Freedom to Choose
Character Choices, 5E Hal Howard Character Choices, 5E Hal Howard

Freedom to Choose

We have always believed you should have the ability to choose a digital tool like Shard and the content you love for your game independently. That’s why we focused hard on making it ease for you to create everything from maps to character classes in Shard. It’s also the reason we’ve worked hard to embrace a wide variety of publishers that produce content for 5th edition games.

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Character Choices, 5E Hal Howard Character Choices, 5E Hal Howard

Export has arrived

For all the creators among us, export has arrived. You can now create whole books in Shard and export them for use elsewhere or as a means of backing things up.

Export produces an HTML rendering of the book as it appears in Shard with all the inline content (images, monster stat blocks, spells, etc.). That rendering can then be either downloaded or printed.

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Let’s Get Chatty!
5E, Software Update Hal Howard 5E, Software Update Hal Howard

Let’s Get Chatty!

Users asked us about building chat into the application a lot over the last year or so. Our response was always, “When we can make it better than using an external chat application, we will…” I’m happy to report we figured that out and today “Chat” is going live.

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The Genie Lord
Character Choices, 5E Nick Galvin Character Choices, 5E Nick Galvin

The Genie Lord

Ziad held aloft the gem, which absorbed the acid arrow just as it was about to strike him. Seeing his opponent's eyes go wide, he gripped the now brightly glowing gem, and extracted that same essence to fuel his next spell. “My turn.”

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