Campaign Wiki

[SkidAce]

In summary - if you think there will be significant discussion and contribution by your players, go with a full-blown wiki like MediaWiki (pbwiki has too many ads and not enough flexibility for my tastes). If you just want an easy, self-referencing way to present your campaign, go with TiddlyWiki. You could have one TW for your players, and a DM-only one for notes and the like! I actually use a separate TW as a player at the table to take notes and track my resources.

(Note: All links in this post, including sig, look best in Firefox )

More thanks and lots of genuflecting....I use a combo of word/excel/access because they do different things. I have just spent ALL sunday setting up the TW for my campaign and many page hits to your site to view the code.

This is going to be fun...thanks, this is what I have been loooking for, for a while.

 

[Thanatos]

Yes, I decided Mediawiki was a bit overkill as well.

So here is what I did.

I set up 2 copies of TW.

1 for my Eberron Campaign
1 for my DM stuff (which is linked, but password protected)
1 TW that is editable online so my players can put up player pages, journals and bio's.

Thanks for all the help. I am sure I upped all the view counts for the pages provided in this thread.

 

[Sir Brennen]

So, where are the links to your TW?

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Some important things first:
1. It's not straight D&D it's a homebrew that diverges enough it has to be considered an OGL system
2. I've only just started and there isn't much of it up yet
3. I've gone back to college and on top of other commitments that really eats time so work on taking it from notebooks to finished version has slowed down.
4. When I am done I intend to release the entire thing FREE as an OGL system and setting.

That said my TW is here http://www.angelfire.com/planet/building-siluria/

 

[Sir Brennen]

That said my TW is here http://www.angelfire.com/planet/building-siluria/

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Looks like some bad link to a RealMedia ad is causing the page not to load:

src="http://network.realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream.cap/1858811424?c=lycospop&dv=1&e=1d&s=1">

Plus, Firefox saved me from 3 popups on the site...

 

[HeavenShallBurn]

Interesting loads fine for me. Just a guess but it could be Firefox. I'll admit angelfire is lousy with ads and pop-ups no surprise there, but I bring it up fine with a notification that the ads were blocked. That said I websurf via Opera and only really use Firefox for building the Wiki.

EDIT: Yep that link works fine for me with Opera. It's just a cut and paste from the link I use in my own Browser to check up on the site. And no I can't seem to connect with Firefox either now that I've tried. Have to check IE next.

 

[Ilium]

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Looks like some bad link to a RealMedia ad is causing the page not to load:

src="http://network.realmedia.com/RealMedia/ads/adstream.cap/1858811424?c=lycospop&dv=1&e=1d&s=1">

Plus, Firefox saved me from 3 popups on the site...

That's the nature of angelfire, I think.

I also get the big blank page (except for the banner ads, those came through fine )

Edit: IE fails for me as well. IE 6.0.29

 

[Merkuri]

I'm a player in a World's Largest Dungeon campaign, and I set up a wiki for the game. Not many people but me edit it, but we do have people who reference it from time to time (I hope). You can see it here.

 

[Knightfall]

Has anyone actually set up a Wiki for their website/campaign site?

Was it a success/failure? Just too much trouble?

I'm going to be doing an online campaign and really need to keep all the approved documentation online vs. trying to distribute it out to the players and I thought this might be a way to do it.

But I wanted some opinions/examples if anyone has a site for me to peruse.

Thanks.

Here's mine...

http://walktheroad.wikispaces.com/

...although it isn't for a specific campaign.

It's basically only for me, at this point, although I have tried to get former players and current player to join. I also have a forum that goes along with the wikisite, which is open to anyone.

http://walktheroad.s1.bizhat.com/

I consider the site a success because it's easier to update than a normal website. You don't have to fight with tons of HTML-style code.

Cheers!

KF72

 

[Soel]

I know nothing of coding nor page-building. Could I make use of say, a tiddlywiki without such knowledge?

If not, any sites that I can bone up on such info?