I had a great chat with Nicole van der Hoeven live on her YouTube channel this past weekend. “Notes for Serious Play” is a great way to describe it, as we’re both avid note-makers and D&D…ers.
Nicole and I first did an Obsidian Community Talk together last fall. It was another Obsidian workflow video, but I loved it, since it was five different workflows from both DMs and players in the (then) burgeoning TTRPG Obsidian community. I’d really love to host a followup talk with the group to see how their setups and workflows have changed in the past year… I know mine has!
Notes for Serious Play
- 0:00 Intro to Leah
- 05:06 Leah’s main D&D workspace
- 13:33 Creating character cheat sheets (being smart with transclusions and Dataview…)
- 18:59 Post-game review workspace
- 23:11 Johnny Decimal system in Obsidian
- 28:40 My continued love for Brett Terpstra’s Bunch app (macOS)
- 37:34 Tracking quests and questions
- 41:29 Character creation
- 44:21 Using Eagle as a character gallery.
- 51:54 Using Dataview to create a personal movie database.
- 56:51 Nicole shares dynamic character generation using the Dice Roller plugin… and I need to permanently borrow that idea.
- 1:00:49 Our top 3 plugins for D&D
