Before You Buy: A Checklist for Any Tool That Bridges Your Table
Thinking about a tool that brings your real dice or minis into an online game? Here’s the checklist worth running through before you buy or try one.
Running a Mixed Table: What I’d Do Differently Next Time
Some players in the room, some on video? Practical ways to run a mixed tabletop RPG table so nobody gets talked over or left out.
What Online Tables Are Still Missing (and How to Get It Back)
I started playing tabletop games back when you had to find people willing to sit around a table with you, because computers were big machines that mostly lived in offices. These days most of my games are online, and I wouldn’t swap that. It fits the schedules and distances that real life throws at a […]
Online Handouts That Land: How I Make Props Work in TTRPGs
You can’t post a letter to players in six different countries, so how do you hand them something at the table? Here is what I have learned running two online campaigns, including the time my players missed a treasure map.
Dev Log Highlight: Recognition System’s First Real Test
Every fortnight we post a full dev log on our Discord. Here’s the headline from the latest one. We ran the dice recognition system through its first proper test and got our first real numbers back. It correctly spotted that a die was present 95% of the time, and got its position right 89% of […]
Foundry VTT V14: Finally Built for Two Screens, One Table
If you run a hybrid game, you already know the screen-juggling problem. You’ve got the map open, your notes in another tab, maybe a rules reference on standby, and somewhere in there you’re also trying to make sure your in-person players can actually see the battle grid without crowding round your laptop like it’s a […]
Dev Log Highlight: Dice Recognition Accuracy Climbs to 80%
Every fortnight we post a full dev log on our Discord. Here’s the headline news from the latest one. The dice recognition system took a real step forward this fortnight. When we first put an early version to the test, it correctly read the dice roughly three out of every four times. That number has […]
Why Your Real Dice Still Belong at a Digital Table
There’s a habit a lot of newer online GMs fall into without really deciding to. You get a VTT set up, Foundry or Roll20 or whatever your table’s chosen, and because it can roll dice for you, click, done, no fuss, you just stop reaching for the physical set gathering dust by your keyboard. It […]
Dev Log Highlight: Windows Infrastructure Locked In
It’s fortnight two of the Dev Log Highlights, and this time the news is all about groundwork paying off. The core infrastructure for the Windows version of Dice Link is now complete. That’s the unglamorous but essential plumbing that lets the app actually run and install properly on a Windows machine, and it’s now done […]
Your Dice Are Getting Their Seat Back at the Online Table
I have over 200 sets of dice sitting on my shelves. Some of them cost me £30 a set. I’m a dice goblin, and I’m proud of it. And for years, running games as a professional GM almost entirely online, I couldn’t use a single one of them. That’s the ache. It’s not even about […]
