How One App Hopes to Take Tabletop Gaming Digital

[Thunderous Cacophony]

Hi All! This is Glenn from the InKarnate team. To respond to some of the posts here, I'd like to point out that the Map Builder, Adventure Writer and Virtual Table Top will be rules agnostic. For the Map Builder we plan to have multiple styles of fantasy skins, as well as Sci-Fi skins to aid in your world building and story telling. The Adventure Writer is a simple tool to help you organize and collect your maps, images, descriptions, NPCs, treasure, traps, etc., related to your adventures/encounters. The cherry on top, the Virtual Table Top, takes your creations from the Map Builder, Adventure Writer, and Character Sheets, allowing them to work and communicate together, seamlessly. The Character Creator as it exists now is for D20, but with your support and interest, we plan on adding character generators for the most popular RPGs, that will then allow your Character Sheets to interact in a deeper way with the InKarnate play space. Hope this clears up some things.

Thanks,

Glenn

P.S. Thank You to The Escapist for the interview!

Hello, Glenn. Welcome to the Escapist, hopefully you'll stick around.

I have a question about Inkarnate: Is there/going to be a Bestiary? What I mean is a repository for monsters that the DM has designed, a place that is not tied to any specific adventure but is capable of importing the information to an adventure. Ex. A place where I can write up stats for a dozen varieties of Orc, then import certain ones into adventures as the situation arises.

Yes, we will have a full Bestiary with images also, that you will be able to pass to your players. Our hopeful plans include Magic Items, Hazards/Traps, Treasure, Spells, Skills, Feats, and Creature/NPC editors that work in the same fun way as our Character Creator.

Well that's just dandy. Thanks.

 

[Pebkio]

Say! Does anyone remember the Surface? By Microsoft? The surface...

I'm sorry, did I say the Surface? I meant the Microsoft PixelSense! Sure it costs 1200 less than a billion dollars, but if anything was going to make table-topping digital, it's a computer that walks like a dinner table.

 

[Supertegwyn]

Looks cool, but I doubt it will be funded.

Hopefully they start another kickstarter for more money.

 

[Appify]

This is the next stage for VTs - not just make games playable online, but easier to play. Live Gaming is an app in development that aims to be mobile and so useful that players can use it for in-person games.

http://www.saltvalleytally.com/campaign/detail/206
http://appification.wordpress.com/