World Wiki

A West Marches world gets built by several people at once. One GM names the innkeeper, another decides what sleeps in the old mine, and the players remember about half of it. The World Wiki is where it all gets written down, next to your characters and adventures, so everyone reads the same version.

Pages can be hidden from players too, so it doubles as the GMs' notebook. Came here from Settings → Wiki? The settings are further down.

Who can edit?

Editing takes Can edit pages (Settings → Roles & Permissions), and being an admin or the owner doesn't include it. The creation wizard gives it to your GM and Admin roles, so if the Wiki Editor says Access Denied, check your own roles first.

Page types

• ArticleNPCs, places, factions, lore and house rules. A category adds suggested attributes, and at the Heroic tier an icon.
• MapAn image with pins that link to other pages. A pin can be GM only.
• TimelineEvents in order. The date is free text, so "Winter 1432" works as well as a real one.
• Hexcrawl MapA hex map you paint, covered in its own guide.
• FolderGroups pages in the sidebar and has no page of its own.

Where to start? Two articles. One for your house rules, one for the town where every session starts and ends, because those are what new players look for first. A map is worth making once players start asking where things are. Timelines can wait until the world has some history worth putting in order.

Keeping secrets

Every page starts out readable by anyone who can see the wiki, and in a public community that includes people who aren't on your Discord server. The Visibility panel in the editor has four ways to change that.

• DraftHidden from readers until you switch it off.
• GM onlyOnly the Game Masters role can read it, and editors who aren't GMs won't find it in the editor either.
• Allowed rolesOnly members with a role you pick can read it.
• GM notesA second text box that only GMs see.

For a secret about one place or NPC, use GM notes rather than a second GM-only page. One page is easier to keep up to date than two.

How pages link up

Link to another page with the Wiki Page tab of the link button. Rename a page later and the site fixes every link to it. Articles can also have relationships, like "lives in" or "works for", which the Connections page draws as a graph.

Adventures link in too. Anyone writing notes on an adventure can add Related Wiki Pages, and those pages then list the adventure. So the page for the old mine ends up listing every session that went there.

The Wiki settings page

• Wiki Landing PageShown when someone opens the Wiki tab. It has to be a published page outside any folder. A welcome article that links to the house rules and the map works well.
• Adventure RecapsA timeline of the public notes written after each session, and a recaps channel option in Discord Channels.
• Adventure Wiki LinksGMs can attach wiki pages to an adventure. A Patreon feature.
• Character Wiki LinksPlayers can attach pages to their characters, like their home village. Also a Patreon feature.
• Export All PagesEvery published page in one file. GM-only pages are in it too, so keep it away from players. For a real backup, Export Community in Settings → Advanced keeps drafts, GM notes and your folders, and the links between pages still work in Obsidian.

Images and storage

Images come from the Media library in the Wiki Editor. A free community has 10 MB for them, and big map images use that up fast. When a Patreon supporter on the Champion tier chooses your community, it goes up to 200 MB, and Pricing has the other tiers. An image inserted into the text by its URL uses none of it.

Can I get an old version back?

For articles, yes. Every save keeps a copy of the article as it was.

Comparing and restoring those copies is a Patreon feature. It turns on when someone who supports the project on Patreon chooses your community. The copies are saved either way, so if that happens later, the whole history is already there.