Overview
Recap Raven is a Discord-native AI bot designed for tabletop role-playing game communities, particularly Dungeons & Dragons. It records voice sessions, transcribes them automatically, and transforms the conversation into player-safe recaps, private GM notes, and a searchable campaign memory. The service is aimed at both dungeon masters and players who want to preserve campaign continuity without manual note-taking. Recap Raven operates as a software-as-a-service product, with its website at recapraven.com. The platform supports multiple languages, including English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese. While the exact founding year is not stated, the product is currently in active operation and offers a free first session to new users.
Services & Expertise
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Session Recording & Transcription: Recap Raven joins a Discord voice channel and records the entire session. It maps dialogue to player characters and produces a timestamped transcript. Raw audio is deleted automatically after transcription, addressing privacy concerns. The service supports both voice and text interaction, and the transcript is available for review within minutes. During the session, the bot explicitly announces that it is recording, and a voice cue plays to ensure everyone is aware.
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Player-Safe Recaps: After each session, the bot generates a concise recap that highlights key moments, decisions, and discoveries. These recaps are written to exclude GM-only information and are posted directly back to a Discord channel for players to review. The recap generation process includes a safety pass that checks whether the AI has inadvertently promoted private prep or GM-only reads into player knowledge. This ensures that players only learn what was actually said or discovered at the table.
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Campaign Memory & Ask: This feature creates a persistent, searchable knowledge base for the campaign. Users and players can ask questions about NPCs, quests, items, and past events, and the bot provides answers with cited excerpts from the transcript. For example, a question like "Where was Sol'Thun's soul stored?" returns a direct quote from the session transcript as evidence. A world wiki is pre-populated and updated as sessions are recorded, and it supports aliases and related campaign details. GM-only notes and speculation are kept separate from player-facing answers.
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GM Analytics & Feedback: The platform produces a private session report for the game master, including a session score, participation statistics, spotlight balance, table energy, and a breakdown of pillars of play (exploration, social, combat). This data helps GMs understand what resonated with their table. The report also includes words-by-speaker analysis and session energy by scene, offering a granular view of pacing. The feedback is designed to surface insights that players might not openly share, such as which scenes dragged or which character choices were most memorable.
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Hooks & Open Threads: Recap Raven tracks unresolved plot threads, quests, and player promises across sessions. GMs can review what has changed and identify threads that may have been resolved. The system flags potentially resolved threads for review, helping to maintain a coherent narrative. This allows a GM to prepare for the next session with clear knowledge of what is still on the table.
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Next-Session Prep: The tool generates practical prompts for upcoming sessions based on open threads and likely story directions, giving GMs a starting point without prescribing a script. It identifies which story elements the table cares about most and suggests non-combat alternatives for exploration. For instance, if players keep returning to a mysterious stranger, the prep will highlight that thread and suggest preparation for both combat and social encounters.
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GM-Only Notes & Safety Checks: The platform maintains a clear separation between player knowledge and GM-only information. Private prep notes and coaching feedback remain confidential, and the recap generation includes a safety check to prevent AI speculation from leaking into player-facing content. GMs can add their own notes to the campaign world, and these are never shared with players unless explicitly designated as canon. This gives GMs the freedom to store behind-the-scenes intentions and future plot plans within the same tool.
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Multilingual Support: Recap Raven processes transcripts and recaps in six languages: English, Italian, Spanish, French, German, and Brazilian Portuguese. This makes the bot accessible to tables that play in their native language, with the same feature set available in each. Players can ask questions in their language, and the campaign memory reacts in kind.
How They Work
The onboarding process begins by inviting the Recap Raven bot to a Discord server. A table is then created, and when the group is ready, a player or GM runs the /session start command in the voice channel. The bot announces the recording in text and via a voice cue, ensuring all participants are aware. Once the session ends, the audio is transcribed and processed, typically within ten minutes. Players receive a recap in their Discord channel, while the GM gains access to a private dashboard with analytics, coaching notes, and campaign memory features. Users can pause or stop recording at any time, and all data can be exported or deleted via the account settings. The service is designed to be minimal friction, as sessions are captured directly from the ongoing Discord conversation without requiring additional software.
Ideal Client Profile
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A long-running Dungeons & Dragons group that meets weekly on Discord and wants to maintain continuity across dozens of sessions without manual note-taking. The campaign memory feature ensures that player decisions, NPC interactions, and open questions from months ago are easily retrievable.
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A busy dungeon master who struggles to write notes during play and wants to focus on running the game while still having a record of decisions and events. The private GM analytics provide a post-session debrief that can be used to improve upcoming sessions.
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A player who misses a session and wants a detailed, accurate recap of what happened, including key statements made by the table. The player-safe recap is designed to be shared, and the source-backed answers allow curious players to verify specific details.
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A GM overseeing a complex campaign with multiple NPCs, items, and plot threads who needs help tracking open quests and player promises. The hooks and open threads dashboard surfaces what might be resolved and what needs attention.
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A non-English speaking table that plays in Italian, Spanish, French, German, or Brazilian Portuguese and requires transcription and recaps in their native language. Recap Raven is one of the few tools that offers this level of multilingual support.
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A new or experienced GM who wants private, data-driven feedback on session engagement, spotlight distribution, and pacing to improve their craft. The session score and pillars of play breakdown offer a clear picture of where the table's energy went.
Pricing & Engagement Models
Recap Raven offers a free first session that includes recording, transcription, a player-safe recap, GM analytics, and a trial of campaign memory. After that, the Recap Only plan costs $7.99 per month and includes five sessions across up to five campaigns, with per-session analytics and feedback but no campaign-wide memory. The Campaign Memory plan starts at $11.99 per month and provides five to twenty sessions per month, campaign memory, the Ask feature, and an editable world wiki. No credit card is required to begin. The service is subscription-based, with annual options likely available, although the exact billing terms are not specified on the homepage. For tables that need more sessions, plans scale from 5 to 20 sessions per month.
Why Consider Them
Recap Raven differentiates itself with a privacy-conscious approach that is rare in AI note-taking tools. Raw audio is deleted after transcription, content is never used to train AI models, and players must consent to recording. The separation between player-safe recaps and GM-only analytics is enforced by design, making it suitable for tables that value confidentiality. The source-cited answers in campaign memory provide verifiable evidence, which builds trust. Support for six languages broadens its appeal beyond English-speaking tables. For D&D and TTRPG groups already using Discord, Recap Raven eliminates the administrative burden of session notes and offers actionable insights that a traditional notetaker cannot provide.
