onsilius
Hi, all. I am the DM of the 3.B D&D campaign (That's a mix of 3.X and Basic rules) "The Minrothad Guilds":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/minrothad
Due to the lack of sort ordering on the Campaigns tab, it's hard to find sites using Obsidian Portal in creative and innovative ways. I'm putting our site out for review to get feedback on how we're doing and to see if anyone knows of sites doing similar things better so we can improve. Feel free to send me a message, reply here, or add a comment directly to our site if you've got some criticism for us.
Thanks!
DM Fred
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actual comments coming soon!
It has my vote for feature of the month and year!
Ab
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
I hope you enjoy reading our adventures, we certainly have fun playing them.
Ken, aka Sergei, Servant of Halav.
Yeah, in briefly looking through your campaign site the other night I could tell that the PC's directly contributed to the site (at least as far as campaign journals go), but I didn't know the extent of it. I am impressed, and truth to tell, a bit envious. I tried to do something similar with the PC's in my campaign, envisioning the site as a place where the PC's could both access background information on our campaign world (historical and geographical info I had already developed), and directly contribute to the creation of that world through the use of campaign logs, updating character bios, and introducing new information to the wiki page. Sadly however, thus far my players have either been too busy, or simply uninterested in this task; hence, my site is pretty much a one man show. In fact, I'm pretty sure that I'm the only one who has even read the adventure logs and NPC bios that I've created. Ah well, we make due with what we have right? I'm starting a new campaign now called "Tales of Darkmoon Vale":http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaigns/tales-of-darkmoon-vale and I'm going to push PC participation in our OP site allot more than I have with the other campaign.
Knowing how involved you all are in the Minrothad campaign gives me even greater motivation to read up on your "shared" campaign world. Kudos to all of you for devoting so much care to the world you love.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
One of the things Onsilius did to encourage participation was institute the karma system. Players are rewarded with karma points as they contribute. You can see on our karma page what uses/rewards they have.
Ken
Thanks for the heads up! I've checked out the Karma rules and found them to be brilliant. Onsilius has graciously allowed me to use the rules in my campaign, so I look forward to seeing PC participation increase. By the way, you've got an interesting back-story to your Sergei character.
Cheers,
-Arsheesh
I also agree with Ken (aka Sergei). Our illustrious DM Onsilius does make our campaign more rich and rewarding because he works really hard to tailor the experience to fit the players short and long term goals. One of the things he asks us to do at character creation is consider our short and long term goals. These goals have to be more than the standard, I want to be powerful or the best fighter I can be. As he would say 'ever one wants to be powerful and the best at their class they can be, so those are not goals'. He encourages us to have goals that help define our characters. What motivates them, why are they doing what they do? In Moridin's case his short term goal is to find the tools, books etc. to help him become a true wizard with out being burned at the stake! His long term goal is to prove that the arcane is not consuming life. That way he can return with proof of this knowledge to his fellow Minrothians and possibly found a new Guild of the Arcane. Goals like that give a character purpose and gives the player more to think about than how to kill the next monster or how many magic items they have.
Daron, aka Moridin, the up until recently normal human.