RPG Top5% Review: I`m the Mimir


Reviewer: Rafael Arrais | Site Author: Jon Winter (& friends)

 

I`m the Mimir

The Mimir is one of the oldest pages about Planescape (a campaign seeting for Advanced Dungeons & Dragons) on the web.

Design [ 90% ]
Few RPG sites have such a professional care with design... Colors, backgrounds, bars, fonts... Everything fits perfectly and wonderfully on the site, and the images are always of high quality computer graphics, like the marvelous half mimir heads that are used as backgrounds on various areas.
The whole site maintains its mimir (or planescape) theme on every section, so you always "know" where you are when you enter some mimir section from another site. Unfortunately, the site is so huge and varied that it needs some very detailed site map, so the visitors may know what every section is about... But the actual site map isn't satisfactory, and because of that a berk may find himself lost around so many information at times.

Content [ 100% ]
Its hard to ask anymore content from a homepage... The mimir is so huge that sometimes a berk may wonder if its webmaster has a personal life, or if he just keeps on writing planescape stuff. Well, but then we find out that its not a page done by just one man. It started that way, but with time there were so many contributors from around the web that its now more like an archive of planescape essays and personal creations.
From time to time there's some "competitions" with themes to write on and prizes for the winners. With intelligence, they keep all these submissions and publish the better ones on the site... And then we got not only one of the bigger RPG pages on the web, but one that is always adding news. No flaws on that aspect...

Originality [ 95% ]
Those who know planescape knows that its not an easy task to write something for it. Its not like the usual fantasy campaigns of AD&D (Forgotten Realms or Greyhawk). Its not based on medieval fantasy but on outer world fantasy and philosophy concepts and beliefs... So, its not the kind of stuff that any imaginative teenager may do.
Jon started it all, but he also has a good sense to find which contributions are original and which are not. Most of the essays on the mimir are no less original than the official campaign itself... Perhaps that's why the mimir is now the official planescape fan site, listed on TSR's page. I'm not giving to it the high score because its not totally original, since the site is about a campaign, and not an entire new one.

Hot Spot [ Races, Mapping Infinity ]
Weak Spot [ Site Map ]
Total [ 95% ]

 

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