Rescue Every Subplot Your Campaign Ever Promised
Transform three years of homebrew campaign chaos into a navigable story transit map of every NPC, subplot, and foreshadowed promise you've ever made at the table.
Session 87. Your players walk back into Brenhorn Village and casually ask the half-elf bard — whom you introduced 47 sessions ago, then never touched again — whether she ever found her missing sister. You freeze. Did she have a sister? Did you say that? StoryTransit maps every storyline in your homebrew campaign as a transit system of interconnected plot stations, so the bard's sister is two stops away, tagged "Unresolved (Session 32)," ready to become the payoff your party has been waiting three years to witness. Two hundred hours of campaign history, navigable in seconds at the table.
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