Campaign Submissions Discussions on Obsidian Portal Community Forums

Elurah

LucasValenti — Wed, 19 Feb 2025 20:47:34 +0000

Howdy folks.

Been working on the site for my campaign setting for a while now as a resource for myself and my players. Realized I've never actually shared it here, properly, for others to view. It's home to a few different campaigns as well as a repository for my homebrew setting I've been building for the past couple decades. Would love to have people poke around and give some feedback on what works/doesn't work. There's a handful of CSS tricks and stuff I've incorporated for a bit of flair.

The Haven section is still pretty bare, but that's going to be my next big tackle in terms of getting all of my notes and info up.

Uh, enjoy, I guess?

https://elurah.obsidianportal.com/

My new Shadowrun Campaign

grand_dm — Tue, 18 Feb 2025 20:01:35 +0000

Still a work in progress and we just started playing 2E again after decades: https://shadowrunreturns.obsidianportal.com/

Maybe you will find some inspiration, Chummers!

Visibility and Credibility

Nehebkau — Sat, 11 Jan 2025 17:46:58 +0000

Hello everyone.

I've been working on my game for several years in a smaller system called Exalted. I was hoping to get some more visibility and fans. I try to work with the Exalted community to improve storytelling, encourage writing, and otherwise uplift the small setting.

I'd appreciate if anyone who wants could look at it, leave a comment, and just provide some feedback. I'd welcome follows as well. I've never asked for fans before, but the #1 game has been defunct a long time and I feel moving from the #2 to #1 spot would give me more credibility to actively improve the game line.

Thank you all for your time!

https://thedragonsshattered.obsidianportal.com/

Homebrew: Crackers TTRPG

bookco — Fri, 06 Jan 2023 23:35:42 +0000

I have begun running a campaign of a homebrew TTRPG system called CRACKERS. The ruleset can be found at http://crackers.blog/, and the Obsidian Portal page is http://crackers.obsidianportal.com/. The game is still being polished, so I would appreciate feedback.

Rime of the Frostmaiden

grand_dm — Thu, 23 Mar 2023 18:32:25 +0000

Here is my Rime of the Frostmaiden campaign: https://rimeofnorth.obsidianportal.com/

It's an amalgamation of home-brew, various rule books, game books and Norse lore.

I hope it inspires someone.

Respectfully,

Grand DM

Xoria game store campaign open to public

DM_Dennis — Mon, 27 Sep 2021 17:22:12 +0000

Our "Xoria" homebrew campaign that we play each week at The Citadel in Groton CT is well under way and the story if getting good. It's now open for everyone to check out.

https://xoria-1.obsidianportal.com/

Enjoy!

Gary Gygax Tribute Campaign - Is this worthy?

KuboTwo — Mon, 05 Jul 2021 14:22:16 +0000

Here is a campaign that I think many will find some enjoyment reading. It's a first edition D&D (AD&D) campaign that has been played over 52 game sessions over 2 1/2 years. I've recently added it to Obsidian Portal based on my own campaign log I made contemporaneously for my players during campaign play. Let me know what you think.

https://garygygaxtributecampaign.obsidianportal.com/

Vote for Campaign of the Year 2020!

Jynx001 — Mon, 15 Feb 2021 17:52:29 +0000

It is time once again to magically cast your vote for your favorite user creations on OP. Twelve Campaign of the Month contenders stand before the public, awaiting judgement and encouragement. Send some love their way with a vote, on the blog:

https://blog.obsidianportal.com/vote-for-campaign-of-the-year-2020/

Many thanks to the prize contributors and the CotM Committee. Please watch our social media (Facebook and Twitter, especially) in the upcoming days to see some feature posts about the CotY campaigns and publishers who donated goodies.

Voting window ends in less than a week from the date of this post. Your support is greatly appreciated - Happy Gaming!

Vote for Campaign of the Year 2019!

Jynx001 — Tue, 26 Jan 2021 13:33:36 +0000

Huzzah! Due in part to the upheval at the beginning of 2020, we were unable to conduct a proper Campaign of the Year vote to crown a favorite for 2019. The CotM Committee wanted to right that wrong and give the community an opportunity to vote for a winner from that group - spotlighting their work before we begin our CotY 2020 voting in mid-Feburary. You can cast your vote now, on the blog:

https://blog.obsidianportal.com/vote-for-campaign-of-the-year-2019/

Special thanks goes out to the Committee, to the gaming groups who won Campaign of the Month in 2019, and to the prize-contributors. Please check out the campaigns and send your encouragement to your favorites. Also, please watch our social media (Facebook and Twitter, especially) in the upcoming days to see some feature posts about the CotY campaigns and the prize-contributors, who deserve many digital hearts, thumbs-up, and other button-presses of appreciation.

Voting window ends in less than a week from the date of this post. Thank you for your time and your participation!

Children of Gotham is back!

tommy19 — Fri, 28 Aug 2020 21:33:01 +0000

In 2017 I created a FATE campaign that I ran in person for several months. I spent a good deal of time bugging some of the big names on the forum for their help getting the CSS setup and getting the site looking exactly the way I wanted it to look. Unfortunately due to real life issues (and one of our players moving 2000+ miles away) the game went on permanent hiatus as of the 2017 holiday season.

In the interim I never stopped working on the world or the OP page. It's made some drastic changes over the last three years, hopefully for the better, and I've added a metric ton of content. It's something I've been able to do during a lack of active rping and something I could do to relax and take my mind off some serious issues I've had in my personal life over the last years.

I did attempt to start a new campaign in the same world, but it didn't hold up, players fell through and we just could not get the scheduling to work out. I had pretty much given up on returning to the streets of Supernatural Gotham city... and then Covid happened and our hobby changed drastically. Everyone moved to playing online, including many of my original players, some of whom were hesitant to try online play before.

So I started advertising on facebook groups, subreddits, and discord servers and got a lot of response. Nearly every single member of the old campaign was interested in playing this new campaign and I had at least another groups worth of people who were also interested. So what did I do? I started running two separate games. One for the original players that picks up pretty much right where we left off and a completely new campaign with mostly completely new players. We've just had our first session of each over the last two weeks and it's worked amazingly well. The feedback from the players has been amazing, I've had an absolute blast, and because we are playing on discord I even have people who are curious but not quite ready to play sitting in on our sessions as Lurkers and they have made the experience all the better with their memes and jokes during our sessions. This aspect alone has made me really understand the draw behind people live-streaming. The immediate feedback and interaction is just awesome and adds a completely new depth to our weekly sessions (rotating out campaigns each week so that each one is technically bi-weekly).

I've made some drastic changes to the site and how I use it. For example I have begun using the Adventure Log section of the site more as a DM/creator blog that I plan to start sharing FATE specific content, which I find there is a lacking of on the web, or at least, lacking in comparison to other popular games like D&D and Pathfinder. I've integrated Google Docs pretty heavily so that I can edit campaign diaries and character information in real time and from my mobile device. Overall I am really happy with the site and it's content, and now that it's active again with not one, but two ongoing campaigns, I wanted to share it with the rest of you.

If you're interested jump over to https://childrenofgotham.obsidianportal.com/ and give us a look. The whole site is public, the Casefiles (adventure logs) are shared Google docs that have commenting turned on, you can become a fan of the page and hopefully see new updates, and if you're interested in sitting in on a session feel free to drop me a line and I'd be happy to invite you to the discord server as a Lurker. Side benefit of being a lurker, they get first dibs at any spots that may open up in current or future campaigns!

400 Fans!

GamingMegaverse — Mon, 06 Apr 2020 18:15:27 +0000

Wow, it has been a while, but our original campaign here, https://a-god-rebuilt.obsidianportal.com/ has hit 400 followers! Thanks!! We really appreciate the support!

For your consideration: The Kindred Chronicles

Regista — Thu, 02 Apr 2020 07:27:40 +0000

Hello everyone,

I would like to present you our VtM chronicle: The Kindred Chronicles:

https://kindredchronicles.obsidianportal.com

We've been running this campaign for the last 3 years and it's entirely based on Obsidian Portal forum (as the players are scattered all around the globe). It's a Vampire: The Masquerade chronicle based on historical sagas (Second City, Roman Empire, Dark Ages, WWI and 2014 London.)

We are particularly proud of the player characters created in these years and their development, as well as our interpretation of the official World of Darkness lore.

And we're happy to share with the community how Obsidian Portal allowed our game group to stay together and active. :)

The Isles of Memory - Pathfinder Campaign - Homebrew Campaign Setting

Tachros — Tue, 31 Dec 2019 20:05:09 +0000

I'd like to invite you all to check out the Isles of Memory Obsidian Portal site and let me know what you think. The entire campaign is original content written by myself (GM) and will be the 3rd campaign we've completed in this setting. We've been developing this setting for almost 15 years!

https://islesofmemory.obsidianportal.com/

I try to maintain an Adventure Log, NPC library, Unique Items, Maps, etc. for player reference and my sanity. All the maps are original works of art for this setting. Other images are simply visual references.

Into the Mist

Ghandi — Tue, 20 Aug 2019 21:28:19 +0000

Bummed that I didn't realize COTM was coming back at the time this campaign was still running (it's no longer eligible as it's been inactive for nearly a year). Anyways, as this is the discussion area for people who like to appreciate site work on OP, I wanted to put up a link here to Into the Mist. (https://into-the-mist.obsidianportal.com/)

I put a lot of work into the CSS for the campaign, and those curious to see how I made some of it work can see a full copy of the site CSS here. (https://into-the-mist.obsidianportal.com/wikis/custom-css)

As it says on the "special thanks" page of the campaign, lots of thanks to the community and forums for CSS help. :)

For your consideration: Dark Sun

Black_Vulmea — Sun, 21 Aug 2011 23:31:56 +0000

I came across "this absolutely fantastic _Dark Sun_ wiki":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/dark-sun-a-trova which I think deserves Campaign of the Month honors. This wiki represents an outstanding example of organization, presentation, and use of the site tools and includes some excellent original artwork.

This wiki is also one of the growing number of campaign in a language other than English on Obsidian Portal; I think it encourages international users to see their work highlighted.

Mike aka Black Vulmea
"_Le Ballet de l'Acier_":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/le-ballet-de-l-acier - swashbuckling adventures in the age of the Three Musketeers and Captain Alatriste
Featured Campaign of the Month - August 2011

Please consider Mexico: 1889

Bud — Mon, 01 Apr 2019 12:51:54 +0000

https://mexico1889.obsidianportal.com/

We're a face-to-face group meeting weekly, 24 sessions in and going strong. We're using a modified Aces&Eights system set in a Mexico where the revolution began in 1886, in the midst of a mineral boom and a (secretive) outbreak in occult activity.

AS the GM, I'm not terribly proficient with social media, so we are lacking in likes, but I like to believe we make up for it in enthusiasm.

In search of DM in Burlington VT.

danswright8 — Fri, 08 Feb 2019 14:43:06 +0000

Hey everyone. Some of my friends and I are trying to get a group together for 5e here in Burlington VT and we are looking for a DM to run it!

Thanks!

350 Fans! Wow!

GamingMegaverse — Wed, 03 Apr 2013 10:03:36 +0000

I, and my great players, cannot thank you all enough! A God...Rebuilt hit 200 fans today!
We are humbled by your support! Thanks!
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
"OP's COTM April 2012":http://blog.obsidianportal.com/a-god-rebuilt-aprils-cotm/

My Campaign, ALIND, on Wordpress

thomasocourtney — Mon, 22 Jan 2018 04:32:48 +0000

Hello all. I have a long running campaign, A Light in the Darkness, which unlike traditional campaigns takes the structural form of five parallel subcampaigns ending in one pivotal finale. Each subcampaign is run with different players. The finale will one day be an invitation for them all to play together. It's far too big for obsidianportal although a portion of one subcampaign is there.

If anyone is interested in looking, feel free. I narrate sessions after we end a game. Feedback always welcome.

https://alightinthedarknessbythomascourtney.wordpress.com

LANCEFINDER - NEW CAMPAIGN starting in downtown Leavenworth, Kansas! War of the Lance Pathfinder+3.5

ProphetPX — Thu, 02 Nov 2017 19:29:56 +0000

(I dont know if this is posted in the right area but here goes anyway (sorry if it is, i dont know where to post this stuff))

h1. NEW CAMPAIGN STARTING SOON!!! Set for: 3 pm on November 4th, 2017

We are starting a NEW CAMPAIGN on THIS COMING Saturday for a (MERGED Pathfinder > Dungeons and Dragons 3.5) game set in the amazing world of KRYNN.

We are starting on the WAR OF THE LANCE campaign using ***Level 1*** characters (I am running a prequel before we get into the official book modules for 3.5).

ANYONE INTERESTED PLEASE CALL or TEXT me, Ryan at 913-890-3005 - OR EMAIL me at: prophetpx AT gmail DOT com

AND visit the Facebook group for HOUSE RULES and LOCATION information!

We begin play at 3 pm on Saturday, November 4th. Downtown Leavenworth Kansas (USA)

Visit and JOIN the Facebook Group if you are interested, to meet and see Player Members, and ALL DOCUMENTS (including driving directions and maps) which are HERE: https://www.facebook.com/groups/689420737923839/

HOUSE RULES - part 1:

https://www.facebook.com/groups/689420737923839/710108609188385/ ;

HOUSE RULES - part 2 (feats addendum):

https://www.facebook.com/groups/689420737923839/710786479120598/ ;

DIRECTIONS for DRIVING - MAP, here:

https://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=oa.693165680882678&type=3 ;

I hope to meet some new players and make some new friends!

Group holes: WE NEED A CLERIC and a ROGUE and a WIZARD and more fighters cannot hurt either.

Machinations of the Slave Lords - D&D 5e Greyhawk

jasonvey — Fri, 24 Feb 2017 13:20:45 +0000

http://slavelords.obsidianportal.com/

Here's our bi-weekly D&D campaign. Been running for some time now, beginning with the Starter Set scenario. It's set in a sort of alternate Greyhawk that sheds much of the post-1e metaplot (but still uses some of the political boundaries and situations from the 3.x era). I turned it into a blank slate, added Kara-Tur, and am building my own campaign and sub-stories around the original A-series (plus A0 and A5 from the Premium edition and Dragon+). They're in an original quest right now.

A Light in the Darkness, with 6 SubCampaign Categories

thomasocourtney — Thu, 20 Jul 2017 16:34:58 +0000

This is the first time I have packaged my campaign for others to view. It is massive after 6 years of play and writing. Find the entire campaign, including gazetteer, campaign stories in their entirety, Introductions, NPC folios and and many short stories here at https://alightinthedarknessbythomascourtney.wordpress.com

Here is the introductory story, from Tiresias the Sage...

Tiresias, The Sage

The Following is Secret Lore, Told by Tiresias, Most Respected Sage, and Enemy of the Order of the Flame and the Lighted Races of Cellinor. Simply hearing this tale is considered High Treason by the Inquisition of the Crimson Order.

An oaken door on rusty iron hinges creaks open. The slightest hint of various laboratory chemicals meets your nose, the aroma masked by a fragrance of beautiful sweetness, something floral. All around the room spreads a vast collection of dusty things, and other oddities draped with linens. Columns of stone rise from the floor to the ceiling, with stern images carved into them of both ghastly demons and creatures of soft beauty in white stone. The room is large, and the ceiling exaggeratedly tall. There is too much to take in, but your eyes fall upon a table placed nearly central to the odd shaped room, it’s top is orderly and clean, and is almost as out of place as is a faint but traceable wild and earthy smell masking the odors of the items held on innumerable shelves. Seated at the table is a ragged old man in simple clothes, with his head bent low, a shaking quill in his hand. As you walk forward, his hand stops and he looks up through long, thick golden hair streaked with grey. His eyes are hidden through the strands, and when he speaks, he does so in a hoarse, yet elegantly fluid tone.

“Welcome. My name is Tiresias.” He then poignantly leans back over his scroll, and completes the line. Dropping his quill back into the ink bottle, he looks up and this time, you realize that he is blind.

“My friends tell me that you have come to learn more of the past, and perhaps of your future. Is that so?”

“Well then, we should get started. We never know when the Inquisition will beat down our doors, now do we?” Tiresias chuckles to himself, and rising slowly and with great care, makes his way with the help of a servant to a table covered in maps, and other parchments scribbled in various signs and other notes. What looks like bones still protruding from rough hewn slabs of earth removed from some hole and brought here rest atop the stacked sheets. As he walks, his hands glide gently along feeling what must be a familiar route, and they land next to the pile where rests a pitcher. Amongst the fossils, Tiresias gingerly finds the pitcher with trembling fingertips outstretched and pours you something to drink. He invites you to sit on pillows scattered on the floor.

“Well, then, where shall we begin, my friends….it’s so hard to know when so much of it is…well, what do they know?” Tiresias looks blankly around and with a call from your sponsor, finally in the direction of your host with a patient expression.

“They know nothing, my Lord. They must hear it all.”

“All? Is that it?” Tiresias smiles, “Well, then, we better pour our drink slowly, and talk quickly. The wine of the Southern Valley’s best orchards is hard to come by these last few months and I fear we won’t have enough to complete a tale of ALL. If it’s all for you, then for the Sake of All, we best begin at the beginning.”

Tiresias leans back on a pillow embroidered with the image of a snakelike beast. A moth flutters up and disappears amongst his many dusty piles of ancient treasures. “The world was not always as simple as it is now. It was once, complex. Complex and much more… misinformed, even than you are now. Long ago, long before Kasil, Mankind was all there was. The maker, the creator, the thinker, the dreamer. The user. The slave. Yes, but we were also the Slaver!

You see my goodly Celns, the Order is most correct about many things. Mankind is who made the elves, the dwarves, the Halfs as you most likely call them as well. Mankind was the manipulator of the world. He changed himself in order to live longer, to live heartier, to live with less. He changed the earth to give more to him. He was invincible, but not….to himself. He used the resources of the land, and then he overused them. He destroyed the world, and then he nearly destroyed himself. But that, was a very, very long time ago. And little of THAT time is known.

We do know that sometime after this ancient destruction, Mankind discovered two very important things, and they would change the world forever. They were not tools of the world, or machinery, but a part of his nature. Mankind discovered magic, and he discovered true divinity.

What’s that you say? Different? Not so fast, children of Cellinor!! Magic, as Man found, was the manifested, the external will of his being. The use of his conscious mind to do great works. Far superior to His muscles! Far superior to “machinery”. He had hintings of it, but ancient man could not recognize them. It wasn’t until his tinkerings with Himself that he discovered it’s raw power. It has always been thus, nothing more. Some can harness it. Some cannot. Divinity, though, as the Flame will surely tell you, is nothing more than that collected will, meant to do great works to better All. For those who can’t use It, others can. Religion, my friends, is the government of our souls.” Tiresias’s words echo around the chamber. You find yourself leaning closer, Tiresias seems to sense the looks you share with your comrades.

“Well, then, I can ‘see’ we are getting somewhere with you lot at least….”

“Many a generation passed, Mankind used both Magics and Divine Powers to create the Gods, that’s right! He created the Gods! In this the Order is most ardently correct as well. But Mankind was deceived. And over eons, as the Liberation Texts tell, He forgot who had created who, and his worship left him a slave to the will of vast and powerful beings. Beings which arose from the leaders of the time, as Lords of Man, Gods. The Immortal Ones!

And in this time, with his new powers he began to work the land for the betterment of his race. Governed now by his WILL, his Gods manifested. But power breeds more power. He then created those who could serve his will, to do the “dirty work” as we say. Other races who could harness this power did the same. Some for benign gain, and others for the taking of it. Thus the age of Kasil, was a time of Glory. A time of harmony and beauty on Gaia for those in the Light at least. Mankind lived in harmony on the surface, achieving great things, building incredible monuments, but not all were happy.”

For Your concideration... Daytar Leamay

KrisW — Sun, 16 Jul 2017 17:37:54 +0000

I would like to introduce everyone to Daytar Leamay an entire fantasy kingdom built to be System agnostic, and suited for Pathfinder and D&D 5.0, Dozen of cites, new races, new classes and so much more! Updated regularly.

Campaign of the month candidate

friendlypickle — Fri, 03 Mar 2017 20:21:50 +0000

Star Trek: Aftermath is a great campaign! Huge detaiil to background information, great roleplay on OP in the Forum and really interesting maps and adventure log. Check it out.

How do you nominate a campaign for Campaign of the Month?

friendlypickle — Sun, 12 Feb 2017 01:17:41 +0000

I don't see a way to nominate a campaign for Campaign of the Month and it wouldn't surprise me if members couldn't do it, they'd be nominating theirs all the time. :)

Shackled City w/MapTools & Fantasy Grounds Completed!

Hank_Woon — Sun, 08 Jan 2017 22:17:27 +0000

Our 7-year odyssey is finally at an end! Our uber DND campaign, Shackled City, has finally wrapped up! Here is our page: https ://the-shackled-city-of-chult.obsidianportal.com/wikis/home-page

For anyone interested, we included download links to our PDF synopses (2 volumes). Preview:

As a bonus, we also uploaded the PDF of our homebrew DND 5E campaign setting, THE MIDDLE SEA, which will be the setting of our next campaign (with any luck, it won't take 7 years to complete):

Nocturnum: Rebirth (Buffy/WitchCraft/Cthulhu/World of Darkness mashup)

jasonvey — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 13:08:53 +0000

I present for your consideration and enjoyment, our ongoing campaign.

Nocturnum: Rebirth (The Pittsburgh Chronicles, Vol. 2)

This urban fantasy mashup uses the Unisystem to combine the mythoi of Buffy the Vampire Slayer/Angel, C.J. Carella's WitchCraft and Armageddon, World of Darkness, and the Chtulhu mythos (currently the Hastur Mythos and Delta Green) in an epic campaign which is a sequel to our prior, four-year B:tVS game.

We're actively seeking followers and fans, so please, take a look! We've put a lot into the detail of the campaign and there's lots to read and enjoy.