A very useful online site/tool for your campaign

[bluesguy]

I have been getting back into RPG and one of the things that was always frustrating in the past was how to organize the information. In the past I would use a ton of 3 ring binders with all the information about my campaign world. This also meant if I wanted to run the campaign it pretty much had to be at my place because dragging all the material around was way to difficult.

 

At one point I thought about writing a Windows program, basically a RPG Personal Information Management system, for the campaign world I was using (Harn). I gave up after I realized how large of an undertaking it would be.

 

Once I got back into RPG I thought there must be someone who has solved this problem by now. Sure enough there is an elegant solution - The Obsidian Portal.

 

I have set up my campaign, Valdorian Age - Rising Power on the Frontier on the portal and have been slowly entering in the background material from the Valdorian Age. Am I going to put the entire book out there? No way. Just what I need from Elweir and from the places I need for my campaign. I will have a great way to track the campaign, events, items, characters and the plot all in a convenient location. All I need is my laptop at the gaming table and I am set to go.

 

Just thought I would share my find with others here as well.

[Kraven Kor]

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Yeah, I set up a basic page there, but haven't had time to start populating it.

[teh bunneh]

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I discovered OP a couple of weeks ago. I've got the start of my Fantasy Hero campaign up there (http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/the-chronicles-of-foxton). Not entirely convinced of the utility yet, but I'm going to keep poking at it for a while yet.

[djkester]

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I've been using OP for a couple of years now. Its got a lot of utility if you want to put up information. I'm working on my FH campaign up there as well.

[Heimdallsgothi]

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I tend to use Onenote or googledocs for my stuff

[rentauri]

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I discovered this website because of this thread I do have one question. Anyone know some sites for textile or html coding for dummies? I poked around at a few campaigns and they have some nice graphics in their pages and I wanted to try my hand at that.

[teh bunneh]

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Good question! I'd like to know the answer, too. I used to do a little HTML coding back in the day, but "the day" was well over a decade ago, so I could use a refresher.

[sinanju]

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Well, I signed up for Obsidian Portal (as Sinanju, unsurprisingly). Created a campaign page (Superfolk), but mostly just so I could play with the system and try out the wiki.

 

There's a link a Textile help page onsite. I used it to practice a little last night. Sadly, it's not close enough to Mediawiki in formatting for my experience with that to carry over much.

[LordGhee]

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here are some sites, I am trying to lean html

 

to start

 

This is my first study and the simplest

 

Html.net

 

Then try

 

http://htmldog.com/

http://w3schools.com/

 

and then for refrence

http://www.htmlgoodies.com/

http://www.yourhtmlsource.com/

 

Then for what you see what you get WYSWYG authoring tool

 

http://net2.com/nvu/

 

It is FREE!

 

 

and you are off

 

Lord Ghee

[bluesguy]

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There are a lot of HTML features which the portal does not support.

 

I am spending most of my time putting content out on my site. I figure if I get plenty of content on the site the other stuff (fancy graphics & backgrounds) won't matter too much.