RELEASE NOTES

Hero Awards, Shareables, and a New UX

Every completed session now becomes shareable Hero Awards, illustrated Key Moments, and a redesigned Session Handout—all collected in your new Artifacts library. A faster, slimmer Session Review and a sitewide UX overhaul round out the release.

Published July 17, 2026 • 4 min read

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New Hero Awards

Hero Awards turn each character's standout contribution into a shareable award after a completed session. Choose Canonical for grounded recognition, Silly for playful embellishment, or Spicy for a roast-forward edge.

Hero Award card showing a session award for a player character

For players

A moment with their name on it

Each player gets a concrete award tied to what they did in that session.

Three Tones

Canonical, Silly, or Spicy

Keep awards grounded, make them playfully heightened, or let the Spicy tone roast the table a little.

For sharing

Ready-to-share recognition

Awards can become part of the player-facing packet after the session.

Key Moments, Reinvented—With Image Generation

Key Moments complement Hero Awards. Awards spotlight individual characters. Key Moments capture the biggest scenes: the reveal, the impossible save, the betrayal, or the plan that somehow worked. Together, they make up Session Highlights.

Illustrated Key Moment from a session: escaping the Crab Maze

For the table

The scenes that matter

Key Moments prioritize full-party action, turning points, reveals, major choices, set pieces, and consequences.

Three Styles

Canonical, Cinematic, or Chaotic

Choose the best overall highlights, heightened storytelling, or funny, messy surprises.

For sharing

Illustrated moments

Turn specific moments into illustrated shareables instead of leaving them as text-only notes.

Session Handout 2.0

Session Handout 2.0 turns a completed session into a shareable packet your party will want to revisit.

Classic fantasy texture for traditional campaign recaps.

Parchment

Click the spread to open the full PDF

Five Themes

Five handcrafted themes

Pick Parchment, Azurelight, Nightwire, Verdant, or Infernal Ink. Hero Award and Key Moment cards match the selected theme.

Layout Builder

Build the handout you want

Drag and drop sections, start from a preset, or take full control of the layout.

Customization

Make every handout unique

Include Quests and Cast Analysis, customize highlight cards, and add extra highlights when needed.

Artifacts: Your Campaign's Shareable Library

Artifacts library showing campaign shareables in Archivist

Artifacts brings every shareable output from your campaign into one place. Browse your creations, organize them into collections, and share them with your party in just a few clicks.

Browse

Everything in one library

View every artifact from your campaign in one gallery, including Session Handouts, Hero Awards, Key Moments, Quest Logs, Cast Analysis, Digital Trading Cards, and more.

Organize

Create collections

Group artifacts around a session, character, story arc, or any custom theme. Revisit or share them together.

Share anywhere

Send finished Artifacts and Collections to your table or the public web from the same share sheet:

Discord
Email Cast
Download ZIP
Public share page
Facebook
Reddit
X
Telegram
Anywhere on mobile via native share

Archivist Discord Collection with Session Handout, Cast Analysis, Hero Awards, and Key Moments

A Collection shared back to Discord

Faster, Slimmer Session Review

Session Review is slimmer and faster: clean up the facts, approve the session record, and move on. The redesign gives you a smaller review surface and more powerful tools for the corrections that matter.

Redesigned Session Review interface in Archivist

•A smaller review surface: the workflow is streamlined around the facts and changes users actually need to approve.
•Better retcons: Archie can help correct names, facts, and story details from inside the review flow.

A Sitewide UX Overhaul

This release rebuilds the Archivist interface across the app with unified navigation, controls, and action buttons, so every major surface is easier to scan and act on.

The result is a clearer app structure from home across campaign-level views like recaps, game session pages, and character pages, plus feature-specific surfaces like Session Handouts, Cast Analysis, Artifacts, Hero Awards, and more.

FAQ

What are Hero Awards?

Hero Awards are shareable, per-character awards for a completed session. Choose Canonical for grounded recognition, Silly for playful embellishment, or Spicy for a roast-forward edge.

How are Key Moments different now?

Key Moments complement Hero Awards. They capture the session-level scenes from the full timeline, including reveals, decisions, discoveries, dramatic turns, and campaign-state changes.

What is Session Handout 2.0?

Session Handout 2.0 lets you turn a session into a shareable handout with five themes: Parchment, Azurelight, Nightwire, Verdant, and Infernal Ink. It can include highlights, quests, Cast Analysis, and standard recap sections.

What can I share from Artifacts?

Artifacts brings your campaign outputs into one library. Browse Session Handouts, Hero Awards, Key Moments, Quest Logs, Cast Analysis, Digital Trading Cards, and more; organize them into collections; then share them by Discord, email, or social media.

What changed in Session Review?

Session Review is slimmer and faster, focused on factual cleanup, story corrections, and retcons.

Related Docs

Learn the workflows in Session Review, Session Highlights, Session Handouts, and Artifacts.