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GM Assistant automates session notes for tabletop RPG game masters. Record your session however you like, then upload the audio to get structured session notes, NPCs, locations, and story recaps in minutes. No manual note-taking required. Works with any TTRPG system, including D&D 5e, Pathfinder, and Call of Cthulhu, and recaps can be shared with your players by link. Pay as you go or subscribe, your choice. GM Assistant documents your game; it never plays it. No AI-generated content in your campaign, never an AI game master, no training on your data, and your audio is deleted the moment processing finishes. Unlike generic meeting transcribers, GM Assistant is purpose-built for tabletop RPGs, producing the most accurate and detailed session notes you can get from a campaign recording.

GhoulApp is a free digital companion for Vampire: The Masquerade that helps players and Storytellers create characters, manage chronicles and run live sessions. Supporting V5, V20 and Dark Ages, it includes character creation, interactive character sheets, complete chronicle management, maps and relationship boards, integrated wiki and timeline tools, edition-specific dice rolling and community sharing features. Designed specifically for the World of Darkness, GhoulApp brings every part of a chronicle together in a single platform used by thousands of players worldwide. Links ghoulapp.com - Official website discord.gg - Discord server patreon.com - Support the project

Item Forge is a small free tool to help GMs to create printable item cards for their table. It is optimized for D&D and Shadowdark. You can quickly fill out the form and it will generate a nice card design. There are predefined templates in D&D, Shadowdark and printer friendly style. You can also use the custom template where you can design it with CSS yourself. There are various export options, from PDF to images and a backup as json. For quick sharing there is a publish option which gets you a link that you can share with other GMs. Item Forge is translated into 10 languages currently and keeps growing.

Brotherhood of the Dice is a group of friends who get together to play tabletop RPGs, mostly leaning into horror with a sprinkling of fantasy and sci-fi. We run games like Call of Cthulhu, Mothership, The Dee Sanction, Dead of Night, Electric State, Pirate Borg, Dragonbane, and Outgunned, throwing in the occasional curveball with something more quirky like Land of Eem when we feel like changing things up. As most of our games lean heavily into horror, they tend to favour a serious tone, but when things go off the rails, chaos and hilarity are never far behind. Which is just part of the fun. Nothing is scripted, and we’re not performers, just regular people enjoying games together and letting the dice and the story take us where they will. /images/general-media/1774008789_ZfvlFW0K.png We stream live on Twitch three times a week and upload the sessions to YouTube afterwards. Real people playing games.

enCounter is a free, open-source encounter and initiative manager designed for tabletop RPG game masters. It provides a dedicated DM Console for preparing and running encounters, along with a separate Player Display that can be shown on a second monitor, television, or gaming-table screen. Game masters can track initiative, rounds, hit points, combat status, conditions, resources, hidden enemies, and other encounter information while controlling exactly what players can see. enCounter also supports reusable character and creature libraries, Saved Encounters, Scene and Combat presentation modes, visual countdown timers, encounter backgrounds, portraits, and local Soundscapes with music, ambience, and prepared sound cues. The Player Display can switch between STAND BY, Scene, and Combat modes, allowing it to be used before and during combat. During initiative, the active visible combatant is automatically centered for players, while the DM Console can follow the current turn without interrupting other encounter edits. enCounter supports multiple tabletop RPG system profiles as well as generic TTRPG play. It runs locally on the user's computer, supports Windows and Linux portable releases, and includes local backup, export, and import tools. The project is currently in Alpha and is actively being developed based on real tabletop use and community feedback. enCounter is released under the MIT License and is available free of charge.

Statblock Maker Pro is a free, always-online 5e D&D toolset with no account, no login, and nothing saved to a server. It covers the full prep-to-table pipeline: a creature/statblock maker and item maker (2014 and 2024 rules), a spell creator, a character creator, and a token stamp for VTT art. On the table side, the encounter maker and initiative tracker run combat live, with a combat difficulty calculator that shows 2014 and 2024 difficulty math side by side and a Monte Carlo battle forecast to sanity-check a fight before you run it.