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Digital tools for boardgames and roleplay games

Chris Chinchilla
10 min readOct 28, 2021

I endlessly discover cool digital tools, apps, and websites for enhancing board games and roleplay games and needed an excuse to try them. So I wrote a blogpost!

I am aware that some tools overlap categories, and in those cases, I have tried to put them in a category that makes the most sense.

A living guide

  • I am fully aware that I will continuously discover more and more tools I can add to this list. So check back regularly for updates.
  • I will also attempt to convert this list to other formats, including an awesome list and video(s). As I create those, I will add links here.
  • If you want to suggest entries and are familiar with GitHub, then suggest changes here.

Character sheets

MPMB’s Character record sheet

When I first moved to Berlin, D&D 5e was in its early years and D&D beyond not such a commonly used tool. So to get around the complex maths involved in creating and maintaining D&D character sheets, we used MPMB’s character sheets. I haven’t used it for a few years now, but the project remains popular, highly customisable, and pretty darned epic. It’s a large fillable PDF with a lot of JavaScript code behind the scenes that adds variables and…

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Chris Chinchilla
Chris Chinchilla

Written by Chris Chinchilla

Writer, podcaster, and video maker covering technology, the creative process, board and roleplay game development, fiction, and even more.

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