Campaign Management Tools
RPG-focused campaign managers
RPG-focused campaign managers
- Highly customizable. Publish "articles" for your information. Tags and cross-referencing is easy.
- Includes a Digital Story Teller Screen for use during sessions.
- Mixes spreadsheet sortability with wiki-esque entry editing. Great for keeping track of locations, NPCs, lore, and much more.
- Currently accessible only to Patreon patrons, LK is an up-and-coming powerhouse campaign management tool.
- Your campaign gains a website, and you edit it as a website. A bit finicky, but allows lots of customization.
- Powerful application for fast-and-furious note-taking with on-the-fly tagging of characters, items, locations, and more. Allows you to cross-reference your notes as you're writing them.
- Campaign journal, as well as entries for PCs, NPCs, monsters, locations, and items.
- Contains some rules references, and handles automation of character sheet info. Can also store campaign notes.
- Amazing for populating your world with NPCs. Provides a powerful Relationships tool to help you keep track.
- Make a wiki for your campaign info. Player Characters can roleplay using text on a private channel.
- DM worldbuilding tools as well as Player inventory tracking. Includes a handy group chat. Neat shop mechanic - DM can populate a shop with items, and the players can buy items, automatically modifying their inventories.
City of Brass - Free or $5/mo
City of Brass - Free or $5/mo
- Very clean wiki-esque content creation tool.
- WYSIWYG editor. Information is stored on pages that you can link to and share.
RealmWorks - $49.99
RealmWorks - $49.99
- It's an older software, but it checks out!
Note-taking and organization Tools
Note-taking and organization Tools
- Combines the functionality of GDocs, Evernote, GitHubWiki, Trello/Jira, and Airtable/GSheets.
- Here's an example setup template you can use.
- Sly Flourish's thoughts on using Notion, with his own template
- Locally-hosted markdown files displayed nicely in a fresh, modern note-taking experience
EverNote - Free or $7.99/mo
EverNote - Free or $7.99/mo
- Uses notebooks and tags for holding content and cross-referencing material.
- A novel way to organize information, whatever that information is. Lends itself easily to DMing.
- An online spreadsheet tool with fancy content capability.
- $40 Windows / $45 Mac (v2.0)
- Their target audience is writers. The software helps you organize stories and information, giving an organizational platform for all of your long-winded ideas.
Mind Map Tools
Mind Map Tools
- Flowcharts, wireframes, sticky notes, and mind maps (free for up to 4 charts, $10/month for unlimited)
- Mind mapping (free up to 3 mind maps, $4.99/month for unlimited)
- Associative organization tool