FAQ – Introduction to our mighty FAQ
(Start here to learn about writeups.org)
The basics
- Writeups.org is a collection of profiles for characters from genre media.
- These in-depth writeups include summaries of abilities, biographies, personality profiles and more.
- Most profiles are for characters from super-hero comics and video games.
- Writeups.org includes thorough tabletop role-playing games stats. These are for the DC Heroes RPG and many entries have DC Adventures/M&M 3rd stats.
- Most entries are extensively illustrated.
- Writeups.org is not affiliated with any publisher, studio, content company, etc.. It is written by a community of enthusiasts, and relies on donations from readers and security-vetted adverts to pay the bills.
The coverage tends to be more about obscure material, rather than the characters you already know about. So if you don’t recognise a character we’re profiling well, that’s part of the point. It’s a site for exploration.
The FAQs
What we do is surprisingly complex, so there’s a lot to talk about.
How-to articles
- Tools to explore writeups.org.
- How to use the mighty search page on writeups.org.
- Tags on writeups.org.
- Writeups.org on social media and the like.
- How to contribute to writeups.org.
Primer articles
- A primer about tabletop role-playing games.
- The community behind writeups.org.
- A glossary of geeky and unusual words used on writeups.org.
- This site is written by role-players and this matters.
- The ages (and Earths) of DC Comics.
- D&D, but for super-heroes (primer to superhero tabletop RPGs).
Evolution of the site
- An history of writeups.org (est. 1999).
- What’s new and better with the 2016+ version of writeups.org.
- The 2022+ version of writeups.org – a pop-up blog.
In-depth articles
- About the DC Heroes RPG (and Blood of Heroes).
- How we profile characters from video games.
- Character boundaries, part 1 – “Gisted” profiles and “Emergent history” profiles.
- Character boundaries, part 2 – more complex approaches.
- Answers from the designers of the DC Heroes RPG system.
- Quantification heuristics – about evidence-based RPG stats.
- Normative elision in stats and tags.
Behind-the-scene articles
- Procedures used by contributors to improve profiles.
- Writeup template and documentation for contributors.
- Tools for making character portraits.
Misc. articles (because “miscellaneous” is too hard to spell)
- About the cookies and advertisements on writeups.org.
- Links to other sites of interest to us and our readers.
- Short guide to our articles about weapons.
- Short guide to our DC Heroes RPG rules documents.
- Donations page.