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Hey everyone,

I've been playing Dungeons & Dragons for several years now, and have been in search of a set of tools that work cohesively together. Nothing I found quite fit the vision I had in mind, so I decided to build a toolkit myself.

Adventurekeep is a toolkit for planning and running sessions of D&D. It allows for planning combat encounters, quickly referencing rules, wiki-style smart linking, and simple drag-and-drop page management.

I drew inspiration for the site from productivity tools like Notion, with its super-powered text editor, and took that concept to make it more tabletop gaming focused.

This is really just the beginning of my vision for Adventurekeep. I have a lot of great ideas in the works like a live player view, and robust sharing capabilities. If you're a D&D player, or have a general interest in tabletop gaming, please check it out and let me know what you think! I'd love to hear from you.

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A dungeon mapper, open source, it saves maps to the URL so no signup needed and they are easy to share with players.

https://monk-e-boy.github.io/dungeon-mapper/

Very simple to share parts of a dungeon and as the players explore reveal more of it by msg-ing them the new URL

Looks very cool. Will definitely try it out for mapping out a scenario.

One thing I immediately wanted was a way to link certain lines to different pages. For example, I might come up with a character or other feature of a city on the spot for my players, and want to add it to that citys page to keep track of it for future reference. But I might also want to keep a linear log of what happened (or didn't) to my players. It would be nice if there was a way to link an entry from the city page to the log so I don't need to duplicate manually and everything is kept consistent if I later revise the entry in the city page.

Yes! This would be a great addition. Thank you!

Hey there. I absolutely love what you made. It feels super convenient and I'll be using it for my next DnD campaign for sure! The only request that I can think of right now is the ability to make subsections that can hold their own pages. This may be useful when, for example, creating details about a certain area/region and wanting more specific areas to be nested within larger geographic areas. Or alternatively, collapsible headings/lists.

Hey, thanks so much for the feedback! These are great suggestions. I’ll take a look at these!

Looks great!

One tool that I would love to have, and that every DM I know would as well: integrated music handling. I'd love to upload music files, and be able to embed looped playlists of them within area descriptions or encounter descriptions.

I’ve been dreaming of adding this! It’s certainly on my roadmap. Keep an eye out for updates on this

Pathfinder 1.0 and 2.0 in the future?

If this project garners enough interest, totally possible!

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