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Managing a large campaign (ttrpg.network)

submitted 1 year ago by KoboldOfArtifice@ttrpg.network to c/askgamemasters@ttrpg.network

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I have been running a DnD campaign which is only getting longer and more complex as time goes on. Keeping track of every bit of lore, every NPC that is relevant to the party and major events that have happened is getting increasingly difficult. I am currently mostly trying to just keep everything in mind while taking notes here and there, but I am finding linear text documents to be hard to maintain and look through.

The thing that has made me especially interested in better tools is that I have been planning to do a homebrew campaign once this one has wrapped up and I would like to start planning it out.

What tools do you use to document info on worldbuilding, story and lore?

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[–] tissek@ttrpg.network 2 points 1 year ago

I have used kanka.io for a while now and I'm satisfied with it. While I would prefer to self-host a solution or have an automatic offline backup and editor/viewer I cannot be that bothered. There are wikis that would allow me to do that but then I would have to set up and all that. Used a wiki before migrating to kanka.io and it was kind of a pain to set up, use and update.

While finding something better than my wiki I tested a few other services but found them coming with too much bloat. Mind you this was several years ago and they may be more modular now. That was what made me settle on kanka.io, its modularity. I also feel it is leaning more into worldbuilding than campaign management.

A bonus is that private pages are available in the free package so you can just share the whole campaign with your players and they can only see what you want them to see.