Welcome to NPC’s documentation!#

NPC is a tool to make my life easier when I’m running tabletop RPG games. It automates and streamlines a few tedious tasks for me, like:

Creating new session logs
Creating new plot planning files
Creating and organizing character files
Generating a list of characters to publish
And more!

To get started with NPC, see Installing NPC and check out the CLI Quickstart or GUI Quickstart.

Unlike other game management systems, NPC is designed to use plain text files to manage each game’s resources, from characters to session notes. This means that even on devices which can’t run NPC, you still have full access to all of your game’s data. For more on how NPC campaigns work, see Campaigns.

Disclaimer#

NPC is very much a personal project. It works well enough for me to use for my weekly games, and I think it might be useful for others. That said, if you use it and come up with suggestions or bugs, open an issue! I’ll at least take a look!

Software License#

NPC is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

NPC is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the page GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program. If not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

Documentation License#

Permission is granted to copy, distribute and/or modify this document under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License, Version 1.3 or any later version published by the Free Software Foundation; with no Invariant Sections, no Front-Cover Texts, and no Back-Cover Texts. A copy of the license is included on the page entitled GNU Free Documentation License.