Obsidian – 2024 Intro for TTRPG and Worldbuilders
If you are looking for a TTRPG Campaign Manager that is free, a local install and packed with TTRPG features then Obsidian.md is an absolutely amazing beast of a program.
Let me give you a quick tour of it’s features that you could be using to improve the management of your games.
If you would like to know where to start and what plugins I’m using, then I have a website dedicated to helping new users out:
https://obsidianttrpgtutorials.com/
Get Obsidian – https://obsidian.md/
Support Me and get access to the Foundation Vault! – https://www.patreon.com/JPlunkett
00:00 Intro
00:44 What is Obsidian.md
02:06 Demo of Obsidian.md
03:15 Home Page with Dataview Tables
04:14 Map Support
04:33 Automatic Travel Time Calculation
05:07 Mind Mapping
05:45 Adventure Modules
06:22 Statblocks
07:00 Combat Management
07:57 Link Icons
08:35 Character Sheets
09:36 Templates
10:41 Add Images
11:08 Auto Populating Tables
11:20 DM Screens
11:40 Automatic Linking
12:17 More Templates
13:40 AI Support (optional)
15:15 Graph View
16:48 PDF Support
17:08 Just Folders and Files
18:41 Publish Your Notes
19:55 Table Support Is Now Great
20:44 Canvas Support Now Available
21:26 Roadmap what is Dynamic Views?
22:01 Input Fields (Calculators)
24:04 Start Your Journey
by Josh Plunkett
linux foundation
Thanks for this great overview video.
I use Obisian since 2-3 Months now for my personal notes. As i see there are a lot of Plugins for TTRPG and its quite overwelming.
All videos are great, but in my opinion they all loose "cogwheels" on the Table. I think whats missing is the "assambly" of all the Videos into a working "clockwork"
Here my video idea:
Take a well known (and free available) DnD Adventure (Lost mines of phandelpher, or stormwrack isle, etc.) and set that up in Obsidian.
Install, get the Plugins, set up the Maps and the NPC's, prepair the encoutners and stuff. So all your brilliant vidoes comes to a working "clockwork"
Very informative video, even for a long time user! Could you share how you got AI to work in Obsidian or did I missed something in the video?
I never had the idea to move my modules into obisidan. Copy/Pasting from DNDBeyond seemingly "just works" and in just a couple minutes I was able to copy each chapter of a campaign into a series of obsidian pages. It's not perfect but pictures, tables, bullet points all come over great without a hassle! Brilliant!
I just got into Obsidian today. This video shows what amazing potential this tool has for creating workflows. Great showcase!
Need to figure out how to import my Traveller campaign into this.
Josh, I wonder if you could do a step by step tutorial series of videos, building on this video, or perhaps which of the videos you have already posted should be seen in what order. i like Obsidian, but am so confused by all the videos and have no idea what order to watch them. What I would really like is a list of the different commands eg how to make something bold, or italic, or a link, and all the other types of things, eg zoom etc. I wonder if you could go slowly over an example campaign put into Obsidian.
And I have just joined your Patreon and Discord.
The best tutorial about Obsidian`s features that i`ve ever seen ( though I don't even play TTRPG 🙂)
I think this video deserves to be found on the homepage of Obsidian md
A big thanks for you videos. I am currently transferring all my notes to obisidan and your videos are perfect! 🙌
I thought that my graphic view looks big, but compared to yours… My whole world is just one cluster of yours ^^
Your depth is astonishing. For how long do play in this ttrpg world?
Glad this is out! I already watched your many videos on the subject, but having all those topics condensed in a single video is a godsend. Especially since I'm just now preparing to launch a new rpg campaign with my group.