# Obsidian Community Plugins - CHANGES! ![[images/Obsidian-Community-Plugins-CHANGES.webp]] [Watch on YouTube](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_DE4GFcnMug) · 18:27 · Josh Plunkett · 2026-05-24 > Screenshots come from YouTube's low-resolution preview frames, since the full video download was blocked, so they're a bit soft. ## Outline ### 00:00 Intro: why plugin approvals stalled - For a long time no new plugins were approved for the community market, and many people were passing around untested BRAT (beta) plugins. - The Obsidian team fell behind because AI now makes plugins very fast; Josh says he made five himself in one week. - The team paused approvals to fix the problem, per the [Future of plugins](https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/) dev blog. ### 01:00 What changed - A new community website, plus a developer dashboard where devs sign in, keep plugins in draft, and choose when to submit. - Automated reviews check what a plugin does, guideline adherence, and known security issues, then give a health score that also weighs GitHub issues opened and closed. - Josh sees it as freeing the devs to build Obsidian while giving the community tools to judge plugin safety. Themes go through the same system. - Users can read the review too. Not every flag is a worry: like an iPhone app asking for clipboard access, an AI plugin talking to the internet is expected, but a note formatter doing so is suspicious. ### 04:27 Touring community.obsidian.md ![[images/Obsidian-Community-Plugins-CHANGES-t0431.webp]] - "Make Obsidian yours": 4,160 plugins and 526 themes at recording, with Popular, New, and Updated sections. - Categories are auto-tagged; under Knowledge there's now a dedicated TTRPG category, which Josh says suits world builders too. - The TTRPG list shows familiar plugins (Fantasy Statblocks, Initiative Tracker) and Jerrod Coyne's newly published TTRPG Tools suite: Maps, Soundboard, Timeline, Publish, Player Screen. Search supports quoted phrases. ### 07:04 Leaflet hand-over and TTRPG Tools Maps ![[images/Obsidian-Community-Plugins-CHANGES-t0735.webp]] - Javalent has said he can't maintain his plugins anymore, and they're moving to the Obsidian TTRPG Community GitHub. - Josh recommends moving from Leaflet to TTRPG Tools Maps, which will be the maintained, more powerful option. - The Maps page shows images, an overview (including one of Josh's videos), links, and the developer's readme. Read the readmes. ### 08:37 Reading a scorecard ![[images/Obsidian-Community-Plugins-CHANGES-t0840.webp]] - TTRPG Tools Maps scores 95 for health and review. Hygiene shows readme, license, and description present but no contributing guide. - Maintenance shows a commit last week, 93 commits in a year, and a recent release, which signals a healthy project. - Fantasy Statblocks shows a last commit 4 months ago and 9 commits in a year, patched just to keep it working. - Its automated scan lists 380 issues and 374 warnings, including vault reads (expected), one external domain (regex101), runtime base64 decoding, and no malware scan yet. - Josh mentions a recent Obsidian plugin that delivered a malicious payload. Only install from people you trust, and that includes him. ### 11:41 Updates, tags, sponsors, and issue links - An Updates section links to each release's changes, and tags place plugins in categories such as TTRPG and Images and Drawing. - Sponsor links like Buy Me a Coffee feed through from GitHub. - View on GitHub, Report a bug, and Request feature buttons go to the GitHub issues page. Josh asks people to file bugs there, not on Reddit or Discord, and to use Report for anything malicious. ### 13:13 Installing via Add to Obsidian ![[images/Obsidian-Community-Plugins-CHANGES-t1345.webp]] - Add to Obsidian opens the last-used vault straight to the install page. - The in-app Community plugins browser already lists the new plugins but doesn't show scores or categories yet. Josh guesses those are coming. ### 15:14 Clean up BRAT installs - If you tested these plugins via BRAT, remove them there and reinstall from Community plugins, since Josh has seen conflicts from having both. ### 16:14 New finds and Josh's own plugin - Browsing the TTRPG category turned up plugins Josh hadn't heard of, such as Charted Roots. - He has published Relations, his first plugin, built with AI. A video on it comes next. - Another map plugin appeared while he was recording, which shows how fast the catalog is growing. ## Things mentioned ### Obsidian sites and features - [Future of plugins dev blog](https://obsidian.md/blog/future-of-plugins/), the announcement of the new review process. - [Obsidian Community site](https://community.obsidian.md/), a free directory of plugins and themes with categories, scores, and install links. - Developer dashboard, automated reviews, health and review scorecards, and the in-app Community plugins browser. ### Plugins - TTRPG Tools suite by Jerrod Coyne (free): Maps, Soundboard, Timeline, Publish, Player Screen. - Fantasy Statblocks and Initiative Tracker (free, originally by Javalent, now moving to the Obsidian TTRPG Community GitHub). - Leaflet (free, by Javalent), which Josh suggests replacing with TTRPG Tools Maps. - BRAT (free), the beta-plugin installer. - Charted Roots (free community plugin, new to Josh). - Relations (free), Josh's own character-relationship plugin. ### Tools and websites - GitHub issues, for bug reports and feature requests. - regex101, an external site one plugin calls. - Buy Me a Coffee, sponsor links shown on plugin pages. - [obsidian.ttrpgtutorials.com](https://obsidian.ttrpgtutorials.com), Josh's tutorial site. ## Bios - **Josh Plunkett** is an Australian GM and YouTuber who runs Obsidian TTRPG Tutorials, teaching tabletop players and world builders to run campaigns in Obsidian. He has recently started building plugins with AI. - **Jerrod Coyne** is a community developer whose TTRPG Tools plugins were among the first approved under the new process. - **Javalent** wrote Fantasy Statblocks, Initiative Tracker, and Leaflet. He has said he can no longer maintain them, so they're being handed to the Obsidian TTRPG Community. - **The Obsidian team** builds the Obsidian note-taking app and runs its plugin and theme ecosystem.