State of the Wiki (2025)
Since I took over as of this wiki in 2018, it has grown from 783 pages to 4,808 pages. Unfortunately, I haven't had as much free time to work on the project as I would like, and not enough volunteers have signed on to fulfil the massive scope of the project. By a quick count, there have been 1,343 D&D sourcebooks, and this wiki covers not only every book, but every rules element within them.
First, a summary of the wiki's achivements to date:
- At 4,808 pages, this wiki is now the largest D&D canon wiki, aside from the D&D 4e Wiki (8,478) and three of the setting-specific wikis: Forgotten Realms Wiki (59,012), the Dragonlance Wiki (9,880), and Mistipedia, the Ravenloft wiki (12,536).
- Category:Lists features excellent complete or nearly complete…
Dragon/Dungeon magazine articles added
This August, the wiki has been expanded with several notable additions.
Using readily-available indices and some rudimentary programming, articles have now been created for nearly every issue of Dragon, Dungeon, and Strategic Review, including both print releases and the D&D Insider digital issues. Dragon #1-359 feature a content index thanks to data imported from the DragonDex, and all Dungeon articles likewise from the indices provided in Dungeon issues #200 and #212, including the Dungeoncraft articles originally missing from those indices.
A Dungeon Magazine complete index has been added, which should now be the most complete index of the magazine ever produced. The helpful Category:Lists has also gained List of Dungeons & Dragons 3rd edition flaw…
Dungeon Masters Guild Adamantine sellers
I decided to check which D&D books reached Adamantine seller rank, the top rating at the Dungeon Masters Guild website. As of May 2024, twenty-seven first-party, pre-5e D&D books hold the rank of Adamantine seller:
- Basic: Basic Set (B/X) (1981), Expert Set (B/X) (1981), Rules Cyclopedia (1991), B1 In Search of the Unknown (1979), B2 The Keep on the Borderlands (1981), B4 The Lost City (1982), B10 Night's Dark Terror (1986), GAZ1 The Grand Duchy of Karameikos (1987)
- AD&D 1e: Players Handbook (1e) (1978), Dungeon Masters Guide (1e) (1979), Monster Manual (1e) (1977), Fiend Folio (1e) (1981), G1-3 Against the Giants (1981), I6 Ravenloft (1e) (1983), N1 Against the Cult of the Reptile God (1982), T1 The Village of Hommlet (1979), T1-4 The Temple of …
Why Wikia/Fandom?
In May 2018 I adopted this wiki after a hiatus by the original founder, who created it in 2010. My goal had long been to establish a wiki encyclopedia of D&D lore, and using this existing wiki seemed like a strong way to establish it.
At some point, future users may question the decision to build this wiki on the Fandom platform, formerly known as Wikia. While the platform has some noted disadvantages, I hope to explain in this article the advantages, and why I believe it is the best platform to grow the wiki going forward.
In the past, several high-profile gaming wikis have left Wikia/Fandom over various disputes. In 2010, NetHackWiki and Dungeons and Dragons Wiki left over a new page layout.[1][2] The Nintendo Independent Wiki Alliance was…
Purpose
This wiki was established on February 28, 2010, as a general encyclopedia of Dungeons & Dragons canon, lore, and history. In the past year the number of articles has increased by 38%, and this week it reached 1,500 articles.
- 1 Why this wiki?
- 2 A short history of D&D wikis
- 2.1 Establishment
- 2.2 Era of change
- 3 The current situation
- 4 Encyclopedia vs homebrew
- 5 This site's purpose
There are currently several larger English-language Dungeons & Dragons wikis online, but all have one of two limits that restrict its usefulness as a general D&D encyclopedia:
- They are limited to a single campaign setting, or
- They allow homebrew (fan-made game rules), and consist primarily of homebrew and other non-encyclopedic content, making accurate encyclopedic information difficult …