Old School Essentials campaign notes

Classic dungeon-crawling fantasy with dangerous environments, meaningful logistics, and treasure as a career path.

RealmBinder turns your table's rough notes or recordings into a shared record of the campaign: session recaps, characters, places and quests. Set the campaign to Old School Essentials and it knows the kind of story you are telling.

The gelatinous cube, a campaign cover for Classic Dungeon Crawlers
A ready-made campaign cover from Classic Dungeon Crawlers.

A Old School Essentials campaign frame

Choose a frame when you set up the campaign, or keep just the system. The frame picks the covers you start from, sets the look of the art, and tells RealmBinder the setting when it tidies your notes.

Ten-foot pole, a campaign cover for Classic Dungeon Crawlers

Classic Dungeon Crawlers

Adventurers delve into dangerous dungeons for treasure, reputation, and highly preventable injuries.

  • dungeons
  • treasure
  • danger
  • resource management

What changes in a Old School Essentials campaign

Notes that keep the right tone

When RealmBinder rewrites a session or the Chronicler asks you about one, it is told what a Old School Essentials story sounds like. It uses that for tone only: what your table wrote down always wins.

Tone
Dangerous, exploratory, and grounded.
Focus
Dungeon crawling, treasure hunting, logistics, and clever problem-solving.

Beside your other tools

RealmBinder isn't a character sheet, a rules reference or a virtual tabletop. Keep playing Old School Essentials the way you do and link the character sheet you already use.

Characters in the game's own words

Player character profiles ask for a class, species and background, the terms Old School Essentials players already use.

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