The desktop workstation for game masters
Canonex keeps your whole campaign — people, places, factions, secrets, sessions and fights — in one connected workspace, so you can plan the next session, run it without losing focus, and remember everything that happened.
How it works
A virtual tabletop runs the game world. Canonex runs the GM’s side: what you prepared, what you need right now, and what the campaign has become.
Build the session from your campaign.
Outline the night in beats, then drag in the NPCs, locations, encounters, maps and read-alouds it needs. What you didn’t reach last time carries forward.
Keep your eyes on the table.
Summon any record with a keystroke and arrange it on the desk. Related records show their ties. Jot notes, pull a DC or a name, and follow the fight in Foundry, without breaking the scene.
Let the campaign keep its own history.
Wrap up what actually happened and make it canon. Canonex tracks every change, who knows what, how each NPC feels about the party, and the threads you left open. Between sessions, the world turn moves the factions on.
What’s inside
Connected tools that share one model of your campaign, so nothing needs entering twice.
Codex
NPCs, creatures, locations, factions, shops, deities, facts, quests and journals, each on a sheet shaped for the job it does at the table.
Relationships
Ties between records carry a kind, a direction and a secrecy level. The Campaign Graph shows the whole web, and you can build it right there by dragging one record onto another.
The Desk
A zoomable workspace where records become cards you summon, arrange, pin and dismiss, so what you need tonight stays within reach.
Sessions
Build a session outline from beats and campaign material, run it from a live cockpit, then wrap up what actually happened.
Game systems
Choose a system for each campaign and everything follows it: sheets, DCs, encounter maths, the creature builder, treasure, names and the rules lookup. The rules content comes with the app, so there is nothing to install first.
Encounters
Drag creatures, NPCs, places and treasure onto an encounter. Canonex works out the threat for your party in your system and keeps each participant separate.
Continuity
Canonex records what changed and when, who knows what, and how each NPC feels about the party, and shows the threads you left open and the prep you never used.
The world turn
Say how much time passes and who acts. Canonex writes a briefing from everything your campaign has recorded; paste it into the AI chat of your choice, paste the answer back, and Canonex files what happened.
Built for your table
Deep support, with the open-licensed remaster content included.
The 2024 rules, with the SRD 5.2 included.
Canonex prepares, runs and remembers. Foundry stays the tabletop.
Each campaign is a folder of readable files. No account or subscription, and no cloud lock-in.
Maps, tokens and dice stay in your virtual tabletop. Canonex handles what you need to know.
Pathfinder 2e and 5E come ready to play, rules content included. Everything that doesn’t need rules works for any game.
Closed beta (0.9)
Canonex 0.9 is with a small group of testers. The public beta will be on the Download page, and the Changelog shows what lands each week.