Alternative to RW

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This is a response to the many forum questions regarding alternatives to RW.

I have been a long time user of articy:draft (now v.3 on Steam) and I used RW, but the latter much less so. I enjoy using RW, I like its complexity. What I don't like is its presentation, which articy:draft has in spades.

articy:draft 3 is expensive as a one off (wait for a discount you are happy with - 50% for me), but it is designed for game developers: from Steam page: "articy:draft is a visual environment for the creation and organization of game and story content - such as branching dialogues or item databases. It unites specialized editors for many areas of content design in one coherent tool. Export into various formats and integrate content easily into Unity."

Want to save to and access from the cloud? I use OneDrive to store the data files, so there is easy access across ALL of my devices. You can use any cloud storage such as Box, Dropbox, Google Drive, ...

There is a 14 day free trial, and you can purchase it outright or subscribe.

I have been using it since version 1, and because it is for game developers, it supports an awesome amount of asset creation for, but not limited to: entities (such as PCs, monsters, items, etc), zones and locations, events, stories, images, maps with links to whatever you want, flow/progression of campaigns, but it is NOT a VTT.

In my experience, articy:draft is useful for a GM/DM to organise/plan, and ultimately run, a RPG game. Currently I am using it for 2 Starfinder games, a D&D4e game, and I am in the process of getting ready for L5R by FFG, PF2, and possibly D&D5e and Star Wars by FFG, maybe ETU, if I ever start these games. Can I create a whole universe/world for campaigns? Sure! Just like RW, expect a heavy data entry process.

There is a learning curve, which is not too bad IMO, but for those of you who, like me, are type A personality, the program has great depth, as you could imagine in the development of the Witcher series of games, or many other CRPGs. I am not saying here that the Witcher series used articy:draft for its development, but that such a complex world system as in the Witcher series can be easily handled by it (CD Project Red is listed in their latest trailer though).

There are lots of videos out there if you want more information/tutorials:

Website: https://www.articy.com/en/

Trailer: https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=plZZQCXePjk

Tutorial series:
First Steps (14 videos) - https://m.youtube.com/playlist?list=...iC023p-PvMBSo4


I hope this helps some of you.
Cheers.