WISE RPG: A System For Worldbuilding and Storytelling (0-5)

Explore Obsidian and its features in the kit, using the custom plugins and system tweaks introduced for level one. Go through the lessons with the notes in the kit.

Learn Obsidian basics and moving notes through settings, command palette, keyboard shortcuts, and plugins, with session zero exposure and tips for opening vaults, side panels, tags, and view tabs.

Explore how to use and customize the left and right side panels in Obsidian, including how to expand, collapse, and arrange content with visual examples.

Open the Obsidian settings menu using a keyboard shortcut or the graphical route. Navigate the side panel and click the gear icon to access and review your settings.

Learn how the Obsidian command palette, triggered by control p or command p, lets you perform a range of actions inside the app.

Explore Obsidian tabs to open multiple notes, freely arrange and move them, and use split right or down to view notes side by side for writing.

Create a note any time by opening a new tab and clicking create note, or pressing Ctrl+N; on Mac, use Command+N and click create new note in inbox folder.

Explore how to open notes in Obsidian using quick switcher links, the files pane, and the search pane to navigate your worldbuilding content efficiently.

Open via quick switcher to search by name and open files quickly, using a new tab, go to file, or Ctrl O; browse to biome and open it.

Learn how to open files via links in Obsidian, demonstrate opening a file from its link, and use right-click to open a new tab to return to Obsidian.

Open notes quickly by using the Obsidian files pane; click a note to open it and select the one you want to view.

Trigger a search in the Obsidian search pane, then click a note to open it on the right and access task board notes.

Learn how to place a note in reading view and switch to edit mode using the pencil icon, keyboard shortcuts, or more options, ensuring editing safety.

Pin a note by right-clicking the tab and selecting pin to prevent accidental closure. Pinned notes open links to the side, while unpinned notes open in the same tab.

Learn to move files using the Obsidian files pane with right-click or drag-and-drop, and relocate items to destinations like inbox.

Master obsidian shortcuts for tasks—creating notes, opening tabs, searching, graph view, with mac and windows formats, editing shortcuts like bold, italics, undo, redo, copy, paste, and cut, custom hotkeys.

Master custom hotkeys to edit efficiently: move lines, trigger emoji toolbar and insert template, sort lines, toggle case, select text, refactor notes, and move a file to another folder.

View all tags in the right side panel by clicking the tag icon. See a list of all tags used in your vault.

Learn to use and manage tags in the kit by checking the tags panel, creating custom tags with the hash key, and typing to see tag options.

Organize content with searchable tags from the kit or custom tags to track ideas and processes, like a to do tag, and use top properties to indicate media types.

Explore Obsidian plugins, including core and community options, to extend the notebook's functionality. Learn how to view installed plugins, and enable or disable them from the left panel settings.

Explore the kit’s community plugins, including data view, dice, roller, emoji toolbar, Excalidraw, Kanban note, refactor, numerals, Pandoc, and Tag Wrangler, plus quality of life features.

Apply idea-free write and rewrite workflows to generate notes: develop an idea, draft via free write, then rewrite with headings, restructure content, fix grammar, and finalize as an executive summary.

Discover markdown basics, a lightweight markup language for formatting plain text. Learn its benefits: ease of use, portability, compatibility, and flexibility, plus practical notes on markdown characters.

Explore the causes of writer's block, from neurodivergence to perfectionism, across eight categories, and apply practical strategies like breaking tasks, managing expectations, and using character sheets to regain momentum.

Conquer blank page syndrome by repurposing existing ideas from your knowledge vault, practicing free writing, and embracing imperfect drafts before revising and changing your writing environment.

Examine neurotypical and personality modeling inability, and explore theory of mind differences in neurodivergent experiences, while learning to use character sheets to predict actions in fiction and tabletop role-playing games.

Stage changing dysfunction blocks turning basic ideas into a coherent piece and advancing to the next stage. Expand bullets, clarify needs, and prompt an AI or LLM to finish.

Break down big tasks into smaller steps to overcome scope intimidation and writer's block. Use bulleted lists, seek quick wins, and apply Pareto principle (80/20) to focus on valuable work.

Identify a handful of tasks, break them down, and prioritize by importance to manage executive dysfunction and writer's block, with a plan and recovery breaks.

Identify and prioritize competing projects to overcome writer's block and executive dysfunction. Build a master, prioritized task list for each project using the Pareto principle.

Identify gaps in knowledge to overcome writer's block and map unknown unknowns. Use rubber ducking, focused reading, notes, and targeted discussions to write with clarity.

Explore how perfectionism hinders writing and contributes to writer's block and blank page syndrome, then apply mitigation strategies like satisficing, Pareto-focused revision, and embracing imperfect first drafts.

Apply the iceberg method to systemize creativity for worldbuilding, following a practical process to develop planets, continents, states, cities, and characters.

Adopt a planet guides you to build a world by selecting images, naming, and assigning status, species, and quirks with the planet basic template, plus example solar system layouts.

Explore continent creation for your world by selecting image, name, status, dominant species, and biomes like coastal, rainforest, and cave. Learn to use templates and connect continents to planetary systems.

Design a country and state with a customizable template, blank canvas, and step-by-step rules for selecting name, shape, dominant species, biomes, and government types, using a dice-based randomizer.

Apply the five-step community builder process to craft a sample town named Véspera with templates, fungi, weekly storytelling, and a small democracy.

Design a character quickly using templates and a character randomizer, rolling gender, species, name, age, traits, and quirks, then compare expanded versus plain text templates.

Watch a practical rundown on making notes by building an empty note, adding YAML front matter, headings, daily notes, and templates, then organize content with inline properties and markdown basics.

Learn how to import and link game PDFs into the Creator's Kit, extract the table of contents, headings, and page-specific content to create a searchable drop-in adventure.

Configure daily notes to go to a log folder with a daily note template, trigger today’s note with ctrl p, and keep a chronological record of daily work.

Trent demonstrates Obsidian Canvas as a versatile worldbuilding tool, illustrating fiction and nonfiction writing workflows, story arcs, kanban boards, mood boards, website mockups, and asset organization.

Explore obsidian canvas as a thinking workspace with a desk, wall, scratch pad, and emoji icons to organize daily notes and data view tasks for worldbuilding.