Virtual tabletops can make playing RPGs even harder. One More Multiverse wants to fix that

polygon.com:

Kicking off a new tabletop role-playing game with a small group of friends is hard. There’s getting six people’s schedules to line up bit, of course, which is always a chore. But learning a new game system requires study, and rolling up four or five new characters takes time. Game developer One More Multiverse wants to help, and it’s producing a set of tabletop tools to make playing with your friends online a lot easier. The venture capital-backed team is going at things very differently than its competitors. Whether you’re a potential newbie player or a long-suffering Dungeon Master, you should at least consider giving the demo a try.

One More Multiverse’s first toolset is a collection of assets to support the critically acclaimed Blades in the Dark, a wickedly fun TTRPG that takes place in a haunted version of a gritty, Industrial Revolution-era European city. That city, called Doskvol, is as much a character in the game as anyone sitting at the table. So, OMM re-created the entirety of Doskvol inside its toolset.

Virtually every location, every item, every non-player character in John Harper’s core book is included in One More Multiverse’s toolset. Chief operating officer and producer Tiffany Li said that means some 125 locations, around 150 non-player characters, and some 3,000 assets — weapons, furniture, monsters — are all included in the $29.99 purchase price. No more hunting for tokens to fill your online adventure with enemies, no grappling with a 1-inch grid to make sense of your digital maps. Everything you need to run a game of Blades in the Dark online is included in that price. Just choose a location and load in the stock assets needed to bring it to life, or drag and drop your own into place from a helpful