u/Full-Comparison-3553

An update for those interested

Hey everyone!

Last month I made a post about my project to consolidate 4AD into Obsidian.md. Just wanted to provide an update for anyone that was interested!

What's changed:

I finally purchased 4AA, as well as WAA, so the majority of my time has been spent importing that content, as well as what I have of the Twisted series (hoards, minions, dungeons, final fights). I’ve also spent a lot of time cleaning up my vault and modularizing individual items (traits, equipment, spells, etc) so that they can be displayed more cleanly in bases instead of handmade tables. This involved going through and cleaning up the properties/tags for the 1000+ notes I've collected, which was a lot of work but largely worth it for the cleaner structure imo.

This also provided me with a better way to organize my Table of Contents and Commonly Used Resources pages, which is the main way I navigate the vault while playing. This new structure should also support adding additional content more smoothly, although I'm sure as I go along it will still need to be tweaked to a certain extent.

As far as future plans:

I've also purchased TTT, so that's next on my list. There's definitely a lot of content in there, so I'm just trying to wrap my head around how I want to organize it before I get started. I also am continuing to clean up the vault in order to make sure it's ready to support an influx of such a large number of notes. It's a big book, but I figure it's important to get it in sooner rather than later just to help keep things organized moving forward. Things should be (relatively) smooth sailing after this.

On my last post someone commented that I should consider posting a play through, and I've decided to take the plunge and try posting a campaign on Youtube! I can't provide an exact time frame for when you can expect videos, but I'm in the process of figuring out how to get all of that set up so be on the lookout for future posts!

Anyway, probably too long of a post but if you've made it this far I appreciate the read! Happy delving

I've fully converted 4ADEE into markdown with Obsidian.md

Overkill? Probably. But I got tired of endlessly flipping through books and "CTRL+F"ing my way through PDFs. This is much more convenient for me with everything linked together and makes speed of play go way up.

I think I've built a solid base that will allow me to keep things organized as I add more supplements in the future; this is just the expanded edition but I'm currently working on adding the twisted series that I've recently purchased and plan on adding everything I buy in the future.

I still do prefer to draw out my maps in a journal and track encounters/character sheets on physical paper (although I'm looking for a better solution for this within Obsidian if anyone has any suggestions), but the game is fully playable from within the app with the addition of a few plug-ins that help with dice rolling and map making.

Anyway, just wanted to share!

u/Full-Comparison-3553 — 1 month ago