Overview
Recap Raven is a Discord native bot designed for tabletop role playing game groups, specifically Dungeons & Dragons campaigns. It records voice sessions, transcribes them, and generates player safe recaps, GM only analytics, and a searchable campaign memory that answers questions with citations to the original transcript. The tool is aimed at Dungeon Masters and players who want to preserve campaign continuity without manual note taking.
Key Features
Session recording and transcription: The bot joins a Discord voice channel and records the entire session. After the session stops, raw audio is deleted within minutes and replaced by a transcript that maps speech to participant characters. Processing typically completes in under 10 minutes.
Player safe recaps: After each session, the bot produces a recap that highlights key moments, decisions, and discoveries. The recap is designed to be shared with the table and omits GM only information. The safety pass ensures AI speculation does not become player knowledge.
GM analytics and feedback: Private to the dungeon master, the bot generates session scores, participation statistics, spotlight balance, table energy, and pillars of play breakdowns. It also offers GM review notes such as "the table kept returning to the green eyed stranger" to help improve future sessions.
Campaign memory with citations: For memory plans, the bot builds a campaign knowledge base. Players can ask questions in Discord, such as "where was Sol'Thun's soul stored?", and receive answers backed by a quote from the transcript, linking directly to the evidence.
Hooks and open threads: The bot tracks story hooks, open threads, and whether they have been resolved. Dungeon Masters can review what changed and when, helping to prep follow up sessions.
Campaign World wiki: The bot maintains an editable world directory of people, places, items, and lore, updated from each session. GM only notes and speculation remain separate from player visible entries.
Language support: Transcripts and recaps are available in English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese.
Use Cases
Weekly D&D campaigns: A group that plays every week can use Recap Raven to keep a consistent record. After a session, players receive the recap in Discord, while the DM gets private feedback and hooks. The campaign memory helps everyone recall past sessions, such as a mysterious object from session 149.
Long running campaigns with complex lore: For games spanning years, the campaign memory and world wiki become a reference for fading details. Players can ask who carries an item or what name a ghost gave, with answers cited to the exact transcript moment.
DMs who want to stay in the moment: Instead of typing notes during play, a DM can type "/session start" and focus on the game. The recap and analytics arrive after the session, reducing mental overhead.
Differentiators
Compared to general note taking bots or manual transcription, Recap Raven focuses on the tabletop RPG workflow. The source backed citations give answers a verifiable audit trail, and the strict separation between player safe content and GM private notes addresses a common trust concern. Audio is deleted after transcription and content is not used for AI model training, which sets a privacy baseline that many voice recording tools do not meet. The pricing is subscription based, starting with a free first session, then $7.99 per month for recap only, and from $11.99 for campaign memory.
