CITY OF BRASS - the Web-Based RPG App Kickstarter Launches!

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Just what is The City of Brass? It's a fully-featured app designed to manage the mechanics of pen-and-paper RPGs allowing you to focus on what matters: playing the game.

It is a web-based app that supports Any Game System and works on Any Device.

With The City of Brass you can:

• Manage all your characters for any game you play
• Easily create and organize your setting
• Write and run your adventures
• Catalog and post campaign updates
• and much more!

There are a limited number of early beta spots available on the Kickstarter. Grab yours before they're gone!

I backed it! Can't wait!

Looks interesting, but I'm not interested in a subscription app. I want the thing without monthly/yearly payments. Good luck to the kickstarter though!

With ParagonfVirtue on this as a sub costing money each month to use not a good idea as I could do almost the same thing with free oline things from around the web and various windows application that I already have. But hiope the kick starter gose good for you and will see how it goes will be watching this.

How does City of Brass compare to Roll20 in design, mechanics and capabilities?

It wouldn't be a correct comparison. Those are VTTs where City of Brass is more of a Campaign Manager. Its competitor would be Realm Works and Hero Labs; Obsidian Portal. Where I see a big advantage from their approach compared to say Hero Lab is that it looks way more easier to set up your Characters regardless of the game system. In Hero Lab you have to do absurd amounts of programming with very archaic documentation if you want to create a character sheet for a non-supported game like 5e. Realm Works is great, but I think it is overly complicated and too strict; whereas City of Brass takes the more open approach. Since it is web-based, your entire group has access to it.

As a player, I can log on and add whatever documentation or resources that I want and it is shared to all of my characters in whatever game I am playing. In realm works, I can't do this.

Also, I am not affiliated with their company an any way. I am just an interested gamer who plays multiple games where this would be a fantastic tool to do world building and campaign management.

I can't really speak for Roll20, but I can tell you a little more about The City of Brass.

First a key difference, we're not a virtual tabletop. Our aim is really to enhance the in-person experience although The City of Brass will work wonderfully with groups that play over the web w/out the need of miniatures (or with another solution for a virtual tabletop).

For players, the system offers a convenient place to enter all your characters, regardless of the game you play. It's also very flexible, so you can input house rules and use them to influence elements about your character (such as ability scores, defenses, attacks, etc.). Your character sheet is also largely interactive, most elements have inbuilt dice rollers, for instance.

The Campaign Manager system will also be used by players to keep updated with where things are at in an ongoing game. It's intended to allow game masters to quickly post things such as game recaps and house rules. You can also get a look at other players character sheets (if they've been set to public) and the game master can view the private parts of the sheet also.

World Builder is a place to put together your setting. You can do all sorts of things in World Builder including interrelating elements of your setting automatically (things like Cities to Continents to Nations to Rulers to Villains, etc.). It also produces a very nice, clean output for others.

You can see an example of a setting created in World Builder here - valleyofthekingsrpg.com

The last major system is Story Builder where you write adventures, interconnect them with your creatures (that enjoy all the power and flexibility of characters).

If your interested, there are videos showcasing each of these systems (about 10 min. each) on the Kickstarter page.

It looks cool, but I won't pay a monthly subscription.

I will echo what others have said: for a campaign manager where I am going to put so much time and effort, I prefer a non-subscription app. Also, for such heavy data entry applications, I prefer much better desktop applications (and the export capabilities if I want to share things with my players).

Nevertheless, kudos to The City of Brass team, as a software developer I have enjoyed a lot watching your videos and how you manage to support different rulesets, you have created an amazingly flexible product.