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Tabletop Forge merges into Roll20

January 29, 2013 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

This may be the first Google Hangout merger of note but it won’t be the last. The virtual tabletop system Tabletop Forge will close – the app has a month left of life. Joshuha Owen’s popular system raised nearly $50,000 in Kickstarter and has an impressive 12,000 gamers in Google+ Circles. Owen will be joining […]

Filed Under: PC, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: roll20, tabletop forge

10 new tabletop RPG communities on Google+ to join

December 7, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood 5 Comments

Yesterday Google rolled out a new feature on Google+ – communities. Communities let people chat and share around common interests. As you can expect there’s already a wealth of RPG communities as gamers tend to be early adopters. Here’s Google’s video that explains the concept. It’s early days, so some communities might take off yet […]

Filed Under: Sites, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: FATE, google, pathfinder, star wars, tabletop forge

The Indie+ RPG convention team in chain reaction interview

October 30, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

An Indie+ chain reaction interview? What is Indie+ in the first place? It’s an online gaming convention, this week, that works over Google Hangouts. What on earth is a ‘chain reaction interview’? Glad you asked. A chain reaction interview is when a whole bunch of people take part in an interview and overlap their questions […]

Filed Under: Interviews, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: 6d6, Chris Tregenza, Dungeon World, indie, jeff dee, Mark Diaz Truman, roll20, tabletop forge

Devin Night’s awesome Tabletop Forge tokens

September 25, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

I backed the Tabletop Forge Kickstarter at a level where the pledge reward included a custom token. Tabletop Forge is an impressive Google+ Hangouts app for roleplayers. It allows gamers to have the tabletop gaming experience without actually all being at the same tabletop. Google+ Hangouts provide the impressive video functions and the Tabletop Forge […]

Filed Under: Art, Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: tabletop forge

Kickstarter project Tabletop Forge booms on Google+

June 9, 2012 by Andrew Girdwood Leave a Comment

Tabletop Forge is a Kickstarter project to build a Google Hangout app. It’s a very good sign that the campaign has exploded on Google+ with the interest. As adland says; “It’s gone viral”. At the time of posting this blog post Google+ comments about Tabletop Forge. It’s interesting to note that only a small percentage […]

Filed Under: Tabletop & RPGs Tagged With: google, kickstarters, tabletop forge

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