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A good site for hosting your games information?

I know this isn't too Roll20 related. Or at least it is in part. I find forum management and maintaince fairly difficult to manage on Roll20. I orginally had used Obisidan Portal and it was great! However not having a public join link proved to be a huge hassle. Does anyone know a site or software at least akin to Obisidian Portal and its likes? I tried google etc to no avail.
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Gold
Forum Champion
<a href="http://www.epicwords.com/" rel="nofollow">http://www.epicwords.com/</a> is another site kind of like <a href="https://www.obsidianportal.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.obsidianportal.com/</a> for advanced campaign management features, though you could probably find a way to store much of the same information in Roll20, there are more features for organizing the info on those kind of sites. Also a lot of gamers use the program & app & website called Evernote instead. It's not oriented to RPG but is made for storing & organizing all kinds of information, and works across many kinds of devices (tablet, phone, computer). <a href="https://evernote.com/" rel="nofollow">https://evernote.com/</a> Others integrate a variety of tools depending on the task. You can get a free blog on Blogger or WordPress or Tumblr. You can get a free Wiki set up. Google Docs stores documents (good if your group already uses Google Hangouts for Roll20). Google also has a shared calendaring ability. Dropbox is another for document sharing.
Ah thank you Gold! I will look into those. :3
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The Aaron
Roll20 Production Team
API Scripter
Great list! Also, the Update of Holding hints that it might contain some of the functionality you're looking for once it comes out in January...
Realm Works , as campaign management goes this is quite good. They recently release a player edition which if your players own it they could check in on the campaign, any notes you added etc. They are also looking at creating web based version which will be free. If your not apposed to spending some money I would highly recomend this software, there is a lot to it but it is fairly easy to work with once you get the hang of it.
I looked at Realm works but until there is a web based version for a player to see, I don't feel like it would fit my needs quite yet. :0
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plexsoup
Marketplace Creator
Sheet Author
API Scripter
This may only be tangentially related, but just in case you didn't already know, you can use wiki-style links between handouts in your campaign here on roll20. Inside any handout, just put the name of another handout or character in square brackets. With that, it's pretty easy to make a Table of Contents handout, which links to NPCs, Locations, Characters, etc, which all link to more specific pages. eg: [NPCs]
Ah yes I did know about it! The issue is more to do with how I have set up an online group. It needs to be possible to connect information across campaigns as well. Which Roll20 does not support yet :)
As Plexsoup said, Roll 20 is a good place to host your group's information. Make a splash page for players to land on when the game is not in session. Your players have access 24/7 to everything in their permissions, handouts, overview maps... Copying and pasting between multiple sites invites errors and "version creep", you post a first draft of something to your other site then updates don't make it to players in a timely manner and you sort of create a "Fog of W.T.F." situation for your players and possibly yourself. Use the Transmogrifier to move packets of information across games, or give cross access [acess to Devs.] to campaigns. Every time you move something there is a chance that it will get broken.