Our latest release includes major improvements to the capabilities of pins, including the ability to change sizes, change marker tokens and attach multiple encounters, book references or maps to a single pin.

This week’s release includes a variety of new options for adding art to your creations. While the player experience may not be visibly very different, in the coming weeks, players should expect to see differences as creators, including us, adopt these new abilities.

We have received many requests for instructions on how to modify existing classes to change some aspect of an existing class, especially around published variants of classes like the revised Ranger. While it is possible to change an existing class that can quickly get confusing since you likely don’t want to use just the modified class. Creating a copy of an existing class mostly works, but doesn’t copy the subclasses or support new subclasses without lots of manual copying. To support this scenario, we introduced variant classes in this week’s update.

With the increasing number of character options available on Shard, we have found that it has become harder to find and make selections, and as we ready new settings this will only become more challenging. To improve the selection process, today’s release introduces a new card-based selection model for races, classes, backgrounds and feats along with extension enhancements to prioritize options.

Shard now supports having multiple images for a single map and easily switching between them while maintaining fog state, map position and all tokens.

While working with map makers and other content creators, we discovered that it is fairly common to have multiple versions of the same map.

Spells are a huge part of playing the game. Game Masters have had the ability to add tokens to the map representing spell areas of effect almost from the beginning of Shard and now players can too.

As part of this change, we created a token type called Spell Token. Spell Tokens come in all the standard shapes (cone, cube, cylinder, line, rectangle, and sphere). They can be created on the fly by selecting a shape, size, and color or by uploading an image and sizing it. You can give your token a name that will be remembered and associated with your character. Once it’s on the map, you can move it or rotate it to represent the area of effect of your spell.

A short post to explain getting started quickly with running an adventure in Shard.