Meet Leaflet, a wiki-style note-taking tool for TTRPG campaigns!

What is Leaflet?
Leaflet is an online note-taking tool for players and GMs of TTRPG campaigns, such as D&D. As users create notes inside Leaflet Binders, the site links related notes together, resulting in a wiki-style view of your entire campaign.

Highlights

• Create notes for characters, quests, recaps, and more
• View your fantasy calendar and a timeline of events as they occur
• Track progress with counters and clocks (aka Tracks)
• Sharing and invite controls
• ...and more in development

Leaflet is available online at https://leaflet.page

What does it cost?
Leaflet is free to use with some limitations, with an optional premium tier for removed limits and advanced features.

Background
Around this time last year, my table was working on creating some shared notes for our D&D campaign, but the tool we were using at the time was frustrating a few of us (and was injecting lots of AI into the service). I wanted to build something that was easier to use, had more features, and was by-humans-for-humans.

The result is Leaflet, my homegrown small business and passion project over the last year or so, and I wanted to share it with the wider D&D community.

Who are you?
I'm a software developer in Colorado, USA, working on Leaflet alongside my day job! My plan is to put any proceeds from Leaflet back into the business to make it even more useful. As a D&D player myself, I want to create tools and resources for the community that are actually useful - not just an excuse to turn a profit.

Is this really AI-free?
Yes!

• Leaflet does not offer any LLM or image generator integration
• Leaflet was not vibecoded
• Leaflet was built with well-researched open-source libraries

I've been working in the software development space for 7+ years professionally, and Leaflet was built by hand by me over the course of about a year and a half. While AI continues to flood our news headlines, Leaflet does not have any plans to integrate generative AI features. Your notes are home to the creativity and stories that you tell at your table, and those deserve to be private, protected, and accessible.

Submitting questions & feedback
I would love to hear from the community on your thoughts about the tool, what works well, and what you'd like to see implemented. Leaflet includes a "Send Feedback" link that will go directly to me, so I recommend reaching out there first. You can also email our support address and browse the help page for more information.

Thank you for your interest, and I genuinely hope Leaflet can be useful to you and your table!

Hey all, it has been a while since I posted here!

A bunch of you liked the old DPRcalc dice calculator because it let you model out DPR without needing a DDB character sheet, but it didn't let you model things like "smite on crit" or bouncing attacks, or more complex builds.

So… I spent a few months rewriting the engine with a few goals:

1. Accurately represent any and all legal D&D rounds, both 5e (2014) and 5.5e+(2024).
2. Make the interface faster and easier to enter data, streamlining the common use cases, while still allowing for the most complex ones.
3. Make all features in DPRcalc use the same engine. Previously the analyzer had a bunch of bespoke functionality not present in the dice library or exposed on the dice calculator page
4. Make the underlying dice library open source and easy to use.

Try it at https://dprcalc.com/dice, it's ad-free and free to use as always.

Here is what is new in the 2.0 engine:

• Drastically Simplified UI: The minimum amount of data entry required has been heavily reduced. Infrequently used options are now hidden by default to declutter the workspace, and the system handles things like auto-dice-doubling for critical hits automatically.
• Menu-Driven Scaling: Instead of manually entering damage dice and modifiers, you can now add attacks, spells, and damage riders directly from a dropdown menu. These come with sensible defaults that automatically scale with your character level.
• Targeted Damage Riders: You can specify exactly how and when riders apply. For example, you can set Sneak Attack to only apply if a hit actually lands, and you can explicitly check boxes to dictate which specific attacks (e.g., Dagger Attacks but not the Flurry of Blows) can trigger it.
• Advanced Conditional Effects: It is now trivial to model optimization staples like "Smite on crit", attacks that explode on a max roll (Sorcerous Burst) or bounce to a new target on a matching roll (Chaos Bolt or the updated Chromatic Orb).
• Action Dependencies: What happens if that "Smite on crit" doesn't trigger? You can now model dependencies, such as setting up a different Bonus Action attack to only occur if the first condition fails.
• Attack Frequency: Similar to the analyze page, you can now specify certain attacks to only happen a specific percentage of the time (perfect for modeling Great Weapon Master's Cleave, Hew, or an average Attack of Opportunity rate).
• Complex Pre-Built Examples: The update includes numerous examples showing exactly how to model mechanics like Bless, Hunter's Mark, Graze, and even an absurd Rogue/Paladin/Monk/Ranger multiclass that combines and tracks a massive stack of separate features in a single round.

You can read the a breakdown of the engine rewrite on Patreon if that's your thing. For the developers and coding-inclined optimizers out there, the underlying dice library running the math is completely open source so you can use it for your own projects.

Drop any bugs, feedback, or feature requests in the comments!

Oh and if you like data visualization or math, here is a little thing I made showing how the math all works: https://yipe.github.io/dice

Disclosures

This supports all 2014 and 2024 5e content. The site is ad-free, free to use, and has no affiliate or referral links. This is a self-promotion post for my dice library and dice calculator app. This was lovingly (and slowly) built by hand, but AI (Code Rabbit) is used for automated code reviews since the math is pretty hairy.

My character has a rattlesnake familiar. We just leveled up to level 3 and I am going with Beast Master Ranger, and going with Beast of the Sky. I need help coming up with a lore reason why the snake is now able to fly. Any creative ideas would be greatly appreciated. TIA!

The latter is a part of an exchange explaining the rationale of having metaphysically pre-destined morality on thinking creatures. You want the bad guy to be easily recognizable, but why does he have to be /born/ with evil-identifying features? Why not have it be something like a mark or transformation you can only get from deeply aligning yourself with fucked up and repulsive acts?

I'm currently trying to make a Hill Giant guy basically be like Sweetpea from Adventure Time (kind big boy) but I'm conflicting with the lore that they're all born ravenously evil and I'm not sure what to do. This is my first time DMing and I feel restricted.

I'm not going to say this observation holds true for every player/character, but it's something I notice with some regularity.

For all the talk of "why would you play a boring human when there are so many fantastical options?", a lot of players seem to use the "interesting" aspects of their character as a crutch. They'll pick something exotic like drow or tiefling, think "that's really cool" and then feel like their job of making an interesting character is done. Instead of developing the character during actual play at the table, it just becomes a footnote on their character sheet that lets you know they're cool.

This isn't limited to character races/species either. It can be applied to other elements of a character backstory. They'll have some defining trait with maybe even pages of backstory to support it, but then that stays there in those pages. Their work of making something interesting finished before the first die was cast. The worst extreme of this imo are "joke characters" that rely on a single gimmick.

For all the dismissal mundane races with straightforward premises get, I've often found they can be the ones who are more willing to develop a character at the table where it really matters. Most of the personality that comes out during roleplay isn't found on a character sheet and players shouldn't rely on them to hold that element of play.

I'm just curious how people deal with players who want to do things but not let the other players know.

For lack of a better explanation, let's use the old murder-hobo type trope. Let's say all the players are in a tavern and one wants to go off and do something but doesn't want the other players to know; how does this play out at the table?

From what I can think, it's either:

• announce it anyway, as the characters won't know only the players, so hopefully they won't meta-game and use that knowledge later
• contact the DM privately

For our games, if we want to do something that is outside of the other characters sphere, we end up using discord to send messages to the DM directly. It does work but it feels a little disjointed because you end up with people sat at the table just chatting while two people furiously type away.

Is there a better way to handle this? Very basic example, last session we found some magic gems, discovered their power but I wanted to ask our guide something about them and try something without anyone seeing it.

Just curious to know how other groups approach these sort of things

I did the same question on r/onednd, but got curious if people did this before 5.5e/2024.

One idea I got after all of this that I plan to implement in my future campaign is a Corruptive Power System where the monsters and the players and spend their Hit Dice for extra effects. In the beginning it will just be stuff like extra damage, Temp HP, bonis AC, etc., only to evolve into brand new abilities but at some kind of cost that gets heavier the more its used.

Asking first with monsters because they often have an way to arbitrary amount of Hit Dice just to bad out their enormous HP pools with their only use being to heal up in a short rest if they fight a party, survive then run away.

Hi everyone,

A few hours ago, I made a post asking a lot of questions, and after reading it again, I realized it was probably a bit overwhelming. So I'd like to rephrase my question, if that's okay.

What I'd really like to know is: what are some good build recommendations, progression tips, useful items, and general beginner advice? Most of the RPGs I've played were video games, where you control your character with a keyboard and mouse or a controller, so tabletop RPGs are completely new to me.

If you could recommend any websites, games, or platforms where I can start playing with a Dungeon Master in the classic tabletop style, I'd really appreciate it.

One of my biggest questions is whether, because of a race's traits and ability score bonuses, I'm supposed to choose a class that takes advantage of those bonuses. However, after reading the Player's Handbook again, I noticed that the player distributes their own ability scores. Does that mean races don't actually have fixed ability scores? Since I couldn't find anything saying they do in the book, I guess they don't.

Sorry for the confusion, and thanks again for all your help!

I was looking through what you can make with artificer infusions at level 3, and I was wondering how rules work for one-time-use items like a spellwrought tattoo or a mystery key. Do you get your infusion back instantly if the item infused is destroyed or used up?

Additionally, if I took the spellwrought tattoo option would my spell options be limited to my own spells that I have prepared? Or would it be based on the spells I could prepare?

Recently, my wizard was given the necronomicon from his praton and along a few curses I get the ability to cast Create Undead 1/day with a few twists:

- I can summon 3 Undead, Fiend and/or Fey with CR lower than my level instead of creating ghouls.
- If they are inteligent enough (not necesseraly tied only to the ability score) I can name them and keep them under my control beyond the 24h time restriction without having to recast the spell.

While most of my summons up until now aren't combatants, I still have 11 summons who's stats, inventory, hp and abilities I need to keep track of. I was about to make a character sheet for each of them but I don't think that would be a good option, so I come to yall for better ideas.

DMs and players who've been in a similar summoner situation, how do you usually keep track of creatures like that? Do you recommend any tool or strategy? I could really use some help :)

For anyone curious, these are my summons:

• 1 Pixie (Navi) - CR 1/4
• 5 Will-o-Wells (Will, Willson, Willis, Wellson, Well) - CR 2
• 1 Will-o-Wisp (Castaigne) - CR 2
• 1 Empyrean Iota [from the 9-5 plane] (Nicolas) - CR 1
• 1 Brain in a Jar (Victor Frankenstein) - CR 3
• 1 Deathlock Wight (Cid) - CR 3
• 1 Swanmay (May) - CR 3

The only ones I summoned for fighting were the last 3, the Wisp and Wells are only here cause I like them and for light. The empyrean iota is here because I like it and as my emergency healing (since my max HP is now 1/3 of my total). The is there purely for the zelda reference.

TLDR: Need help with tools or strategies for keeping track of multiple summons/npcs

Okay so I just think Eberron is fucking amazing. Dragonmarks and the houses are fucking sick and the last war is peak.

First, I love dragonmarks. Just the idea of dragonmarks is cool and the houses are amazing and make the dragonmarks special. Like sure the Mark of Shadow is cool, but House Phiarlan, House Thuranni, and the Shadow Schism? They add a whole new level to it. I’ve made like 6 characters with the base of the dragonmarks and the dragonmarked houses since I got Forge of the Artificer a few days ago. There’s something for everyone in dragonmarks and the houses, like in the optimization community dragonmarks have potential to make strong builds and for people who like lore there’s a shit ton of lore behind them. If you have an Eberron campaign you can definitely use them, and if you don’t, as long as the DM’s cool with it there’s a ton of lore explanations.

Second, the Last War is amazing. For those who don’t know, the Last War was a century-long conflict that began after King Jarot of Galifar died and his children fought over which of them should inherit the throne, eventually shattering the united Kingdom of Galifar into warring nations. Over the course of the war alliances constantly shifted, new nations emerged, and the Dragonmarked Houses grew enormously wealthy and influential by supplying transportation, healing, weapons, mercenaries, and other services to the combatants. House Cannith created the warforged, magically constructed soldiers that could think and feel but were built, bought, and sent into battle as weapons. The conflict also saw the destruction of House Cannith’s leadership and headquarters when the Mourning suddenly transformed the entire nation of Cyre into the deadly Mournland in 994 YK, killing most people within its borders and leaving behind a magically devastated wasteland. Nobody knows what caused the Mourning, and the fear that it could happen again finally pushed the surviving nations toward peace. In 996 YK they signed the Treaty of Thronehold, formally ending the Last War, recognizing several new nations, and granting warforged legal freedom while outlawing the creation of new ones. The war may officially be over, but Eberron begins only two years later in 998 YK, so the continent is still full of veterans, refugees, political grudges, ruined families, unresolved territorial disputes, and nations preparing for the possibility that the peace won’t last. There were also some events like the Day of Mourning, the Battle of the Pines, the Battle of Cairn Hill, the Siege of Korth, the occupation of Thaliost, and the Eldeen Reaches' secession from Aundair that I didn’t include, but you get the idea. The last war was just fucking sick.

So I’ve been interested about DnD for a while and decided to create my very first homebrew campaign and when me and my players started, one of them asked me if they could train their characters for XP. I let them once but that got me wondering what I should REALLY do if they want to “train” their characters?

oh, just in time, r/dndnext, we were about to start the class! i hope you brought your books and notes, because i'm still curious about classes, and this time it's your turn to talk about your Wizards in front of the class.

if you decide to participate and earn extra credit, you may have to answer some of these questions: what is the inspiration behind your class? was it based on another pop culture Wizard, as your own idea for a wizard or are you just making a build with a never before seen strategy for the game? where did your wizard study? what is their book? do they preffer combat spells or utility spells? What is their race, level, subclass, equipment, spells... dont worry, you dont have to explain your response. homebrew is allowed, of course.

i might walk around the comments to see how your work is going and give you a few pointers on what i like about your character. Remember, i want at least level 10 in the Wizard class if you want to multiclass. you dont have a time limit (although i would preffer if you commented before Sunday 25, when i will be asking about your characters for the next class)

now i wouldnt be fair to just ask you to show me characters if i didnt show mine as a demonstration, so here you go:

-Julius, arcane boxer: a half orc with some dips into fighter and monk, but this character is mostly an illusion wizard. fighting in an underground wizard ring, he survives with just his punches and his spells.

-Yamato, the Onmyoji: homebrew race (Inugami) with homebrew subclass (onmyoji), this little guy protects his lord with his summoning powers and combat instincts.

very well, you have your homework ready, so i hope you give it your all. Class Dissmissed!

P.D: i want to thank the people that commented in my post asking about sorcerers in pop culture, i think i needed to have things clear about my "three quarters caster" idea.

My group is shameless min-maxers so they tend to crank their ACs as high as possible lol and so we end up having a fairly skewed idea of what a "good" AC is. Even Wizards and sorcerers getting close to or over 20 ac before casting shield I'm wondering if that's just what dnd is like nowadays or if we're outside the norm. What are the ranges of ac in your groups?

At level 4 as a monk my martial arts die is 1d4 right, but if I'm using a spear, that classifies as a monk weapon that has 1d6 damage, does it get downscaled to 1d4 or I can use it as a monk weapon with 1d6 damage while still having the martial arts property? By RaW of course, might discuss with the DM later but wanted to know what RaW has to say about it.

Join us to discuss all things D&D here: https://discord.gg/dndnext

I’m a player-recently-turned-DM running Princes of the Apocalypse. I’ve seen references / recommendations that the Sacred Stone Monastery is a level 5 area, but the Temple of Black Earth is a level 8 area. I am very confident that my party will crawl through all of the monastery and pretty much kill everyone. That includes Hellenrea who has the key to the stairs leading to the Black Temple. My party will likely want to use the key and continue their crawl.
I don’t really want my level 5 party to take those stairs and start the Temple, since it’s a level 8 suggested area. How do I make a good in-story reason for them to leave the Monastery after defeating it and not pursue the stairs and subsequent temple?
Or, should I adapt the Black Temple to be a more level friendly area? I just don’t want them to finish an Elemental Temple and then not want to pursue the other Haunted Keeps.
Trying to organize the overall progression and keep it making sense, but having a tough time aligning the big picture!

Thanks in advance!

Hey folks, new here, but wanted to share my project with you. My wife is DMing Stahd campaign right now and i was assisting her - tracking initiative, HP for NPCs etc. At some point i got sick of doing it in the spreadsheet, so i got an idea of making a tool that will be visually appealing, help both players and DMs to keep track of million things and additionally serve as a presentation platform for backdrops.
N.B AI arts, code and sprites were used to create it. I know it is a controversial topic, but i don't have resources to commission 450+ arts, sounds and code, etc
So in a nutshell on how it works: One tab is for DM and another one is casted for players (screen/tv/projector/zoom call) . DM has controls to add conditions, deduct hp and move the turn forward. Players see the line of cards with names, initiative and conditions. I also added support of Lair, legendary action, surprise round, 2014 vs 2024 5e rules and ability to customize the appearance of some elements. Moreover, for non combat scenes you can use the tool to cast maps, backdrops, present portraits or items.
You are welcome to check it out on [itch.io](http://itch.io) (it is free) https://vigil-it.itch.io/vigil
The work is still in progress and i am improving it after each session, but feel like it is ready for other players to try it. Will be glad to have some feedback and hope you rolls are always high!

Hey folks. We talk a lot on here about the martial/caster discrepancy, and I've been wondering this for a long time...

...what would happen to the game if you allowed anyone with Extra Attack to take two actions a turn instead of just two Attacks?

Do you think this would be "just helpful enough" for martials to feel better in 5e? Not enough? Too much?

I will admit, I've already leaned into this in small ways in my own games. I haven't yet let them take any action with it, but I declare a lot of things to only consume an "Attack" that would require your full action normally - like Escape attempts from enemy grappling/restraining abilities, interacting with things that would normally be an action instead of an object-interaction (like shoving open a particularly heavy door, turning the wheel of a portcullis, etc), drawing or putting away more than one thing a turn, Dashing as long as you end it next to an enemy (so sort of like a "charge" + attack), and a few others. I've seen no ill effects for this.

If Extra Action were a thing for any action though, that's beyond what I've experimented with. I could see it being powerful to Dodge and still make one Attack, for example. Or use two magic items in a single turn (or one + attack). The limits in both 5.0e and 5.5e for multiple spells in a turn would still be in place, so that particular expression would still be pretty limited - and even getting to the levels where you get Extra Attack cuts out most caster combos that might be interested in this anyway.

But I'm curious if such an idea would ever really be too much, compared to what casters can do.

And certainly this wouldn't solve the caster/martial discrepancy overnight by itself - wouldn't do much for Rogues, for example (might even step on their toes some since you could replace an Attack with the same stuff they do with Cunning Action then) - but I do like the idea of making another martial "niche" that they can do their thing (attacking) while also doing other actions important for the encounter. Whether that ends up being a Help action for another PC, aiming the Ballista, attempting a Perception check vs that hiding enemy, or hell, even Readying another attack for a specific trigger to come.

I feel like it still wouldn't compete with what casters can do at higher levels, and when martials get Extra Attack (level 5) is right around when I think they need it (since 3rd level spells are such a jump for casters, they start getting their real game-changer utility spells, etc.), but it would add a ton of versatility to a martial's turn. Even if attacking twice were still the optimal play, it would mean martials can do all sorts of fun BS that doesn't feel so suboptimal because it's not wasting your entire turn trying it.

(In before "but Bladesinger!"; don't even get me started on how much Bladesinger steals martials' thunder already lol. I still think it would improve more than it harms, but I would certainly also want to make an exception for Blade Warlocks, Bladesingers, and Valor/Swords Bards that they still get the "old version" where you can only attack.)

EDIT: After some great debate (thanks folks!) I have to agree this idea is Dead in the Water; and it's 100% the fault of CANTRIPS, haha. As some have rightly pointed out, this would allow things like EKs to spam the hell out of cantrips instead of making attacks, which is obviously bad.

After that revelation, I think the best idea is that instead of Extra Action, keep it as Extra Attack but simply expand the number of specific actions one can replace an attack with beyond Grapple and Trip, and leave spells out. A lot more work and words than just saying "now it's Extra Action", but ah well. Things I think would work well as "attack-replacements": Dash (lets martials close and still attack in the first round, a very common ask!), Disengage, Dodge (on the fence about this one), Help, Search, the Escape action (like escaping a grapple), object-interactions. Any others you like? Do tell me below!

I fucking LOVE dragonmarks in DnD. I love the houses, they‘re all fucking insane, I love how unique the dragonmarks are, and I love how they’re used in Eberron’s history. You don’t even need to have an Eberron campaign, if you do, amazing, if you don’t but everyone’s chill with it, you’re golden. Then if the DM says it defies lore, there‘s a ton of loopholes, like the World Serpent Inn, the Spinner’s Prison, and Baba Yaga’s Dancing Hut to name a few.

I’ve made like 6 dragonmarked characters since I got Forge of the Artificer a few days ago, and the houses’ history made them so cool. Like a house Phiarlan rogue with connections to the serpentine table and a prodigy artificer in house Cannith that has been impacted by the last war and it;s effect on house Cannith.

Honestly, I think dragonmarks are one of the best features in DnD.

Hi everyone! I'm running The House of Lament (5e 2014) next week for an online campaign (5 players) on Roll20 / Discord. I've played a lot of in-person D&D but this is my first time running online -- the PCs are all my friends from college.

The House of Lament is an adventure set in Ravenloft (a la Curse of Strahd) and a key part of the plot progression is live seances the players perform with various ghouls/spirits/haunts of the house. If I were running this campaign in person, the adventure dictates to use a physical ouija board to simulate these seances, where the spirits communicate various messages to the players. The more seances you do, the more the house "awakens" and you unlock hints for various quests within the house.

Running this campaign online, I'm trying to think of how I might adapt this -- and was curious if other people have encountered this before (esp now as we approach Halloween season)? A couple ideas I have:

• Scrap the board altogether, prompt the players to work together to engage in escalating rituals using a "theatre of the mind" / arranging the tokens on the board approach, then maybe design new traps based on this approach / the orientation of the players?
• Curious if there's an online tool to simulate a board?? It seems less fun though when you aren't actually touching the item.