> [!column|flex no-title] >> [!menu-dark-red|ttl-c] [[Obsidian TTRPG Tutorials]] / [[Plugin Tutorials]] / [[Community Plugins]] > [!column|4 no-title] >> [!menu-green-1|ttl-c] [[Getting Started]] > >> [!menu-green-2|ttl-c] [[Plugin Tutorials]] > >> [!menu-green-3|ttl-c] [[Community Supported Games]] > >> [!menu-green-4|ttl-c] [[Obsidian TTRPG Tutorials/Templates/Templates\|Templates]] > [!column|3 no-title] >> [!patreon|ttl-c] [Patreon](https://www.patreon.com/JPlunkett) ([Starter Vault](https://www.patreon.com/posts/obsidian-patreon-96801399)) > >> [!discord|ttl-c] [Obsidian TTRPG Community Discord](https://discord.gg/CdM9UCJdwU) > >> [!discord|ttl-c] [Obsidian Official Discord](https://discord.gg/obsidianmd) # My Plugin List This is a list of plugins that I actively use. If you just want to install everything I use then click this link. [[The Plugin List]] # Community Plugins [Community Plugins](https://help.obsidian.md/community-plugins) are developed and supported by members of the community. 1. Open **[Settings](https://help.obsidian.md/settings)**. 2. Select **Turn on community plugins**. For more information, refer to [Restricted Mode](https://help.obsidian.md/plugin-security#Restricted%20mode). 3. Select **Browse** to list all available community plugins. > [!gemmy-red] > ![[Gemmy_Croco_Think_Clipped.png]] > <div class="gemmy-text"> > The biggest mistake new users make; is they dive in too quickly! > > Install plugins as you need them. Learn that plugin. Then when you need another one. Install it and learn it. > > ONE AT A TIME! > </div> # Popular Community Plugins These are the community plugins most commonly used by the TTRPG and World Building Communities. The list is broken into two categories: - [[Community Plugins#Generic Community Plugins]] - these are the plugins that people use for generic quality of life improvements. - [[Community Plugins#TTRPG and World Building Plugins]] - these are plugins that specifically focus on adding functionality for TTRPGs and World Building. - [[Community Plugins#TTRPG System Specific Plugins]] - these are plugins that add functionality for specific TTRPG systems. - 🟢 Easy difficulty plugin. - 🟠 Medium difficulty plugin. - 🔴 Advanced difficulty plugin. - 🟣 Support plugin, not something I actively use, but used by other plugins. - 🤔 I've yet to test this plugin. - 💰 Has paid features. Check before you use it. - 🤖 has AI features. ## Generic Community Plugins > [!info]- 🟣 Admonition > **Purpose:** The Admonitions plugin for Obsidian adds block-styled content and callout functionality to your notes. > It was very popular originally as a way to create custom callouts. It doesn't get used as often these days as Obsidian added official [Call Out](https://help.obsidian.md/callouts) support. There are some community plugins and tools that use it though so I still have it installed as a pre-requisite. > > **Plugin Link:** [Admonition](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-admonition) > > **Documentation:** [Admonitions Website](https://plugins.javalent.com/admonitions) > [!info]- 🟢 Custom Frames > **Purpose:** Allows you to embed websites into your notes. > > **Plugin Link:** [Custom Frames](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-custom-frames) > > **Tutorial:** [[Custom Frames (Embed Websites)]] > [!info]- 🔴 Dataview > **Purpose:** Treat your Obsidian Vault as a database which you can query from. Lets you create dynamic tables listing notes that meet certain criteria or dynamically pull in info from your [Properties](https://help.obsidian.md/properties) into your notes. > > **Plugin Link:** [Dataview](obsidian://show-plugin?id=dataview) > > **Tutorial:** [[Dataview]] > [!info]- 🟢 Default New Tab Page > **Purpose:** Turn a note into a homepage and display it when you click the + new tab button. > > **Install Link:** [Default New Tab Page](obsidian://show-plugin?id=new-tab-default-page) > > **Tutorial:** [YouTube](https://youtu.be/PKcnKqErwJw?si=mbDCV_nXDK8SNBwW) > [!info]- 🟠 Excalidraw > **Purpose:** Create visual notes. Great for flow charts and mind-maps. > > **Plugin Link:** [Excalidraw](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-excalidraw-plugin) > > **Tutorial:** [[Excalidraw]] > [!info]- 🟢 Folder Notes > **Purpose:** Folder notes lets you attach notes to folders so that you can click on the name of a folder to open the note. Great for creating Parent Notes in hierarchies of notes. > > **Plugin Link:** [Folder Notes](obsidian://show-plugin?id=folder-notes) > > **Tutorial:** [Folder Notes](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xsWk5cu9BwI) > [!info]- 🟠 Force Note View Mode > **Purpose:** This plug-in allows you to indicate through front matter that a note should always be opened in a certain view mode or editing mode. > > **Plugin Link:** [Force Note View](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-view-mode-by-frontmatter) > > **Tutorial:** [See Plugin Doco](https://github.com/bwydoogh/obsidian-force-view-mode-of-note) > [!info]- 🔴 JSON CSV Importer > **Purpose:** This plug-in provides you with the tools to import your favourite JSON and CSV table and create a set of Obsidian notes from that table. One note will be created for each row in a CSV file, or each object in a named array within the JSON file. It uses [Handlebar](https://handlebarsjs.com/) templates to format the imported notes. > > **Plugin Link:** [JSON CSV Importer](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-import-json) > > **Tutorial:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RfCH0yDJIsY) [Doco](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-import-json) > [!info]- 🔴 Meta Bind > **Purpose:** Meta Bind allows you to create input and view fields inside your notes. Those input and view fields can then be bound to frontmatter properties, which keeps them in sync with those frontmatter properties. This allows you to edit and view your frontmatter properties inside your notes. > > **Plugin Link:** [Meta Bind](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-meta-bind-plugin) > > **Tutorial:** [[Meta Bind]] > > **Examples:** [[TTRPG Calculators]] > [!info]- 🟢💰🤖 Pixel Banners > **Purpose:** Add fancy banners to the top of your notes. > > **Plugin Link:** [Pixel Banners](obsidian://show-plugin?id=pexels-banner) > > **Tutorial:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9zOtm6nYWr4) Other methods: [[Banners]] > [!info]- 🟢Second Window > **Purpose:** Allows you to right click an image and send it to a second window. Great for in-person games where you show your party images on a player facing screen. > > **Plugin Link:** [Second Window](obsidian://show-plugin?id=image-window) > > **Tutorial:** [YouTube](https://youtu.be/fAQzYNv5r7M) > [!info]- 🟣 Style Settings > **Purpose:** This is a plugin that provides support to other plugins to change the way their plugins look. Example: The ITS Theme uses this to allow you to customise how the theme looks. > > **Plugin Link:** [Style Settings](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-style-settings) > > **Tutorial:** Depends on the plugins you are using. [ITS Theme](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=REWIpb1oxjU&t=12s) and [Super Charged Links](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uWyeJLWKXUI) both use it. > [!info]- 🟠 Super Charged Links > **Purpose:** Supercharged Links helps you style the links in your vault based on your notes metadata, such as tags or YAML frontmatter properties. You can automatically add colors, emojis, or other styles to the links, making them more visually appealing and easier to navigate. > > **Plugin Link:** [Super Charged Links](obsidian://show-plugin?id=supercharged-links-obsidian) > > **Tutorial:** [YouTube](https://youtu.be/uWyeJLWKXUI) > [!info]- 🟠💰🤖 Text Generator > **Purpose:** Text Generator is an AI enabled plugin that allows you to create templates that the AI will auto complete for you. > > **Plugin Link:** [Text Generator](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-textgenerator-plugin) > > **Tutorial:** [[Text Generator]] > [!info]- 🟢 Various Complements > **Purpose:** This plugin enables auto-complete as you type to create links to notes that match the name of what you are typing. > > **Plugin Link:** [Various Complements](obsidian://show-plugin?id=various-complements) > > **Tutorial:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QhpnKipJVqA) ## TTRPG and World Building Plugins > [!info]- 🟠 Calendarium > **Purpose:** Create custom fantasy calendars within your vault. > > **Plugin Link:** [Calendarium](obsidian://show-plugin?id=calendarium) > > **Tutorial:** [See Doco](https://plugins.javalent.com/calendarium) > > **Note:** We have seen an increase in reports of issues with importing calendars from Fantasy Calendars. If you experience this please review the [Github](https://github.com/javalent/calendarium/issues) issues. > [!info]- 🟠 Dice Roller > **Purpose:** Roll dice directly in your notes and see the results in preview mode. Click to re-roll and modify your formula as needed. > > **Plugin Link:** [Dice Roller](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-dice-roller) > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://plugins.javalent.com/Dice+Roller/Dice+Roller) > [!info]- 🟢 Fantasy Content Generator > **Purpose:** This is a plugin for the generation of fantasy content like inn, settlements and names for characters based on races. > > **Plugin Link:** [Fantasy Content Generator](obsidian://show-plugin?id=fantasy-content-generator) > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/Gregory-Jagermeister/Fantasy-Content-Generator) > [!info]- 🟠 Fantasy Statblocks > **Purpose:** A Table Top Roleplaying Plugin to Create and Manage your Statblock Layouts within Obsidian > > **Plugin Link:** [Fantasy Statblocks](obsidian://show-plugin?id=obsidian-5e-statblocks) > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://plugins.javalent.com/statblocks) > > **System Data:** The community have a number of ways to get bulk import statblocks into the tool depending on the system you play. > D&D5e 2014 - See [[TTRPG-Convert-CLI 5e]] > D&D5e 2024 - See [[TTRPG-Convert-CLI 5e]] > Pathfinder2e - See [[Pathfinder 2e]] > Daggerheart - See [[Daggerheart]] > [!info]- 🟢 Initiative Tracker > **Purpose:** The Initiative Tracker plugin for Obsidian allows you to keep track of initiative and turn order during combat encounters in tabletop role-playing games. > > **Plugin Link:** [Initiative Tracker](obsidian://show-plugin?id=initiative-tracker) > > **Tutorial:** [[Initiative Tracker]] > [!info]- 🟢 Solo RPG Toolkit > **Purpose:** Adds helpful features for playing TTRPGs. Its features are mainly geared towards solo gameplay using a GM emulator. > > **Plugin Link:** [Solo RPG Toolkit](obsidian://show-plugin?id=solo-rpg-toolkit) > > **Tutorial:** [Solo RPG Toolkit](https://youtu.be/2DK-BjuU6bs?si=cshruLR80Ax-OKhk) > [!info]- 🟢 Tenki (weather generation) > **Purpose:** This plugin connects to real-world weather data. Great for replicating weather in your world. Just pick a real-world location with similar weather to the world you are playing in and use the real forecast. > > **Plugin Link:** [Tenki](obsidian://show-plugin?id=tenki) > > **Tutorial:** [YouTube](https://youtu.be/E39TCssHIn0?si=xVzLr8fBuqUj1kPQ) > [!info]- 🟠 Text Mapper (Hex map maker) > **Purpose:** This plugin renders hex maps in Obsidian. > > **Plugin Link:** Must be installed via [[Plugin Tutorials#BETA Test New Plugins With BRAT|BRAT]] - https://github.com/modality/obsidian-text-mapper > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/modality/obsidian-text-mapper) > [!info]- 🟢 TTRPG Tools: Maps > **Purpose:** This Map tool lets you embed an image as an interactive, zoomable map inside Obsidian and place markers, stickers, drawings, measurements, HUD pins and (optionally) editable text layers on top. > > **Plugin Link:** Install via [[Plugin Tutorials#BETA Test New Plugins With BRAT|BRAT]]: https://github.com/Jareika/zoom-map > > **Tutorial:** [[TTRPG Tools - Maps]] > > **Note:** The community have historically used for their interactive maps. TTRPG Tools: Maps is a new plugin that is much easier, actively maintained, and feature rich. I highly recommend people move to TTRPG Tools: Map. > [!info]- 🔴💰 TTRPG Tools: Publish > **Purpose:** TTRPG Tools: Publish is a helper plugin for people who publish their vault as a website (Obsidian Publish). It prepares **TTRPG Tools: Maps (Zoom Map)** content so your interactive maps can be displayed on your Publish site. > > **Plugin Link:** Install via [[Plugin Tutorials#BETA Test New Plugins With BRAT|BRAT]]: https://github.com/Jareika/TTRPG-Tools-Publish > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/Jareika/TTRPG-Tools-Publish) > [!info]- 🟢 TTRPG Tools: Soundboard > **Purpose:** A soundboard plugin for Obsidian designed for TTRPG sessions: play sound effects, music and ambience quickly from a folder-based library. Supports multiple simultaneous sounds, per-sound settings, playlists, and note buttons. > > **Plugin Link:** Install via [[Plugin Tutorials#BETA Test New Plugins With BRAT|BRAT]]: https://github.com/Jareika/obsidian-ttrpg-soundboard > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/Jareika/obsidian-ttrpg-soundboard) > [!info]- 🟢 TTRPG Tools: Timeline > **Purpose:** Simple Timeline renders timelines from note frontmatter. > > **Plugin Link:**  Install via [[Plugin Tutorials#BETA Test New Plugins With BRAT|BRAT]]: https://github.com/Jareika/Simple-Timeline > > **Tutorial:** [TTRPG Tools: Timeline](https://github.com/Jareika/Simple-Timeline) > [!info]- 🟢 Aprils Automatic Timelines - Alternative Timeline Option > **Purpose:** A theme agnostic timeline generator. > > **Plugin Link:** [Aprils Automatic Timelines](obsidian://show-plugin?id=aprils-automatic-timelines) > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/April-Gras/obsidian-auto-timelines) [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=992o1j8zRSk&t=722s) ### TTRPG System Specific Plugins #### D&D 5e > [!info]- 🟢 DND UI Toolkit > **Purpose:** This plugin provides modern UI elements for playing Dungeons and Dragons that provide building blocks for you to build a beautiful markdown driven character sheet. > > **Plugin Link:** Install via [[Plugin Tutorials#BETA Test New Plugins With BRAT|BRAT]]: https://github.com/hay-kot/obsidian-dnd-ui-toolkit > > **Tutorial:** [YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Czu-hJ1scf0) > [!info]- 🤔 Statblock Sidekick > **Purpose:** This Obsidian plugin is designed as a sidekick for your D&D 5e statblocks. Its goal is to help you edit your Fantasy Statblocks and implement rules from various sources. > > Presently, the plugin allows you to create custom D&D 5e sidekicks based on the rules from Tasha's Cauldron of Everything: Expert, Spellcaster, or Warrior. It provides an interactive experience for selecting the sidekick's class, level, and features. > > **Plugin Link:** [Statblock Sidekick](obsidian://show-plugin?id=statblock-sidekick) > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/n21rl/stablock-sidekick) #### Pathfinder 2e > [!info]- 🟢Pathfinder 2e Action Icons > **Purpose:** Display the Pathfinder 2E icons for Action, Double Action, Triple Action, Free Action and Reaction in your notes. > > **Plugin Link:** [Pathfinder 2e Action Icons](obsidian://show-plugin?id=pf2-action-icons) > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/thiagocoutinhor/pf2-action-icons) > [!info]- 🟢 PF2e Creature Adjuster > **Purpose:** This is an Obsidian Plugin designed to work with existing Pathfinder 2E monster statblocks. It provides the ability to create a new note based on a currently viewed monster and make it "elite" or "weak" per the PF2E rules in the Monster Core, page 6, titled "Adjusting Creatures". > > **Plugin Link:** Install via [[Plugin Tutorials#BETA Test New Plugins With BRAT|BRAT]]: https://github.com/MostTornBrain/monster-mash > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/MostTornBrain/monster-mash) > [!info]- 🟠 PF2e Statblocks > **Purpose:** Use Markdown syntax to create great-looking Pathfinder Second Edition statblocks inside of Obsidian! > > **Plugin Link:** [PF2e Statblocks](obsidian://show-plugin?id=pf2e-statblocks) > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/pixley/pf2e-statblock-for-obsidian) #### Daggerheart > [!info]- 🤔 DaggerForge > **Purpose:** An Obsidian plugin designed for **Daggerheart**, a TTRPG, that helps Game Masters easily add adversaries and environments to their notes and create custom content all within Obsidian. > > **Plugin Link:** [DaggerForge](obsidian://show-plugin?id=daggerforge) > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/Torutu/daggerforge) #### MCDM Draw Steel > [!info]- 🤔 Draw Steel Elements > **Purpose:** Some helper elements for the MCDM Draw Steel TTRPG > > **Plugin Link:** [Draw Steel Elements](obsidian://show-plugin?id=draw-steel-elements) > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/SteelCompendium/draw-steel-elements) > [!info]- 🤔 Draw Steel Retainer > **Purpose:** This plugin is designed to be used in conjunction with the TTRPG Draw Steel by MCDM. The plugin allows users to manage and track combat encounters in a initiative tracker. > > **Plugin Link:** [Draw Steel Retainer](obsidian://show-plugin?id=draw-steel-retainer) > > **Tutorial:** [Doco](https://github.com/MartinDampier/draw-steel-retainer)