Talk:Chaotic

Crunchy?

Is having this page and other subtype pages (and type pages, for that matter) too crunchy? I think we can still list types and subtypes in infoboxes, and maybe even continue to use them for categories, but should each one have their own page? With the exception of flavorful subtypes like demon, devil, div, protean, etc. we're really not going to see anything unique to the setting that we're not just pulling from the PRD. And if we can delete them, can we use the bots to successfully change every [[Chaotic]] or [[chaotic]] to just plain Chaotic or chaotic, respectively? If not then I think it's going to be too much work to make the change anyway and the decision is irrelevant. -- yoda8myhead 06:38, September 12, 2009 (UTC)

Hmm, my thinking is twofold on this. I think that if we keep some of them (devil, div, etc.), for the sake of completeness, we should keep all of them. Having said that, I think that we can make the descriptions of them more generally descriptive and sound less like we're quoting the PRD. For instance, "Chaotic" could simply be described as "A creature with this descriptor is a product of or has a strong connection to the prime chaotic energies of the Maelstrom". In any case, the description should sound like something that someone within the campaign setting would write. --brandingopportunity 15:08, September 12, 2009 (UTC)

Personally, it's definitely confusing to have articles on crunchy elements like types and subtypes, while not having articles on crunchy elements like ability scores. OTOH, I think it's definitely useful to have categories like Category:Chaotic creatures. And I think it would be helpful to say something like "A creature with this descriptor is a product of or has a strong connection to the prime chaotic energies of the Maelstrom", as brandingopportunity suggested. I for one am very accustomed to thinking about things in terms of the Great Wheel, and haven't yet fully adjusted to the Great Beyond; reinforcing the Golarion-specific cosmology at all points would be helpful. This may be easier as the CSII fills in information on the planes. --Goblin Witchlord 15:47, September 12, 2009 (UTC)