Homebrew World Shared Online

[Altalazar]

I have a homebrew world I've worked on (and used to DM) for close to 20 years now. I started up a new campaign with it (with some new players) a few weeks ago. I decided that instead of trying to email things and give piecemeal information, I'd set up a web page with all of the info on it.

Being lazy and not feeling much like figuring out a better way, I used a free blogger to set it up, and now I just update it, organizing it through a static set of info at the top of the page.

I still need to add the detailed diety information (I have that in a word document with a full page per diety) but basically, what I had in electronic form is now in there (minus some stat and other information for NPCs that I would not want players to see).

I'm just posting this for posterity - to share, to see if anyone has any comments or suggestions, and I'll even answer any questions about it. I've posted about my homebrew world before here in various threads on various topics, though not in a while.

Oh, and the address is in my .sig, but here it is anyway: http://www.altalazar.blogspot.com.

 

[Ry]

Hi Altalazar; as you post this online, is open content on the radar at all, or are you mostly looking at this for your own future use only? (i.e. "What definition of Shared are you going for?")

 

[Altalazar]

Ryan - interesting question - Well, I'm not giving up any legal rights in the material... (whatever that's worth - had to say that, can't help it, I'm a lawyer...) But anyone can use it in their own game if they like - I'd be interested to hear anyone's experiences with that. I suppose that is fairly open content. I'm not planning on quitting my day job and becomming a game publisher anytime soon. Though there isn't a lot there yet - mostly history and a smattering of geography (and I haven't scanned in the hand drawn maps of some of the cities I've had for a while, though I may do that soon).

My next big project is scanning in the diety information.

 

[el-remmen]

One of the many free wikis out there (like wikispaces - see sig for how I have been putting up rules and player background info for my homebrew) might be even more useful.

 

[Altalazar]

That's pretty cool - and probably a much better medium for something like this. I'll have to look into that. Hopefully, it is easy to set up your own wiki.

 

[WhatGravitas]

That's pretty cool - and probably a much better medium for something like this. I'll have to look into that. Hopefully, it is easy to set up your own wiki.

I guess el-remmen will supply you with a bunch of great infos, since I consider his Aquerra wiki a great one (to be honest, I think I only posted here to tell el-remmen, that I'm cribbing 5/6s of his setting, mix it with the Map of Mystery from the final Dungeon to get my 4E campaign world!). Take a look at Aquerra, it is really well organized and informative.

Cheers, LT.

 

[el-remmen]

Hopefully, it is easy to set up your own wiki.

Super easy! Even easier than HTML.

I pay $50 a year to keep it ad free - but even with the ads it is not so bad, b/c they are totally unobtrusive. There are other choices for free wikis out there, as well - but I am used to wikispaces and I find their staff easy to communicate with, so I stick with them.

Good luck!

 

[el-remmen]

I guess el-remmen will supply you with a bunch of great infos, since I consider his Aquerra wiki a great one (to be honest, I think I only posted here to tell el-remmen, that I'm cribbing 5/6s of his setting, mix it with the Map of Mystery from the final Dungeon to get my 4E campaign world!). Take a look at Aquerra, it is really well organized and informative.

Cheers, LT.

Awesome!

But I have one condition: You need to report to me how it goes and what you used and how you change it for your own needs because I am narcissistic that way. . .

 

[WhatGravitas]

But I have one condition: You need to report to me how it goes and what you used and how you change it for your own needs because I am narcissistic that way. . .

If you can wait until 4E, sure thing! Until then, I'm tinkering and planning stuff!

Cheers, LT.

 

[Altalazar]

Thanks El-R, this is much better than trying to use a blog format - which I used basically because I was both lazy and in a hurry to throw something out there - but this wiki thing is equally good for the lazy programmer in me.

I am starting to shift it over there and I think I'll stick with it over the blog. I guess I could use the blog for commentary on the campaign...

Here's the wiki: http://altalazar.wikispaces.com/