Retriever — an Obsidian Campaign Kit

A free, open-source note-management and publication toolkit for tabletop GMs — and the companion to Sled Dog. Built for Obsidian and powered by Claude: keep your session notes, transcribe what happened at the table, publish polished recaps to Discord, and visualize the web of people, places, and things — all from one tidy vault. Retriever ships a Stonetop toolkit today, with support for more systems on the way.

Your notes, organized and ready to share.

Retriever is the machinery that keeps your campaign's knowledge organized — not adventure text (that's our published content) and not live play (that's Sled Dog), but the notes, recaps, and relationships that hold it all together. It ships a Stonetop toolkit today and is built to support more systems. Free and open on GitHub.

Notes & publication

A set of Claude Code skills for the whole loop.

  • Set up in one commandScaffold an Obsidian-ready notes vault and campaign structure instantly.
  • Transcribe the tableTurn what happened this session into clean, structured notes and a recap.
  • Publish to DiscordAuto-post polished recaps straight to your group's channel.

See the whole campaign

Everything a GM needs on hand, in Obsidian.

  • Visualize relationshipsA generated, typed map of people, places, and things — straight from your notes.
  • Notes vault + templatesA tidy Obsidian vault seeded with everything, ready to fill in.
  • Inkscape map templatesEditable maps with a keyed grid you can drop into your vault.
A typed relationship map of people, places, and things — generated from your notes.
Editable Inkscape map templates — drop in your map and the labelled markers stay on top, ready for distance checks at the table.
How it fits together: prep, run, recap, and auto-publish to your group's Discord.

Free and open-source. Ships a Stonetop toolkit today, with more systems on the way. Unofficial, fan-made tooling.

The Sled Dog logo — a real-time campaign manager for Stonetop

Better together

The other half of one GM workspace.

Retriever handles your campaign's memory; Sled Dog handles live play — inventory, moves, characters, the steading, expeditions, and followers, in real time. Run Obsidian with Retriever and Sled Dog side by side and you've got one place to prep, play, and publish. Sled Dog is our real-time campaign manager for running Stonetop seamlessly.

Meet Sled Dog →
New to Stonetop?

Retriever organizes a Stonetop campaign — the wonderful game by Jeremy Strandberg that started it all. Stonetop is the first system Retriever supports, with more on the way. You'll need the base game to use these tools, and honestly you'll want it anyway. Grab the original from its creator.

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Wear the fun.

Original Stonetop class art on unofficial, made-to-order tees — one for every playbook. Every shirt helps fund free content and amazing tools like Sled Dog.

The Ranger Stonetop playbook tee, printed with original class art
A wide panorama of the Stonetop skyline — timber-and-thatch roofs around the rune-carved Stone, with the Great Wood at the town's edge