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Chauntea

This article is about a fictional goddess from Dungeons and Dragons. It was prematurely submitted to FAC, and I moved it here once the author asked to have it removed because it wasn't ready. I think it needs quite a bit of work, including:

1. verifying the sources originally used (one is the house rules of some DM at Stanford).
2. checking copyright status of the pictures
3. adding in-line references
4. adding information from more sources, especially rule books and Forgotten Realms novels about the goddess and her followers

Dave (talk) 19:47, May 23, 2005 (UTC)

• I'm uncomfortable about articles such as this one as they cut a little too close to somebody's bread-and-butter. At the least, though, I think that detailed game-specific information should be examined carefully and only presented in broad, general terms. Thus, for example, the portion that reads "annul the senses of deities below her rank (e.g. Intermediate deities for 19 hours. She can create any magical item that summons creatures, or elementals. She has a dizzying array of spells, and is 30th level caster." should be a little more vague about details like "19 hours" and "30th level caster". Also, if possible, you might credit the person or persons who came up with this deity. It does need references to the WotC publications that describe Chauntea; at least for v3.5. Thanks. :) — RJH 19:28, 24 May 2005 (UTC)

Comment: I see what you mean, perhaps some of the language I used is quite obscurantist. Rather than perhaps rewording it, maybe the intermediate deity could be linked to a wiki-page that explains exactly what such a thing is, for instance.--Knucmo2 12:38, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

Well it wasn't so much that as the numerical values. Information you'd actually need to use this in a game. I could possibly see this page being useful, for example, if somebody were reading some FR-based fiction, where you'd want background on the theology. But the values are game-specific. — RJH 16:17, 25 May 2005 (UTC)

• If you want an example for an article about a game-related fictional character for some additional inspiration, check out the FA Link (Legend of Zelda). It has developed quite nicely. /shameless plug :D Phils 21:36, 24 May 2005 (UTC)