Text to model
Shard has modelled types for all the standard 5E mechanics (classes, races, backgrounds, spells, …) and offers the option to create your own custom types with modeled features that impact the characters to which they are attached. Today, we will talk about the new tools we just released to help creators go from text in a book to a fully modeled object.
Better Books
This week’s release includes a number of enhancements to the book authoring experience.
Character Updates
Over the next several days, I will be detailing a series of updates that went live to Shard today. Today’s entry will cover player visible changes. Tomorrow and the following days will cover enhancements to book creation, additional modeling options, and creating modeled content from books.
Flexible Racial Ability Modifiers
The headline change is that racial modifiers are now changeable within Shard. When you pick your character’s race, you will see the check box and the options that appear below.
Troll Lords!
The Troll Lords are coming! We are incredibly happy to announce a new partnership with Troll Lord Games. The Troll Lords have embraced Shard Tabletop and are bringing their 50+ title, growing catalog of 5th edition gaming material over to Shard.
A Blaze in the Northern Sky
As you approach the village, wisps of smoke and ash fill the sky beyond. A forest fire smolders just north of the village.
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.