Wiki for my Campaign

[Edgewood]

I am thinking of committing my campaign world of Morvia in a Wiki format. The thing is so big and unwieldy that no binder or filing system is going to fit everything. On a wiki site, I can easily control the information including all of the maps (I have 3 4" binders filled with maps of towns, cities, dungeons, castles, floor plans and land areas) the over 1,000 NPCs, 67 PCs, and endless reams of information on history, religion, culture and what not.

I don't want to try and professionally publish the thing because there are hundreds of campaign books and settings. Mine would not offer anything that a campaign already offers. However for the many players who have gone through Morvia I think it would be cool for them to still contribute to the campaign no matter where they may be.

Does anyone have any suggestions on a website that offers a good easy to use wiki site that would be suitable for a campaign as large as mine? Any tips on how to start? I would really like to nail this thing down. It's an out of control beast of information!!!

 

[Chrono22]

I'm also interested in hearing some suggestions about this. I occasionally use my G-groups account to host files online, but it's not really accessible enough.

 

[Yanko128]

You should check out Obsidian Portal - Campaign websites for Dungeons and Dragons and other tabletop RPGs.

 

[Moogleproof]

I'm using wikispaces dot com at the moment. For free, it offers 2GB of space.
It's good enough for me, because I just mostly use it for textual descriptions. But if you use loads of high quality pictures, it might not be enough.

 

[Edgewood]

Obsidian Portal looks to offer what I need but I think the space they provide is very limited. I have allot of maps to up load that had been rendered through photoshop and though I have saved them in a format that takes little hard drive space there are a allot of them.

 

[Haltherrion]

I really like Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting. The free account is perfectly fine for a campaign wiki as well.

You get 300MB and up to 5 wikis with the free account. The site in the signature is a wikidot site.

 

[Edgewood]

I really like Wikidot - Free and Pro Wiki Hosting. The free account is perfectly fine for a campaign wiki as well.

You get 300MB and up to 5 wikis with the free account. The site in the signature is a wikidot site.

And it's wikidot for the win!! I stumbled upon them before you posted and have now started my Morvia page. I'll post a link once I feel that it has something to show. I'm still in the early data entry stage. Once I have something more appealing than just text, I'll post it here.

 

[Haltherrion]

I'll think you'll like wikidot.

BTW you can't make a portion of a wiki inaccessible (which would be nice in a campaign where you could work up some pages for stuff the players don't know yet and keep those pages private until the players learn about it) but you can have multiple sites and make one of those sites private.

The campaign referenced in the site below has two referees and we have a second private site where we keep a few ref only pages plus some ref only discussion forums.

 

[The Shaman]

BTW you can't make a portion of a wiki inaccessible (which would be nice in a campaign where you could work up some pages for stuff the players don't know yet and keep those pages private until the players learn about it) . . .

One of the cool features about Obsidian Portal is that each page offers a players' section which is visible to all and a GM-only section which is only visible to the referee. And whole pages can be made visible or invisible with a click.

I'm very happy with my OP wiki.

 

[Edgewood]

Well, after trying out both Wikidot and OP, and even though I said that Wikidot would be the site I would be using for my campaign world, but after trying both out, I have to reconsider and say that Obisidian Portal is actually the one I'll be using. Although Wikidot has more space for the graphics I want to use, OP is so intuitive to use and quick to set up, I think I'll be using OP instead. And, once the site it where I would like it to be, I'll post a link to see what you folks think.