About Nickipedia

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Nickipedia is the unofficial fan wiki for a private fortnightly Dungeons & Dragons campaign run by Nick in the homebrew world of Eldurae. The site documents player characters, NPCs, locations, items, sessions, and combats from session 2 (the first recorded session) onward; session 1 is reconstructed from in-character recap. Nickipedia is built from the campaign group’s own markdown corpus and rebuilt after each fortnightly session.

What this is

Nickipedia is a static Wikipedia-style encyclopaedia for the campaign. The structural model is MediaWiki’s Vector skin (the classic Wikipedia layout); the visual register draws from D&D Beyond’s sourcebook style. The campaign world of Eldurae is the creation of Nick, the campaign’s DM.

The site exists for two reasons:

  • Reference at the table. Player names, NPC histories, encounter logs, the disposition of magic items, and the open-threads list are all cross-linked and citable.
  • Documenting the campaign as it happens. Each session generates a recap article; the recap drives entity-file updates; those updates rebuild the wiki. The fortnightly cadence keeps the corpus close to the current state of the fiction.

What this is not

Nickipedia is unaffiliated with the Wikimedia Foundation, with Wizards of the Coast, and with D&D Beyond. The Vector skin is open-source under GPL-2.0; the Wikipedia name and puzzle-globe logo are trademarks of the Wikimedia Foundation and are not used here. The campaign uses the Dungeons & Dragons 2024 Player’s Handbook published by Wizards of the Coast.

The site is private-feeling but technically public; the corpus does not surface player real names or contact information. Player handles (Chris, Nick, Polar, Mordane, Maliwana, Dylan, Toby) are used with the consent of the people they refer to.

How it’s built

The campaign’s markdown corpus — entity files for every NPC, location, item, quest, mystery, and combat — is the single source of truth. A Python build script walks the corpus, resolves <a href="#" class="redlink" title="Article does not yet exist">wikilinks</a> and inline (sNN LMMM) citations, copies image assets, and writes Hugo content files. Hugo renders the static site; Firebase Hosting serves it.

For the technical detail, see the Credits page.

Conventions

  • Cross-references in body prose appear in red. That’s the D&D Beyond convention for in-fiction proper nouns (creatures, NPCs, spells, places). Bare hyperlinks (chapter cross-refs, citation footnotes) appear in blue.
  • Citations in body text take the form (sNN Lline) and are rendered as superscript footnote markers. The References section at the foot of every article expands them to session-and-line.
  • Quality grades at the top of each article (★ Featured, ◆ A-class, ■ B-class, ● Start, ○ Stub) follow Wikipedia’s article-quality scale.

See also

  • Credits — visual-design attribution and tooling.
  • Campaign bible — the eight-arc structure of the campaign so far.
  • Timeline — per-session chronology.