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24 alternatives to Dungeons and Dragons - Too Long; Didn't Read
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Dungeons and Dragons - Too Long; Didn't Read is a tool for tabletop RPG players and dungeon masters who want quick summaries of game content. Launched in 2016, it condenses lengthy D&D materials into shorter… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Dungeons and Dragons - Too Long; Didn't Read launched in 2016; newer entries below may have overtaken it.
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Diceright is a virtual tabletop for playing dungeons and dragons with friends on the web. You can watch a quick overview of how it works here: https://tinyurl.com/diceright. And there’s a list of the main features right on the homepage. It’s a Ruby on Rails site that makes heavy use of action cable for keeping the maps and tokens in sync for all players. On the front end, I’m using HTML canvas for the maps and a js library called fabric.js for interacting with the canvas. Otherwise, just jQuery on the front end. I optimized it all to work on mobile too. I built this as a side…
2023 · diceright.com · its alternatives →
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Like writing a series of adventure books
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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2019 · adventurekeep.com · its alternatives →
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Play games anywhere. Share them with anyone. With Roll20® as your virtual tabletop, your adventures are limitless.
2012 · roll20.net · its alternatives →
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Hi HN! Being locked down with plenty of time in my hands, I clearly noticed a problem that I faced and also felt passionate about tackling. - Excessive screen time in our day-to-day - Diminishing attention spans It was consistently tough to properly read quality longform content online. From screen related tiredness to having ads and notifications pop up and demand a share of my attention, my focus was compromised. Long story short, I wanted to read longform content that lives online (and there is a ton of high quality out there), in an inherent offline medium, paper :p Fast forward 5…
2020 · its alternatives →
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An RPG inspired by Dystopian Fiction and Visual Novels.
2016 · longgonedays.com · its alternatives →
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Dungeons & Dragons games run by professional DMs
2020 · startplaying.games · its alternatives →
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initiative.sh is a storytelling aid for game masters. It
2021 · initiative.sh · its alternatives →
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A D&D supplement player's companion.
2016 · marketplace.dndbeyond.com · its alternatives →
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I grew up on the Infocom games and when microsoft actually open-sourced Zork 1/2/3 I really wanted to figure out how to use LLMs to let you type whatever you want, I always found the amount language that the games "understood" to be so limiting - even if it was pretty state of the art at the time. So I figured out how to wrap it with Tambo.. (and run the game engine in the browser) basically whatever you type gets "translated" into zork-speak and passed to the game - and then the LLM takes the game's output and optionally adds flavor. (the little ">_" button at the top exposes the…
Jan 2026 · infocom.tambo.co · its alternatives →
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Dungeons and Directories is a short text adventure game that you play in your file browser.
2020 · wheybags.com · its alternatives →
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Part 5 in our RPG series
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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This is a project that I have been working on in my spare time for a while now. It's a new virtual tabletop for playing pen and paper role playing games online, but it takes an entirely different approach than anything out there right now. Rather than trying to turn pen and paper games into video games, with features centered around one-click damage calculations and detailed stats tracking, Roll20 focuses on storytelling. It has completely new features like background music, player journals, and an expansive art library with a built-in web search. The entire system runs on NodeJS, Padrino,…
2012 · kickstarter.com · its alternatives →
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2021 · critical-notes.com · its alternatives →
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Classic Forgotten Realms DnD based cRPG. Possibly the best.
2015 · gog.com · its alternatives →
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Hey everyone, I built this project because I always wanted to try playing D&D but couldn’t find a group of friends or a DM to play with. It’s still early stages and not meant to be a complete replacement for real DMs or IRL sessions, but it’s a good way to dip your toes into DnD or to play on your phone between your IRL sessions. I tried playing D&D with ChatGPT but the overall experience was lacking, so I built this site & Discord bot that has a character sheet tool, better memory management, support for multiplayer, and automatic tracking for things like spells, HP, and encounters. Try it…
2023 · fables.gg · its alternatives →
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By playing board games
2016 · gadgetsprimer.com · its alternatives →
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Probably the steepest learning curve in gaming.
2015 · bay12games.com · its alternatives →
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Hey all, this is a small bookmarklet my partner made last week to save short summaries of long-winded web posts. Hopefully you can help others save time by sharing your TL;DRs with the world. You can also up/downvote the TL;DRs other users post. It should work with your iPad, too. http://tldrplz.com
2011 · tldrplz.com · its alternatives →
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Turok▲62A world where time has no meaning - and evil knows no bounds
2015 · store.steampowered.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN crowd! Two days ago I realized I'm almost unable to read a book or a long article without getting distracted by Twitter/HN/Reddit/Work. The situation is so terrible, I'm even getting afraid of big articles, and my ReadItLater list is getting pretty long (shameful I know) ... and I'm pretty sure most of you are in this situation :) Being used to TL;DRs on long reddit posts, I thought it would be great to have these for everything, so I quickly hacked this website: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/ Here is an example of TL;DR: http://www.too-long-didnt-read.com/5tropy I would love to…
2011 · too-long-didnt-read.com · its alternatives →
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