Tabletop Arc

Automatic D&D Recap Tool: Turn Session Audio into Player-Ready Recaps

An automatic D&D recap tool transcribes your session, extracts scenes and entities, and generates evidence-grounded recaps in player-safe and GM-private formats. Tabletop Arc is built for long-running campaign continuity, not just one-shot summaries.

What is an automatic D&D recap tool?

An automatic D&D recap tool turns your raw session recording into a polished, evidence-grounded recap. Tabletop Arc transcribes the audio, extracts scenes and canonical entities, links each fact to the transcript segment that established it, and produces dual-track output: a GM-private continuity report and a player-safe recap, ready to share before the next session.

How does an automatic D&D recap tool work?

An automatic D&D recap tool ingests audio (or a manually-pasted transcript), runs speech-to-text with speaker separation, classifies each segment as narrative / mechanics / meta, extracts canonical entity mentions, and finally generates a structured recap whose every claim is grounded in a specific transcript segment.

The output is dual-track:

  • Player-safe recap — a polished, spoiler-free summary with optional entity links into the campaign wiki. This is what you share in your group chat the next morning.
  • GM-private continuity report — open threads, pending reveals, "to confirm next session" items, and entity-level diffs.

Why is "automatic" not enough?

"Automatic" is the easy half. The hard half is correct. A recap that hallucinates an NPC's motivation or invents a quest hook is worse than no recap at all — your players will memorize the wrong canon. The Tabletop Arc recap tool is built around evidence-grounded generation: the AI is constrained to facts that exist in the canon ledger and the transcript segments behind them. When something is uncertain, the recap surfaces it as "to confirm" rather than asserting it.

What systems does the recap tool support?

Tabletop Arc is system-agnostic. The recap pipeline does not parse rules; it extracts story and lore. So whether you run D&D 5e, Pathfinder 2e, OSR, Wrath & Glory, Call of Cthulhu, Blades in the Dark, Mothership, or your own homebrew, the recap pipeline works identically.

Can I use the recap tool without recording?

Yes. The recap tool accepts a manual recap as input, runs entity extraction across it, and lets you publish an episode without audio. You lose evidence-grounded fidelity (because there are no transcript segments to anchor facts to), but you keep the structured canon ledger and the wiki growth.

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Frequently Asked Questions

What audio formats does Tabletop Arc accept?
Common formats — MP3, WAV, M4A, AAC, OGG, FLAC, OPUS — up to 2 GB per upload. Longer or larger sessions can be split.
How long does processing take?
Transcription typically runs faster than real time and continues in the background — you do not have to keep the page open. A 4-hour session is usually ready within minutes for transcription, plus a few additional minutes for analysis.
Are recaps private?
Yes. By default every campaign is private. You can publish individual episodes as Unlisted (link-only, noindex) or Public (indexed, shareable URL).
Can I edit the AI-generated recap?
Yes. The recap is fully editable. Edits become first-class events in the canon ledger and propagate to future outputs.
Does the recap tool work for non-D&D systems?
Yes. The pipeline is system-agnostic. It extracts story and lore, not rules.
Can the recap include images?
Recaps can be enriched with cover images and entity portraits saved to your campaign. Image generation is available on Pro and Legend plans.
How does the recap link to the wiki?
Player-safe recaps support entity annotations: when a canonical NPC, location, or faction is named in the text, the rendered recap links the surface form to the wiki entry. The annotations are evidence-grounded — only canonical entities are linked.

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