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HEXROLL 2E Roadmap - the path ahead
🕑 Added 2024-01-09 21:37:29 +0000 UTCGreetings Brave Adventurers,
It has been over a year since I started working on 2E and today I feel privileged to be a part of our amazing community. You play the game using a variety of systems and in different and interesting ways. This places me in a unique position to learn from everyone, get energized by everyone and continue developing and making HEXROLL better.
2E will likely stay in BETA until mid-June. I will use this time to incrementally introduce additional features, while trying to maintain a stable, reliable and bug-free service.
Thanks to your latest poll responses, I have a good idea about what you want to see added so I can prioritize my work better; but I do plan to make progress on all tracks.
The Roadmap
Note: the (+) (++) (+++) notation indicate the level complexity or effort needed
Sandbox Engine
----- 2E Work Started -----
- ☑ Re-implement SCROLL and PIXIEDUST (+++)
- ☑ Allow re-rolling entities (+++)
- ☑ Scroll-based realm generator (+++)
- ☑ Interactive maps & basic mapping tools (+++)
- ☑ Color Saturation Control / Labels visibility (+)
----- ALPHA stage -----
- ☑ Hexroll Backpack - offline viewing mode (+++)
- ☑ Map settlement locations (+)
- ☑ Cave Maps (++)
- ☑ Page content editing (as static text) (++)
- ☑ Checkmarkable hit points for encounters (+)
- ☑ Meaningful bookmarkable pages (+)
- ☑ Multi-user VTT maps projection with referee controlled FoW (++)
----- BETA stage -----
- ☐ Solo mode with hidden spoilers and default fog-of-war (++)
- ☐ Additional VTT tools, capabilities and supported maps? (++)
- ☐ Sandbox customization - external generator modules to plug-in more content (++)
- ☐ Additional basic map editing tools and content manipulation (+)
- ☐ West Marches mode - multiple parties in the same sandbox (+)
- ☐ Hex map user annotations / additional symbology (+)
- ☐ Export maps / player handouts (+)
----- Official Release -----
- ☐ Additional hex map theme/s (+)
- ☐ Export sandbox as PDF? or HTML (++)
- ☐ Add monster lairs, more dungeon map variations and generation controls (++)
- ☐ LLM (ChatGPT, Bard) and Dall-E support - generate prompts to create extended content (+)
- ☐ Creator-tier tools? - ability to clone and distribute copies of your sandbox (+)
- ☐ Publisher-tier tools? - get [your-system].hexroll.app (+)
Content
----- 2E Work Started -----
- ☑ Migrate HEXROLL 1E model to SCROLL (+++)
- ☑ Use a treasure multiplier throughout the sandbox (+)
----- ALPHA stage -----
- ☑ Add jungle, swamp, tundra and marine regions and content (+)
- ☑ Additional ruler details, factions and realm related content (+)
- ☑ Improved NPCs references (add first names, use the same last name, etc) (+)
- ☑ More inns & taverns content (+)
- ☑ Additional hex features: caravan camps, ancient artifacts, arenas and graveyards.
- ☑ Additional dungeon feature descriptions (+)
- ☑ Weather and environmental situations (blizzards, fires, etc) (+)
----- BETA stage -----
- ☐ Improved formatting and detectability (+)
- ☐ Sandbox Table of Contents & Breakglass (+)
- ☐ Additional VTT tokens (+)
- ☐ Content modules: Alchemy, Herbalism and Rituals (+)
- ☐ Sandbox calendar with moon phases, festivities, rituals or NPC-related events (+)
- ☐ More city content - guilds, shops, items, additional NPCs and related plot hooks (+)
- ☐ Additional dungeons and wilderness encounters with more details (+)
Systems
----- Work Started -----
- ☑ OSR!
----- BETA stage -----
- ☐ 5E? (++)
- ☐ Shadowdark? (++)
- ☐ Savage Worlds?
----- Official Release -----
- ☐ Cairn?
- ☐ Knave?
- ☐ Tunnels & Trolls?
- ☐ Dragonbane?
- ☐ EoF 2E?
Service
- ☐ Additional sandbox management tools for subscribers (+)
That's the plan, give or take. Do let me know if I left something big out. My actual backlog is longer and the roadmap reflects most of it, but not all of it. I note all feature requests or suggestions you make and I keep them on my list.
The dynamic nature of how I work means that this plan is not set in stone. There will be other features that will get my attention as well as technical preconditions that might dictate a slightly different progression.
The path is drawn and the plan is made! Happy 2024 and let's enjoy the crawl together.
- Ithai
Comments
Pen, Dice & Paper
Yes, more tokens will be added soon.
Craig Thomson
The silhouette tokens are perfect as defaults. More tokens in the same style would be ideal.
Mauricio Garza Colome
thank you for the breakdown ithai ! love seeing whats being worked on :D
