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What is ObsidianPortal?
Obsidian Portal allows you to create Dungeons and Dragons campaign websites 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. Check out this video for more details.
Finding a Game Has Never Been Easier
June 26, 2009 15:45
Obsidian Portal has teamed up with Pen & Paper Games, the premier player matching site for tabletop RPGs to provide the ultimate in player matching!
This partnership, termed The Lonely Gamer Network, means that participating Obsidian Portal campaigns are now part of the Pen & Paper Games search results, and likewise, Pen & Paper Games searching is available directly from inside Obsidian Portal. For gamers searching for each other, the pool of prospects just got a lot bigger.
To make sure your campaigns are included, there are a few simple steps to follow. All settings are availble on the Edit Settings screen for your campaigns.
- Your campaign must be set to Public
- Your campaign must be set to Looking for Players
- Your campaign must be set to Publish
If you follow those 3 steps for each of your campaigns, then your campaign will be included in the P&PG search results, and you’ll have new players contacting you in no time!
But wait, there’s more! Obsidian Portal has also made it possible for GMs to instantly search for prospective players on Pen & Paper Games. At the bottom of the Manage Members screen you’ll find a button to Find Me Some Players Clicking here will bring up a map of your area showing all the lonely gamers who need a game to play in.
If your game needs another player or two, or you just need to find another group period, it’s never been easier.Featured Campaign
Chronicles of the Amber Wolfe
Ah, the Star Wars Universe. When we think in terms of the abuses suffered by a popular fandom, there has never been a more wretched hive of scum and villainy. Sometimes these abuses leave the fan-base reeling and forever tarnish the brand. We’re looking at you, Star Wars Christmas Special. But this oft-maligned franchise still retains fragments of its former greatness. Like beacons of light on a sea of black. The Chronicles of the Amber Wolfe is one such point of light. And it can only be found here at Obsidian Portal.
From the campaign home page you can all but hear the fanfare and see the yellow text scroll up to some impossible horizon. What’s that? You can’t? Fret not friends, as GM Palandar is a step ahead of you and put the crawl on YouTube.
It’s clear that lots of effort, lots of love, and many Bothan lives went into the making of this great campaign. Half encoded messages and film-noir-esque narratives give a refreshing and gritty realism to the events of Palandar’s vision of the Star Wars Universe. The wiki alone goes on for pages and pages on everything from locations, to alternate timelines, to cunningly implemented house rules. Hundreds of playable races anyone? It’s all there.
If you haven’t given the Star Wars Roleplaying Game: Saga Edition a chance then grab a handful of friends, some dice, and start reading the Chronicles of the Amber Wolfe. Palandar is a great example of the many GMs here at Obsidian Portal who’ve gone above and beyond the call of duty for their games. His efforts represent a new hope in the roleplaying arm of the Star Wars Universe.
For tireless devotion to a great campaign, Palandar gets a free 6-month Ascendant Membership! We can’t wait to see some more scrolling yellow text! A big thanks to Autumnschild for helping us find and showcase this great campaign!
