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I could have sworn I saw a nice link in a post the last week here but I can't for the life of me remember what it was.
It was a link to a site that hosted RPG wiki's for campaigns. It had places where you could write characters, decide what information was available for the pulic etc.
Anyone know what site I'm referring to? Would love to have the link.
I use wikidot, but I admit that I started mine before I heard about obsidian portal and now I am sad. I could move it over, but the wiki I have suits me fine and ... I'm too lazy.
BTW: As a guy who loves reading other campaign wikis, a BIG TIP: Put an introduction page or section there for guests; like a "Start here if you're new". It'll help people visiting and more importantly, it gives your players a place to look up the most relevant info.
I use a "player's guide" type section called "Adventuring" and then I'm writing down the stories of the different campaigns in chronological order to help tell the story.
Its too easy to make a wiki that is full of nothing information to others.
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I think it's great that there are wiki sites out there exclusively for RPGs. Some of those features are pretty sweet for XP and treasure tracking, etc. There's some really great stuff out there.
For a more general-use wiki, and one that I've found works great for my D&D campaign purposes, try pbwiki. The link to my campaign's wiki on that site is in my sig. I find pwiki's editing interface to be intuitive and simple to use.
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Another vote for pbwiki. I've used as a player and DM on five or six campaigns now and love it. I've not yet used Obsidian Portal, but I may in the future.
I think Obisidan Portal looks pretty cool, but the terms of service leave me cold:
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By submitting Content to AisleTen for inclusion on your Website, you grant AisleTen a world-wide, royalty-free, and non-exclusive license to reproduce, modify, adapt and publish the Content solely for the purpose of displaying, distributing and promoting your Content.
By submitting your content, you've just granted them a royalty-free right to publish it wheverer and whenever they want. Yes this is couched in the language of "promoting" your content, but this still seems fishy. How is "promoting" definited? My guess is that they can basically do what they want with your content. This may not bother you, but it would bother me.
I think Obisidan Portal looks pretty cool, but the terms of service leave me cold:
By submitting your content, you've just granted them a royalty-free right to publish it wheverer and whenever they want. Yes this is couched in the language of "promoting" your content, but this still seems fishy. How is "promoting" definited? My guess is that they can basically do what they want with your content. This may not bother you, but it would bother me.
True, but then I'm not posting my best stuff, basically just point form details and summary notes, nothing that would earn a profit.
I think Obisidan Portal looks pretty cool, but the terms of service leave me cold:
By submitting your content, you've just granted them a royalty-free right to publish it wheverer and whenever they want. Yes this is couched in the language of "promoting" your content, but this still seems fishy. How is "promoting" definited? My guess is that they can basically do what they want with your content. This may not bother you, but it would bother me.
I think and IANAL, what they are saying is they might advertise their site using your wiki as an example.
Looking at that wording, I doubt very much they could take what you've posted and publish it in a book and try to rely on that boilerplate for protection.
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