renau1g's Fort Belurian Adventure [Pathfinder] - OOC

[Leif]

I'm definitely going to have to work on a wiki for my game. It looks like it allows for some really cool things.

It's not as useful for a solo DM, but it does make taking convenient notes on the game much easier. And you can get to your notes anytime you can get to ENWorld, and sometimes even when you can't! During ENWorld's recent downtimes, Scotley and I used the opportunity to go a large amount of design work for our game. Just go to wikispaces.com, and get you a free one!

 

[Rhun]

It would just be nice to have a repository for all of my campaign worlds information, where it is all in one place. Of course, so much of what I have is hand written over many, many years, and needs to be typed up. That is a task and a half.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

I've found Obsidian Portal to be useful - if you want it to look pretty the textile/html code takes a little getting used to, but it's expressly set up for organizing GM stuff.

If you want to see a (very amateur) sample of what you can do just follow the 'The Story is the Game' button in my sig. But note that there are some very well set up showcases for campaigns there.

I keep meaning to figure out a creative way to do the 'Adventure Logs' but haven't. And I think there's a way to set markers on your maps and link the markers to specific Wiki pages.

 

[Leif]

It would just be nice to have a repository for all of my campaign worlds information, where it is all in one place. Of course, so much of what I have is hand written over many, many years, and needs to be typed up. That is a task and a half.

I think the number of wiki pages is limited if you're not a paying member, but if you pay for a subscription you have unlimted pages, so with one membership you could store all of your worlds on individual wiki pages. (and, to tell you the truth, I can type faster than I can write stuff down longhand.

 

[Rhun]

I've found Obsidian Portal to be useful - if you want it to look pretty the textile/html code takes a little getting used to, but it's expressly set up for organizing GM stuff.

If you want to see a (very amateur) sample of what you can do just follow the 'The Story is the Game' button in my sig. But note that there are some very well set up showcases for campaigns there.

I keep meaning to figure out a creative way to do the 'Adventure Logs' but haven't. And I think there's a way to set markers on your maps and link the markers to specific Wiki pages.[/

Cool, I'll have to check it out. And I'm actually familiar with html...I haven't used it in a long time, but I built a few web pages back in the day. And I had to take several web programming classes when I was working on my degree.

I think the number of wiki pages is limited if you're not a paying member, but if you pay for a subscription you have unlimted pages, so with one membership you could store all of your worlds on individual wiki pages. (and, to tell you the truth, I can type faster than I can write stuff down longhand.

I can type faster than I can write longhand now too...but I've been compiling stuff for my homebrew for like 25 years. And I've still gotten some of those papers, written with the zest and horrible handwriting that only an 8 or 9 year old can display.

 

[Scotley]

I guess you could scan old notes and save as graphics then post on the wiki. Alternatively, you could give say 10 exp. to a player's character for each page they typed up for you.

 

[Leif]

I guess you could scan old notes and save as graphics then post on the wiki. Alternatively, you could give say 10 exp. to a player's character for each page they typed up for you.

don't you mean 100xp?

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

Seems like this one's off to a good start - 25 posts and counting in the IC thread, and only the first is by the GM. Wonder if we could get 100 decent quality IC posts before Ryan gets back from the island and continues the story?

By decent quality I mean: nothing posted just to fill the space - all posting to forward character development/storyline.

 

[Scotley]

I just added another. We'll have to stay busy to get in 70 some odd more and keep quality up.

 

[Maidhc O Casain]

And I'm certainly not a prolific poster - I'll try to step it up a little for this, though.