Role playing games are powerful empathy generators – creating spaces for genuine intimate friendship, adventure, inspiration, and collaboration. Whether you’re an avid tabletop RPG player, creator, streamer, or curious newcomer – we want to share in your passion and help it grow.

We believe in the power of authentic narrative play. With Role, we’re bringing that power to a new generation of online creators & communities. With all the world’s advances in technology & entertainment, there is still nothing quite like a great RPG. So we set out to build the ultimate collection of high-quality social, marketplace, and online play tools for veteran players and newcomers alike.

Today’s role playing community is larger and more vibrant than ever. Diverse voices from around the globe are creating new games every day. We want to be the place where everyone can play, meet new people, and get their games into more players’ hands. In simplest terms, we really just want to answer one question for every person in our community: What’s missing from your table today?

We try to answer that question in 3 major ways: intuitive & seamless online video play, a creator-driven marketplace, and robust player matching services.

Our online play interface is called “The Table“, and is meant to recreate that intimate feeling of playing face-to-face with a tight group of players. 

Crisp high quality video chat puts the best part of the game front-and-center: the people. Show critical information through screen sharing. Upload visual aids to enhance your game via your Asset Tray. Text chat as a group or privately, allowing you to communicate however is most effective for your game.

Roll any combination of dice by selecting them quickly from your Dice Tray. Add stat modifiers from your character sheet, track critical successes & failures, and add up your totals automatically. Draw cards from any deck of your choosing, including standard 52 card decks, tarot, and custom decks from your favorite games. Show your results live to the entire Table, or set them to Private for discreet gameplay.

Fully modular character sheet tools ensure you have what you need to play any game, even homebrew content or custom systems. We’ve designed our character sheet system from a standardized set of form fields, stat trackers, pools, tokens, note sections, and more – everything you need to play any RPG system. Character sheets are automatically indexed, with a Table of Contents generated for easy navigation. Everything is drag-and-drop – no code required! 

Match with players who share your interests, based on information listed in your Profile. Use advanced filters to find exactly who you need based on desired complexity level, specific game experience, and location. You can even use Role to find experienced Game Masters to run your Table! 

Role is a people-first role playing community, and that means you’ll always have tools to meet new players that align with your interests. Browse until you find someone you want to match with. If they match back, you’ll be able to chat and set up your next game together!

Real names & location data are always optional – you only have to share what you’re comfortable sharing.

We’re designing a premium marketplace that puts creators first, making it easier for players to discover, learn, and purchase new games from diverse voices in the role playing community. Basic game info such as complexity, player count, and time commitment is always easy to find & search by. Creators can upload a free teaser of their game to help players quickly understand the basics, sample the world, and get excited to play more.

Say goodbye to review bombs & trolling. Instead of a traditional review score system, Role uses a recommendation engine. Players recommend what they love, not trash what they hate.

Players never have to worry about buying new games without people to enjoy them with. Every game is directly linked to our Player Matching tools, ensuring that every new player can find people and play together.

Backers of this campaign will be the first to join the Role private Early Access program, where they can play with each other and help shape our tools before we launch to the rest of the world! In addition, we’re offering a slate of rewards that include premium features, game supplements, and exclusive items only available via this campaign.

All of our backers will be able to play in our Early Access program, and will receive a shout-out on our “Thank You” page! Additional rewards are available as follows:

Role will launch as a free platform for everyone, with an open marketplace & play tools to support any game. For those that want to take their adventures further, we’re offering a subscription tier called Role Master Edition. This subscription includes everything from the basic tier, plus extras that ensure players, creators, and game masters alike have all the tools they need to run the very best game sessions.

Beyond our default look & feel, the Table interface will support a growing library of custom skins inspired by various popular fiction genres. Maximize your group’s immersion in the story by wrapping your experience in a skin that’s right for you. 

Backers of this campaign will receive 3 Kickstarter-exclusive skins that will never be available again: our first Fantasy skin, a retro Arcade skin, and our Cyberpunk skin. 

Of course, the heart of the Role platform is great games. Backers of this campaign will be able to receive one or more of our 6 Creators Program supplements as they release over the course of our first year.

We believe in supporting the RPG creator community on Day 1, and that’s why we’ve launched the Role Creators Program – a funding initiative to help independent designers and publishers get more of their work out into the world. As part of this Kickstarter campaign, we’re funding a fresh batch of RPG game supplements from 6 different creators. These digital supplements will be exclusive to the Role platform, and available first to backers of this campaign!

First, we’re extremely excited to reveal Lancer: Battlegroup, the official expansion from Massif Press!

Lancer: Battlegroup is a new, standalone rules system for the Lancer setting, designed for use at your tabletop and in digital, grid-free play. Blending Lancer’s deep unit customization and imbued story with tactical-narrative action, Battlegroup casts the players as pilots and officers in a battlegroup deployed to the front line; as the first tremors of interstellar war test Union’s integrity, you and your party members will face the enemy with new weapons and old tactics, thrown into combat with only one goal: survive, and return home.

As big OSR fans, we’re very pleased to bring everyone Isle of Ixx from Swedish designer, Skullfungus!

The Isle of Ixx is both a light OSR-style ruleset and a sandbox adventure in one. The rules are based on “Into the Odd” by Chris McDowall, and have been chosen for their simplicity and ease of use, so that the focus can lie on adventuring and discovering the island. The system itself is also easy to adapt to any style of OSR-ruleset you might have in mind, should you prefer that instead!

The setting text will be written in an open-ended way, often asking the players questions about their characters and surroundings. This way, they’ll be a big part of the setting and will get to influence much of what goes on in the story!

There will be roughly 16 key locations on the map for players to explore, ranging from cities, villages, lairs, and dungeons. There will also be tools for the game master to create their own content, in the form of generators and sample maps they can use for their own dungeon adventures!

 We’re also proud to be partnering with Swordsfall to launch The Fifth Ebon Expedition, the newest expansion to this massive Afropunk universe!

The Fifth Ebon Expedition is a 4+ player campaign set in a unique Mission style. Your group will be part of the larger expedition, fighting to establish forward camps, and with it a railway for a future supply line. If your expedition is successful, then the question is… can you defend it?

From popular Filipino creator, Sword Queen Games, we’re bringing Voidwalkers – a tarot-powered game that combines mysticism with deep space exploration for an experience unlike any other!

Voidwalkers will be a complete stand-alone science fiction TTRPG where mysticism and space-magic guide creative and intuitive stories. In this Powered by the Apocalypse game, characters must learn how to harness and balance the wild space-magic, the VOID, within themselves, while navigating and staying clear of its wild manifestations in the physical world. You must rely on creativity, luck, and relationships in order to succeed and thrive out in the Void. Players will use a tarot deck as a way to generate intuitive stories and resolve challenges. A unique tarot deck will be created for this game, but any tarot deck may be used!

Indie designer Steven Medeiros, in collaboration with the Role team, is developing Astra – a unique blend of classic OSR and cooperative action where players pool their dice rolls and act together as a group.

Astra is a rules light 3-6 player OSR-style tabletop role playing game with a focus on cooperative group dice pool mechanics that allow players to work together and overcome obstacles. It explores heavy themes of interpersonal connections, self exploration, and building community. Suitable for one-shot or campaign-style play, it features quick & easy character creation and narrative driven gameplay.

Last – but certainly not least – we’re working with Magpie Games to bring players a brand-new supplement for Masks! Cataclysm at the Metajunction will bring new levels of superhero action to this popular superhero RPG.

Cataclysm at the Metajunction is a playset for Masks: A New Generation, a Powered by the Apocalypse game of teen superheroics. This playset will give you everything you need to play through superheroic tales in the endangered Metajunction, along with two new costumes, or playbook variants, for you to use with existing Masks characters. Ever wanted to play a version of your character from another reality? Cataclysm at the Metajunction provides the support for doing just that!

This playset includes: a 32 page full-color, illustrated playset, including custom moves and villains. And 2 new playbook supplements (costumes) that expand existing Masks playbooks.

All 6 of these awesome supplements will release exclusively on Role, as part of Year 1 of our platform launch!

 From all of us here at Role, thank you so much for joining us on this adventure. We can’t wait to share in the worlds, characters, and stories you create. The world is a better place when we imagine together.

This is your game table. This is Role. 

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