Legend Keeper

Overview

Legend Keeper is a toolkit aimed at storytellers, DM's, authors, and world builders complete with a map manager, personal wiki, whiteboard, and timeline tools, all made by a very skilled solo developer. It's an amazing set of tools for building fictional worlds and was my primary tool for my last major Worldbuilding project, a science fantasy setting called Aeldos. LK is my go to recommendation for anyone looking for a sleek, well designed, and easy to learn toolset for building worlds and running ttrpgs. It's not a VTT but if you run games less focused on tactical combat and more focused on rich settings it's perfect.

Review

What I use it for: I don't actually use it much these days as I have transitioned to using Obsidian and building my own custom tools but it was home to my game world, rule book, and even character sheets, session notes, and more for nearly 5 years.

Pros:

• Excellent, intuitive UI
• Rich set of tools for managing maps, adding pins, associating map pins with articles and node and edge style diagram boards, a file tree, image gallery, and timeline functionality
• map system is basically like a Google maps for your own fictional world, with automatic tiling for loading and resolution handling and tonnes of other map related functionality
• publish and share functionality to share creations broadly or with specific groups of people and permission management to further break down sharing and access
• wiki style linking and preview on hover
• configurable sidebars with rich custom property options
• a smart template system
• amazing autolinker that allows you to scan a page and automatically link other pages in your world
• small dev team with a focused vision and dedication to good UI/UX and high quality code
• dark mode UI and very neutral and flexible design space that can accomodate various genres
• progressive Web app with local functionality and remote syncing
• great discord community with lots of community built templates and guidance
• reasonable price

Cons:

• subscription tool but release schedule is a bit sluggish
• because if is a 1-2 person dev team focus is often split between outreach, support, and advertising. Development cycle is affected accordingly

Buy/Try if:

• You want to try world building and need a place for all your ideas and notes
• You need a place to organise and share your ttrpg notes, setting and/or game system
• Obsidian is too plug-in driven and you want something more opinionated for organising your notes
• You want to build your world "map first", annotating and linking articles, creating a rich user experience