Adventure Guild!!
I am pleased to announce the formation of the Shard Adventure Guild. The Guild functions as a West Marches style campaign centered in Darcor. Darcor is a free town on the southwest coast of Artanga, Shard Tabletop’s first party setting. The characters are members of a guild in search of lost treasures, powerful magics, and historic artifacts. The guild hall itself is an ancient structure with mystical connections to other places on Artanga, the wider world of Cerulia, and even other worlds and planes of existence.
NPCs, Villains, and Companions
New monster types to better support non-player characters, recurring villains, and character companions have been added to Shard. On the Create Monster dialog below, you see two new options. In addition, there two subtypes of unique creature. Each is explained below.
Mounts, familiars, and more
Creature Companions are now supported on the Shard character sheet. As you can see in the screen shot, the new section supports multiple companions and different types.
Meezul’s Mysterious Mansion
Our partner Domille is providing a spectacular Halloween themed adventure to all our users, free of charge, just in time for your holiday games.
Stream on
Over the past several years, streaming has become the de facto way to learn and master new games. Whether you are beginner or a master of your chosen game, there is always something new to learn and someone is streaming or recording video to help. This is especially true in tabletop roleplaying games.
Adventure Awaits
One of our primary goals at Shard Tabletop is to make tabletop role playing accessible to a wider audience. Lots of people would love to learn the game and start their own group, but have no idea where to start. Running your first game without ever having played can be intimidating.
We were thrilled to find the crew at Tabletale Games shared that mindset and we a thrilled to be partnering with them to advance that goal. Tabletale is a group of professional gamemasters with a strong background in acting and writing. They love the game as much as we do and provide an incredibly valuable service for those that want to learn to play.
Character Visibility
Shard Game Masters have asked for a way to set the visibility and edit-ability of character sheets and now they can. This option is now one of several that you can select on the new Campaign Settings dialog.
The campaign menu (accessed by clicking on the campaign name in the main adventure screen) now has a new Settings entry that consolidated some of the old menu options and added a few new ones. The Campaign Settings dialog is shown here and each option is explained below.
Friday Night Lights
The live stream community around Shard is growing. The newest entrant is Dessica Nuvell’s Lier. It airs on Twitch every Friday night at https://www.twitch.tv/dessicanuvell. The first episode is available on demand. A sneak peak at the way they used Shard to build out the shared world of Lier is also posted on the channel.
I caught up with Dessica to ask a few questions.
Ping and Measure
What’s that over there? Is that monster in range? How far to there? New pointing and measuring tools have arrived. Today, we released two new tools that can be used together or separately.
All the pretty dice
Players and game masters alike often add a little personality to their game with the dice they choose. Some players have a separate set for each character they play. I personally have a collection of dice I use to GM and a separate collection I use when I play. Never shall they meet.