Yarnfold

IMPORT AN ONGOING CAMPAIGN Months of sessions in. Minutes to move in. If your campaign lives in a Notion workspace, an Obsidian vault, a Google Doc and your head drop in what you have. Yarnfold works out who is who (it knows “Uncle Bran” and “Brannoc Ironvein” are the same dwarf) and fills in every person, place, faction and item with what your notes say about them. You review each entry before it is saved, and past sessions come in as history, so your world arrives with its story already in it. No notes at all? Answer nine questions and it builds a starting codex from your answers.

THE BEST HOMEBREW WIKI OUT THERE A campaign wiki that keeps itself up to date. Every NPC, place, faction, item and plot thread, linked to each other, with a history of what changed and when. Who is dead, who owes the party a favour, who knows the secret: one search away, even mid-session.

LESS TIME SPENT ON PREP Prep the fun parts. Hand off the grind. Lay the session out as scenes on a board, because players never go in a straight line. Spend your time on what you love writing: the villain’s offer, the double-cross, the tavern that is not what it seems. Then hand off the rest. Sketch a session in a few lines and the scenes are drafted with your own NPCs and places in them. Encounters come balanced for your party with every stat block attached, and each scene gets its read-aloud text and its music. You edit everything but you do not have to start from a blank page.

AT THE TABLE One screen for everything that happens mid-session. The scene you are in, initiative you drag into order, hit points, conditions, dice, every creature’s attacks a tap away, and the music for the moment, all on a dark screen made to be read at a glance across the table. When the players do what you never planned for, ask a rules question and get a straight answer, or say where they have wandered and get a scene with something to read aloud in seconds. Jot a note as it happens; it is waiting for you afterwards.

QUICK POST SESSION WIKI UPDATE Two minutes of talking. Your whole campaign, up to date. The job every DM means to do and nobody does: updating the notes. Talk or type for a minute about what happened. Yarnfold reads that, your notes from the night, the scenes you played and your codex, and comes back with every change: who died, who turned on the party, which mystery got solved, who walked off with the cursed dagger. Each one shows the words it came from. Add, edit or discard in a few taps, and next week’s prep starts from where the party actually stopped, not from where you planned they would.