JoS/Rules

BASICS

There are no rules as to what kind of content you can write, and there's no mods you're absolutely required to have. You can focus on any part of the game you want, or choose to ignore some specific parts, not write about certain quest chain you completed if it doesn't fit your journal. It's all up to you.

First, add a link to your "journal" in the appropriate section down below. Add tags to tell readers what they should expect in your specific journal. Don't forget to add your name either so it can be attributed to you. Site rules regarding tags and formatting obviously apply.

Here are some extra tags unique to this collection of stories:

• Gameplay - Content is strictly limited to the gameplay and author's own adventures. References to the real world or videogame features such as menus, console and fast travel are prohibited.
• Lorefriendly - The author is also allowed to add content to fill in some gaps and make the journal feel more unique. In other words, journal doesn't have to be a perfect reflection of one's playthrough. Otherwise, same restrictions apply as above.
• Unrestricted - No restrictions to written content.
• Mods - Story takes place in a heavily modded game which not only adds characters, quests and new lands, but also modifies existing content. Since mods of sexual nature are pretty much expected, you don't have to count sex mods to this.
• Spoilers - The story contains spoilers from various quests and events around the game.
• More, maybe? Open to feedback.

FORMATTING YOUR JOURNAL

First page of your story should be a character page so you know what kind of person has supposedly written the journal. Character page is free format, but should include information about characters appearance, race and things which you probably wouldn't expect to find about the person on his or her journal. Images are also welcome; you can use in-game screenshots too if you want to. Things like backstory are also welcome there.

Never forget to categorize the pages you add. Simple code below.

[[Category:Journals of Skyrim]]

The character page should have the links to the actual story, preferably at the top of the page to keep things consistent and content easier to find. You can either only add the link to the first page of the story, or all pages, whichever you prefer. The primary reason for why it's done this way is so we can take advantage of Mediawiki's subpage system for easier navigation.

To get things to work as intended, link to the character page should be as follows:

[[JoS/Placeholder-kun|Placeholder-kun]]

Meanwhile, links to the actual journal pages should look something like this:

[[JoS/Placeholder-kun/Page 1|Page 1]]

[[JoS/Placeholder-kun/Page 2|Page 2]]

If you're going to split your journal to multiple pages, it's highly recommended that you add more than just one "journal entry" to each page, especially if the entries you write about your adventures are short. Having pages with just few paragraphs or sentences in them is boring.

OTHER STUFF

I'm always open to feedback and suggestions regarding tags, formatting, rules and such.

Anyone who's interested in helping with any other stuff, like pictures, ccs, templates and such is free to do so as well. I'm not good with those things.

This may be an overreach, but links to modding guides and such to help people are fine by me. I'm not going to add any for now.

Name of the story says "Skyrim", but I suppose writing about other regions are fine as well, if there's interest.

Since it's a journal, it probably makes most sense to write it in first person, but that's not required if you don't want to. Interactive stories probably don't work well in this format either, but if you have an idea for how you could make it work, by all means go for it! Same goes for writing in second person, but as I said before, if you can make it work it's fine.