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Re:Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D by montagh451 on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @05:06PM (#21697323)
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.

Re:Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D by monk_e_boy on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @04:41AM (#21700851)
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

Re:Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D by bananasbandanas on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:25AM (#21700524)
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.

Re:Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D by montagh451 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:13PM (#21704145)
Yes! This would be a great addition. Thank you!
Re:Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D by S_Pineapple on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @09:25AM (#21702376)
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.
Re:Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D by montagh451 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @12:12PM (#21704132)
Hey, thanks so much for the feedback! These are great suggestions. I’ll take a look at these!
Re:Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D by JoshTriplett on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @11:41AM (#21703743)
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.

Re:Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D by montagh451 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @01:23PM (#21705191)
I’ve been dreaming of adding this! It’s certainly on my roadmap. Keep an eye out for updates on this
Re:Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D by SubiculumCode on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:23AM (#21700511)
Pathfinder 1.0 and 2.0 in the future?
Re:Show HN: Adventurekeep – A Toolkit for D&D by montagh451 on Wednesday December 04, 2019 @03:27AM (#21700536)
If this project garners enough interest, totally possible!