Dashboard Maker

An Owlbear Rodeo extension for keeping game content you need on hand.

Whether it's useful notes & reminders, initiative trackers, character sheets, or something else, Dashboard Maker is a place to put it. All content is saved in your browser.

The more you put in Dashboard Maker, the less you have to leave Owlbear Rodeo. Why is this good? Because context switching during a game sucks.

Check it out as a standalone app here: https://owlbear-dashboard-maker.vercel.app/

(But really, you should be using this in Owlbear Rodeo)

Dashboard Types

Blank Dashboards

Click Create A New Dashboard on the home screen to create a new empty dashboard space.

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5e Character Template Dashboards

Click Create A New 5e Character on the home page to create a new dashboard space using a 5e Character Template.

Premades

Dashboard Maker comes with a couple of "Premades". These are dashboards that are already there, with some useful DM Screen info particular to D&D 5th Edition.

More "Premades" to come.

Dashboard Features

You can delete dashboards as needed.

You can lock/unlock the state of a dashboard, affecting the editable state of the items within it.

You can clone/duplicate any dashboard as needed. Right now, this is the best way to rename them (duplicate it, give it a new name, and then delete the old one)

You can download/upload dashboards as json files, so you can store them offline, share them between browsers, etc!

If you are the GM for a room, you will see an additional button to share your dashboard with all other players in the room. Be careful with this feature! Sharing your dashboard will overwrite any dashboards your players have with the same dashboard name.

Note: If a dashboard reaches over 16kb in size, it can no longer be shared with the sharing feature. I will look for ways to mitigate this further in the future!

Images

Dashboard Maker now supports adding images inside a dashboard content box.

Prerequisites:

• The image must already be hosted somewhere, thus having a valid image url.

How To:

1. Right click the image you want to add (this works in a browser or discord) and select "Copy Image"
2. Back in Dashboard Maker, paste that image into a dashboard content box either by right clicking inside the text area and selecting "Paste", or by pressing ctrl+v once you've already clicked into the text area (you know you've clicked into the text area if you see the text cursor).

Caveats:

• While it's not impossible - putting images and text into the same context box is a bit clunky. Consider keeping them seperated into different content boxes.

Formatting

Here are some text formatting guidelines to help share what's possible with Dashboard Maker.

Headings

Type # and then hit space to create an h1 in the body of your dashboard item text. This pattern applies to h2's (##), h3's (###), and so on.

Text Styling

You can apply bold, italics, and underline to text by using the keyboard shortcuts: ctrl+b for bold, ctrl+i for italics, and ctrl+u for underline.

Make sure to use command instead of ctrl on a mac. 😊

Checkboxes

Type [] and then space to create a checkbox. Make sure you type in a label to the right of the checkbox immediately after, or else if you hit return the checkbox will just disappear.

Bulleted Lists

Type - and then hit space to create a bulleted list. you can indent lists however much you need using the tab key.

Numbered Lists

Type 1. and then hit space to create a numbered list starting at 1. You can also indent numbered lists with tab.

Code Formatting

To make your text have that cool code look, type a backtick ( ` ), followed by the text you want formatted this way, followed by another backtick.

Have fun! And if you're a dev type, feel free to check out the source code on Github.