A Special Thanks From All of Us

Wow, has it been another year already? As 2021 draws to a close, we find ourselves reflecting on all the growth, creativity, compassion, and joy the Role community continues to foster. In a time of continued uncertainty and pandemic isolation, you’ve connected with us and each other in strikingly powerful ways. We continue to be in awe at your imagination and capacity for kindness. Thank you, as always, for being a source of light in our many worlds.

This year saw an explosion of growth and change across Role. For one, our team expanded in dramatic ways! We’re incredibly grateful for the vision and joy we get to share with these incredible people each day:

This year also included the dramatic redesign and enhancement of our sheets and creation suite. Thanks to months of playtesting and great feedback from all of you, we were able to improve Role to better support our goal of creation and play for any game you can imagine – as always: easy and code-free!

Once again the Role community continues to welcome and inspire new players and creators. Our growing fan Discord has been a singular gathering place for all sorts of collaborative conversation, discovery, and forging of new friendships.

We’re also finishing the year with some great new ways to dive in and start playing faster. Starting this week, you’ll see us testing out “starter rooms” based on a handful of our community’s favorite games. These rooms can be easily selected from your dashboard, and come pre-equipped with starter characters, default sheets, and play assets to minimize prep and ease play. We hope these rooms will make it simpler to start new sessions, try new games, and get new players started at your table. This is just the start of our plans for expanded ease of play, and we’re looking forward to learning from your feedback!

Want to learn more about our starter tables and end-of-year product updates? Check out our latest release notes here:

Going into 2022, we have some big projects that we’re eager to finally get into your hands. In addition to many of our Kickstarter partner games releasing next year, we also have the release of our first in-house game production: the cyberpunk horror game known as CHROME!

We’re also excited to present the start of a growing slate of creator shows, featuring up-and-coming voices in the role playing community. Starting in January, we’ll be kicking things off with “F*ck Around & Find Out” a collaborative game design and interview show hosted by Brandy Rose. Keep an eye out for this and more shows coming in the new year!

Here we are at the end of another year. Like so many great adventures: this isn’t the end of our story. As we look to the future and imagine new worlds, new characters, new friends to discover – we know that the best is yet to come.

Thank you all for an amazing year. Let’s make 2022 even brighter. As always…

You can play with us!