Tutorials

Six short guides, in the order most DMs need them. If you are already running a campaign somewhere else, start with the second one.

Getting started

Your first campaign
4 min
Making a campaign, filling it, and what to do in the first twenty minutes.
Bringing in notes you already have
6 min
Reading a Notion or Obsidian export, a Word file, or anything you can paste — without retyping a year of work.

The loop

Preparing a session
6 min
Scenes on a board, encounters attached to them, and a run sheet you can print.
Running a session at the table
6 min
The table view, the combat tracker, answers mid-session, and improvising when the party goes somewhere you did not prepare.
The debrief
5 min
Ten minutes after the session that keep your campaign true — and the part of Yarnfold worth staying for.

How it works

How the codex stays true
7 min
Facts with end dates, threads, significance, and why the assistant always shows you where something came from.

Stuck on something not covered here? Write to us — we would rather hear about it than have you work around it.