Wikipedia Inspiration Generator (1 Viewer)

[Jürgen Hubert]

Started with Mongol Empire.

Suggested pages: none.

Sad face.

Huh. I got:

Mongols
Empire
Khan
Kublai Khan
China
Genghis Khan
Ögedei Khan
Mongol conquests
Khagan
Mongke


Are you sure you actually added "Mongol Empire" to the book first?

EDIT: I just realized my instructions on this were less than clear. Yes, you need to add it before you get further suggestions.

 

[devlin1]

Ah! So it is.

Non-sad face.

 

[Apocryphile]

I just compiled a 80 odd page pdf on Iain Banks' Culture setting.

Bloody marvelous! Cheers!!

 

[Hanover Fist]

This is great. Thank you, Jurgen.

I made a nice 200-page book on castles, castle fortifications, sieges, etc.

 

[Mesikämmen]

Very cool Jurgen, I didn't know Wikipedia could do that.

Typical that I discover it shortly before bedtime...

Same here. This will make settings for modern day games much easier for me to corrolate. Particularly fortuitous since I'm on a Shadowrun track right now (focused on Central Europe). I started to make a Berlin book, but decided to hold off until I get the sourcebook (just waiting on international shipping). This beats purchasing travel books, hands down.

Do you mind if I share this idea on different message boards (with proper credit of course)?

EDIT: Oh man, you can even order a POD copy of your book! How dare they tempt biblophiles so.

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Do you mind if I share this idea on different message boards (with proper credit of course)?

No problem. Go wild.

EDIT: Oh man, you can even order a POD copy of your book! How dare they tempt biblophiles so.

Not tempting to me, as I prefer my books digitally these days. But maybe such a book would make a good birthday present for my father...

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Ah! So it is.

Non-sad face.

Oh, and I just wanted to say:

"Mongol Empire" is an awesome starting point for a Wikipedia book, and I fully approve. In fact, I just made my own with the topic...

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

So far, I've made the following PDFs:

- A massive one on Aachen, in German (as I still live here).
- Another large one on the various types of Charadriidae, testing it because I am considering making that a birthday gift for my father.
- Desert (for Dark Sun research)
- Greys and other aliens (for Delta Green and the like)
- History of London (for improving Urbis/Dartmouth)
- International Trade (for researching merchant houses)
- Iram of the Pillars
- Jersey Devil and Mothman
- Mongol Empire (thanks again for that idea!)
- Ruins
- Vril


Now I suppose I should start to actually read them...

 

[Jürgen Hubert]

Well, the one on Aachen is awesome - I already learned a number of cool things. Such as "Aachen Bluestone", a special stone only found near Aachen whose quarries have all been tapped out (which got to be worth something in occult terms), or a cool legend about why Charlemagne was so obsessed with the region.

But the absolutely coolest is the "Noli me tangere" box kept in a relic shrine within the Aachen Grand Cathedral - a box with unknown contents kept next to the clothing of Mary, the diapers and the loincloth of Jesus, and the decapitation cloth of John the Baptist which nobody was supposed to open, and one guy who did open it went blind!


Now I'm reading through Wikibooks for Kenya and Nairobi to get inspriation for a Transhuman Space game. Oh, and I've also discovered that this approach is pretty nifty to get some background information for job interviews...