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Table Canon

Table Canon turns uploaded tabletop RPG session audio into recaps, outlines, and a persistent campaign desk for game masters. It supports between-session preparation with World and Story views, open-thread tracking, Prep suggestions, and cited Ask answers about earlier sessions.

Table Canon

Table Canon captures tabletop RPG sessions for later prep

Table Canon is a campaign-memory and session-recap tool for tabletop RPG game masters. In its current web beta, a GM uploads game-night audio, and the service turns it into a transcript, outline, recap, and structured campaign information instead of requiring the GM to reconstruct the session from handwritten notes or scattered chats.

The resulting campaign desk combines night-by-night session material with longer-running World and Story information. GMs can review what happened, find open threads and callbacks while preparing, and ask questions about earlier events with references to the relevant sessions. Live recording for the browser and mobile app is planned but is not yet available according to the site.

Features for turning sessions into campaign memory

Session audio upload

Upload an audio file from game night in the current web beta. Table Canon transcribes and enriches the recording rather than treating it as an unprocessed file.

Recap and session outline

Review the night through a transcript, speaker information, a structured outline, and a readable recap. The site says uploaded sessions are usually ready in about 15 to 20 minutes.

Persistent campaign desk

Use campaign-level World and Story views to follow people, places, factions, narrative arcs, plot threads, and other details that accumulate across sessions.

Prep workspace

Open Prep for open threads, hooks, callbacks, and suggested next-session ideas. The sample campaign shows ideas with supporting context and an option to resolve or dismiss them.

Campaign Ask

Ask questions about the campaign's memory or a specific session. Answers include references such as the relevant sessions, allowing a GM to trace a detail back to the recorded play.

Practical ways GMs can use Table Canon

  • Prepare between weekly sessions

    Upload the previous game night's recording and read the generated recap and outline before planning the next scene. This provides a single review point for what happened without requiring complete notes from the table.

  • Recover a forgotten campaign detail

    Use World and Story to investigate a name, location, faction, promise, or unresolved event that appeared several sessions ago. Ask can return a cited answer while the GM remains in the campaign desk.

  • Choose the next adventure pressure

    Review Prep for open hooks and generated next-session ideas, then examine the associated context and involved entities before deciding which thread to develop.

  • Maintain continuity across a long campaign

    Keep a long-running campaign's people, places, arcs, and plot threads in one accumulating workspace rather than rebuilding a campaign summary after every session.

Pros and Cons

Pros

  • Converts uploaded game audio into a recap, outline, transcript, and speaker-aware session record.
  • Maintains campaign-level World and Story information, including open threads, callbacks, and narrative arcs across nights.
  • Provides a Prep view with next-session ideas and an Ask tool that cites the sessions behind campaign answers.
  • Offers a free lifetime allocation of processed audio and pay-as-you-go hour packs that do not expire.

Cons

  • The current web beta requires uploading a completed recording; live recording in the browser and mobile app is still planned.
  • The site does not document external integrations or specific supported game systems in the available product information.
  • Generated output is typically not immediate; the site says an uploaded session is usually ready in about 15 to 20 minutes.

FAQ

How do I add a session?

Today, Table Canon's web beta accepts uploaded audio files from a game session. Live recording in the browser and mobile app is described as coming soon.

What does Table Canon produce from an uploaded recording?

After upload, Table Canon produces a transcript, speaker information, a session outline, a recap, World and Story updates, Prep notes, and campaign-wide Ask access. The site says results are usually ready in about 15 to 20 minutes.

Can I look up details from earlier sessions?

Ask searches the campaign memory and returns answers with references to the relevant sessions. It can be used for questions about a character, place, event, or earlier promise.

How is Table Canon priced?

The Free plan includes 6 hours of processed audio for the lifetime of the account. Starter includes 7 hours per month for $8.99, and Pro includes 20 hours per month for $19.99. One-time hour packs are also available and do not expire.

What does Table Canon say about session data and cancellation?

The site says session audio and campaign content are used to run the account and are not used to train generalized public models. It also states that paid subscriptions can be managed or canceled at any time, with access continuing through the billing period.

Quick Facts

Category
Tabletop RPG campaign memory and productivity
Primary users
Game masters
Current platform
Web beta with audio-file upload
Planned capture method
Live recording in the browser and mobile app
Processing workflow
Upload audio, then review recap, outline, campaign desk, Prep, and Ask
Free allowance
6 hours of processed audio for the lifetime of the account