What makes it worse is that the campaigns that do come up are often quite old/inactive wikis. I think that part of the front page is working off of some older code that may just need a bit of tweaking, but there are more important priorities, to be sure. Still, it's a little irritating. The front page may be the most important 'first impression' Obsidian Portal gets with new visitors, and in my opinion, more care and thought should go into where every link on that front page takes you.
I really just want everything you can conceivably click on the OP home page to lead to something that feeds newcomers' interests in perhaps making a wiki of their own. 404s and campaigns last updated 18 months ago don't exactly put our best foot forward. Besides, I discover new campaigns via those links, and after seven or eight blocked sites, 404s, or ancient sites that still have the Welcome to Your Wiki message up... I just give up and go about my business, and that, OP, ain't good for _your_ business.
...I am actually starting to think that the Random Maps feature is bugged, because for the past week, I have not been able to look at a single map via that method.
I'd quite like an "All pages" section where you can enter HTML code etc that will be put on every page in your wiki. For those of us who have created sidebar/menu code that has to go on every page. It's a pig to paste it on every new page. EVEN WORSE when you decide to add a section and you have to repaste the code onto EVERY single page you've created. That hurts.
So maybe like the banner appears on every page you can have a section under the campaign settings where you can enter code that is put on each page of the wiki. Easier to make universal changes.
It seems there's no way to use an off-site image for character portraits (and I guess user avatars too). I think it makes sense for the avatars, but it would be nice if character portraits could be hosted elsewhere!
Character Journals - this would be more of a player feature, but it would be nice as a GM to be able to pop in and see what the characters think
Sharing Content - the ability to share content from one campaign with another, or characters- a friend and I want to do a cross-over and it would be easier to do so if I could just share my NPCs and locations. It would also be nice should I run a campaign in the same setting- as one member said, maybe a settign wiki feature.
And the reason I came to this part of the forum- Editable Character Page - I'd like the ability to sort my NPCs, and I would also like to be able to make tags a smaller font to draw more attention to the names.
Oh, and a "like" option like facebook on things like comments here would be great for showing support for people's ideas, without having to make a bunch of "Me too!" posts and make it easier to see which ideas people really like.
Hi Jhennaside! I have my characters write the adventure logs in character, and some have taken to calling it their journal- also, "Spelljoined":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/spelljoined/adventure-log does this very well.
The crossover might be done as co-gms, as an idea.
You can make all npcs have a less-used letter in front for easy sorts, like x, y & z.
Just some random thoughts. Completely agree with the fbook suggestion.
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
Duskreign's "COTM for November":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
Not sure if this has been requested, but it would be nice to see a spot somewhere on a campaign page, maybe in the sidebar showing the game system being used. When browsing a campaign it's not always obvious what system is being used.
-D43m0n
"The Truth is a Lie":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/19247
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
Duskreign's "COTM for November":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
Is it possible to have GM only tags for NPC's? What I have in mind is an interface just like the current tag system to input "GM tags". Then, if a player looks at the NPC he only sees the normal tags, but if the GM looks he sees both sets?
Imagine a political game where I want to keep track of people's allegiances and ideologies with tags, but don't want to give things away to the players by creating a "Part of the Evil Conspiracy of Evil" tag.
In general it would be useful for games that use alignments, I frequently want to only see NPCs of one alignment, but I generally don't want the PCs to have easy access to NPC's alignments.
That is a good idea, Stephen. In the meantime, as a workaround, might I suggest a coding system to set it apart?
You could use a "random password generator":http://www.random.org/passwords/ and set specific groups to one pw. Once you get two or three tagged to a single entity (ie: Alignment = euxktVWw, Guild = 77Rbc2yp) it is likely your players will forego the trouble of decoding your sequences.
I also recommend "binary":http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php, as a long string of 1's and 0's is a mess to try and decode, and if your players aren't familiar with what binary is and how to decode it you should be gtg:
Example: Part of the Evil Conspiracy of Evil -- Acronym: PECE -- Binary: 01010000010001010100001101000101
It may be some extra work on your part, but if you make a GM only wiki with what your codes confer with you'll eventually be able to tell what they mean by sight.
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Player owned wiki & item pages similar to how PC & NPC pages can be assigned a player owner so I can have wiki & item pages pages that players can edit & take care of without having to bump them up to a co-GM like now would be really nice.
It would be really nice if there was a save button after every entry field in the wiki. It would really save tons of time and effort with making lots of pages and changes.
1: Make the wiki links not be case-sensitive. "List of skills" should point to the same thing as "List Of Skills" and "list of skills" and so forth.
2: Implement the ability to create NPCs from wiki pages through referencing a stub that doesn't exist. So if you link :lord-malachar from a wiki page, instead of getting the "Character not found" tag it automatically creates a new character.
1) I'd like to see options for or premade formatting.
I happened to find this "campaign":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/brynmawr/wikis/main-page which had that great side bar which I stole.
2) Ideas or Examples for people on how to organize information within the wiki.
Is there a way to compile a list of all red links still in the wiki? It would be nice not to have to search through every single wiki page to make sure I didn't miss one. Something as simple as a button to click would be nice, but I'd also settle for a listed page. Sometimes I'm in the middle of adding new content, I don't get to get back to it for a week or two, and I forget I was working on something and wander onto additional content and completely forget I had two or three red links buried in a page somewhere.
What does it do?
Currently I use the heck out of the character's section of my OP, but there are so many NPCs after years of running the game, a simple alphabetical list is quite cumbersome. I'd love an expandable folder option for types of characters. So instead of going to the Characters Tab and seeing a huge long list, seeing folders of types or groups of NPCs and PCs that could be expanded much like a windows explorer-type organization would be super useful.
What does it look like?
Upon clicking on the characters tab instead of simply seeing a designation between PCs and NPCs, have unlimited designations (with the option to place a picture icon for each) that have a '+' next to them or an 'expand catagory' that creates a list view of ONLY the characters organized under that folder.
I'd like to mimic brightwyrm's sentiment about the character section. I just started running my campaign and I can already see how cumbersome it will become. I also looked at the Avatar campaign last month and his character section was so long that the you get lost as you scroll down.
Just allowing us to have control of the page formatting would be an improvement. I wouldn't mind setting up the different chapters with tables or Div's in lieu of some behind of the scene fix.
You can do all of this by putting all of your characters as wikis, as myself and many others have done.
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
Duskreign's "COTM for November 2011":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
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"Star Trek Late Night":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/star-trek-late-night/wikis/main-page
- Duskreign
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
Just trying to help out.
Just trying to help out.
So maybe like the banner appears on every page you can have a section under the campaign settings where you can enter code that is put on each page of the wiki. Easier to make universal changes.
Character Journals - this would be more of a player feature, but it would be nice as a GM to be able to pop in and see what the characters think
Sharing Content - the ability to share content from one campaign with another, or characters- a friend and I want to do a cross-over and it would be easier to do so if I could just share my NPCs and locations. It would also be nice should I run a campaign in the same setting- as one member said, maybe a settign wiki feature.
And the reason I came to this part of the forum- Editable Character Page - I'd like the ability to sort my NPCs, and I would also like to be able to make tags a smaller font to draw more attention to the names.
Thanks! Love, love, LOVE this site.
The crossover might be done as co-gms, as an idea.
You can make all npcs have a less-used letter in front for easy sorts, like x, y & z.
Just some random thoughts. Completely agree with the fbook suggestion.
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
Duskreign's "COTM for November":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
Just trying to help out.
-D43m0n
"The Truth is a Lie":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/19247
cheers ^^
- Dan
"Avatar: Conquest of the Imperial Order":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/avatar_adventures
DM, Current Campaign: The Godlands: Rise of the Blood Moon Kings
DM, Previous Campaign: Avatar: Conquest of the Imperial Order - CotM: November 2011
http://forums.obsidianportal.com/comments.php?DiscussionID=86&page=5
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
Duskreign's "COTM for November":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
Just trying to help out.
DM, Current Campaign: The Godlands: Rise of the Blood Moon Kings
DM, Previous Campaign: Avatar: Conquest of the Imperial Order - CotM: November 2011
Imagine a political game where I want to keep track of people's allegiances and ideologies with tags, but don't want to give things away to the players by creating a "Part of the Evil Conspiracy of Evil" tag.
In general it would be useful for games that use alignments, I frequently want to only see NPCs of one alignment, but I generally don't want the PCs to have easy access to NPC's alignments.
You could use a "random password generator":http://www.random.org/passwords/ and set specific groups to one pw. Once you get two or three tagged to a single entity (ie: Alignment = euxktVWw, Guild = 77Rbc2yp) it is likely your players will forego the trouble of decoding your sequences.
I also recommend "binary":http://nickciske.com/tools/binary.php, as a long string of 1's and 0's is a mess to try and decode, and if your players aren't familiar with what binary is and how to decode it you should be gtg:
Example: Part of the Evil Conspiracy of Evil -- Acronym: PECE -- Binary: 01010000010001010100001101000101
It may be some extra work on your part, but if you make a GM only wiki with what your codes confer with you'll eventually be able to tell what they mean by sight.
Pocket Universe by UNIgames (http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2621)
Quicksilver Fantasy RPG by UNIgames (http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=23760)
Living Legends by Monkey House Games (http://www.rpgnow.com/product_info.php?products_id=2623)
Thanks!
-Jeff Dee
Just trying to help out.
-Jeff Dee
1: Make the wiki links not be case-sensitive. "List of skills" should point to the same thing as "List Of Skills" and "list of skills" and so forth.
2: Implement the ability to create NPCs from wiki pages through referencing a stub that doesn't exist. So if you link :lord-malachar from a wiki page, instead of getting the "Character not found" tag it automatically creates a new character.
Thanks!
1) I'd like to see options for or premade formatting.
I happened to find this "campaign":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/brynmawr/wikis/main-page which had that great side bar which I stole.
2) Ideas or Examples for people on how to organize information within the wiki.
What does it do?
Currently I use the heck out of the character's section of my OP, but there are so many NPCs after years of running the game, a simple alphabetical list is quite cumbersome. I'd love an expandable folder option for types of characters. So instead of going to the Characters Tab and seeing a huge long list, seeing folders of types or groups of NPCs and PCs that could be expanded much like a windows explorer-type organization would be super useful.
What does it look like?
Upon clicking on the characters tab instead of simply seeing a designation between PCs and NPCs, have unlimited designations (with the option to place a picture icon for each) that have a '+' next to them or an 'expand catagory' that creates a list view of ONLY the characters organized under that folder.
Thanks!
Just allowing us to have control of the page formatting would be an improvement. I wouldn't mind setting up the different chapters with tables or Div's in lieu of some behind of the scene fix.
killervp
"A God...Rebuilt":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/a-god-rebuilt
Duskreign's "COTM for November 2011":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/wyrmshadow/wiki_pages/112011
Just trying to help out.