Hi,
I was just curious about some of my fellow GM's processes for campaign creation. Specifically, when creating your worlds/settings, do you create directly into Obsidian Portal, using it as your primary medium? Or do you do your work offline in Word/Excel/etc. and recreate it in OP? Or some hybrid of the two?
For myself, I've been creating directly into OP. It may not be the wisest choice from a tech standpoint, but I find I'm not doing the work twice and I find the medium conducive to my creative process.
How about you?
--The Geek
--The Geek
Current Campaigns:
Shadows of the Rift : Homebrew Pathfinder Campaign (Campaign of the Month, September 2018)
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Depends.
If I am doing wiki/adventure log updates or CSS/HTML updates
For CSS/HTML updates I want to be online online and on a computer (as opposed to a tablet)
For wiki/adventure log updates I tend to write it up offline and then copy and paste. I don't feel I'm doing the work twice since copy and pasting takes no time. Plus if I do it offline, I don't have to worry about my players updating a wiki/adventure log while I'm updating it.
They are among us!
XCom: Defiance - Campaign of the Month November 2016
How I work depends completely on what I am working on. For instance, if I'm working on a DST, then I do the majority of it offline, using the developers kit, then I tweak it on OP till I get the look I want. I've never been able to have the offline version match successfully once I move to OP.
For adventure logs, I write notes during the game, which quite often are detailed enough that all I have to do it type it up and post it in my adventure log. Also when I'm brainstorming, I will type things up in either Word or Evernote and then transfer to OP.
For characters, I'm usually typing their information into the DST as I build the character.
Johnprime
Where the west is really wild!
The Valley of Life
It could conceivably come back to bite me in the ass, but I do all of my prep here on OP. My laptop is now an integral part of my GM screen at the table. Essentially everything for the entire campaign is on here.
Now you've got me sweatin' what would happen if the site up and vanished...
Ptolus, City by the Spire - 2016 Campaign of the Year
"Please pay attention very carefully, because this is the truest thing a stranger will ever say to you: In the face of such hopelessness as our eventual, unavoidable death, there is little sense in not at least TRYING to accomplish all your wildest dreams in life." - - Kevin Smith
I also use my laptop extensively when running or playing at the table UselessTriviaMan!
I started using it because one of the players was Skyping in to play and I had bought a small web cam a few years back to use on my desktop computer. I have a mini tripod that I attach it to so I can pan around the gaming table.
Now that I have my gaming room back, my plan is to build a really nice gaming table and include a desktop PC right at the table. Integrated into the face of the table will be a flat screen TV. One of the cheaper ones, but I've watched a YouTube video of a RPGer who built his own table also incorporating the TV and I really liked his design!
Johnprime
Where the west is really wild!
The Valley of Life
I do world building online, adventure creating offline, and often handwritten.
-bort
Campaign of the Year - 2018
I use a separate wordpress site, different from Rebuilt, for planning, as the site does not have GM only capabilities (yes, I miss that on OP, but at least everything works on Wordpress).
Just trying to help out.
I do most of my GM work online for my Emerald City: Requiem and Star Wars games. It is just easier as all the information I need is at my fingertips.
November 2012 CotM: Dresden Files RPG: The Emerald City
June 2016 CotM: Star Wars: Rise of the Infinite Empire
JUNE 2020 CotM & 2020 CotY: Mass Effect Accelerated
FEBRUARY 2022 CotM & 2022 CotY: Dresden Files Accelerated: Emerald City-Requiem
Current Campaigns: Traveller Osmium Buccaneers: Pirates of Drinax, Cyberpunk 2077 Accelerated
My work on Shadows and my other campaigns is all done ONSITE. Easier for me
Cool...thank you, everyone for your insights!
--The Geek
Current Campaigns:
Shadows of the Rift : Homebrew Pathfinder Campaign (Campaign of the Month, September 2018)
The Dresden Files: Portland
Deadlands: Riders on the Storm
Velvet & Steel : 7th Sea 2nd Edition
As a GM, I use a tiddlywiki for content creation. The player information gets copied to my OP sites. As a player, when I'm journaling for another game, I tend to write in notepad++ and then rewrite it for posting to OP.
Signs & Portends, Dwarves of Lost Koldukar, In a certain realm
Ketherian, when I write a journal for another game, I usually jot down notes on paper and usually then re-write it either in something like Word or straight into the site. Mostly what I've been doing for my adventure logs on my Weird West campaign have been straight from my notes into the adventure log section right here on OP.
Johnprime
Where the west is really wild!
The Valley of Life