Board Thread:Suggestions on Baldur's Gate Wiki/@comment-35012282-20180411053618/@comment-3234315-20180412210407

Thanks, Islandking!

Well, regarding the separated wikis …

NWNWiki and NWN2Wiki have done the same for Neverwinter Nights, although the rules only slightly changed, from D&D 3.0 to 3.5. The reasons, however, are the same as yours, Rik: nearly every game mechanism, be it race, talent or what, works different in the successor.

I could mention the Dragon Age Wiki as one that does not separate, but here things work different: there are only very few things you find in more than one game. Basic armor and weapons indeed have disambiguated articles, but most things are uniquely named. And e.g. characters are evolved throughout the series' canon, so it's useful to have all info on one article, instead of clustered through several wikis.

Now Fallout … Okay, here work things more the way as they do in the IWD series. E.g. SPECIAL, which would be attributes here, are slightly changed from game to game. That does not only mean parts 1 to 4, there's additionally New Vegas – which is basically the same as 3 by the mechanics, but also brings changes – and several other spin-offs. Many creatures appear in all games, but with different statistics in each, so yes, there are separate articles for them, disambiguated. Weapons – the same. I think the main reason for not separating the games' wiki is to maintain the canon. Which is a very important thing to the games and the fans.

But canon is not that important for IWD. The story is small, the second game has only few allusions. All is set in the Forgotten Realms, which is a world created independent from the game(s). (By the way, Rik, that wiki is also linked to often, with a similar template.) In my eyes the rules and mechanics are the most important thing for IWD, more than for BG. And those will be what people mainly are looking for, besides quest walkthroughs. So the decision is understandable and plausible.

Personally I indeed would prefer a united wiki, but it's probably much easier this way. And even more helpful for the visitors. Instead of clicking through tabs or searching for suffixes they simply change the wiki when changing the game – and are immediately on the page they were looking for. (If we had separated wikis, all the fuss from the past wouldn't be necessary, Islandking. 😉 )