Encyclopedia Maleficarum

Tony posted this on March 12th, 2009.
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I don’t con­sider myself the author­ity on LotRO infor­ma­tion by any stretch of the imag­i­na­tion, so writ­ing guides suited to the pur­pose of the Lore­book is kind of beyond me.

That said, there have been quite a few things I’ve added so far. Most of these have been basic infor­ma­tion on equip­ment I’ve found and ene­mies I’ve chopped apart. It’s actu­ally been fun to do so far .… Kind of like I’m on an expe­di­tion cat­a­loging what’s out there. I just need a Pokédex.

What’s involved is rel­a­tively sim­ple: I run around and while I’m hav­ing fun and doing quests in an area, I take a snap­shot of the enemy I’m fight­ing and record what I got from it. Since all of the items are already in the Lore­book, link­ing to them is very easy. If the item is some­thing of note (such as a decent piece of equip­ment, etc.), I link back to the mon­ster that dropped it from the item’s own page. Basi­cally just tying every­thing together.

Here’s some of what I’ve put together over the last few days when I’ve had spare time:

In most of these cases, any­thing below “Player Entry” was blank before I edited the page. As you might have noticed, I spent a bit more time for­mat­ting the enemy pages. Once I found a setup I liked, how­ever, it was super sim­ple to replicate.

I’m not exactly known for my atten­tion span, so it’s nice that it’s been pretty straight­for­ward. Each update doesn’t take me ter­ri­bly long. If you’ve ever edited a Wiki, you’ll know what to do. If you haven’t, it’s no big deal and I’m sure plenty of peo­ple would be will­ing to help you out (myself included).

Feel free to join me if you like. If you’d like to see what I’m up to, you can also view my con­tri­bu­tions.

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