D&D 5E Black Flag and Tales of the Valiant on Shard Tabletop

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Black Flag, the Tales of the Valiant Player's Guide, and the Tales of the Valiant Monster Vault are available on Shard Tabletop.

Shard is the only VTT I know of that has a good mobile friendly character builder that doesn't require you to load a whole VTT to use. This gives it D&D Beyond-style use at a home table, something you can't really do with Roll20, Foundry, or Fantasy Grounds.

The Black Flag SRD is available there for free, including all the monsters in the Monster Vault but without the art or flavor text. The ToV Player's Guide and MV are $35 each on the platform. I had some credit on the store so I bought both to try them out and I really dig them. My wife built herself a ToV paladin in just a few minutes using the character builder there.

I've been very interested in finding alternative online character builders for 5e that compete with D&D Beyond and this is the current best one I've found. It certainly isn't as slick as D&D Beyond overall but it's very usable from what I found so far. Granted, I haven't actually run a game with it.

Still, it's a nice way to have web-based mobile-friendly access to ToV monsters for any 5e games.
 

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There are some great videos on running a game on Shard too. They have anYouTube channel with a few that are great. This is one of my favorites: “Complete Combat Overview” under the Tutorials list.

The amazing features they’ve built are very customized toward the GM, really letting to focus on the story and letting the platform help you manage the rules. Further, they have a great print character sheet option so you can create characters easily on Shard (even free using the Black Flag RD) and run it at your table. The online reader, as you pointed out, is so good on Shard.

Also, KP has GM and Player subscriptions that let you try TOV (and their whole library) before you buy it that is exclusively on Shard.

Check out that video. I learn new things about it all the time. They constantly improve Shard.
 

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