Adventurekeep

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tabletop rpg tools

SHOW HN2019

182points
57comments
#222of 2,195 in 2019
Top 11%of 2019 by points

How HN took it

MixedNo clear lean

12 positive, 8 neutral or asking, 2 mixed, 3 critical, out of 25 comments about the project. Thread score +0.31.

Idea: 7 for, 0 againstDesign: 3 for, 0 againstExecution: 1 for, 2 againstPrivacy: 1 for, 1 against

The thread, comment by comment

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positive neutral or mixed critical about another commenter or something else the maker

What HN said

What people liked

  • Clean, slick UX and editor

    From 4 comments
    • This looks really slick, what's the stack?
      sansnomme on HN
    • Love the editor. Great tool to write stories. Please consider connecting with D&D Beyond for things like items, characters, monsters, etc. They already have so much content…
      GeertJohan on HN
    • Hey friend, this looks awesome! I spent some time playing around with a similar idea but ended up chasing it from a different angle (a tool you could use to create arbitrary…
      tomlagier on HN
    • This looks great. Do you have a blog or something where you post updates? I'm going to write my next adventure segment here and see if it flows better than googledocs. This feels…
      vnxli on HN
  • Encounter generator is useful

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool- signed up, but am at work right now so I don't have time to delve really deeply into it. The encounter generator looks pretty great, the few tests I performed seemed…
      zrobotics on HN

Objections

  • Signup form lacked privacy policy and clarity on email use

    From 1 comment
    • There is no explanation of how you use my email address before providing it. If this is a free service then I assume that I am the product. There is no privacy policy.…
      gatherhunterer on HN
  • Login and signup failed for one user

    From 1 comment
    • I can't login or signup for some reason so I guess I can't look at it today.
      thesquib on HN
  • Only SRD rules available, no PHB content

    From 2 comments
    • Do you give access to the PHB content or just the standard rule set?
      sakian on HN
    • Just standard rule set at the moment. Hopefully can expand on this in the future!
      montagh451 on HN

Requests

  • Keyboard navigation and quick search

    From 3 comments
    • I've thought a lot about making a tool like this, and you've accomplished a lot of what I had in mind. It looks awesome! One piece of feedback that would make or break this tool…
      tomtheelder on HN
    • I actually think that being able to operate the quicksearch with just a keyboard would be most of what I would want! In addition, I think being able to set up some sort of quick…
      tomtheelder on HN
    • A version using vi bindings would be amazing.
      berbec on HN
  • Custom monsters and editable monster stats

    From 2 comments
    • Can you edit the monster stats for an encounter?
      SubiculumCode on HN
    • Great to hear! Thanks for checking it out. I have some improvements coming to the encounter generator coming very soon! At the moment, you can only import monsters from the SRD…
      montagh451 on HN
  • Public sharing of pages and characters

    From 2 comments
    • Hey friend, this looks awesome! I spent some time playing around with a similar idea but ended up chasing it from a different angle (a tool you could use to create arbitrary…
      tomlagier on HN
    • Public/sharing options is something very high on my priority list. I wanted to get the core functionality right before moving on to that feature set. As for the js bundles,…
      montagh451 on HN
  • Integration with D&D Beyond

    From 1 comment
    • Love the editor. Great tool to write stories. Please consider connecting with D&D Beyond for things like items, characters, monsters, etc. They already have so much content…
      GeertJohan on HN
  • Music playlist embedding

    From 1 comment
    • Looks great! One tool that I would love to have, and that every DM I know would as well: integrated music handling. I'd love to upload music files, and be able to embed looped…
      JoshTriplett on HN

Questions

  • Is it open source?

    From 1 comment
    • Very cool, since this is HN I would be nice to see what you're using to create this, is there a plugin system, roadmap, open source?
      wyck on HN
  • Is there a Pathfinder version?

    From 2 comments

Alternatives named

  • Roll20

    From 2 comments
    • There is Roll20, which allows you to play in online campaigns.
      Aeolun on HN
    • Very cool- signed up, but am at work right now so I don't have time to delve really deeply into it. The encounter generator looks pretty great, the few tests I performed seemed…
      zrobotics on HN
  • Fantasy Grounds

    From 1 comment
    • > The other day I was thinking about some kind of online service that would let you join a D&D like distributed party Sounds like a virtual tabletop, of which there are many,…
      dragonwriter on HN
  • 5e.tools

    From 1 comment
    • Check out https://5e.tools/ they have a great API.
      miah_ on HN
  • Dungeon mapper (monk-e-boy)

    From 1 comment
    • A dungeon mapper, open source, it saves maps to the URL so no signup needed and they are easy to share with players. https://monk-e-boy.github.io/dungeon-mapper/ Very simple to…
      monk_e_boy on HN

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