Campaign Wiki

[Nifft]

I've just started looking at www.wikidot.com - apparently they give you tons of free features, including a forum, without ads, and for free... *Looking it over* if that's all true, and free, I'm moving over there...

They mention that the ad-thing isn't working as their business model, but they don't say what their new business model actually is.

Any ideas how they intend to stay afloat? If it's plausible, I'll move too.

Thanks, -- N

 

[Infernal Teddy]

No idea, but so far, no problems. I've just set my Campaign wiki up for my new Planescape game, and no ads, no problems - I suppose they give you more memory and more options if you pay, but so far, I have enough options for me

 

[takyris]

Does PBWiki offer access control if you're willing to pay a monthly fee?

I'd like to have a personal wiki that's password protected (so that, you know, all my friends' addresses aren't visible), and I'd also like to have a campaign wiki that contained both public information for all the players and private information for me (villain stats, etc).

 

[Pbartender]

Does PBWiki offer access control if you're willing to pay a monthly fee?

I'd like to have a personal wiki that's password protected (so that, you know, all my friends' addresses aren't visible), and I'd also like to have a campaign wiki that contained both public information for all the players and private information for me (villain stats, etc).

Absolutely.

If you want to do the same thing without paying for it, you can make two pbwikis... one for the DM, and one for the players. Make them both private, but don't give the DM password to the players.

 

[Blue]

A friend is running MediaWiki for his campaign, my campaign,and another friend's campaign. Spending some time up front to organize and lay out a few templates on how you want things to look has gone far towards making it work really well.

I've got a homebrew campaign world so something was really needed. We had a Y! group (that we still keep around for scheduling), but this really gives us a lot.

Me and one of my players are the most prolific -- I allow my players to help detail parts of the setting that impacts their characters that I haven't gone into depth. For instance, one player with a barbarian worshiped my my Native Pantheon (worshipped by Goblin kind, kobolds, and human savages) topok the gods that I had detailed lightly and went into depth about each, came up with some short myths and dogma, and just really made them live. This sort of thing, while he was doing it before the wiki, the wiki really helped come alive. As a DM with a homebrew world there are so many details, and having enthusistic players who want to flesh out points around their characters background is a wonderful thing.

Cheers,
=Blue(23)

 

[Anand]

I use MediaWiki in my personal website. The hosting is like US$3 per month, plus US$15 per year for the domain (Brazilian prices). I use it basically for the campaign logs, but I also store some NPC sheets, know facts and so on. Nice to refer to past events.

Most of it is in Portuguese, but I have a campaign been run in English too:

http://www.anand.com.br/wiki/index.php?title=Age_of_Worms_(On_Line)

It's also an Age of Worms Campaign, set in Forgotten Realms.

 

[Nellisir]

Absolutely.

If you want to do the same thing without paying for it, you can make two pbwikis... one for the DM, and one for the players. Make them both private, but don't give the DM password to the players.

I know you can easily make an entire wiki private, and you can lock individual pages at different levels of access for editing, but I don't know if you can make individual pages private. It might be something they've added since I've looked (which has been awhile).

 

[Pbartender]

I know you can easily make an entire wiki private, and you can lock individual pages at different levels of access for editing, but I don't know if you can make individual pages private. It might be something they've added since I've looked (which has been awhile).

It depends on how much money you are willing to spend:

How can I use Lockable and Hideable pages in my wiki?

Hideable pages and lockable pages are features on the Gold Plan. If you've already upgraded to Silver, you can add those features to your wiki a la carte. Here's how they work:

Lockable pages: Lets you lock them so others can't edit them. This would be useful, for example, for a syllabus or an agenda. You don't want people editing those. Only admins and moderators are able to edit lockable pages.

Hideable pages: You can choose to hide certain pages within your wiki. This means that only admins and moderators will be able to see them in the All Pages listing. Regular users (readers and contributors) will not. You might use this for planning pages that you don't want others to stumble across and see.

The "Gold" package is about $25/mo.

 

[ragboy]

I think the wiki (especially the free hosting ones) has revolutionized publishing RPG-related content. I don't think I've seen content this good in a while.

The thing I like about it is that the barrier to entry is now as low as typing in a word processing program. I spent a lot of time back in the 2nd edition days meticulously crafting campaign websites. It wasn't difficult, but it's become more and more complex with the addition of php, backend databases, etc. The wiki is a breath of fresh air. More time gaming and less time documenting.

Mine's all Savage Worlds. Probably expand to OSRIC here pretty soon as our OD&D campaign develops...

http://mysticbull.pbwiki.com

 

[Nareau]

I use PHPWiki, and run it on my own website.

http://www.the5thcircle.com/najoban/

It works OK, but has minimal features. As soon as I have the time, I'm going to migrate it to something that can do a little more.

Nareau