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Awesome Obsidian Community Plugins for D&D

A handful of community plugins can transform your RPG campaign management.

Awesome Obsidian Plugins for D&D

A handful of core plugins can transform your RPG note-taking.

PhD20.com | Ideas and Resources for Tabletop RPGs

Organizing Campaigns for D&D in Obsidian

How to organize multiple D&D campaigns in Obsidian.

PhD20.com | Ideas and Resources for Tabletop RPGs

Organizing Obsidian for D&D - Linking

Obsidian provides powerful linking capabilities.

An Obsidian Philosophy for Life

A powerful and simple philosophy for using Obsidian for D&D.

Organizing an Atlas for D&D in Obsidian

How to create an atlas to organize your D&D location notes in Obsidian.

My Obsidian Setup for D&D

This is how I organize my Dungeons & Dragons world and campaigns within Obsidian.

Obsidian Discord Share

How to Share Your D&D Vault in Obsidian

Obsidian is outstanding for managing RPG notes. You own your content. But sharing it isn't easy.

How I Prepare for D&D with Obsidian

When it’s time to plan my next Dungeons & Dragons session, I fire up Obsidian. But then what? Here’s a behind-the-screen look at how I prepare for D&D using Obsidian and the steps from SlyFlourish’s Return of the Lazy Dungeon Master. Prep Recap Writing a

Best of 2023

Let’s take a quick look back at the best of PhD20 in 2023. Organizing Obsidian for D&D This series helps game masters simplify and secure their approach to organizing D&D with Obsidian. * Organizing Obsidian for D&D | The Big Picture on Vaults * Organizing Obsidian

Organizing Obsidian for D&D | SRD & External Resources

As your journey with Obsidian continues, your vault grows. You create new information and add information from other sources. But what is healthy growth and what is bound to set you up for disappointment? We’ve come a long way in learning how to organize Obsidian for D&D:

Screenshot of a Discord embed describing a Long Rest with links and images

Chronicle RPG Adventures with Discord Embeds

Discord’s built-in embeds are a great way to chronicle your RPG adventures. Give weight to the moments that matter and impress your players with a better experience. Embeds are a stylized way to post content to a Discord channel. They can include titles, links, text, key-value pairs, images, and

Organizing Obsidian for D&D | Tags and Properties

Organizing Obsidian for D&D is a big topic. But understanding the big picture and adhering to a few principles can make it simple. Now we open the Pandora’s Box of properties. What’s a game master to do? Properties are structured data to organize information about a

A screenshot of a dungeon map with various markers in ObsidianMD. One marker is showing a popup with a description of the room that marker is in.

Quick Dungeon Map Prep in Obsidian

In this article, we’ll look at how to quickly prep a published dungeon in Obsidian. By the end, you’ll have a visual of your map along with notes for keyed locations. Let’s roll. The map and adventure seen in the screenshots of this article are from Trial

Organizing Obsidian for D&D | The Problem With Plugins

Obsidian is awesome. But one core component of this series is future-proofing our vault. And that requires considering a future without Obsidian. Would your notes survive? Or would they be a useless mess? Our principles form a great foundation but we need additional guardrails. Your Best Friend and Worst Enemy

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Organizing Obsidian for D&D | 3 Principles

Once you’ve started using Obsidian for D&D, one question looms large: what goes where? In truth, there’s no right answer. And that’s the beauty of using Obsidian to manage your campaigns and worlds. It’s up to you. In this article, I’ll introduce three

Organizing Obsidian for D&D | The Big Picture on Vaults

Getting started with Obsidian for D&D is easy. Organizing rules, campaigns, and worlds is not. The possibilities are endless. Your needs might simplify or complicate this further. In this series, we’ll break down what you need to think about and why. We’ll look at strategies to

A screenshot of a map in Obsidian with various pins. One pin shows a preview of another note.

Creating a Basic Interactive Map in Obsidian

Powerful TTRPG campaign managers allow you to upload high-resolution maps, place markers, and link those markers to more information. Obsidian is no different. Let’s look at how to set up an interactive map for Dungeons & Dragons using Obsidian. Obsidian’s learning curve is as steep as you want

Discord Share for Obsidian

Introducing Discord Share for Obsidian

Have you ever wanted to share something from your Obsidian vault with your players? Are you already using Discord for chatting? Now you can. Introducing Discord Share: a plugin for sharing vault contents to Discord. Getting Started You can find the plugin at the above bookmark or at this link.

Using D&D PDFs in Obsidian

You know by now that I love using Obsidian for Dungeons & Dragons. One of the biggest reasons is how easily it enables me to use my PDF supplements. If you’re anything like me, you’ve got dozens if not hundreds (or thousands) of PDFs from the DM’s

Getting Started with Obsidian for D&D ✨

Obsidian is a powerhouse for organizing and managing roleplaying games like Dungeons & Dragons. This guide will help you get started.