though if you need to do something different then make sure it's clear to the GMs what you are trying to do. Please don't delete the tags at the bottom or we won't be able to process your Turnsheet! Once you have written everything up, click the save button to create the page so that you (and all the GMs) can see it. You may want to click preview first to make sure everything reads like you hope it would, but do remember to save it afterwards. You can return to edit this page, as long as this is before the deadline on the Downtime and Turnsheets page — nothing will be taken as final by the GMs until then.

There will be no player or in-character emails in Scoop!, but if you have any questions, or do not have access to Discord, feel free to email the GMs at gm@scoop.oxfordrpg.com. By the magic of the RPGSoc's MailDragon email system, only the email address from which your message is sent will be visible, so please sign your name (especially if your email address doesn't make clear who you are). Please note: for reasons beyond us, emails aren't wholly anonymised every time, so keep this in mind if you plan on sending something completely anonymously.