Kickstarter is Live for ToAD: Fantasy Adventure Builder
7 months ago
– Tue, Oct 03, 2023 at 06:59:33 AM
We are now live with the Kickstarter for Fantasy Adventure Builder, the digital version and table-builder tool built from Tome of Adventure Design! Please take a moment to back the new Kickstarter, and we would really appreciate it if you would share it on any social media where you talk about fantasy roleplaying games. Matt will be on the DungeonDelver's show this evening at 8pm Eastern (7 Central) to talk with backers and prospective backers (we will share a link when we have it).
Thank you for supporting us with our latest Kickstarter; we are a small company and this software is a big undertaking!
Matt and Suzy
Fantasy Adventure Builder: Early-Look Videos
8 months ago
– Mon, Sep 11, 2023 at 09:56:43 AM
What does the Tome of Adventure Design App (Fantasy Adventure Builder) look like in operation? Here are two very different views of it! (To get notified when it launches, click here).
The first is for overall reaction, and Bill Silvey's video gives a great example of a person reacting to even the earliest demo version. It's a long video, but you don't have to watch much of it to see the "Wow, this is amazingly cool" reaction.
The second video is a tutorial/ad/walkthrough produced by Brave Alice/RPG Stories, who did the coding for the project. This one is a much quicker walk-through of the app's main features, about 6 minutes long. If your main curiosity is about what the app does, and you want to get a sense of it quickly, this one is for you.
We're getting great reactions from everyone who has tried the demo so far!
Matt
Tome of Adventure Design - Fantasy Adventure Builder coming to Kickstarter Soon!
8 months ago
– Tue, Aug 29, 2023 at 08:35:57 AM
Taking Adventure Design to a New Level!
We’re gearing up to launch the Kickstarter for a project that’s been in the works for a very long time. Fantasy Adventure Builder is an app for desktop and tablet with two main features: the tables from Tome of Adventure Design (the Adventure Design Tool), and a Table Designer (the Table Designer Tool) that lets you create your own generators. This doesn't replace the Tome of Adventure Design book -- in fact, from the times we've used the prototype versions of Fantasy Adventure Builder, they work really well together. Fantasy Adventure Builder seems to be best at coming up with an overall picture for when you've got absolutely NO IDEA where to start, and Tome of Adventure Design is best for polishing the details of a starting idea.
Please visit the pre-launch page and sign up to be notified when the Kickstarter goes live (it is planned for early October). We will be doing lots of YouTube discussions once the process starts, to give more details. There’s a lot to talk about, because the software does a lot of things!
If you’re ready to take your adventure design to a whole new level, click here and sign up!
What does it do?
The Adventure Design Tool lets you generate results from the Tome of Adventure Design with a single click of the mouse, and to browse through multiple table-results all at once. Sub-tables are rolled and displayed automatically. So instead of seeing lots of possible results from one table, as you do when using the book, you a combined result from several tables, including their sub-tables.
The Table Designer Tool lets you create your own generators for anything you can imagine, such as encounter tables, NPCs, and name-generators. You’ll need to create the tables, but you will have all the ones from Tome of Adventure Design to use as a starting point.
When will it be delivered?
Most software Kickstarters don’t deliver until a long time after the Kickstarter is completed. In this case, the coding is almost entirely finished, and it will be completed before we even launch the Kickstarter. So we’ll be delivering the first version of the software as soon as the funds are processed.
How will it be fulfilled?
The app will be available as a download and also on Steam(TM). We’re going to recommend using Steam for the first several months after the release of version 1, because Steam(TM) will automatically handle the updates and bug fixes that inevitable follow a software release. It will be available for Linux.
Thank you for supporting Mythmere Games and we will keep you posted!
--Matt & Suzy
Updated PDF file Released at DTRPG
11 months ago
– Wed, Jun 14, 2023 at 09:46:16 AM
We have uploaded a replacement PDF file for the Tome of Adventure Design at DTRPG, to repair problems with the bookmarks in the earlier version of the file. If you have the PDF in your library at DTRPG, you should be receiving an email from DTRPG to notify you about the new file, but we're posting this as an update in case the DTRPG email drops to your spam folder or otherwise goes awry. Sorry it took us so long to complete the fixes!
Matt and Suzy
