Campaign organizer software

[Gulla]

Starting up a new campaign I'm looking into nice electronic tools to help me keep things organized and clean. After looking into lots of different commercial and online solutions I find almost all of them far too rigid and/or with limited availability at the table. I've set up a wiki, but I really would like something for the character sheets and character management.

My hope is that I can store the characters (and NPCs and the rest of my campaign if I get it all working) in a database and then generate/present the character sheets when needed. My plan was to have this available (behind a password) for the players to do levelling and maintenance between sessions.

It's been far too long since I programmed much, so my old tools neither work or are web-capable any more, so I was wondering if there are any open source projects out there doing anything like it (so I can read code and learn) or if there are any programs that actually do this for any generic RPG.

 

[Nylanfs]

I believe that this is something like what you will be looking for. Alternately you could just use Obsidian Portal or EpicWords.com

 

[Hand of Evil]

You may also want to check out THE KEEP from NBOS.

 

[jcayer]

If you have it, Microsoft OneNote is a great tool. I've just started using it at work and will certainly use it for my next campaign.
You can paste pretty much anything into it and organize it in a myriad of ways.

 

[Hand of Evil]

older tread on the subject


http://www.enworld.org/showthread.php?t=81852

 

[Gulla]

If you have it, Microsoft OneNote is a great tool. I've just started using it at work and will certainly use it for my next campaign.
You can paste pretty much anything into it and organize it in a myriad of ways.

The disadvantage being that I would need to set up (or gain access to) a SharePoint server to get the stuff onto the web, if I have understood correctly from my evening of testing it.

Much of my challenge is that I can either get very a very nice system for organizing (almost) everything on the desktop or a way to share with the players. Since I want it all (and I want it now! ) it seems I must either lower my demands or program it myself.

That I'm not running D&D or any close relative of it makes it even harder. Generic programs are few and far between. There are a few that are local (as in "running on th PC" ) but nothing online, it seems.

 

[Hand of Evil]

The disadvantage being that I would need to set up (or gain access to) a SharePoint server to get the stuff onto the web, if I have understood correctly from my evening of testing it.

Much of my challenge is that I can either get very a very nice system for organizing (almost) everything on the desktop or a way to share with the players. Since I want it all (and I want it now! ) it seems I must either lower my demands or program it myself.

That I'm not running D&D or any close relative of it makes it even harder. Generic programs are few and far between. There are a few that are local (as in "running on th PC" ) but nothing online, it seems.

BattleGrounds could be an option, or one of the other V.Tabletops.

 

[jcayer]

I see the problem with One Note. I'll be using it for DM info. For the players, I keep a basic blog with what happened each session. It's not the best solution, but it has proven valuable.
The biggest headache is I have to write it to make sure all the relevant information is included. And we all know the day after a night of gaming is SLOW. So it sometimes takes a few days till I get to it and by then, I'm a little lighter on the details.

 

[Agamon]

Yep. OneNote for GM stuff with an OP page for players is how I roll.