Pathfinder campaign notes
Pathfinder campaigns generate more to keep track of than most, and Adventure Paths make it worse in a specific way: there is a lot of published material, the party interacts with a fraction of it, and what actually happened at your table diverges from the book by about session four. The book is not a record of your campaign, and after a while it is not even a reliable index of it.
Dungeon Ledger is a shared notebook for that record. One place the whole table writes into, with per-note visibility so the GM’s notes and the party’s can live in the same campaign, and links between notes so your version of the world gains structure as you play.
Free to start. Notes, links and the graph are system-agnostic; only the compendium is 5e.
Being clear
What is system-neutral here, and what is not
The notes, the linking, the graph, the permissions, the maps, the sessions, the inventory and the soundboard have nothing to do with any particular ruleset. They are about recording a campaign, and they work identically whether you are running Pathfinder 1e, 2e or something else entirely.
The bundled compendium is D&D 5e SRD content — monsters, spells, races and classes. That part is not useful to a Pathfinder table, and it would be dishonest to imply otherwise. You can write your own compendium entries, but there is no Pathfinder bestiary in the box.
Worth knowing before you start rather than after: if what you want is a rules reference, this is not it. If what you want is somewhere the campaign lives, the ruleset does not come into it.
The record
Your campaign, not the Adventure Path
The useful record is the difference between the book and your table: the NPC the party adopted who had two lines, the faction they antagonised early, the sidequest that became the campaign. None of that is written down anywhere except in whatever notes your group keeps.
Typing [[ links notes to each other, so mentioning a character in a session log connects them permanently. Over a long AP that accumulates into a map of your specific version of events — which is exactly what nobody can reconstruct from the book eighteen months in.
Notes come in types — player, NPC, location, quest, session, secret — and the search covers bodies as well as titles, so "who was the halfling in the caravan?" is answerable.
Secrets
GM notes in the same place as everyone else’s
Every note has its own visibility: shared with the table, private, GM-only, or shared with named people. That means your notes on what a faction is really doing sit alongside the party’s notes about them, in one campaign, instead of in a second document you have to keep in sync.
Filtering happens on the server, so a player’s browser never receives a note they are not permitted to read. Nothing is hidden in the page for someone to find.
When the party learns something, change one setting. The revealed note arrives with its links intact, already connected to the people and places it concerns.
The table
Built for a group
Players write their own notes, and editing is a separate permission from reading — so a party inventory or a shared faction tracker can be maintained by everyone while your prep stays yours.
Everything syncs live, so a note written mid-session appears on every screen at the table. It installs to a phone or tablet as an app, which is the difference between people using it and people meaning to.
Around the notes: maps with pins linked to the notes describing them, a dice roller, a shared inventory, playable puzzles, and a soundboard where the GM presses play and every player’s browser follows the same clock.
Questions from Pathfinder groups
- Does Dungeon Ledger support Pathfinder rules?
- Not as a rules reference. The notes, linking, graph, permissions and table tools are system-neutral and work fine for Pathfinder, but the bundled compendium is D&D 5e SRD content and there is no Pathfinder bestiary or spell list. You can write your own compendium entries.
- Is it useful for running an Adventure Path?
- That is arguably where it earns the most, because an AP gives you the published material and nothing that records how your table diverged from it. Session logs linked to the NPCs and places the party actually cared about are the part the book cannot supply.
- Can players keep their own character notes?
- Yes, private to them or shared with whoever they choose. Player-authored notes are ordinary notes with the same visibility settings, so a character’s private goals and the shared party log coexist without the GM administering anything.
- Does it work for other systems too?
- Yes. Nothing about the note model assumes a ruleset — groups use it for Call of Cthulhu, Blades in the Dark and homebrew systems. The 5e compendium is the only 5e-specific part.
- What does it cost for a Pathfinder group?
- Nothing to start. A free account runs six campaigns as GM and joins unlimited campaigns as a player, so only the person running the game thinks about limits. AI features draw on a monthly credit allowance; everything else is unmetered.
Bring your Adventure Path with you
Set up the campaign, invite your table, and keep the record of it somewhere everyone can read.
Start a Pathfinder campaign