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The life and sad death of ten foot wiki - worldbuilding organization tools

A topic by JDCorley created Mar 16, 2019 Views: 1,694 Replies: 5
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Back in the day, Berin Kinsman created a tiddlywiki specifically for game organization, called the Ten Foot Wiki.  Unfortunately as cloud computing took over the world, Tiddlywiki had to seal up some security holes and became harder to use . Let's share some world and campaign organization tools here.

I got in on the Realm Works kickstarter so it was cheap for me, but it's kind of the Most Bonkers detailed thing. The GM version is $50 though. :o Find it here.

Drivethrurpg has a lot of "adventure planners", which are pre-printed PDFs which have a lot of the most common shit in them (but they're typically for fantasy or D&D-a-like games).  Now, I kinda like the Fat Goblin Games ones because they 1) use form fillable PDFs a lot 2) are often broken down into different types of pages so if you are like me and need like 500 NPC pages and 3 monster pages then you can do that easily, and 3) if you're Extremely Into It they'll even send you a hardbound print copy that you can fill out? :o  Anyway, this is their category: Fat Goblin Games Gamemaster Journal section on Drivethrurpg

If you still want to try TiddlyWiki, it's still quite popular but the tools are a little bit more opaque than you might remember them being. Give it a try.

Anyway, post other campaign/world organization software and tools here!

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Lately, I've been a fan of notion.so  for collaborative game notes.

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I have not used it myself, but I have heard positive things about World Anvil from other people. It seems to have tools both for worldbuilding in general, and organisational tools for campaigns and GMing.

Several of the campaigns I'm in have used/are using Trello as an organisational tool to keep track of characters, locations, NPCs and plot-hooks - it's a pretty handy way of keeping track of what's been happening, and sharing information with players.

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I've also used trello as a "table" for games of microscope to set up campaigns with some really high levels of satisfaction from everyone in my groups!

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Trello works really well for Microscope and similar games, and the GM of my Sprawl campaign is using it to record NPCs, sessions summaries, rule variants, etc. The card-based perspective takes a little getting used to, tho.

World Anvil looks like a lighter version of Realm Works. Great find!