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A campaign session recap is the write-up that holds a long game together: what happened, what it meant, and what is still hanging when the next session starts. Most tables either skip it or make one player do homework. Threadfall removes the homework. It listens at the table while you play, and minutes after the session ends the whole table has a recap written from what was actually said.
A recap worth reading does three jobs. It restores memory: two weeks later, nobody remembers the innkeeper's name or why the party trusted him. It keeps the spotlight honest: every player's choices show up in the record, not just the loudest voice at the table. And it carries the open threads: the unanswered questions and unpaid debts that make a campaign feel like one story instead of a string of encounters.
Most recap tools want something from you after the game: an audio file to upload, notes to paste, a transcript to clean. Threadfall runs during the game. Open the Live screen at an in-person table, or let the Discord bot join your voice channel with per-speaker attribution, and the session is captured as it happens. The recap is grounded in your table's own transcript: no invented NPCs, no imagined outcomes, and no dice math cluttering the prose. Each recap becomes a chapter, and the chapters become a readable book of your campaign.
Kaelor Thane woke from a violent nightmare in which he had wandered a subterranean labyrinth for three days, ultimately confronting a massive serpentine creature that burst from a cracked pink crystal and attempted to devour him. Upon waking in Snowglen, he recorded the dream in his journal and discovered other similarly vivid dreams already documented in his entries.
From The Fall of The Ostrich, from Path of the Void Walkers, a real campaign published with Threadfall. Read the full chapter, then the whole chronicle.Free for 2 full sessions. No card. Players are always free.
Honest, dated comparisons against the other ways tables handle recaps: vs Archivist · vs ChatGPT & Claude · vs your notes app · all comparisons · the full tools roundup. More background: What is Threadfall?
A campaign session recap is the write-up that reminds your table what happened last session: the story beats, the decisions, the NPCs met, and the threads left hanging. Good recaps keep long campaigns coherent, welcome back players who missed a week, and become the campaign's written record over time.
Write it while the session is fresh, lead with what changed rather than a play-by-play, name the choices the party made, and end with the open questions so next session starts hot. Or skip the homework: Threadfall listens live at the table, and firing the recap when you stand up takes one click and a couple of minutes.
Yes, if it is grounded in what was actually said. Threadfall writes recaps only from your table's own transcript. It does not invent NPCs, outcomes, or dialogue, and it deliberately leaves dice math (damage numbers, DCs, initiative) out of the story so the recap reads like a chapter, not a combat log.
Yes. Live in-person capture is the core of Threadfall: open the Live screen on a laptop or phone at the table and it transcribes the session as you play. Most recap tools want an audio file uploaded after the game; Threadfall does its work during the game.
Yes. Threadfall's Discord bot joins your voice channel and records with per-speaker attribution, so the recap knows who said what. It can also publish the finished recap back to your campaign's Discord channel.
Your first two full sessions are free, with no card required. After that, only the GM subscribes (from $10/month) and players are always free. See pricing for the full tiers.
Threadfall is built for D&D 5e and Daggerheart. The recap follows your table's story rather than a ruleset, but the Live screen's stat panels (5e Save DCs and party stats from your character sheets, live Fear tracking for Daggerheart) are system specific.
Yes. Your chronicles stay yours: past recaps and your campaign codex stay fully readable on the free tier. The paywall only gates the AI features, never your data.