When I was running a Labyrinth Lord game for the neighborhood kids, it was a good way to share session summaries & prod them to write. (Homeschool parent, can't miss a chance to encourage the kids to write.) It was also a good place to keep canonical records of XP and GP. We tried using it to track who they knew & what they commonly knew, but the game only ran 7 sessions, so it didn't get particularly political - this was B2.

Quote from: Naburimannu;687020When I was running a Labyrinth Lord game for the neighborhood kids, it was a good way to share session summaries & prod them to write. (Homeschool parent, can't miss a chance to encourage the kids to write.) It was also a good place to keep canonical records of XP and GP. We tried using it to track who they knew & what they commonly knew, but the game only ran 7 sessions, so it didn't get particularly political - this was B2.

Homeschooling parent here, too! I hadn't thought of that, but as my daughter gets more into gaming, that might be a good reason to set aside some space on there for that.

I wonder if there is a disproportionate representation of homeschooling families among gamers.

I use Obsidian Portal.  I'm cheap, so I only use the free version, but I've found it really handy.  

Happily, my players seem to actually quite like it (except one, who despite much prodding refuses to sign up for it, although he's never said why).

Also, because my long term campaign is run over the internet, usign a chatroom, and using my own rules, it makes a convenient place to post all of my rules as well (since the wiki site I was using drowned under a flood of spam).  I type up play sessions, and send them the link to the last one at the starts of each session.  (Which reminds me...)

Links to both my campaign and my rules are in my sig.

Quote from: RPGPundit;687383I wonder if there is a disproportionate representation of homeschooling families among gamers.

I've certainly met my share, but am not sure. In my part of the country, homeschooling (and homeschool co-ops) aren't super-rare, though not precisely common, either.

I tried the free version but didn't like it. Nowadays I use Blogger, which is excellent for my needs, especially that I can throw stuff up without need for sorting/ordering. Recently even used the Post Comments for PBP!

Don't use it. The ones who run it are out for money, not facilitating good rpg gamers, and they don't give a damn about solving problems on it even if your paying money for it (I speak from personal experience). At face value its a nice site, but once you start using it in depth, you'll find its not worth the cost they try to run people for, and the free version doesn't allow use of it in any manner you couldn't achieve with some PHP or Google Docs. My advice: Find a free alternative; save your money for something deserving.

I used for a bit but I grew disastified.

1) The calendar function has no way to create repeat events. Vital to a regular group. Serious misstep here.
2) Making custom character sheets requires some programming and submission/approval. It's not impossible, but it's finicky. Also, I'm a programmer. I have no idea how non-programers navigate this.
3) The markup language has parans and brackets reserved, and I find working in OP's markup a pain in the ass.

I moved all my groups organization to Facebook. I have hosting via Siteground, so I'm putting together a setting brief via my site (I'm publishing this setting, so the work will serve double duty). I'm also looking at supporting Realm Works with my setting in that Market Place (If I can get in...).

Obsidian Portal sounds like the title of a bad fantasy novel. I've never tried it but I read some of Black Vulmea's Le Ballet de l'Acier on there. I found navigation to be user-unfriendly, but I don't know if Le Ballet de l'Acier uses the default settings or what or if that was just because I'm trying to read it rather than compose on it.

Quote from: estar;686550I use the Keep myself and while it is $$$ program it can be kept on a USB thumb drive.

The Keep actually looks really good. It seems much easier to use than Realm Works. With the integration to the character sheet creator and the inspiration pad pro, a nice bargain at $35. I wonder if I can hack together an HTML calendar plugin...  At that rate it would replace my Realm Works (I keep dreading trying to learn it...). Also, you can share stuff on a 2nd screen!

Quote from: Dumarest;966966I found navigation to be user-unfriendly . . .

In what ways?

Quote from: Dumarest;966966. . . I don't know if Le Ballet de l'Acier uses the default settings or what . . .

It does, and a long line of half-interested developers have ratfucked my wiki six ways from Sunday, which is why I stopped updating it.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;972334In what ways?

I just tried to visit it so I could give you the exact reasons I said that, but now it seems to not work at all and a bunch of the images are down as well.

Quote from: Dumarest;972341. . . a bunch of the images are down as well.

Photobucket's terms of service, updated just two days ago, do not allow 3rd party hosting without paying Photobucket four hundred bucks a year for the privilege.

Fuck those fucking fuckers.

Quote from: Black Vulmea;972378Fuck those fucking fuckers.

"Don't mince words, Bones. What do you really think?"

Still nope.