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Hello GMs,

I'm excited to share the public release of your new customizable virtual GM screen, Paragon Campaign Dashboard. This app is a companion to Improved Initiative, although it is designed for use in any tabletop RPG, with a focus on improv-storytelling games like Apocalypse World. 

Paragon Campaign Dashboard uses Cards to organize your game prep and reference it at the table. There are several types of cards:

Article Cards can contain markdown-formatted text. Useful for characters, locations, read-aloud text, game rules, et cetera

Random Table Cards will roll on a random table that you provide. When editing, it accepts the commonly used markdown format used in places like /r/dndbehindthetables, such as this table used in the demo above.

Dice Cards provide a space to roll and record die rolls using the familiar Roll20 style dice specification.

Image Cards show an image. Right now it only supports image URLs, and you can drag an image from another tab straight onto an image card.

Clock Cards are inspired by the Clock mechanic of various PbtA games. They can be used for tracking progress toward a goal or event, for example. 

There is a Player View that you can use to show chosen cards to your players.

Try the app for your game prep right away, then use it during your next online game. I received a lot of great feedback from Patrons, who got to try it out a couple of weeks early. There's a lot more planned for Paragon Campaign Dashboard, including exclusive collaboration features for Patrons. I'd love to hear what you think about the app.

Try it now at https://paragondashboard.com/ 

Thanks for your support!

-Evan

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Victor Navone

I love this! Once there is the ability to save/sync I will definitely use this.

Evan Bailey

That's great! It currently saves your dashboard to browser storage similar to the free version of Improved Initiative, but I'll be adding Account Sync later.

Pyromstr

This is amazing! I've been waiting for a decent visual manager like this for a long time! However, could you give an example of how the image tab is intended to work? Right now I'm trying to drag an image from google, but all it shows in a blank image every time. I've also tried pasting a URL.

Alex Hilborn

It doesn't work from google images for me either. Try going to the actual site and dragging that image.

Alex Hilborn

This is great! A few random ideas off the top of my head: colors for cards, caption fields in the image cards, ability to categorize cards, different pages on the dashboard, separate dashboards for separate campaigns.

Pyromstr

That works! Also seems to work from Discord too (I, strangely, use it for hosting my player's portraits.

Adam McKinney

wow, this is great anyone know how to name that tables?

Zach Hunt

I'm prepping for my game tomorrow, and this looks like it'll be super useful! I love the Player View, and expect I'll be using it a lot in the future.

Rowena Knill

Any news on the account sync feature? I do my prep on my desktop and use a laptop at the game, so its really a vital feature for me to use it. Would really love to be able to do so.

Evan Bailey

Hi Rowena, I'm glad you're excited about the Account Sync feature. No news on this yet, I probably won't release account sync for Paragon this month but maybe next month.

Adam McKinney

If you don't mind using third party extensions you should be able to copy the local storage from one computer to another. Use at your own risk though.

Adam Carlson

I really like this. One thing that I think is a must is an undo button. It's quite easy to click on the x instead of the "show to players" button and then a whole bunch of work can just go down the tubes. (Speaking from experience, but I didn't really lose anything since I was just playing around.

Adam Carlson

It'd become incredibly useful if there was a way for the community to share cards and dashboards. I could easily imagine lots of people contributing their favorite DM screen roll tables or references and then you'd really be off to the races.

Michael Pflugrad

I want the ability to embed the player view of improved-initiative! this is great!

David Silverman

Love this. Have you considered linking random tables to articles and linking random table outcomes to other tables?