Fandom vs RPG Story Toolkit
Fandom
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| Figure | Fandom | RPG Story Toolkit |
|---|---|---|
| Price from | Free | $5/mo |
| Free plan | Yes | Yes |
| Free trial | — | — |
| Open source | — | — |
| Web | Yes | Yes |
| macOS | — | Yes |
| iOS | Yes | — |
| Android | Yes | — |
| Plans published | 1 | 3 |
| Spec score · Game Wiki Software | 8.0 (#5) | 7.8 (#8) |
| Audience | Fandom says it serves 350 million people worldwide and its communities cover fandoms in 80 languages across 200 countries. | The toolkit is presented for game developers, game masters, writers, and worldbuilders. |
| Support | Fandom directs users to submit support tickets, which are routed to the appropriate team, including Customer Support, Community Managers, Trust & Safety, or Community Operations. | The site provides a Google Forms support link. |
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In their own words
Fandom
Fandom is a free platform for creating and exploring public fan wikis about games, entertainment, and culture. Communities document stories, characters, lore, and other topics, and any logged-in user with a confirmed email can create a wiki through the creation form. Hosting costs nothing plan and has no limit to wiki size, with role permissions, revision history, media uploads, and API access. UCP wikis support mobile editing through a visual editor or source mode. Discussions, article comments, message walls, and blogs provide community features that administrators can switch in some cases. Extensions including DPL, Loops, Variables, Gadgets, and Arrays are available on request; SMW cannot be enabled because of performance concerns. UCP lacks live chat and wiki-style polls, although Discussions includes polls. Wikis remain publicly viewable. Fandom says its communities span 80 languages across 200 countries and serve 350 million people worldwide.
RPG Story Toolkit
RPG Story Toolkit is a workspace for writing stories, organizing world data, building timelines and maps, publishing a wiki, and exporting material for games. Its rich-text editor links mentions to database records, and those links update when a record is renamed. Users can define tables and fields for characters, items, locations, calendars, and other records. Timelines can be ordered or shown in a Gantt-style view; maps accept uploads, pins, and drawn regions.
The web app publishes documents and records as a browsable wiki at its own address, republishing project updates. Exports include JSON, CSV, TSV, Markdown, plain text, DOCX, and ZIP. The Mac desktop app stores projects as Markdown, JSON, and asset files and works offline. Automatic desktop-to-web sync requires Pro. Web Free is $0 and includes one project, up to three documents and image uploads, public wiki publishing, and export. Desktop is free; Pro is $5 a month. Browser and Mac desktop versions are available; the Windows desktop app is marked as coming soon. The project links to its code on GitHub and says users can inspect and modify it.