Campaign Wiki

[Koewn]

We're piggy-backing off one of our player's Dreamhost setups; his is around $14 per month, if you want to get all fancy and have webpages and databases and emails plus Wiki.

That's using MediaWiki. It's a little much for a game wiki, but I'm used to using it, so it wins by default.

I also run a secondary MediaWiki off my Linux firewall at home for personal d20 projects; slaving Apache to a nonstandard port and limiting traffic to my IP at work. Wiki's mostly text; the slow upload of a cable modem doesn't hurt too much. Your main issue with that would be a dynamic dns service if your IP changes a lot (aside from the hassle of having the Linux server itself) The cost of that is broadband charges + assoc. electricity; a pretty low-end machine could do it.

 

[MarauderX]

http://cydra.wikispaces.com/

Easy to use, free, but none of my players seem too interested in adding to it.

I'm kind of surprised, given how engaged they are in the game, to be honest. Sigh. I guess you can't have everything.

I use the same:

correl.wikispaces.com
guildofdefiance.wikispaces.com

The ease of use is great, and there are a lot of other campaigns that use wikispaces... because it is free & easy.

 

[Castellan]

Let me second, or third, or fourth the TiddlyWiki idea. It fits on a USB thumb drive, is usable in all of the major browsers on Mac, Windows, Linux, needs no server to host it (you can save it as a file anywhere on your hard drive, thumb drive, ftp site, .Mac account, wherever), and is very user-friendly.

I use it for campaign notes, d20 rules and house rules, characters (NPCs, PCs, monsters), etc. In my other life, I keep a TiddlyWiki on a thumb drive that I take to work. As I discover useful techniques as a datbase admin, or as I puzzle out strange interactions in my company's system, I record and cross-reference all I can.

I can't say enough good things about it.

 

[GreatLemur]

http://hollowhill.pbwiki.com/

Another free PBwiki, here. It's worked out pretty well for us, so far. But then, this is for a forum-based game, so things move pretty slowly, and the wiki doesn't have to be updated extremely often. Doesn't seem like it would be much hassle if it was, though. Also, the campaign setting has a lot of player contribution, so all of us have edit access, and that's been pretty cool. We haven't got any kind of fine control over the look of the site, which kind of bugs the graphic designer in me, but it's pretty great considering it's free.

 

[Nellisir]

pbwiki, again. I pay for adless. Links in the sig for both wikis (campaign site & campaign-free rules site). I haven't had time to do much for the past 9 months or so, but was migrating -alot- of the bookkeeping stuff onto the wiki, and getting the players involved. I've only used pbwiki's WYSIWYG editor a little - had some bugs that might have been ironed out since then, primarily with the inserted horizontal lines. Very happy with it overall.

 

[Wik]

Whoa. I never even *thought* of this. I just started up mine an hour ago.

http://savagetidevictoria.wikispaces.com/

 

[GravyFingerz]

I have several PBWiki Wikis, and I use them as my preferred method of sharing information on the internet. Currently, I use:

http://thenorth.pbwiki.com (hasn't been updated in a while, that game ended)
http://mallsandmorons.pbwiki.com (took a break working on it, will get back soon)
http://tavernsandtrollops.pbwiki.com (a fun little experiment in the vein of remaking a game based on OD&D)
http://yggsburgh.pbwiki.com (a wiki for my house rules for my Yggsburgh game)

I think that's it.

 

[NCSUCodeMonkey]

I host mine on one of these $6.00 a month deals where you get a nice chunk of space, bandwidth, php, mysql, and even tomcat 5 on linux. I use the space for other stuff, so its not really all that expensive. And, I've got 100% control.

Edit: Sorry, should've mentioned. My host is interAdvantage.com and I use Wikka Wakka Wiki as my software.

 

[Astos]

I've been using Mediawiki (hosted on a slice from www.slicehost.com $20/month) to develop my next campaign. There's not much there beyond maps and some short notes, but I plan on developing it over the course of the campaign.

I plan to use it to document the world as well as the ongoing campaign. I have it setup so that there is a DM-only section and a players' section. The players are free to edit, and I'll be rewarding XP for PoV additions.

I've found it pretty easy to use, but I wish the permissions could be a little more complex. I'd love to be able to display content based on Knowledge skills per player character, for instance.

http://chroniclesofmezra.org/

 

[IcyCool]

www.siteground.com

$5 a month, plenty of options to install. We currently have the wiki covering the last 9 "epics" that we've played, we are currently documenting the 7th sea game that I'm running, and we are brainstorming about the Space Opera game we want to play after that.