# Obsidian - Solo RPG Toolkit - Custom Decks > [!info] Video (11:56), uploaded June 25, 2024. Summary built from the English auto-captions plus video frames. ## Outline ### 0:00 - Intro and Install - **0:00** - Josh returns to the **Solo RPG Toolkit** by Alex Kowski, covered in his previous video, because an update added custom card decks that work with images rather than text. - **0:38** - Install: Settings, Community plugins, Browse, search "solo", then install and enable Solo RPG Toolkit. It adds an icon to the right sidebar. ### 0:54 - New Image Decks - **0:58** - Before, drawing from the Standard deck gave a text description of a card. Now Shuffle and Draw shows a real card image. - **1:23** - Click a card and paste it straight into your notes. - **1:44** - The Tarot deck now draws image cards too; some come out upside down because of the source images. ![[images/Obsidian-Solo-RPG-Toolkit-Custom-Decks-t0050.webp]] ![[images/Obsidian-Solo-RPG-Toolkit-Custom-Decks-t0125.webp]] ### 2:03 - Custom Decks - **2:04** - In the plugin options there's a new **custom decks folder**. The default is a folder called "Decks" at the root of the vault, and it must be spelled with a capital D. Josh moved his into his templates folder. - **2:48** - Turn on **Enable click to copy on cards** to get the click-and-paste behavior. - **3:04** - Create the folder (right-click, New folder, "Decks"). Each subfolder becomes a deck named after the folder, and the images inside it are its cards. Josh added a Deck of Many Things and a Tarot deck, then reloaded Obsidian because he'd added them outside the app. - **4:05** - Tip: the Solo RPG Toolkit **CLI tool** ships with a Decks folder full of ready-made decks. ![[images/Obsidian-Solo-RPG-Toolkit-Custom-Decks-t0215.webp]] - **4:49** - Drawing from the Deck of Many Things fails. The cause: its cards are **WebP** files, which the plugin doesn't support. The Tarot deck uses **PNG** and works, so convert WebP to PNG with any batch converter. - **5:57** - Pasted cards show as WebP in his notes only because he runs the **Image Converter** plugin to save vault space. ![[images/Obsidian-Solo-RPG-Toolkit-Custom-Decks-t0445.webp]] ### 6:32 - Create A Deck - **6:33** - Live demo: he Googles "PF2e equipment deck PNG images", opens the Decks folder with right-click, **Show in system explorer**, and makes a new "Deck of Random Stuff" folder with a few book covers and images. - **8:38** - After a refresh the deck appears. Drawing confirms that the **JPEG** card doesn't work while the PNGs do. Use PNG. ### 9:26 - Outro - **9:28** - Ideas: random monster, NPC or treasure decks, tarot, random conditions, and crit and fumble decks. - **10:33** - Thanks to Alex Kowski for frequent updates. Plugs ObsidianTTRPGTutorials.com, the TTRPG community Discord for support (instead of YouTube comments) and the official Obsidian Discord for general questions like Dataview and Templater. ![[images/Obsidian-Solo-RPG-Toolkit-Custom-Decks-t0920.webp]] ## Things Mentioned ### Obsidian plugins - **Solo RPG Toolkit** by Alex Kowski - free community plugin for dice, oracles and card decks; now supports image decks, click to copy and custom decks from a folder of PNGs. - **Image Converter** - free plugin that converts pasted images (PNG to WebP) to save vault space. - **Dataview** and **Templater** - mentioned as typical questions for the official Obsidian Discord (both free). ### Tools - **Solo RPG Toolkit CLI tool** - comes with a Decks folder of ready-made decks. - Any batch WebP to PNG converter (search online). ### TTRPG products and decks - **Deck of Many Things** (Dungeons & Dragons magic item) and a **Tarot** deck, used as example decks. - **Pathfinder 2e** - Josh's vault ("Obsidian PF2e vault"); he searches for PF2e equipment card images. - Deck ideas: random monsters, NPCs, treasure, conditions, crit and fumble decks. ### Websites and communities - **ObsidianTTRPGTutorials.com** - Josh's free tutorial site. - **TTRPG community Discord** and **official Obsidian Discord** - free support. - **Josh Plunkett's Patreon** - paid support (from the description). ## Biographies - **Josh Plunkett** - Australian game master and YouTuber behind ObsidianTTRPGTutorials.com, known for in-depth tutorials on running tabletop RPGs and worldbuilding in Obsidian, plus a paid pre-built vault on Patreon. - **Alex Kowski** (name as heard in the captions) - developer of the Solo RPG Toolkit plugin for Obsidian, praised here for shipping frequent updates.