With Trapdoor Tech and Lone Wolf cautiously circling each other with their Codename: Morningstar and Herolab/Realmworks applications respectively, another player has been quietly prepping something in the background. The City of Brass, billing itself as "the next generation of gaming apps" is working on "a fully-featured app specifically designed to manage the mechanics of pen-and-paper games while allowing you to focus on what matters".
The application, which will have public betas in early 2015, and hopefully full production midyear, has been privately in use by the developers for months for both D&D 5E and for N.E.W. The Roleplaying Game (the inclusion of the latter attracted my interest for obvious reasons, but the app is designed for multiple systems). It features a world builder, a character (and monster) builder, a story builder for creating adventures, and a campaign manager. Plus a whole bunch of stock art you can use in your creations. Lucas of City of Brass shared some screenshots with me, below.
It's an interesting time, to be sure. It seems that this particular application is pretty much built already, and is is heavy playtesting mode right now. It does look like the forefront of electronic aids development is proving to be a highly competitive area in terms of functionality and cost, and that can only be good for us potential customers!
Here's a D&D 5E character. This is the overview stuff.
And here's the actual character sheet.
Hoard of the Dragon Queen (D&D 5E) in the Campaign Manager.
Recaps from the Campaign Manager.
The character page. All the sheets can be viewed by the GM.
A preview of the City of Brass character sheet. This is Jack, a PC from a What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. playtest.
The tab with Jack's exploits. All the gold numbers are interactive. If you click them, they roll dice.
The Story Builder. This is the splash screen for an adventure.
An encounter in the Story Builder.
A peek at the World Builder pages. Crisp, clean, easy to navigate and simple to create and manage.
A quick glimpse of the FAQ pages which gives some hints as the licensing and pricing.
The application, which will have public betas in early 2015, and hopefully full production midyear, has been privately in use by the developers for months for both D&D 5E and for N.E.W. The Roleplaying Game (the inclusion of the latter attracted my interest for obvious reasons, but the app is designed for multiple systems). It features a world builder, a character (and monster) builder, a story builder for creating adventures, and a campaign manager. Plus a whole bunch of stock art you can use in your creations. Lucas of City of Brass shared some screenshots with me, below.
It's an interesting time, to be sure. It seems that this particular application is pretty much built already, and is is heavy playtesting mode right now. It does look like the forefront of electronic aids development is proving to be a highly competitive area in terms of functionality and cost, and that can only be good for us potential customers!
Here's a D&D 5E character. This is the overview stuff.
And here's the actual character sheet.
Hoard of the Dragon Queen (D&D 5E) in the Campaign Manager.
Recaps from the Campaign Manager.
The character page. All the sheets can be viewed by the GM.
A preview of the City of Brass character sheet. This is Jack, a PC from a What's O.L.D. is N.E.W. playtest.
The tab with Jack's exploits. All the gold numbers are interactive. If you click them, they roll dice.
The Story Builder. This is the splash screen for an adventure.
An encounter in the Story Builder.
A peek at the World Builder pages. Crisp, clean, easy to navigate and simple to create and manage.
A quick glimpse of the FAQ pages which gives some hints as the licensing and pricing.
