Initiative Tracker - Player Configuration

[EchtHema]

Hiya,

I am new to obsidian and am trying to make it work for my Dungeons and Dragons campaign. While trying to make encounters work and put the players into a party I encountered a problem.

I am trying to configure my players to my intitiative tracker. In the Initiative Tracker setting I can edit my players and link them to notes. I read that in order for me to link them to a note, that note needs a specific front matter. When I add this front matter to my notes, the last line automatically turns into an heading. I cannot change it to be a normal body text. There are no visiual # in front of the line. Not in live preview or in source mode. I think the heading is why the code (does this count as code?) will not change into a table and therefore cannot be linked to the player in the settings. Is this a correct assumption? Or am I doing something else wrong? I have no clue what I am doing and would love some guidance.

These are the plug ins I have activated, could any of them be the reason why this isn’t working?

• Calendarium
• Dice Roller
• Excalidraw
• Fantasy Statblocks
• Folder notes
• Iconize
• Initiative Tracker
• Leaflet
• Local Backup
• Omnisearch
• Settings Sears
• Style Settings

What I’m trying to do

Let the following front matter be visual for the Initiative Tracker setting to configure to.

level: 7
hp: 65
ac: 20
modifier: 4

In a bigger picture I want my player stats to auto configure to their settings file.

Things I have tried

Changing the text to be a body instead of a heading. Works with every line exept for this one.
Making a statblock with fantasy statblock to see if that will link to the Initiative Tracker settings. I cannot work it, don’t know if it’s not possible or if I am just not seeing the solution.
Tried Googling the problem for a couple of hours.

I would appreciate feedback or help a lot. I have been trying to fix this for a couple hours and am sure there is a simple solution I am just not finding.

^This is what the front matter looks like in live preview mode.

[cheezopath]

make sure there is no space before the first `---`

if even a single character appears before that, it doesn’t get interpreted as frontmatter.

It may be that you already have frontmatter on the note and aren’t viewing it.

In that case, change your “properties in document” mode to “source” to see it properly and have the ability to edit it directly.

[EchtHema]

Thank you for taking the time to answer and help me.

There are no symbols or anything before the - - -. When I go in source matter, I don’t see the grey square I see when I’ve used code in my notes. I assumed the grey square only appeared when I put ‘‘‘ in front. Is that a correct assumption? Or am I doing something wrong?

When I use three lower _ key, it looks the same as three - key. Lower key doesn’t make the modifier sentence a header. Where the normal - does make a header. Should I use the lower one?

Both are not creating a table in live preview. Just a tekst with grey stripes above and under it. Which is fun and useful, but the settings of Initiative Tracker don’t let me link characters to these notes without a table.

Do you have another idea I could try?

Thanks again for your help.

[cheezopath]

could you attach your md file so I could have a look?

[EchtHema]

Yes off course, thank you for your help! I managed to create a player statblock but not the table for the initiative tracker.

Feyri (Joeke, groen).md (584 Bytes)

[cheezopath]

OK I opened this in sublimetext and have spotted a couple of issues:

you need your yaml to be the first thing in the file, bar none. Additionally, I think your --- that ends the yaml might have been converted into a different kind of line.

it should look like this: