FAQ – Introduction to our mighty FAQ
(Start here to learn about writeups.org)
OMG so useful
Power Level: No applicable power level
Game system: DC Heroes Role-Playing Game
Role: No applicable role
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. Geek stuff.
- 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 solely on donations from readers and security-vetted adverts to pay the bills.
The FAQs
What we do is surprisingly complex, so there’s a lot to talk about.
To keep things organised, here is the table of content for the articles that talk about how writeups.org works, is written, is organised, etc.. In other words, the FAQ.
How-to articles
- What’s new and better with the 2016 version of writeups.org.
- Tools to explore writeups.org.
- How to use the mighty search page on writeups.org.
- Tags on writeups.org.
- How to contribute to writeups.org.
Primer articles
- A primer about tabletop role-playing games.
- The community behind writeups.org.
- An history of writeups.org (est. 1999).
- 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).
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 on writeups.org.
Misc. articles (because “miscellaneous” is too hard to spell)
- About the cookies and advertisements on this site.
- 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.