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Context for Dungeon Masters

A working home base for your D&D campaign, so prep stays fun

A simple workspace you make your own, so it's easy to stay creative while you prep and keep the right notes in front of you at the table.
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Organize for next session, not for forever

Put what you need right now in front of you, like the three NPCs coming up next session, and tuck the rest away. When the players head somewhere you didn't plan for, rearrange it. No permanent filing system to maintain, no giant linear document, no 30 folders of docs, sub-docs, and sub-sub-docs.
Illustrated recreation of a D&D Campaign Planning board, showing next-session questions, upcoming NPCs, dungeon rooms, after-dungeon notes, player details, and reference folders.

Open any idea into its own space

Open any bullet and dig in: a tricky combat, an NPC's backstory, the room the party might reach next. You get a playground for figuring it out, and none of it spills all over your main board.
A single campaign idea opened into its own Context space, with room to work out details without cluttering the main board.
“The ability to open any bullet is great. I can pick something I want to work on and open it into it's own space so it's like I have a fresh whiteboard for just that thing.”

A DM running a weekly game for six friends

See what matters at a glance

Make sections, boxes, and columns, bold what matters, and hide what you don't need open. Rules in one column, the rooms coming up in another, a little note up in the corner instead of something you have to scroll to find. No fiddling with Header 1 and Header 2. Your board looks good because it's organized.
A Context board arranged into sections and columns, with key notes highlighted so the important details are visible at a glance.

Figure it out, then run the game from the same board

Plop ideas down the moment you have them, even halfway through a dog walk. Turn next session into a list of questions, work through the good ideas, get rid of the bad ones, and finish them. Then run the game from the same board, with what each character knows right there when the party asks.
A session-prep board in Context listing open questions for next session, with ideas expanded and worked through underneath.
“I leave a session and I think about the next session in terms of questions. Sometimes I'll just expand the question and start putting a couple of notes in there.”

A DM running a weekly game for six friends

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