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Collaborative worldbuilding app with maps, wikis, and whiteboards

legendkeeper.com

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Creator here! Thanks for the shoutout; I built LegendKeeper to help me with my D&D campaigns and found that having a tool to reason about world knowledge, geography, and relationships was helpful in other domains too, such as fiction writing and game design.

Front page isn't transparent about the pricing after the trial period, or what happens if you let your subscription lapse, could you clarify?

Particularly, what is the data egress policy?

EDIT: Got from my phone to laptop, made pricing clearer: $9/month or $90/year. Still would like to know more about what happens with a sub lapses/if you can get your data out.

Almost there! Just scroll down on the pricing page: https://www.legendkeeper.com/pricing/

Tl;Dr: Disables collaboration and project goes read-only. Reading and exporting always available. Export currently spits out a static site with your articles; I’m still working on a static site that supports maps and diagrams too.

Show HN: LegendKeeper, collaborative maps and notes for game-masters - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30334454 - Feb 2022 (8 comments)

Wonder if you could use this for regular notes and do something interesting with a method of loci

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Method_of_loci)

We had a user upload their med school diagrams as a map and use the pin tool as a study aid. I loved that!

This. I was thinking of drawing humorous Org charts as fantasy worlds.

Humorous, or humungous? Something tells me either could work.

Interesting, is this built on any open source note taking/research tool, or just derived similar features?

Similar features! LK is a smattering of a bunch of libraries and original code. Prosemirror is foundational to the app, and we recently added tldraw for diagramming.

Well it looks very interesting and I've shared it to everyone I know, and a lot of them are very interested in using this. The roadmap also looks very promising.

Thanks darius, I appreciate it!

This looks awesome!

Thanks, Colton!

I don't really understand what this is?

It's a collaborative tool for world building. I can see it being used by game designers and tabletop RPG participants.

It's like Google Maps + Wikipedia, but for fictional places.

There is a surprisingly vibrant community of people who evidently just write a ton about their imaginary worlds, from conlangers to writers to game designers. This type of tool gears towards that niche as a tracking and publishing tool.

A community that has included in the past, for example, JRR Tolkien (and possibly most other fantasy and sci-fi writers).

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