Do you use an online campaign manager? If so, which? I only know of Kanka so far, and am pretty happy with it. Edit to add: Obviously there are self-hosted wikis and other sites you could use, but this is the only purpose-built one I’ve used.
I use Kanka myself. I really enjoy it and love that it does what I need for free. I used to support it with a subscription when I had an active campaign going, but now that it’s been dormant, I stopped. That said, I like that it’s not necessary to do so to get a great tool for campaign building/management.
Other than that and WorldAnvil, the other big tool I’ve heard people use is a OneNote file. Not entirely sure how that works, but it’s an interesting (and offline) way to do it.
@Gradually_Adjusting I started out using Nuclino as a combined wiki and project management tool, but the free plan became too small.
Now I use offline Markdown notes (Zettlr or Gedit), publishing to a personal “wiki” (Docusaurus). For rough drafts I use my ReMarkable.
However, I’m not much of a GM yet – I’ve done some worldbuilding but only run one one-shot so far. I’m preparing for a full campaign this year, so I’ll make sure to check out Kanka and other recommendations in this discussion!
I use notion personally. I created a template to track everything under the sun and it works well, and whenever I find something that doesn’t work I can just tweak it.
I use notion a lot for work and journaling, but seeing your template is a real eye opener. I’m blown away. How did you learn all this?
Thank you! I’m a systems analyst/developer, so I do similar things for work. That gave me a lot of the backbone to get the data architecture in place. Other than that, just a lot of trial and error to see what works.
It helps that I use it myself, too. Whenever I find something that feels clunky or out of place, I mess around with it in my personal version until it works, then port it to the public version.
That’s just so goddamn boss. Thanks for building this!
