Online campaign management and worldbuilding tools

3 years ago by Gradually_Adjusting to c/worldbuilding

Are you a game master, worldbuilder, or a storyteller? We offer a tabletop campaign manager and worldbuilding tool that makes it easy to organise, plan, and enjoy your TTRPG campaigns. We are community driven, and best of all, our core features are free!

Do you use an online campaign manager? If so, which? I only know of Kanka so far, and am pretty happy with it. Edit to add: Obviously there are self-hosted wikis and other sites you could use, but this is the only purpose-built one I've used.

myke_tuna 3 points 3 years ago

I use Kanka myself. I really enjoy it and love that it does what I need for free. I used to support it with a subscription when I had an active campaign going, but now that it's been dormant, I stopped. That said, I like that it's not necessary to do so to get a great tool for campaign building/management.

Other than that and WorldAnvil, the other big tool I've heard people use is a OneNote file. Not entirely sure how that works, but it's an interesting (and offline) way to do it.

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Noossablue 3 points 3 years ago

I use notion personally. I created a template to track everything under the sun and it works well, and whenever I find something that doesn't work I can just tweak it.

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Gradually_Adjusting 2 points 3 years ago

I use notion a lot for work and journaling, but seeing your template is a real eye opener. I'm blown away. How did you learn all this?

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Noossablue 3 points 3 years ago

Thank you! I'm a systems analyst/developer, so I do similar things for work. That gave me a lot of the backbone to get the data architecture in place. Other than that, just a lot of trial and error to see what works.

It helps that I use it myself, too. Whenever I find something that feels clunky or out of place, I mess around with it in my personal version until it works, then port it to the public version.

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Gradually_Adjusting 2 points 3 years ago

That's just so goddamn boss. Thanks for building this!

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routpatt 3 points 3 years ago

@Gradually_Adjusting I started out using Nuclino as a combined wiki and project management tool, but the free plan became too small.

Now I use offline Markdown notes (Zettlr or Gedit), publishing to a personal “wiki” (Docusaurus). For rough drafts I use my ReMarkable.

However, I'm not much of a GM yet – I've done some worldbuilding but only run one one-shot so far. I'm preparing for a full campaign this year, so I'll make sure to check out Kanka and other recommendations in this discussion!

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