We have always believed you should have the ability to choose a digital tool like Shard and the content you love for your game independently. That’s why we focused hard on making it ease for you to create everything from maps to character classes in Shard. It’s also the reason we’ve worked hard to embrace a wide variety of publishers that produce content for 5th edition games.

For all the creators among us, export has arrived. You can now create whole books in Shard and export them for use elsewhere or as a means of backing things up.

Export produces an HTML rendering of the book as it appears in Shard with all the inline content (images, monster stat blocks, spells, etc.). That rendering can then be either downloaded or printed.

Agonizing Blast, Bardic Inspiration, and Sneak Attack

These features and 100s more now have built in automation to making playing the game on Shard easier than ever.

Today, we released a major update to the character sheet, chat, and the die roller. A new block on character consolidates actions, bonus actions, reactions, free actions, and features that modify or enhance other actions. It also incorporates active spell effects and conditions, both of which provide additional options or modify existing ones.

The only sign that revealed Solaira’s presence amongst the sandy dunes was the briefest of glints in his eye, as he nocked an arrow to his bow…

As Erym transformed into a ferocious bear, his attackers stepped back in fear, as antlers burst from his ursine skull and an exoskeleton of bark and bones emerged from the thick brown fur…

Chat expands to support safety cards.

Users asked us about building chat into the application a lot over the last year or so. Our response was always, “When we can make it better than using an external chat application, we will…” I’m happy to report we figured that out and today “Chat” is going live.

As Ael’wyn parried aside another thrust of the blade, she saw the weaves of the wyrd in her mind’s eye, and fought with renewed vigor, knowing today was not the day she would die…

Sefina dipped her finger into the blood, finding it still warm to the touch, and knew that her prey couldn’t be far. The clan would eat well tonight…

Kylin placed a hand on the gnarled tree, eyes closed, as she expanded her awareness through the forest. She sensed five of them, about a mile north. Soon, her hunt would be at an end.

As the invisibility took hold, Maya’s foe looked around in confusion. Without missing a beat, she drew back her bowstring, imbued the arrow with a surge of magic, and sent it straight through the man’s heart.

Ziad held aloft the gem, which absorbed the acid arrow just as it was about to strike him. Seeing his opponent's eyes go wide, he gripped the now brightly glowing gem, and extracted that same essence to fuel his next spell. “My turn.”

Kilpi watched the poachers from the shallows, only her eyes visible above the water. They pushed out on their rowboat, but she would make sure they never made it back to their ship…

As the poison dart buried itself in Ayo’s throat, his vision snapped suddenly back to the present, hand reaching out for the door. He withdrew his hand and called back to his companion, “You might want to check this one for traps.”