Comments on: World Building 101: Campaign Bible Formats

By: Eddie

Eddie — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 18:59:02 +0000

Another interesting place to store the campaign bible is with One Note. If you have not seen it, it is one of the nicest applications that Microsoft has released, in my opinion. It would fall very closely in the category of the binder because you can organize info into pages, sections and notepads. I use it when brain storming my ideas for my game sessions and … well just about everything I brainstorm about. Give it a try. It still has the same cons as the binder and the electronic document though, however with newer versions of the software a document can be shared and collaboratively viewed and edited so there would only be one version. Anyway I just thought I would chime in. Better late than never.

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By: Kevin

Kevin — Mon, 14 Dec 2009 08:56:44 +0000

Amazing series keep up this great world building series. I am new to reading your blog but it is the best I have read in a long time. You guys put in so much detail and i can feel your passion in your writing.

Love it.

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By: Toord

Toord — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 23:31:20 +0000

Belated post:

Both Jonathan and Brandan. Superb job with this multi-piece World Building series. I’m amazed at the level of detail you guys have framed all of this info. Simply amazing. just reading ever the articles and PDFs make instinctively reach for my dice. I hope virtual D&D will someday become a reality so we all could enjoy playing campaigns like these remotely.

Hear me WotC? I’d pay (me, mr. el cheapo) a monthly fee to have the opportunity to experience D&D via the internet. Heck, perhaps even with a pricing scheme that pays the DMs for their hard work.

By: Brandan Landgraff

Brandan Landgraff — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 12:43:05 +0000

Another option that kind of cropped up recently is Google Wave. I didn’t really have a chance to explore Wave too much before submitting this article, since while I had an account I had no invitations to share until just recently and thus was unable to really experiment with using it as a tool to communicate with my D&D group. There’s a lot about Wave that I can see being potentially very useful to a D&D group in a variety of ways, but I’m not sure how readily I would adapt it to a campaign bible. Keeping it organized could potentially become very difficult.

It seems well suited for organizing and recruiting for a game, communicating with your players about when the next session will be, tracking experience and treasure, documenting character sheets, or even joining in a hybrid play-by-post/chat game. For a campaign bible, though, it wouldn’t be my first choice.

I have every intention of trying a short game over Wave at some point in the near future and doing a write-up about it, but it’s going to have to wait until after exams…

By: Mazetar

Mazetar — Fri, 04 Dec 2009 04:02:29 +0000

Great article, would like to mention obsidian portal as the ebst wiki for such things if u wanna try it head rigth over, they even have a short video to introduce you too it:)
easy for both players and DMs

Cons: need a computer to access
but hey in-game u could have some personal notes as well adn add to wiki later and then enxt session u write down a few notes u want as in anmes and such u must know for the session (player)
and as a DM well u probally have alot of notes on paper already before the wiki started? xD

anyways have a great day/nigth folks:D

By: Tadhg

Tadhg — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 06:16:34 +0000

There’s also an excellent cross between the Wiki and the Electronic Document: TiddlyWiki, a single-file wiki that runs locally. It provides many wiki advantages while being very easy to pass around, and not requiring hosting. Definitely worth checking out: http://tiddlywiki.com/