It is so wonderful to encounter a kindred spirit who also loves organizing their D&D content. I'm with you that it's definitely a hobby within a hobby. It's thoroughly satisfying and enjoyable. I love it doing it. Thank you for showing off your approach and system. It's really cool! I haven't used Obsidian before but I know many DMs who do. I use Notion for similar things and take full advantage of its database tool for monsters, spells, and rules. Always on the look out for new approaches. Thanks for posting!
This is super cool! Honestly, one of the three reasons that I stopped playing fifth edition and won't use WotC's stuff anymore is because of this.
I don't want to rent my stuff. I want to own it.
And the piracy argument is invalid. People will figure out how to pirate stuff if they want. I think they lose far more money by not providing PDFs then they would lose from some people having easier access to pirate. Because I promise you there are homemade pirated PDFs of all those books out there anyway.
Seems like you and I have pretty similar ideas on how to organize things we just use different tools.
For adventures, I mostly have them in an Excel spreadsheet and then for pictures and math. I either have them in Pinterest or I use Mac's native tagging system to do what you're doing in your program
It’s kind of sad that you’ve made all that effort and can’t share it. I’m fairly sure there’s people that would be willing to pay for a pre-built D&D obsidian vault like that…
Obsidian is one of those tools that I know I'm not getting the most out of. I use it for journaling games and as a bit of a writing tool. I sort of know that if I wanted to figure it out, I could add dice and other macro things. But then I read about wiki functions here, and some other guy that connected his Obsidian to Claude for things... I'm not saying those are necessarily things I want, but it's clear to me that Obsidian is much more powerful than I often think.
true, definitely ways to configure and setup this app with infinite possibilities. The wiki-links here are native in obsidian, you don't even have to install a community plugin, simply wrap the name of a note between double square brackets like so [[my_note]] and you get a new reference. In fact, now even base are a native part of Obsidian, worth looking into it cause it work out of the box.
I have multiple vault, and not all of them are configured the same way. For example the one I use at work is just a simple vault, with markdown note I use for my meeting or brainstorming, no plugin, no Bases and not even wiki-links, pure markdown and that also works well for me.
It is so wonderful to encounter a kindred spirit who also loves organizing their D&D content. I'm with you that it's definitely a hobby within a hobby. It's thoroughly satisfying and enjoyable. I love it doing it. Thank you for showing off your approach and system. It's really cool! I haven't used Obsidian before but I know many DMs who do. I use Notion for similar things and take full advantage of its database tool for monsters, spells, and rules. Always on the look out for new approaches. Thanks for posting!
Oh wow, thank you so much. Glad you liked it
This is super cool! Honestly, one of the three reasons that I stopped playing fifth edition and won't use WotC's stuff anymore is because of this.
I don't want to rent my stuff. I want to own it.
And the piracy argument is invalid. People will figure out how to pirate stuff if they want. I think they lose far more money by not providing PDFs then they would lose from some people having easier access to pirate. Because I promise you there are homemade pirated PDFs of all those books out there anyway.
Yes agreed.
Honestly having a lot of fun doing it. Part 2 is coming showing how it looks like to setup an adventures.
Hopefully someday they reverse course and sell PDFs
Seems like you and I have pretty similar ideas on how to organize things we just use different tools.
For adventures, I mostly have them in an Excel spreadsheet and then for pictures and math. I either have them in Pinterest or I use Mac's native tagging system to do what you're doing in your program
It’s kind of sad that you’ve made all that effort and can’t share it. I’m fairly sure there’s people that would be willing to pay for a pre-built D&D obsidian vault like that…
Appreciate the comment. Might do a version of the free rules that I share on GitHub, like I did with my other demo vault. TBD
That’s a nerd rabbit hole I can thoroughly appreciate.
Haha thanks
Obsidian is one of those tools that I know I'm not getting the most out of. I use it for journaling games and as a bit of a writing tool. I sort of know that if I wanted to figure it out, I could add dice and other macro things. But then I read about wiki functions here, and some other guy that connected his Obsidian to Claude for things... I'm not saying those are necessarily things I want, but it's clear to me that Obsidian is much more powerful than I often think.
true, definitely ways to configure and setup this app with infinite possibilities. The wiki-links here are native in obsidian, you don't even have to install a community plugin, simply wrap the name of a note between double square brackets like so [[my_note]] and you get a new reference. In fact, now even base are a native part of Obsidian, worth looking into it cause it work out of the box.
I have multiple vault, and not all of them are configured the same way. For example the one I use at work is just a simple vault, with markdown note I use for my meeting or brainstorming, no plugin, no Bases and not even wiki-links, pure markdown and that also works well for me.