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in The first step is to admit you have a problem... May 2018

And at last, we have a new quest to pursue! Things that happened in Session 20: Honey, I Shrunk the Adventurers! Everyone drinks ant-strength potions. Everyone gets the size - rather than the strength - of an ant A bunch of angry adventurers th…
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in A Totally Unofficial Help & Tips FAQ May 2018

What are you trying to paste, wrjohnstone?
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in I would like to join your Ps4 conan server please May 2018

This... this reads like it's a spambot, maybe?
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in Trying to link to Adventure Log entry May 2018

I wish there were some way to have a static Most Recent Adventure Log that could be updated, but if it exists I haven't found it. This is the best I've been able to do in my campaign.
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in Change in editing for new campaigns April 2018

If you go to your Settings tab, then click Advanced, you can set your Default Editor to Textile. Just about everyone is still using that, as the CKeditor is seriously buggy.
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in Can CSS be used to overwrite tag functionality to boolean AND April 2018

Useless Trivia Man approves of this thread. ... ... (Why the hell am I referring to myself in the third person??)
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in How to Find a Game / How to find Players for Your Game April 2018

Welcome, Coffeejinx. Obsidian Portal isn't a site like Roll20 or Fantasy Grounds (or Google Hangouts). This site is specifically designed to be a way for GMs to manage their campaigns with wikis, document and image storage, and forums. In my 35+ yea…
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in Update #6 - Welcome our New Community Manager April 2018

This is some of the best news I've heard around here in YEARS. Congratulations Kallak, and welcome aboard!
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in The first step is to admit you have a problem... April 2018

I was actually planning to run a Red Hand of Doom campaign just before I first bought Ptolus. Those plans were put on hold, which makes me slightly sad 'cuz RHoD is very possibly the best-written D&D adventure module I've ever read. But then th…
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in The first step is to admit you have a problem... April 2018

I haven't posted updates in a while, but we're still going strong! The ratmen of the Lost Mines have met their end, and now our intrepid group of Dungeon Delvers is looking for a new quest. I was rather surprised when they decided to take a hard pa…
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in Update #5 - Changes to the Forum Threads April 2018

Did we get April Fooled?!
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in How to manage the global world settings March 2018

I think I understand what you're asking. You're running multiple campaigns in the same universe, but you want them all to reference the same general world/universe material, right? If it were me, I'd probably copy/paste the world info into each sepa…
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in Forum visible for only certain players? March 2018

I don't think it can be done in the forums, but it can definitely be done as a wiki page (if you have an Ascendant account). The GM can share as much or as little as they choose with one, some, or all players. (It's my favorite feature!)
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in Limit Non-GM Editing March 2018

This is a topic that comes up every once in a while. There are a lot of veteran Obsidian Portal users who have been around longer than me, but as someone who's been using this site for years I can attest that players' ability to edit wiki pages isn'…
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in Tags not working - Internal Server Error (500) - Jan 2018 February 2018

I've also encountered the same troubles as joeschmoe998. I can't add or create tags for new pages, and when I go into the edit page only two lines of text display. (If you click the triangular icon in the lower right corner of each text edit window …
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in Merging Cells on Wiki Page January 2018

What Bortas said. I would totally recommend switching to the Textile editor - I use tables in my campaign a LOT!
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in Is this a sinking ship or should I invest time and creativity here? January 2018

I agree with Jaymes. Obsidian Portal has issues, yes, but it's still far and away the best online campaign management site you're going to find today. I've tried to keep my site relatively uncomplicated, especially in light of some of the recurring…
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in accidentally deleted "a new page" for the wiki. How do I get that page back to make more pages? January 2018

Making new pages is simple, and can be done several ways: 1. On the top navigation bar, click the + New button and select Wiki Page. 2. If you're using the Textile editor, put [[ ]] brackets around a word or phrase to make it a clickable wiki li…
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in Medieval Fantasy Legal System December 2017

Something like this?https://ptolus-city-by-the-spire-by-bryan.obsidianportal.com/wikis/the-law
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in Maximum number of players in a campaign? November 2017

Nope. I'm in a private campaign group where there are about 35 players.
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in The first step is to admit you have a problem... November 2017

Highlights of Session 16: Cannibals and Killer Lobsters The halfling warlock does something impetuous. Again. The halfling warlock later caught a faceful of crap. Literally. There was much laughter... until it happened to everyone else too. …
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in Making a Media Library image a link November 2017

Actually, that completely worked. I feel kinda dumb for not figuring it out myself. :-P Thanks @Bortas!
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in The first step is to admit you have a problem... November 2017

Highlights of Session 15: The Eyes Have It: The players all received brand new dice in celebration of this group's one-year anniversary. Yay! A LOT of off-topic BSing happened A floating cloud of eyes. Mos was very disturbed by this. Everybody …
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in Why do some plus signs (+) cause text to underline? November 2017

Yeah, plus signs are the markup tag for underlining. But if the plus sign is stand-alone with a space immediately after, it won't kick off an underline tag. It's a bit of a pain, but not difficult. I've had to adjust a few stat block tables to avoid…
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in The first step is to admit you have a problem... October 2017

We only rolled two skill checks for the entire night's game session, and one of 'em was a Con check to see whether or not Thorzin won the drinking contest. (He did.) Other highlights of last Friday's game: Nethwen's great uncle, the patriarch of h…
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in Getting back to Obsidian Portal from forums? October 2017

That is most assuredly not just a you problem. That's a thing we've all been requesting since OP revamped the forums. Myself, I just keep my OP site in my Favorites list. Or I'll navigate back from the link in somebody's sig line and hop back to my…
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in How to make secrets in the forum September 2017

I don't know of any way to do this in the forums, but in my wiki I use player secrets all the time. It's what convinced me to pay for an Ascendant account, and it's absolutely one of the highlights of Obsidian Portal.
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in How to give players non-write permission? September 2017

This has been a recurring comment by GMs new to Obsidian Portal. Johnprime is correct; players able to edit pages has never (to the best of my knowledge) been a problem. Like he said, getting players to actually contribute to a campaign site is by f…
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in New and looking for wiki help September 2017

CrEditor is a relatively recent addition to Obsidian Portal, and doesn't have as much support from either the site or the community. You'll get lots of assistance from your peers if you go with Textile, though.
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in The first step is to admit you have a problem... September 2017 edited September 2017

It was a cheap, poseable mannequin band that I ordered through Amazon. I just hot glued it to a cheap sawblade I picked up at Menards and spray painted it gloss black. Lesson learned: cheap Krylon paint will chemically react with the soft plastic "s…

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