Let's talk irony in the ttrpg space - specifically, the digital side.

D&D Beyond is supposed to the *the* home of D&D on the internet. You can buy books there, set up campaigns, if you have a subscription you can share those books, etc. It's Wizards' thing to try to centralize the whole kit and kaboodle. (DDB didn't start out as owned by wizards - it was licensed. They bought it out in 2022 and made it their own. - https://www.dndbeyond.com/posts/1221-d-d-beyond-joins-wizards-of-the-coast )

There's a caveat to that, though - and it's called Roll20. One of the biggest places to run games online, with a virtual tabletop and all that. Wizards actually licenses D&D there, and you can buy D&D books on there to to use the books with the game.

(Fun fact: Wizards has been trying *very* to make headway in this space, at least where D&D is concerned. See their Maps VTT, and its predecessor the now-dead Sigil 3d vtt.)

This is where the irony comes in - Roll20 bought out another digital distribution platform called Demiplane, which serves a whole bunch of other games, and used to do only third party 5e content as well... until very recently. Remember, Roll20 owns them. ...and now Demiplane is hosting a small subset of the D&D books, including the big three core books, using official D&D trademarks and such because hey, it's all licensed, I guess?

The long and short is the D&D Beyond for a bunch of other big games has semi-accidentally started hosting D&D official content as well. Considering Demiplane started hosting books after hiring on a few former DDB folks... well.

Irony.

Someone at Wizards has to be incredibly irritated by this twist.

#DND #dnd5e #dndbeyond #roll20 #demiplane

I am not sure what the deal is with roll20 linking up with demiplane to provide some character sheets? I was sort of interested in testing out Starfinder 2e. I was a little shocked that there is some kind of demiplane connection to do that now.

https://www.demiplane.com/launch

I find filling out the options for Starfinder 2e cumbersome, but I am old and a complainer. I kind of wish there was a character generator that just asked a series of questions like...

Do you like to fighting, sneaking, healing, or magic?

Is your character strong, smart, or agile?

And so on...

Maybe a bit like how a gypsy would ask you a series of questions in Ultima to determine what your class was going to be.

#starfinder #rpg #ttrpg #ultima #roll20 #demiplane

Demiplane has a whole section on “5e”

I ASSUME this means D&D 5e? Because they sure don’t say that.

#DemiPlane #DnD

Back to character creation for #Fallout2d20. I played around a bit with the #Demiplane character creature, which is nifty BUT requires me to pay approx. $30 for the tool set.

Which I get, but ... not that's not in the budget for this month (especially since I just ordered the print version of the rules. #TTRPG

The final act of Return of the Ripper is a kind of #heroquest across a #mythical desert #demiplane to reach the Tomb of the Sea Queen.

I am drawing on #Zoroastrian and #Persian #myths to populate the demiplane. I was delighted to find this amazing and useful site "1001 Mythical Creatures of #Iranian Cultures and Beyond". Worth taking a look just for the beautiful #illustrations.

https://www.eranshahr.com/myths

#ttrpg #TTRPGs #DungeonCrawlClassics #DCC #DCCRPG

I didn't realize #DemiPlane was so slow until I just created a sample PC for #DaggerHeart.

A lot of the content is only available as a purchase unfortunately (I get it -- they need to make money too).

#TTRPG

TTRPG grumbling:

While I'm not generally a fan of D&D beyond's app, one thing I rather appreciate about it is the fact that I can just... Download all the books I own for totally offline access. There is a storage price to be paid for this, naturally, but I can accept that.

Compare this to Demiplane which uses a web interface exclusively. No native app, and definitely no offline access.

I would say "I expected better of them", but apparently they were bought out around this time last year by Roll20 (fun fact: so was drivethrurpg) and Roll20 has a history of either having awful apps or no apps at all, so I suppose I really shouldn't be surprised, but it's a little frustrating.

Please don't make me say "Wizards does this better" eternally?

#ttrpg #dnd5e #roll20 #demiplane #vtm #pf2e

Daggerheart Character Building with Demiplane!

Let’s see just how easy it is to build a Daggerheart character and how to link it into a game in Roll20!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iqV4lIF4Ir0

#Daggerheart #TTRPG #Demiplane #Roll20