Post by Gilvan Blight on Jul 12, 2007 9:35:03 GMT -5
This sounds useful and interesting:
"Obsidian Portal is a content management site for Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop role-playing games. Rather than trying to automate the playing of the game, Obsidian Portal provides tools to help facilitate the storytelling. After all, the story is the game.
Every campaign has its own shared space to collaborate and push the story forward. A blog provides a historical view of all the adventures the party has experienced, while a campaign wiki allows the party and GM to collectively build a web of information representing their knowledge of the campaign world. Further, the Game Master has their own private wiki for notes, adventure hooks, devious traps, and all the other tiny details necessary to keep a
game running. An NPC tracker helps track the identities of all the NPCs in the campaign world and provide quick lookup when players start asking pesky questions like, "What was the name of the village healer who cured my mummy rot three (real-time) months ago? I want to send her a thank-you note." These characters can be as simple as a name, or have dozens of pages of backstory. Grow them over time as they interact with the PCs.
Beyond individual campaigns, Obsidian Portal provides a way to post characters, items, spells, and other creations to the Web. Finally, there is an easy, intuitive way to share ideas with the gaming community. Rather than relying on clunky forums or wikis, the Obsidian Portal system was designed with tabletop RPG content in mind. Post characters, comment on someone else's spells, vote on new monsters, or search for the perfect BBEG for tonight's game. It's all possible. Even better, all content is easily wiki-linkable, so wiki pages and blog entries can link to content, making it easy for readers to get the whole story.
For the future, the development team is planning all sorts of tabletop-specific tools. A treasure tracker will allow players to easily track what treasure has been given out, what has been identified, and what is still a mystery. A game matching system will allow lonely gamers to find games in their area that are looking for players. A game scheduling/notification system will help to easily coordinate with the group in order to get everyone around the table.
Check it out at www.obsidianportal.com "
"Obsidian Portal is a content management site for Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop role-playing games. Rather than trying to automate the playing of the game, Obsidian Portal provides tools to help facilitate the storytelling. After all, the story is the game.
Every campaign has its own shared space to collaborate and push the story forward. A blog provides a historical view of all the adventures the party has experienced, while a campaign wiki allows the party and GM to collectively build a web of information representing their knowledge of the campaign world. Further, the Game Master has their own private wiki for notes, adventure hooks, devious traps, and all the other tiny details necessary to keep a
game running. An NPC tracker helps track the identities of all the NPCs in the campaign world and provide quick lookup when players start asking pesky questions like, "What was the name of the village healer who cured my mummy rot three (real-time) months ago? I want to send her a thank-you note." These characters can be as simple as a name, or have dozens of pages of backstory. Grow them over time as they interact with the PCs.
Beyond individual campaigns, Obsidian Portal provides a way to post characters, items, spells, and other creations to the Web. Finally, there is an easy, intuitive way to share ideas with the gaming community. Rather than relying on clunky forums or wikis, the Obsidian Portal system was designed with tabletop RPG content in mind. Post characters, comment on someone else's spells, vote on new monsters, or search for the perfect BBEG for tonight's game. It's all possible. Even better, all content is easily wiki-linkable, so wiki pages and blog entries can link to content, making it easy for readers to get the whole story.
For the future, the development team is planning all sorts of tabletop-specific tools. A treasure tracker will allow players to easily track what treasure has been given out, what has been identified, and what is still a mystery. A game matching system will allow lonely gamers to find games in their area that are looking for players. A game scheduling/notification system will help to easily coordinate with the group in order to get everyone around the table.
Check it out at www.obsidianportal.com "
