The workshop
A workshop is a campaign that never plays. It has every content editor a campaign has, measured against a stand-in party you declare, and nothing to narrate. Build a world there once, then import it into as many campaigns as you like. Workshops, campaigns, characters and individual assets all clone.
The shelf and the hub
Workshop on the home screen opens the shelf: your workshops with covers, plus prepared worlds from the registry that install as workshops. Opening one shows its hub, a card per tool with a count. A command palette (on a desktop) jumps to any tool or entry.
The tools
| Tool | What you make |
|---|---|
| WorldForge | The world as one document over the records the table plays: a Character is a cast member, a Location a place, a Faction a faction. A wiki, a web of links (family trees, chains of command, as truth or as belief), a timeline with converting calendars, an atlas with pins and regions, secrets with their keepers, and a stub scan. Forge, Ask the world, Draft and Paint appear when the server has the AI for them. WorldForge files import and export whole, and the AI Dungeon Master is told each NPC's hidden truth and the secrets the party has not learned. |
| Storyboard | The arc as beats and acts. A fight card uses the fight it picked, arrows can be one route of several or "only if", and a later board joins an arc already played as its next act. Imported into an AI campaign, it becomes the plan the Dungeon Master follows. |
| Party | The stand-in target party and any pregens, with a level mismatch warning. |
| Battle maps | The map studio, Map Forge and Map Editor. See Maps for dungeon masters. |
| Region | The region map editor with imports and PNG export. |
| Encounters | Monsters and placements with live difficulty against the party, hidden enemies, overrides, rewards, a private note, and a "How hard is this?" workbench. |
| Cast | NPCs with role, portrait, voice, gender, location (offered from the region map and geography lore) and relationships. An NPC can fight as an SRD stat block or one of your own. |
| Factions | Standing, goals and power, and who belongs. |
| Bestiary | Monsters from a catalogue pick or from scratch: the full stat block, a sectioned trait editor, spells known searched from the catalogue, passive perception derived in the right order. |
| Homebrew | Items (weapons, armour, magic items with every part of their magic), spells with the engine's whole mechanics, feats, backgrounds, species, subclasses, and hazards (traps, poisons and diseases the engine runs by name). Start from copies a published entry, marked Variant, and the copy plays at the table exactly like the original. A checker under the editor reads each kind against the SRD's norms, with a link to the rule's page. |
| Lore | The binder. See The binder. |
| Tables | Roll tables with x3 weights, rows that point at another table, a monster, an item or an NPC (picked from what the workshop holds), nesting four deep, and draw without replacement. |
| Rules | Rulesets: house rules and the homebrew a ruleset ships. |
| Plugin | A world pack built from this workshop, with guided setup, catalogue pickers, browser-resized pictures and a Publish tab. |
| Share | The bundle export, listing what it will carry. |
Tours, guides and glossary
The shelf, the hub and every tool have a spotlight tour that runs once and can be replayed from Help. A tool's tour walks into its own editor where the work happens. Help inside the workshop is a written guide per tool: what it is for, a first session in order, and the things people miss, with the tool you have open first. A glossary sits beside conditions, schools of magic, weapon properties, damage types, skills and alignments.
Pick from a list
Wherever a tool used to ask for the name of something that already exists, it now offers the list beside the field and still accepts typing: monster search in the encounter workbench, a picker that writes table rows, lore links from a dropdown, tags you already use, an NPC's location from the region map, languages and conditions from their lists.
Bundles
Share writes a .odm-workshop.json bundle with pictures inside; homebrew, pregens, Market shops, the WorldForge document and every link between the pieces travel too. A chapter workshop can draw on one shared workshop: its pickers list the shared cast, places, maps and fights, and the links stay live. Importing offers every kind as a tick. See Importing workshop prep.
The Plugin tool
One draft per workshop. A guided identity wizard, builder tabs for races, classes, backgrounds, spells, items, features, monsters, factions, locations, hooks, a glossary and name seeds, pickers from the SRD and the content pack so no id is typed, Pull from this workshop to lift the cast and bestiary in, pictures resized in the browser, and a Publish tab that runs the validator and downloads the manifest or installs it on this server (administrators only). The draft rides in the bundle and through Duplicate. See Content pack and world packs for what a pack is.
