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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Distracted DM" data-source="post: 9698151" data-attributes="member: 6894926">Appreciate reviews like these, I'm sure they're very helpful to a lot of folk here <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />Obsidian.md's been a hurdle I couldn't get over... I couldn't grok it, and I didn't have an "Example DnD Campaign" to load up and reverse-engineer tounderstand what made it tick <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f641.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":(" title="Frown    :("  data-smilie="3"data-shortname=":(" /> I'm jealous of folk that get it working. (<a href="https://obsidian.md/" target="_blank">Obsidian - Sharpen your thinking</a>)As far as campaign management/notes/worldbuilding.. the only platform that was perfect for me (I could learn it, and it did what I wanted) was Obsidian Portal, but they were bought out many years ago, enshittified. I hear they got better at some point afterwards, but I felt burned. (<a href="https://www.obsidianportal.com/" target="_blank">https://www.obsidianportal.com/</a>)There are a number of LLM transcription-to-summary services budding up now... I'm (not?) surprised that some of them are charging as they're all in active development, but there are some good ones out there that are free as they're developed. One that I've tried is Archivist AI, it's currently no-cost (if someone's trying to dip their toes without paying) and AFAIK you can share the summaries. (<a href="https://www.myarchivist.ai/" target="_blank">Automatic Notes for Your TTRPG Campaign | Archivist AI</a>)As far as VTTs go, FoundryVTT is superior to Roll20 is most respects, but Roll20 is definitely the more plug-n-play platform... unless you go with a FVTT hosting service like Forge, in which case FVTT is pretty plug-n-play. I was frustrated with Roll20's limitations, poor performance, etc. and it almost burned me out on VTTs.. luckily I found FoundryVTT months later (in 2021) and have been very, very happy ever since. I will say that I have considered self-hosting, rather than paying for a host service.. not because of the cost, but because I do see the occasional outage with Forge, maybe 1-2/month.. which can be darned inconvenient if you're running 4-6 sessions/week.I've looked at the printable heroes patreon before, but haven't pulled the trigger on it... actually, there's another one that does a huge variety of npc+monster portraits that lets you vary them (color and details, of say, a bugbear to make it look different from the last bugbear)... what's that one called? Dang. Tip of my tongue.As far as music goes, I use Kenku to broadcast my youtube/spotify into my Discord voice channels.</blockquote>

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