Discord-Bots

Your table’s session has exactly one copy. Six people spent four hours making something that will never happen again, and the only record of it lives inside a bot that promised to be listening. If you’re a GM deciding whether to trust a recording bot with that, you should want to know how these things fail. So here is how ours fails, all thirteen ways, because the day we started paying for traffic we commissioned an adversarial audit of our own recording pipeline with one mandate: “from /record to /end we minimize the data we lose, always, and always package it up correctly.” ...

If you play D&D over Discord, someone at your table has already suggested the Craig bot. They were right to. Craig is the default recording bot for online tabletop, it earned that spot honestly, and if you searched “craig bot dnd” trying to decide whether to use it, my answer is yes. Use Craig. This post is about the question that shows up after you do, the one I built a whole product around: you now have six hours of audio. Who’s going to remember what’s in it? ...