Welcome to the Obsidian Fantasy World Manager! This project is designed to help Dungeon Masters (DMs) take notes and keep track of everything they need when hosting a pen-and-paper game. The main feature of this project is the use of templates to organize information about locations, NPCs, items, and more.
The project is organized into the following directories:
.obsidian/
: Contains Obsidian workspace settings, plugins, and themes.90 Templates/
: Contains templates for various types of locations and other game elements.Locations/
: Templates for different types of locations such as cities, dungeons, towns, villages, and wilderness areas.
World Name/
: Contains subdirectories for different aspects of your game world, such as bestiary, campaign notes, factions, items and artifacts, locations, miscellaneous, NPCs, session planning, and world lore.
Templates are a powerful feature in Obsidian that allow you to quickly create new notes with predefined structures. This project includes several templates to help you organize your game world.
- Open Obsidian and go to
Settings
(click the gear icon in the lower left corner). - Navigate to the
Core Plugins
section. - Enable the
Templates
plugin by toggling the switch next to it.
- After enabling the
Templates
plugin, go to thePlugin Options
section in the settings. - Click on
Templates
. - Set the
Template folder location
to90 Templates
. This tells Obsidian where to find your templates.
- Create a new note in Obsidian.
- Click on the
Templates
button in the toolbar (it looks like a document with a plus sign). - Select the template you want to use from the list. The template content will be inserted into your new note.
- Cities: Template for detailing cities, including sections for history, notable locations, NPCs, intrigues, and adventure hooks.
- Dungeons: Template for detailing dungeons, including sections for attributes, history, layout, inhabitants, traps, hazards, treasure, and adventure hooks.
- Towns: Template for detailing towns, similar to the cities template but on a smaller scale.
- Villages: Template for detailing villages, including sections for history, notable locations, NPCs, and adventure hooks.
- Wilderness: Template for detailing wilderness areas, including sections for attributes, history, geography, flora and fauna, hazards, points of interest, and adventure hooks.
If you have suggestions for new templates or improvements to existing ones, feel free to open an issue or submit a pull request.
This project is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.
Happy world-building!