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Proudly showcase your D&D / RPG campaign for all the world to see! Remember, the story is the game.

Obsidian Portal allows you to create campaign websites for Dungeons & Dragons and other tabletop role-playing games. Rather than trying to automate the playing of the game, Obsidian Portal provides tools to help facilitate the storytelling. Every campaign gets a shared blog/wiki to showcase their story, as well as integrated tools to help track NPCs, locations, treasure, and all the other minutae that makes up an RPG.

Updates galore

April 18, 2008 04:06

There have been numerous updates over the past two weeks, we just never got around to mentioning them in the news until now.

First and foremost are the “Latest Updates” displays you’ll see everywhere. We now track and display much of the activity going on for the site. We’re still tweaking to find the right mixture of updates. Most of the updates have associated RSS feeds, and eventually they all will. Now, it’s very easy to keep track of what’s going on with your friends and your favorite campaigns.

Second, we’ve added a WYSIWYG editor to many of the fields (like wiki and adventure log entries) that has nice formatting controls (buttons and such) to help you make everything look clean and neat. Edit your profile and select the WYSIWYG editor box. WARNING!! This should be a campaign-wide decision since it works terribly if some of your players use it and some don’t. Read more in the forums.

Third, we’ve added campaign-wide comments. Often, you want to discuss the campaign as a whole, rather than a particular adventure log entry. Now, simply click on the comments tab, and speak your mind. We’re looking for a better way to integrate this, but we wanted to get it rolled out ASAP.

Fourth, we’ve added a special tag you can insert into your Adventure Log posts to make them automatically shrink to a teaser for the main blog view, with a link to the full post. Learn how to do it from the forum post.

Fifth, we’ve updated the search engine so hopefully the search will run much faster and have better search results.

Sixth, we’ve updated the layout for your friends page to be a little cleaner (profile layout updates coming soon).

Finally, for all the techies, we have started supporting microformats, specifically hCard and XFN. For the non-techies, don’t worry about it too much. At this stage, it’s mostly just a neat toy to play with.

Also, in an effort to keep the Obsidian Portal community connected even more we’ve created both a Facebook Group as well as a MySpace Profile. They’re pretty basic right now, but will be getting major updates of the next couple of weeks.

There are a lot of great campaigns out there, so keep the updates coming. Oh,and don’t forget to link to your campaign from your other sites (and forum sigs)!