Story Goblin Makes Note-Taking a Party Activity
Finally, you no longer need to bribe your players for notes
Story Goblin, a new free tool for TTRPG groups, is now live. It was designed for the exact moment when the GM says, “So… anyone remember what happened last session?” and five players suddenly develop collective amnesia.
Instead of relying on one saintly note-taker to carry the intellectual burden of the entire table, Story Goblin gathers everyone’s notes into a shared, searchable archive. It’s a lightweight web app that doesn’t add more work for the GM. Spin up an adventure, add the basics, hand players an invite code, and you’re off. That’s it.
Not a Productivity App — a Party Tool
Most note apps try to be a second brain, stuffed with AI tools summarizing everything and giving unsolicited suggestions. Story Goblin just wants to help your party remember who stabbed whom, where the cursed amulet came from, and what inside joke nearly broke the table last week.
The app is designed around natural game flow:
- GM starts a session
- Every player joins
- Everyone writes in their own style, chats, and tracks character sheets
- Story Goblin gathers it all and stores it cleanly in the Adventure Dashboard
- Players can compare clues, perspectives, quotes, and update their characters
- GMs get organized, searchable session histories without lifting a finger
It turns note-taking into collaborative scrapbooking of the entire adventure. It’s simple. It’s fast. And it instantly becomes the campaign’s memory palace.
Modular Character Sheets for Any System (Including Solo Players)
This is where Story Goblin gets strangely powerful.
Story Goblin includes a fully modular, system-agnostic character builder that adapts to almost any tabletop system, even solo campaigns. It isn’t just “we left you a few blank boxes so that counts”.
Players can:
- Customize every stat, resource, tracker, ability, and item
- Track progress bars, resource pools, currency, and more live during sessions
- Drag-and-drop to reorganize their sheet
- Swap items between characters
- Filter characters by custom tags
- Switch between multiple characters mid-session
It can be a simple reference to core stats and an external link to their DNDBeyond sheet, or it can be a complete character tracker for the solo rpg player.
The Adventure Hub Without The Learning Curve
Story Goblin creates a home base for every moment in your adventure:
- Session Notes including image upload, secrets, goals, and chats are collected automatically at session end. Players can choose to keep their notes private or share with the party.
- Adventure Journals for NPCs, quests, locations, and running jokes
- Deep Note Linking to weave your own story web
- Live Party Chat for table banter, GIFs, images, and reactions
- Markdown Support for clean exports to Obsidian, Notion, etc.
All of it private. All of it organized. All of it searchable.
Simple. Free. Private.
No AI summaries. No AI GM. No art generator. Just a clean tool for collaborative storytelling.
The app is free forever, supported through optional donations from the community. Later, there are plans to release more advanced features and cosmetics under a paid subscription for power users, but the core features will always remain free.
Founder Quote
“My players sometimes like to read their notes aloud from the last session. They always laugh at each other's wildly different notes and perspectives. Story Goblin is meant to give those moments to everyone.
When everyone takes notes together, the game gets funnier, clearer, and way more memorable.”
Availability
StoryGoblin.com is live now and free to use.
