Campaign Journal
Learn how Scribe’s Campaign Journal tracks your adventurers, NPCs, and locations across sessions. Automatically link entries, view session appearances, and build a living campaign wiki that evolves as
Scribe automatically builds and maintains a dynamic campaign journal as you play, tracking key characters, places, and events from your sessions. These entries evolve over time and are crosslinked with the sessions they appear in — giving you and your players a living archive of your story.
What Is the Campaign Journal?
The Campaign Journal is your campaign’s central knowledge base. As you process sessions, Scribe identifies and updates three types of entries:
Adventurers – Player characters
NPCs – Important non-player characters that appear in dialogue or narration
Locations – Places visited, explored, or referenced
Each entry includes:
A short description, either user-written (for Adventurers) or generated and updated by Scribe (for NPCs and Locations) based on session content
A list of Appearances showing each session where the entry played a role. These include a few bullet points that summarize the entry's involvement — such as contributions, decisions, major actions, or new context introduced in that session
You can think of it as a campaign wiki — one that updates itself.
How Entries Are Associated With a Session
For now, all entries have to manually linked to a session by the user during the session upload process. However, once linked, Scribe does the heavy-lifting of determining relevant information to update.
When configuring a session, you can list relevant entries in two ways:
Select existing entries from your Campaign Journal for Scribe to update.
List new entries you want Scribe to create based on the session.
Scribe will write or update the relevant entries based on what happens in the audio, and will automatically link them to the processed session as Session Lore.
TIP: The quickest way to add new Entries is via this session upload process, though they can also be added individually within the Campaign Journal
Note: Scribe does not automatically detect and create new entries. If you want Scribe to write a new entry, it must be created before or during session upload.
How Entries Are Updated
If a listed entry already exists:
The entry description may be revised if new context is introduced (for NPCs and Locations)
Scribe will add a new Session Appearance and list any relevant information.
If the entry is new:
Scribe will write a short description (for NPCs and Locations), list relevant highlights for that session appearance, and begin tracking references across future sessions.
Note: At the moment, Scribe does not write Adventurer descriptions because player character information often exists outside of session dialogue. We are working on more intelligent ways to combine in-session and out-of-session context for Adventurer entries.
Reviewing and Editing Entries
You can view and edit entries in the Campaign Journal at any time. For each entry:
You can manually edit the description at any time. In future sessions, Scribe will still reference this description to determine if new context needs to be added — but will not remove any user-entered information.
You can edit, delete, rearrange, and add new session Appearances and Highlights as needed.
Note: Manual edits only apply localized changes — they do not trigger any cascading updates across relevant entries or sessions.
What Is Session Lore?
When you select adventurers, NPCs, or locations for a session, Scribe treats those entries as Session Lore. This means:
The entries are highlighted in the session summary view
Readers can click on any entry to jump to its full profile
This makes it easy to follow characters, plotlines, and locations across multiple sessions.
Campaign Journal is still in the early stages of our complete feature vision. Stay tuned for exciting enhancements such as:
Automatic detection of new and existing entries, removing the need for manual creation and linking.
Automated Adventurer descriptions with option to add and reference "Backstory" information.
Featured Image generation for adventurers, NPCs, and locations
Cascading updates across associated sessions and entries.
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