I’m never really sure whether anyone reads them (including the other players), but I take some satisfaction in knowing that long after the campaign finishes, I’ll be able to read back through them and reminisce about all the interested stuff our alter-egos got up to.

I have an account I pay for on Obsidian Portal… I started a wiki about 1 year ago to the day and I didn’t get farther then the main page… and also, I have also been charged for another year… so I guess I might as well use it, but I don’t think the players are going to be sitting on the edges of their seats reading it, since for various reasons… more to do with busy professional life styles and just plain age… I so, wish!… that I had been born a decade late and was provided with a childhood and teenage experience of the web… I am 36 now, and I am starting to feel guilty for not devoting all my time to my retirement and also a professional life style instead of gaming, which I have relatively recently picked back up, and also suprisingly my old buds and new ones have an interest in D&D and games of our youth…

ok, so back to the point, my point is… I think the wikis, recaps and all that will and is extensively more useful to the younger guys and gals since they still depend on it not as a ‘business necessity (web in general)’ but as a place to ‘expouse their creativity’… which for the 30 somethings (not all of course, but the ones I know) is generally using the web in more ‘serious’ ways…

BUT… I think I would like to do something NewbieDM is doing. I have all the tools anyone could ever need for making maps, content, supplemental DM material, etc… thanks to Adobe.com and I am sure they appreciate my patronage.. (they better!) I should start by just making an InDesign document which I add to and make avalable on the net somewhere, where… my players will be able to download it and print it out. Or, I print it out and provide an update each session for them at the beginning, recapping outload in a storytelling narritive manner what happened. I think that will grab them, especially since I have their attention at that moment and not depending on waiting for them to read a wiki online.

But, I am also going to add to that Wiki at Obsidian Portal some information not provided in the recap and also use the forums for each campaign I create on there to keep in touch better, or at least, I guess.. all I can do is push that and hopefully they will catch on to its usefulness.

This is the wiki for our Conan campaign. It has lost some graphics due server problems and it’s not nearly up-to-date but it includes years (both in game time and real time) of adventuring. Earlier stories are written by our GM but later on you have stories from character perspective – mostly told in character and not always reliable.

My characters are Alcemides (dead), Feng Bai (dead), Flavius (dead) and Thothmekri the Stygian.

That way, not only did I get a weekly recap – but I got it from the Point of View of (multiple!) characters, so I could what they were getting vs. what I was giving.

Was a great way to keep everyone on-track, and to make sure I (the GM) was on the same page as my players.

My 4E Campaign is at:

http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/the-darkness-between