u/jaymangan

It's my pleasure to introduce Memory of Ord. This is a free community tool for Directors to plan out their campaigns. It's a flow chart on steroids, built explicitly for Draw Steel campaigns!

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For each node in your graph, you can detail as much or as little as you want. Prep when inspiration hits. This can be for your session coming up later tonight, or for the villain that won't even be revealed for months yet. All of the dropdowns are prepopulated with options from the Draw Steel core books, but also extensible for your own custom additions.

You can nest nodes within nodes within nodes. You can start high-level with the base adventure arc, or as specific as an individual scene or combat encounter. Working top-down or bottom-up, you can layer your smaller bits into quests, quests into adventures, and eventually an entire campaign. You can expand any node to see what is nested inside, or collapse it to hide the details while you want to focus elsewhere.

Each canvas you work on is called a memory: a graph composed of nodes (each node possibly the head of its own graph of nodes within), and the edges connecting them. Any node can be "memorized", cloning it as its own first-class memory. And when working on one memory, you can pull in any other memories from your library as a new node, so you can remix your content as much as you like.

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Videos of everything mentioned above are visible on the landing page, using the familiar Road to Broadhurst as an example to drive the first 2, and plotting out the Running the Game: Sandboxing! video in the third.

You do need to create an account to use the product, primarily to support future sharing features. The tool is completely free: No paywalls. No ads. No selling your data. No claims on anything you create. No commercial restrictions (as long as you aren't sharing anything you don't have the rights to share).

Happy to answer any questions you may have, from what's currently available or on the to-do list. Happy crafting!