GM-ASSISTANT(6)

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💖 GM-ASSISTANT(6) — games manual, bestie edition 💖

okay so before we even start: this is from the Games Manual section, meaning it's a game-adjacent thing, not your usual boring system utility. and it's about to be your new personality trait, no cap. 🎲✨

🌸 NAME 🌸

gm-assistant — game master assistant

like... literally the whole point. she assists. she's the game master's right hand. it's giving ✨supportive bestie energy✨ but for running tabletop campaigns.

🦋 SYNOPSIS 🦋

gm-assistant

that's it. that's the whole thing. you just... run her. no flags, no arguments, no "wait what do I pass in". iconic minimalism, honestly. she just opens and she's ready. 🫶

🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so GM-Assistant is a piece of software made to help out the Game Master while you're all playing tabletop role-playing games. if you've ever been the one behind the screen juggling seventeen things at once — yeah, she's for you, and she understood the assignment. 💅

here's the tea on what she actually does:

  • item-based structured plot — your story beats, organised, structured, item-based. plot girlies stay winning. 📖
  • history — keeping track of what already happened, because nobody remembers session three.
  • music and sound effects — yes, ambience. yes, the dramatic boss music. yes, the door creak. 🎵
  • a character table — everyone's PCs, all lined up.
  • a note editor — for all your chaotic little notes that you swear you'll organise later.

and that's not even the whole list, bestie, because she ALSO hands you some genuinely useful tools:

  • a dice simulator 🎲 — no more crawling under the sofa for the d20.
  • a combat manager ⚔️ — initiative, order, chaos, handled.

under the hood, the vibe check on her tech stack:

  • she uses Qt5 for her graphical interface ✨
  • the Qt5 Multimedia module handles audio playback 🔊
  • PocoXML and PocoZip are what she uses for her saves 💾

so like, she looks pretty, she sounds pretty, and she saves your stuff. main character energy fr fr. 👑

🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

want more? for more information, see http://gmassistant.free.fr 🌐

that's the spot. go look. iykyk.

💜 AUTHOR 💜

GM-Assistant was written by Simon Nicolas and Vincent Prat. two whole legends. 😭👏

this manual page was written by Vincent Prat <vinceprat@free.fr>, for the Debian project (and may be used by others). so generous of him honestly, sharing the manual with the rest of us. 🫶

little reminder bestie: this page is from the Games Manual and the version stamp on it is dated <b>February 28, 2020</b>, tagged GM-ASSISTANT(6).

so yeah. that's the whole page. go run your campaign, go be the main character game master, and let gm-assistant carry some of that weight for you. slay, periodt, roll initiative. 🎲💖✨

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