Archivist TTRPG Features for GMs and Players
Tools for Smarter TTRPG Sessions
Whether you're a GM, player, or worldbuilder, Archivist lets you capture your story, keep it structured, draw real insight from it, and share it with your table.
Learn how these features fit into the larger story of AI in TTRPGs
Watch: Archivist Features Overview
A quick tour of Archivist's core features, insight tools, and sharing options, with examples from real TTRPG campaigns.
Watch the VideoArchivist works wherever you play: Discord, Foundry VTT, Obsidian, and more. Learn about integrations â
Core Features
Where your campaign foundation is built. Archivist turns every session into structured notes, entities, and timelines you can rely on.
Automated TTRPG Session Recaps and Campaign Summaries
Summaries
Automated TTRPG Session Recaps & Campaign Overviews
Archivist automatically generates detailed TTRPG session recaps after every gameâcapturing what matters most. Plus, get campaign-wide overviews to track story arcs, prep upcoming sessions, or refresh your memory after a breakâno more digging through old notes.
- Major plot developments and character choices
- Key NPC encounters and hidden revelations
- Combat highlights and dramatic turning points
- Seamless continuity between sessions to keep your story on track
Want your summaries cinematic, snarky, or serious? Customize the tone to match your table's style.
From raw notes to structured recapsâeffortlessly.
Track Characters, Items, Locations, and Factions in Your TTRPG Campaign
Captured, Catalogued, Described. Automatically.
Compendium
Automatically Track Every: Character, Item, Location, and Faction
Just play your sessionâArchivist handles the rest. Whether you're deep in a D&D 5e campaign or homebrewing your own world, characters, items, locations, and factions are automatically captured, categorized, and described as they emerge in your story.
- Auto-detection and categorization of characters, items, factions, and locations
- Descriptions evolve as entities recur across sessions
- Instant search across your growing world archive
Archivist AI-Powered TTRPG Chatbot
Ask Archivist
People Forget. Archivist Remembers.
Your AI Chat Assistant for Campaign Memory, Story Recaps & Worldbuilding Support
Ask Archivist anything about your campaignâpast, present, or futureâand get fast, accurate, in-universe answers powered by your session history. It's like having a lorekeeper, scribe, and assistant GM at your fingertips.
- Recall facts instantly â "What kind of dragon are we hunting again?"
- Summarize story beats â "What happened between the party and the king?"
- Brainstorm and prep â plan arcs, populate shops, or improvise plot hooks.
Available in-app and on Discord. With your full campaign history as context, the possibilities are endlessâand the answers are actually useful.
Chat with your world.
Your campaign, one timeline
TTRPG Campaign Timeline Tool. Track Arcs, Beats, and Sessions
Timeline
Visualize Your TTRPG Campaign Timeline
A living, layered history of your entire story.
Campaign Timeline is a structured, interactive timeline view of your TTRPG campaignâincluding major arcs, session summaries, and pivotal story beats.
- From single steps to multi-session arcsâand everything in between
- Follow storylines across the entire campaign
- Visit the key events that define your story
Customize TTRPG Campaign Summaries and Chatbot Personality
Customize
Make Archivist Sound Like Your Table
Match your campaign's tone, style, and voiceâno prompts or tags required.
Want your campaign recaps to read like a noir mystery? Prefer your session summaries in bullet points? Just tell Archivistâtone, structure, and all.
- Natural language inputâjust describe the vibe
- Custom tone & format (e.g., noir, flowery, bulleted)
- Give Ask Archivist a personality that fits your world
Your story, your style.
Exploration & Insight
See the story behind the story. Highlights, connections, and cast analysis reveal how your world and players evolve over time.
Track the Highlights of Your TTRPG Campaign
From session zero to legendâyour story grows with you.
Highlights
Your Story, One Moment at a Time
Short, punchy highlightsâdozens per session, filtered by who they matter to.
Archivist surfaces high-impact moments from every session: emotional turns, key decisions, critical hits, character-defining linesâwhatever made your table lean in, laugh out loud, or stop and cheer.
- Trace shared history across entities
- View the story from a character's perspective
- Surface standout campaign moments
Many GMs use highlights to reward standout roleplay with Inspiration. It's not just memoryâit's motivation.
Campaign Wikis and WikiLinks for TTRPG World Organization
WikiLinks
Wiki Without the Work
Archivist automatically tags and connects your characters, items, locations, factions, and highlightsâso every note becomes part of an organized, easy-to-navigate world.
- Smart tagging across campaign notes, summaries, and session history
- Hover cards give instant previews without breaking flow
- Create manual and custom tags whenever you need them
Campaign Connections and Data Visualization for TTRPG Story Analysis
Campaign Connections
Visualize How Your World Fits Together
Explore your campaign through a living map that reveals how characters, items, locations, factions, and story events weave together over time.
- Trace relationships across your story's web of people and places
- Follow curated timeline views to see who was involved, when, and how
- Jump into the Playground to freely explore and uncover hidden connections
Your story, connected.
Compare players across engagement metrics
Cast Analysis
Understand How Your Table Actually Plays
Reveal talk share, pacing, sentiment, and engagement patterns across every session.
See who drove the conversation, where energy spiked, and how participation shifted over time. Cast Analysis gives you the data to understand your table's dynamics and run stronger sessions.
What you learn:
- Who speaks and drives the narrative through participation and conversation share
- When engagement peaks or dips using energy and pacing signals
- How the table feels over time with tracked emotional tone and sentiment
Published campaigns showcase your story progression
Campaign Showcase
Share Your World with Your Table or the Wider TTRPG Community
Archivist lets you publish full campaigns or selected sessions so players, friends, and followers can explore your story online.
- Create a public link for your campaign
- Showcase sessions, arcs, and world content
- Join the community gallery of published campaigns
TTRPG Session Handouts - Generate Clean, Shareable Session Summaries
Session Handouts
Clean, Shareable Session Summaries
One click and seconds away from a polished, two-page handoutâideal for sharing, printing, or fast recall.
- Automatically formats your session into a concise 2-page summary
- Includes recap, outline, character highlights, moments, valuable info, key items, and more
- One click to download, print, or share with your group
One Click. Two Pages. Total clarity.
Create beautifully formatted cards in seconds.
Digital Trading Cards
Polished, Shareable Trading Cards for Your World
Archivist builds a formatted trading card for any character, item, location, or factionâauto-filled with key details and fully editable before you download or share.
- Auto-fills name, description, stats, and thematic callouts
- Full customization of text, traits, and card elements
- Download high-res PNGs or share directly to social platforms