How to animate your D&D campaign

To animate your D&D campaign, write the session as a recap in scenes: where the party was, what each character did, and the lines your table will repeat for years. About 150 words make a minute of film. In Nima's Long-form Video you paste the recap, between 150 and 10,000 words, and every character is drawn once from how you describe them, every place is built once and each speaker gets a voice, so a whole arc of sessions becomes episodes with the same party.

Your first trailer is free.

Last updated 4 November 2026

Write the recap as scenes

Film the story, not the dice. Keep the plan, the moment it went wrong, the roll everyone remembers (written as what happened) and the lines said in character. Cut the rules talk and the shopping.

That is 550 to 1,050 words: an episode of four to seven minutes.

Describe the party once

Give each character one description and use it every time: ancestry, build, hair, armour or clothes, and one thing they always carry. Do the same for the people they meet and the places they go back to: the tavern, the keep, the ship.

Nima draws every character once as a sheet you approve and builds each place once as a set. Each speaking character gets five voice auditions, so the bard can sound like the bard.

A campaign arc as a series

One upload takes up to 10,000 words, about an hour of film: an arc of five to ten sessions. Paste the arc's recaps together and make each session its own episode: they all share one party, one set of places and one set of voices.

The next arc is a new upload, and its cast is drawn again from your words, so paste the same descriptions word for word. Your own character art is available on request.

Fights

Films carry no gore: a fight is told in moves, not wounds. The swing, the dodge, the spell that misses and hits the chandelier, the halfling who runs.

Step by step

1. Write the recap. Five scenes, in character.
2. Paste it. Open Long-form Video and paste the text.
3. Pick a look. Comic book ink and acid pencil suit a campaign; claymation, felted wool and cut paper are there too.
4. Approve the party and the places. Leave a note on any picture and it is redrawn.
5. Pick the voices. Five auditions per character.
6. Watch your free trailer. 15 to 20 seconds of the session, animated.
7. Make the episode. Download it or share it with a link.

Show it at the table

• "Previously on" at the start of the next session.
• The group chat, with a link.
• YouTube, as a playlist by arc.
• Vertical clips of the best moment for TikTok and Shorts.

Your world, your words

Animate your own characters and your own world. A published adventure's text belongs to its publisher, so tell what your party did in your own words.

What it costs

Films are made on a monthly plan metered in minutes of finished film, with one, two or five rounds of notes on each film. The plans are on the pricing page. Film length follows the text at about 150 words a minute with the narrator on.

A five-minute recap uses five minutes of a plan.