08-23-2020, 05:30 PM | #1 |
Join Date: Jul 2007
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Where to blog for my campaign?
I was gassing on elsewhere about the early era Centrum Light campaign I am slowly organizing, and someone asked me where the blog for it was. There isn't a blog, or much of anything outside my head except maybe a scattering of posts here. I'd be running this on an online platform.
What is the best way to do this sort of thing? I mean post the rules, setting details, my desires and intentions for the game. What do people recommend? Is a blog a good way to do this? Which platforms are better or worse? I had a livejournal account years and years ago, but abandoned it when they changed the ToS in nasty ways, or so I heard.
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08-24-2020, 05:12 AM | #2 |
Night Watchman
Join Date: Oct 2010
Location: Cambridge, UK
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Re: Where to blog for my campaign?
The ToS are now in Russian, which is why I mostly abandoned LJ. Dreamwidth is technically similar, and is run by the people who originally set up LJ.
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08-24-2020, 06:03 AM | #3 |
Hero of Democracy
Join Date: Mar 2012
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Re: Where to blog for my campaign?
I use blogspot to show things to the world, but google docs to track documents for my players. Blogspot looks nicer, but google docs is easier to edit and create.
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08-24-2020, 08:02 AM | #4 |
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Location: near London, UK
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Re: Where to blog for my campaign?
If you want to make individual posts talking about what's going on, blogspot/blogger or wordpress. (This gives you relatively easy-to-use post creation tools and reasonable commenting.) Dreamwidth is harder to work with as a commenter (no rss feeds for example; that's an incentive for people to sign up with Dreamwidth).
If you want to put up information for the players, Google Docs or (paid) Obsidian Portal which gives you a campaign wiki and such like.
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08-26-2020, 06:46 AM | #5 | ||
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Re: Where to blog for my campaign?
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08-26-2020, 07:39 AM | #6 |
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Location: near London, UK
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Re: Where to blog for my campaign?
Yes, but as I apparently failed to make clear, Dreamwidth doesn't give you RSS feeds of the comments on a journal - unlike blogger and wordpress.
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08-26-2020, 04:03 PM | #7 | |
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Location: Central Europe
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Re: Where to blog for my campaign?
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Most of the 'free' services should be stable for the couple of years that a RPG campaign site needs to be up, but you never know. Some of the free blogging platforms have stopped being readable without lots and lots of third-party scripts enabled.
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09-02-2020, 07:09 AM | #8 |
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Re: Where to blog for my campaign?
Thank you to everyone for their suggestions.
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