Creating World, Session, NPC, and Location notes

Description

This workflow does the following things:

• Create a new TTRPG world for your campaign within the ttrpgs folder, using the World template.
• Populate a list of all of your games in TTRPGs Games Index.
• Create a new session according to the session-player template.
• Create new notes for NPCs, items, locations, etc. according to the TTRPG frontmatter template, bringing in details from the current campaign.
• Populate a list of all sessions for a particular world/campaign.

Plugins used

• Obsidian Templater
• Obsidian Buttons
• Obsidian QuickAdd
• Obsidian Callouts
• Obsidian Fantasy Calendar
• Obsidian Dataview

Instructions

1. Go to TTRPGs Games Index.
2. Click on the Add New World button.
3. When prompted, enter the name of your new world.
4. Edit the frontmatter as required, entering your world, campaign, role, and system.
5. Add player characters.
6. When you’re ready to create a new session note, put your cursor on the line under the Sections heading where you want the new session link to be.
7. Open the Command Palette (CMD/CTRL+P) and select either QuickAdd: Macro - Add session-player or QuickAdd: Macro - Add session-gm, depending on whether you are the player or the GM.
8. While playing, type out your notes in the Log section.
9. After the game, fill out the location, long rest, short rest, and summary (one phrase or sentence) parameters.
10. Add a longer summary in the Session Summary section.

Options

Changing world name

By default, the name of the world is the same as the name of the folder within ttrpgs. However, in case you’re like me and you prefer to use the name of the Campaign or the name of the adventuring party as the folder name and would like to use something else as the world name, you’ll need to change it!

To do that, open up this vault with a text editor (not Obsidian). Go into the scripts folder and open the file getThisWorld.js. JavaScript files cannot be opened by Obsidian, which is why you should use another text editor (VSCode, TextEdit, or Notepad will do). You’ll see the following script:

function getThisWorld (tp) {
    const thisFolder = tp.file.folder(false)
    if (thisFolder == "Name of folder"){
        return "Name of world";
    }
    return thisFolder;
}
module.exports = getThisWorld;

Change two things:

• Replace Name of folder with your folder name.
• Replace Name of world with the name of the world for that campaign.

Save that file, and this time, when you create new notes or sessions for that campaign, you’ll see the world has been changed to the one that you specified.