Talk:In a Wicked Age

It would probably help contributors to know what exactly an oracle is and how detailed they are supposed to be. For example, virtually all of these currently established are pat phrases such as "The night each year that a certain ghost is allowed her freedom", not phrase generators such as: (A time period) when (character) (connector) (action). Repeatedly reloading a page will give you the same phrases over and over. Is this intentional or just a first pass issue? JDCorley 21:25, 16 January 2008 (PST)

Well, that's how the ones Vincent wrote for IaWA were done, and I think at this point we're all still trying to mimic that particular style. Of course, Oracles of the type you suggest are totally feasible here, and could probably make some really innovative ideas pop out that would surprise even their creators. But those oracles couldn't easily be duplicated on paper the way "pat-phrase" oracles could, so that (theoretically, at least) limits their use away from Abulafia. I don't know if that's a real concern or not. But it's easy to imagine using the Zombie description or Random Fantasy Plot pages as IaWA Oracles with decent success, or, as you suggest, crafting things that sound more like IaWA Oracles but have a little more randomness to them. I don't think I'm going to establish any rules or directives one way or the other about it unless a problem somehow arises. Let the community do what they will, for now. If you have such an Oracle in mind, by all means make it. Does that seem reasonable? --Dave Younce 21:41, 16 January 2008 (PST)

Sure, what my question was aimed at was: how are these Oracles used? What do they do? Is there some reason to favor completed lists like this over randomly generated lists? As for use outside Abulafia, I assumed people would just print the output. JDCorley 06:40, 17 January 2008 (PST)

Warhammer 40,000: I'm not sure the oracles really have anything to do with the Dark Millennium card game. I know mine didn't. - Bret Gillan

Bret-- I didn't know there was a Dark Millennium card game. :) I just used that phrase as an overall descriptive tag for the '40K Universe' as a whole.  If you think it will confuse people, lets come up with another general tagline.  -- DainXB 17:16, 25 February 2008 (PST)

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Does anyone mind if I take the bold off of the oracles, just leave them italics? Ryan Stoughton 06:35, 1 June 2009 (PDT)

I don't. Can't talk for others, but unless someone objects you can probably assume nobody cares that much. ToB 12:06, 1 June 2009 (PDT)

Like Tommi says, Ryan, it's all yours. -Dave Younce 18:33, 5 June 2009 (PDT)