# Obsidian - Solo RPG Toolkit > [!info] Video (29:23), uploaded June 16, 2024. Summary built from the English auto-captions; screenshots are low-resolution storyboard frames because full video frames were blocked. ## Outline ### 0:00 - Intro, Install and Settings - **0:00** - Josh looks at a new plugin released in May, the **Solo RPG Toolkit** by Alex Kowski, "helpful tools for playing TTRPG games geared towards solo play with a GM emulator." He admits he's never played a solo TTRPG, where players lean on rollable tables instead of a game master. - **0:50** - Install: Settings, Community plugins, Browse, search "solo". It already had 468 downloads and regular updates. - **1:10** - Read the README first; it's always more current than his videos. Features: dice rollers, card decks, random generators, custom random tables and custom table templates, plus inline elements he thinks will be useful. - **1:50** - Options: a custom tables folder, enable a digital tarot deck, add Jokers to the deck, and **enable inline elements**. ### 2:16 - Dice Roller - **2:16** - A Solo RPG Toolkit icon appears in the right sidebar with tabs along the top. The dice roller animates the roll; one click per die, up to a d100. - **3:00** - Compared with the popular **Dice Roller** plugin by javalent: that one supports formulas, saved formulas and mixed dice, but this one is simpler for a quick roll. ![[images/Obsidian-Solo-RPG-Toolkit-t0225.webp]] ### 3:40 - Card Decks and Tarot Decks - **3:45** - A standard card deck with Shuffle and Draw, returning text results like "Seven of Hearts." - **4:05** - The tarot deck draws cards like The Hanged Man and The High Priestess, text only with small icons. Useful if your game has a table saying what each card means. ### 4:44 - Oracle - **4:44** - Oracle buttons answer yes/no questions by likelihood ("unlikely to succeed": "no", "fair": "no but") and generate random word prompts for subjects and actions. Josh guesses they stand in for the GM in solo play and says he probably wouldn't use them at his table. ### 6:05 - Ideas Random Tables - **6:05** - Idea generators for names, aspects (e.g. "lovable and beautiful"), skills ("good with resources but bad agility"), jobs (Goldsmith, informant, pawnbroker), towns and descriptions. Click a result to copy it into your notes. - **7:40** - Josh likes these a lot: faster than a fantasy name generator on another screen or the AI tools he's used, and he plans to add it to his own toolset. ![[images/Obsidian-Solo-RPG-Toolkit-t0610.webp]] ### 8:54 - Inline Tools - **9:06** - The README's inline elements: a backtick-wrapped number makes a **dynamic counter**, a range like 1-5 makes a **progress tracker**, and a tab-stop element adds indentation. - **9:50** - The counter is an unbounded up/down number that just rewrites the value in the note. There's no min or max, which he'd like to see. - **10:20** - Quirks: source mode doesn't always show the raw syntax. - **11:20** - Compared with **Meta Bind**, which saves values to properties so you can do math with them. The toolkit's counter is better for something simple like an ammo tracker. - **12:09** - A 1/10 progress tracker shows boxes grouped in fives; good for spell slots or ammunition on character sheets. - **13:12** - The tab-stop element just inserts an indent, e.g. to line up "wounds" and "stress" trackers. - **14:13** - Testing in a table: the trackers didn't render in a table or in reading mode, only in live preview, which he finds backwards. ![[images/Obsidian-Solo-RPG-Toolkit-t1150.webp]] ### 15:58 - Custom Random Tables - **16:14** - Every note in the custom tables folder (default "Tables"; Josh uses a folder under his templates) becomes a button in the sidebar. Copy the README's template to start. - **16:50** - Templates go in the note's properties. Each property line is a possible output, and keywords in curly brackets pull a random line from the matching heading section in the note, similar to Handlebars formatting. The sample "name loves" table outputs things like "Martha hates tacos very much." - **18:16** - A new note named "my rollable" shows up as a button after you close and reopen the sidebar tab, or run the "open toolkit" command. - **18:50** - It reminds him of **Inspiration Pad Pro 3**, the text-file random table tool he used back in the Realm Works days. - **19:17** - He rebuilds an IPP3 "NPC traits" table: one "traits" section with all the options, and template lines with one to four `{traits}` keywords, renamed to "NPC traits." Results like "glum, curious, humble and ambitious." ![[images/Obsidian-Solo-RPG-Toolkit-t1900.webp]] ### 23:25 - Issue With Red Properties - **23:25** - The red highlighting in properties is Obsidian flagging invalid property syntax. Wrapping each template line in quotation marks fixes it. ![[images/Obsidian-Solo-RPG-Toolkit-t2250.webp]] ### 24:42 - Multiple Rollable Table Support - **24:42** - He adds an "appearance" section copied from his old 5e DMG NPC appearance table (numbers removed) and references `{appearance}` in the template. Template changes only show up after closing and reopening the plugin pane. ### 26:05 - Add Weighted Results - **26:05** - IPP3 supported dice-based weighting. The toolkit doesn't, but you can fake it by repeating lines so some results come up more often. ### 27:01 - Closing Thoughts and Outro - **27:01** - Josh recommends the plugin: it sits neatly in the sidebar, the rollable tables are easy to package as notes and share (drop a note in your tables folder and it works), and the inline trackers suit players tracking ammo and spell slots. - **28:06** - New users should start at ObsidianTTRPGTutorials.com and join the Obsidian TTRPG Community Discord. He thanks Patreon supporters, who funded his new Shure microphone. ## Things Mentioned ### Obsidian plugins - **Solo RPG Toolkit** by Alex Kowski - free community plugin with a dice roller, card and tarot decks, oracle, idea generators, inline counters and trackers, and custom random tables. - **Dice Roller** by javalent - free and widely used; more powerful formulas and saved rolls. - **Meta Bind** - free; inline inputs that save values to properties for calculations. ### Tools - **Inspiration Pad Pro 3** - older free random-table generator that runs on text files, used with Realm Works. - **Realm Works** - paid campaign manager Josh used before Obsidian. - Fantasy name generators and AI tools, as alternatives to the idea buttons. ### TTRPG systems and products - **D&D 5e Dungeon Master's Guide** - source of his old NPC appearance table. - Solo TTRPGs and GM emulators, the plugin's target audience. ### Websites and communities - **ObsidianTTRPGTutorials.com** - Josh's free tutorial site and recommended starting point. - **Obsidian TTRPG Community Discord** - free help. - **Josh Plunkett's Patreon** - paid support. ## Biographies - **Josh Plunkett** - Australian game master and YouTuber behind ObsidianTTRPGTutorials.com, known for in-depth tutorials on running tabletop RPGs and worldbuilding in Obsidian. - **Alex Kowski** (name as heard in the captions) - developer of the Solo RPG Toolkit plugin for Obsidian. - **javalent** - developer of popular Obsidian TTRPG plugins including Dice Roller. - **Dave** - a viewer Josh calls out as someone who'd be interested in the inline elements (no further detail given).