Hey folks! There’s a technology that’s been touted as one of the ‘next big things’ in Tabletop RPGs: Augmented Reality. Today we’ll be looking at the technology, and determining whether it is a helpful tool for your tabletop games, or simply a flashy gimmick. What is Augmented Reality? Augmented Reality, or AR for short, is […]

Today, August 30th 2022, we say farewell to Astral Tabletop. Since the announcement in late 2021 that Astral was entering maintenance mode, we knew it was only a matter of time before the servers were shut down permanently. Here at Arkenforge, we’ve always been fond of Astral. We both started in early 2017, and we’ve

Hey folks! A new competition is upon us! Over the next two weeks, a rich patron has asked that you build them an illustrious manor on a newly acquired plot of land: The winner, as chosen by the community, will gain either a copy of the Master’s Toolkit, or one Arkenforge pack of their choice.

Hey folks! A new competition is upon us! “You’ve been tasked by our great Queen to construct a glorious new vessel to sail the rivers of our land. The boat can have any purpose – transport, war, entertainment… It really doesn’t matter. She just REALLY wants to see a flashy new boat, and I don’t

Hey folks! For those who haven’t heard the news already, D&D Beyond has officially been purchased by Hasbro for $147million! That’s no small sum! Today we’ll be looking at what the D&D Beyond purchase may mean for our industry through the lens of a VTT developer. First up, there was a lot of surprise online

Hey folks! Today we’re going to be talking about something you may have seen around but not quite understood – the Universal VTT (UVTT) file format. What is it? The Universal VTT file is a file format created by Megasploot. You may know him as the developer of Wonderdraft and Dungeondraft. UVTT files come in

Hey folks! It’s finally here – after 213 updates, v0.4.0 of the Toolkit is complete!   Looking back at the v0.4.0 update series It’s been a long 8 months. When we first kicked off the v0.4.0 series back in May 2021, we were incredibly optimistic about the direction that the Toolkit was moving in. We’d

Hey folks! Recently we put out this video (also shown below) showing off our new touch screen features, and it’s safe to say it was quite popular! In this article we’ll be giving you instructions on how you can build your own version of this setup at home. Product links in this article are affiliate

Hey folks! Our new public Master’s Toolkit update is here, and it’s all about optimisation! We’ve worked hard to make the mapping experience smoother than it’s ever been. You’ll notice this most on large and multi-level maps. We’ve also made some solid user experience upgrades throughout, along with the usual bug squashing. We’ve compiled an