Getting Started for Players
JickleJime lives in your campaign's Slack workspace. Ask it questions about rules, sessions, or your campaign — it searches the indexed knowledge base and gives you grounded answers with source citations.
Asking a question
Send a direct message to the JickleJime bot, or @mention it in any channel:
The bot retrieves relevant passages from the indexed corpus and generates an answer with source citations:
The Crawling condition means the character is moving on hands and knees... (Source 1)
Sources:
- shadowdark-rules.pdf pp.42–43 § Conditions
Multi-turn conversations
JickleJime remembers context within a conversation:
- Direct messages — All messages in the same DM share context, so you can ask follow-up questions naturally.
- Channel threads — Replies within the same thread share context. Start a new thread for a new topic.
Filtering by source
Use the from: prefix to restrict answers to specific documents or categories:
| Syntax | Meaning |
|---|---|
from:rules |
Search only documents in the "rules" category |
from:#1 |
Search only the document with ID 1 |
from:#1,#3 |
Search documents with IDs 1 and 3 |
from:rules,sessions |
Search both categories |
Tip
Use from:rules when you want a rules-only answer without session noise, or from:sessions to recall what happened in a specific session.
What can you ask?
JickleJime works best with questions about material that's been ingested into the knowledge base. Common examples:
- Rules questions — "How do critical hits work?", "What spells can a level 3 wizard learn?"
- Session recall — "What happened in the last session?", "Who did we meet in the dungeon?"
- Campaign details — "What quest are we on?", "Where is the treasure map?"
Visibility
Players see content marked as player-visible by the DM. DM-only documents (like monster stat blocks or secret plot notes) are automatically filtered out of your results.
Tips
- Be specific — "What does the Crawling condition do?" works better than "conditions".
- If the answer says information is missing, the relevant material may not be ingested yet — ask your DM.
- The bot cites its sources so you can verify answers against the original material.