Campaign Wiki

[Thanatos]

So, where are the links to your TW?

I hadn't posted them because the domain I am on will be undergoing a name switch. It's a holdover and no-longer appropriate for what we are doing. So the links will break...I'll update when they do though, should be sometime this month.

That said, along with the Wiki, here's some tidbits:

Eberron Campaign Wiki

Linked off that and at the bottom of the menu is:

Player Codexes - This is the online, updatable wiki. Please don't mess up any pages that currently exist, but feel free to make a couple of your own pages if you want to play, just delete them when done. Yes, the database does record ALL pages made and saved, in case someone does get mean, I can restore. This is a version of TW that requires a MySql backend for online editing.

Character Sheets - 3Eprofiler character sheets. 2 are public, one of the players and one of the allies. Just use search and look for all sheets. You don't need to register and log in to just look. I edited one of the templates specifically for this campaign, so its going to have a few changed sections (like with spells and maneuvers).

Forums - I have vbulletin forums, but you have to register to see much. Not much going on there, forums will be re-started when the domain changes.

DM's Wiki - Its password protected and no, y'all can't have it hehe. It's mostly empty right now anyway, but its the one I am now devoting alot of work time on, to flesh out NPC's, allies, villans, campaign goals, Legacy items, etc.

Again, thanks for sharing your sites...I've blatently stolen a few ideas here and there, wiki layout ideas and anything else I could get my hands on, as any good DM does. Anyone may feel free to borrown from mine as well...and I'll answer what questions I can.

Soel - I'm not a programmer by trade, though I am a network admin/router & switch/security person. I have some basic php, mysql and html knowledge from running vbullentin forums for a bazillion years. When I set this up...I spent alot of hours figuring it out, but TW is really very easy to use.

The most complicated part was setting up the stylesheet (I'd copy Brennen's section by section to figure out what it changed from the original) and figuring out how the plugin's worked so I could mimic things I liked about some of the sites I explored (including some of the stuff on the TW plugin sites). There is a TW tutorial site you can get to and its helpful for learning quite a bit about it.

Just visit the sites here and some of the sites off the main TW site if you get it, between those sets of resources, you are pretty well covered. Be happy to help where I can, but I am not an expert by any means.

 

[Soel]

Soel - I'm not a programmer by trade, though I am a network admin/router & switch/security person. I have some basic php, mysql and html knowledge from running vbullentin forums for a bazillion years. When I set this up...I spent alot of hours figuring it out, but TW is really very easy to use.

The most complicated part was setting up the stylesheet (I'd copy Brennen's section by section to figure out what it changed from the original) and figuring out how the plugin's worked so I could mimic things I liked about some of the sites I explored (including some of the stuff on the TW plugin sites). There is a TW tutorial site you can get to and its helpful for learning quite a bit about it.

Just visit the sites here and some of the sites off the main TW site if you get it, between those sets of resources, you are pretty well covered. Be happy to help where I can, but I am not an expert by any means.

Thanx! Gonna have a look at all the links above, and try and figure some stuff out. Now, I just gotta find the time!

 

[Thanatos]

Finding the time is always tough...I am between contracts right now, so time is something I have.

 

[silvermane]

http://walktheroad.wikispaces.com/

You may want to remove non-OGC content (especially the feats) before the WotC police comes banging at your door.

 

[Knightfall]

You may want to remove non-OGC content (especially the feats) before the WotC police comes banging at your door.

Um, there aren't any feats on my Wiki. And what is on my Wiki is almost all descriptive text. Plus, it's not meant to be an OGC site, "at all". It's purely fan-based material.

 

[thatdarncat]

We find message boards are the thing to have. We are able to cover a lot of things on our groups message boards. For our past campaign which was a homebrew, we did use a Wiki for campaign world information.

Exactly what we've been doing. The wiki @ www.guildofgeeks.org/wiki/doku.php has campaign, setting and character info (including sheets). The forums @ http://www.guildofgeeks.org/index.php/board,6.0.html are mostly for downtime, scheduling and discussion of stuff like houserules.

So far it's worked out well - forums and wiki use a common login, and my players are already used to visiting the forums because we use them for other things as well. Several players have been active in editing the wiki, and most have updated at one time or another. My creating a DM Sheet for spots, search, listen etc bonuses for each character probably helped - I made them responsible for updating it, then made sure I used the values that were on the sheet and didn't ask them for scores first. They learned

 

[Scotley]

I recently started a wiki with a fellow long distance DM. We are planning on co-DMing an online game. So far it has proved to be a great media for our collaboration. It isn't ready for primetime yet and is a DM's only site for now. Once we get far enough along in development, we'll branch out into a players section.

 

[reanjr]

If you are willing to accept that the players may never actually read, much less add to, the wiki, it's fantastic.

 

[Sir Brennen]

If you are willing to accept that the players may never actually read, much less add to, the wiki, it's fantastic.

It depends on your players. Most of the people I game with are pretty internet savvy, one of the guys having a message board where we can have discussions about items in the (Tiddly) Wiki, or anything else currently going on in our games. The "cool" factor of having these online resources helps get people interested to a degree, I think.

Plus, I think a Wiki is better than giving the players a hefty Word document (electronically or printed) that they may never read, either. A wiki is presented in smaller chunks, and encourages the players to "explore" the world through the links on the site. (Which is why good hyperlinking in a wiki is essential.)

Also, if one doesn't expect that the players will contribute that much to an online resource like a Wiki, then TiddlyWiki is still a good choice just for presenting the info.

But if players are disinclined to read a DM's background material, it doesn't really matter what format it's in.

 

[thatdarncat]

If you are willing to accept that the players may never actually read, much less add to, the wiki, it's fantastic.

See you just need to get them started. All I'm looking for is a minimum of their keeping their characters up to date on the wiki and posting a character description and background. So I make them responsible for updating their own sheets (knowing that I use those sheets when they aren't there/for hidden rolls) and I talk to them about their background and encourage them to write it down and post it.

Now I have players who are updating portions of the wiki with current events from the last game session before I can