Originally posted by Gronomist
This book thing could turn out to be something nice.. I mean, it opens up a class which I have NEVER seen, in any other game. A \"Book Scribe thingy...\" Could be fun to be an adventurer, traveling everywhere, and writing down your progress, rumors you hear, things you find and other fun stuff.
Simply allow players to keep journals. Allow them to incorporate images from a gallery (but only of what they\'ve seen, if they haven\'t met a monster they shouldn\'t be able to write about it.
Similar system for scribing maps (while you\'re in an area you can stop and scribe a map of where you\'ve been but if you leave a sector you forget).
Also, at the beginning don\'t make monster information known. Include a history for the world but also allow characters to act as scholar/adventurers, boldly seeking out new places and monsters to write notes about them (and sell them).
Maybe even have a few places where scholars examine and try to work out what happened or maybe find some old artifact to lead them on a quest (eg. a clay tablet that refers to a lost city, leading the scholar to search for that city).
Geocities sites, well, we can\'t stop them but we can make it harder.
eg.
no copy/pasting from the book entries.
no screenshots when reading books.
Should slow them down.
Spell management, allow the players to choose which ones to display and which ones not to, perhaps give them the ability to categorise them or organise them in some other way. That way, too many spells isn\'t a problem.