Obsidian - Templates 

Oh this is such an old video. I organise everything here now. www.obsidianttrpgtutorials.com You absolutely don't need realm works. These early videos was me learning my way too. Jump into the site and start with the getting started section. Jump into community and supprt too. We have a very active discord server.

Yes that's absolutely coming. I spent yesterday cleaning alot of it up. I'm starting to implement the metadata into them also.

@@JoshPlunkett ahhh! I should have known. Of course the TTRPG Obsidian GOAT is on it! Cheers josh, just signed up to your patreon too as extra thanks!

@@barneychadwick8911 in that case you should read my latest post. The vault covered in this video is available to my patrons so they can see what I'm doing and how.

@@JoshPlunkett what's this? Best news ever!! I'll check it out right now! Thanks again dude!

Yup religiously.

Are you referring to the header data? Anything at the top that appears between a --- and a --- is the header section where you define metadata/tags. It won't be rendered but can be used in other things like dataview.

@@JoshPlunkett No, not the header data. That's the only part that I *DO* understand. I'm not seeing the markdown that renders the page in view mode. How are the variables in the headers used to render it?

​@@Shango Oh that's all dependant on the plugin. In this video I'm using TTRPG Statblocks primarily which basically provides documentation on all the variables that it recognises. All I did was copy that into a template to save me looking it up each time. Javalent (the developer) does something in the background to weave all that text into the pretty stat-block. No idea how any of that works sorry.

Let me explain it with more specific info. @09:07, you have the template for "Bob the Beast" and you're changing the information in the template. On the line that has "fage_stats: [number, number, number, ...]" and you've changed "number" to 10, 12, 14, 12, 10, 8. In view mode @09:08 that translates into STR 10, DEX 12, CON 14 ... etc. OK where is the markdown that renders the view mode of that page? How is it taking the "10" from the header and putting it in that rendered view to show up after "STR"? Where is the markdown that indicates that "STR" needs to displayed in bold, etc, etc, etc. Where is the markdown that shows the graphical red lines? Where is the markdown that indicates the big bold red letter "BOB THE BEAST" in the rendered view mode? None of that is in the header. So where is it?

@@Shango no idea. That's all handled by the plugin in the background somewhere. I would assume it's in the .obsidian/plugin/statblock folder. If you want to understand how that works I would recommend speaking jumping into the official discord. They have a channel dedicated to plugin development and javalent is very active there.

Sure I gave them available here. www.patreon.com/posts/ttrpg-templates-59509023 Also my patreons get access to my vault so they can't see how I do things.