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You're looking for Obsidian Portal. Obsidian Portal is specifically designed to allow tabletop RPG groups to build their own internal wikis. The privacy options are apparently undergoing an upgrade right now, but if nothing else you can set the whole campaign as private, so that nothing is viewable to anyone except people you invite.

One of the things I do is to keep track of generic professorial skills and a real world descriptive of how skilful said NPC is in that skill. The skill could be such as soldier, cleric, terrorist, spy, mathematician. The descriptives can range from poor to legendary. If during game play you need to add more skills, or refine one of them then a quick note ...

It's not exactly a wiki, but we've used Google Docs to similar effect. I'm not 100% sure how we pulled it off, but I think we had a wiki earlier and actually migrated its data into Google docs. That particular group was all programmers, so someone could have done something fancy or someone could have had a copy/paste-fest while watching TV. From our POV ...

Doku Wiki Open source wiki project that has built-in user access control. This option requires that you have server space. All content is stored in text files instead of a database. https://www.dokuwiki.org/dokuwiki Page creation is very intuitive, and the resulting layout is very simple/minimal.

We have a large group so we've grappled with this as well. And it gets worse as you level and options begin opening up with new spells and feats coming into play. We've done two things that can help. First, I'm a fan of Paizo's Condition Cards. Whenever I'm hit with a condition, I take the time to dig out the card. Beyond just having the rules handy so I ...

TiddlySpace TiddlySpace.com provides hosting for “TiddlyWikis” which are basically Wikis that are entirely in one page. I’m not super-familiar with the format, but I gather that it is pretty popular for organizing information – which is perfect for you. Google Sites: Project Wiki By going to Google Sites and clicking Create, you ...

There are a few things I found really quick on the internet (also, Google is your friend): For up to 5 users, you can use Wikidot for a free private wiki (though hosting files on it, i.e. images, can be sort of iffy, you get a rather small allowance of space if I recall correctly). Everyone would need to have an account on the site, but to really ensure ...

Epic Words is tailored to this function for your campaign, but has many features otherwise. It is a freemium service, i.e you get certain functionality for free (which seems like it would cover your needs), but you can pay for more features. From the about page: Free Accounts will have access to all of Epic Words original tools including: blogs, ...

Skydrive Skydrive works like Google Drive, but interfaces perfectly with Microsoft office suite and doesn't require a login to edit (you can simply share with view and edit rights by email address or by URL link). Also try WikiMatrix for Wiki comparisons: http://www.wikimatrix.org/

One option I've seen work well at conventions, where people know each others character abilities far less well than in a home game, it to use Buff Tents: As with Name tents you can put all of the information other players need on the card, leave the card flat with your character sheet when it isn't relevant, and prop it up in front of you when it is. For ...

We play primarily on MapTools, so this is probably less useful if you don’t use the grid much. However, something a lot of heavy buffers use is special tokens (usually flags and the like) off to the side, which are put into play whenever a given buff (Inspire Courage, haste, whatever) is currently active on the party. Because they’re on the map, ...

For a similar problem I went with a simple NPC generator I wrote for my PC, and had it print out simplified character sheet with scores and a couple of randomly generated traits, like odd hobby, or knowledge of a foreign language and so on. I also added a sort of "personality traits" list inspired by Pendragon, so I could roll for how much thrifty or ...

Wordpress I don't really know why people use things other than wordpress.com for campaign sites. It's a blog, sure, but you can also do pages with WYSIWYG editing, making it better than most wikis. Check out the campaign site for our latest campaign on my Wordpress blog. We've done this for like nine long term campaigns and it works great (combined with ...