Rumors

[dcgreenwood]

What ways are users finding to approach the entering and navigating of rumors? I want to have rumors and other snippets of information that can come out in conversation with NPCs so that when PCs are talking with a NPC, I can quickly see and select any local information that the NPC might know to pick what to reveal, without necessarily try to link each NPC with everything they might know. I am thinking of creating a new category for rumors to hold the snippet, make sure I use full names in the snippet so as to create links between the content that the snippet is about and have them contained by the city or location where that rumor might be heard. But it also seems I might want to organize / tag the rumors as to whether they are about people, politics, locations etc. At any rate, I need to figure out how to find them in a given NPC conversation to know how best to enter them.

[Acenoid]

I was also thinking about this, and for the next session I will have a dedicated topic for "news", "rumors" and "word on the street" and similar things. That way it is also nicely presented to the players. Maybe multiple topics have to be created to avoid having one use unwieldy topic that takes up all the space on the player view.

Regariding the links, I would also use sections & snippets with links to the source of the information.

[Gallinaar]

I brought up this topic in this thread a while ago, and there's quite a few interesting responses there from folks about their methods.

I have tended to stick with the following format, though there are many approaches - whatever works for you and your realm.

• Single Individual - Include rumor(s) within their topic (Eg In Additional Details, separate snippet for each, perhaps numbered (for random choice), identify which are true, partially true or untrue (in snippet options)
• Specific Location - Include within location/community/merchant topic
• Areas/Regions/Countries - Create a custom Category called Rumors. Add topic called 'yourareaname', or 'yourregionname'. Place rumors, as above, within topic.

Links will be created for the key issue/item/person in the rumor and show up in Content Links on the right when relevant to your chosen displayed topic.