Roll20 and OneBookShelf have introduced a partnership to deliver the expansive library of OneBookShelf to the vastly standard, Roll20 on-line tabletop web site.
This partnership appears to be a significant win for either side as Roll20 boasts a powerful 10 million customers each day, and OneBookShelf manages eleven totally different ecommerce marketplaces, comparable to DriveThruRPG and Dungeon Grasp’s Guild.
This new deal will give gamers the power to handle content material throughout platforms for nearly each tabletop recreation, and discover new gamers to play with.
The brand new alliance will permit for the mixture of over a century of management to make sure the gamers have the absolute best tabletop platform. With this new neighborhood, publishers and creators for TTRPGs might be extra simply capable of attain their playerbase and permit gamers to extra simply play their favourite video games.
The three way partnership brings collectively a celebration of 40 technical wizards devoted to enhancing product, code, and person expertise. Within the coming weeks, the brand new entity will add PDF assist to Roll20’s digital tabletop (VTT), giving GMs and gamers the power to add, learn, share, and instantly play utilizing any PDF within the VTT. At a later date, the businesses will make OneBookShelf PDF libraries accessible throughout the Roll20 digital tabletop expertise, and are committing to make sure that OneBookShelf PDFs won’t rely towards Roll20 storage quotas.
“Becoming a member of forces with OneBookShelf creates the perfect place to buy, peruse, and play TTRPGs on-line, interval,” mentioned Ankit Lal, CEO of Roll20. “Since 2012, Roll20 has been the {industry} chief in digital tabletop gaming, internet hosting content material from a few of the largest publishers within the area, together with Wizards of the Coast, Paizo, and Chaosium. With this deal, we acquire vital progress on a number of of our person guarantees that dramatically enhance the VTT, and can work collectively to proceed including new and thrilling options to our already industry-leading platform.”
“Our mission from the get-go has all the time been to make it simpler for publishers and creators to achieve a wider viewers of roleplaying followers,” mentioned Steve Wieck, CEO of OneBookShelf. “By combining forces with Roll20, we empower recreation makers to current content material throughout a greater variety of codecs, whether or not character creators, digital tabletop, digital editions, or print. Prospects will be capable of assist their favourite video games, in any format they need, with one economical buy, and they’ll be capable of use their content material on roleplaying’s most trusted platform.”
Following the closure of the deal, Ankit Lal will proceed as CEO, having been promoted from President of Roll20 in January 2022. He brings 14 years of expertise main technique, product, analytics, and advertising groups throughout a number of industries, most not too long ago at Google and ClassPass.
OneBookShelf CEO Steve Wieck will be a part of the Roll20 governing board and govt group, bringing 35 years of expertise throughout the TTRPG {industry}. Wieck’s credit are quite a few: he co-founded White Wolf Publishing, producers of Vampire: the Masquerade and different World of Darkness properties, based DriveThruRPG in 2004 (which later mixed with RPGNow to kind OneBookShelf, Inc), and later served on the CCP Video games Board of Administrators following the corporate’s White Wolf acquisition. Collectively, the 2 mix a wealth of product growth and industry-specific data.
Roll20 partnering with OneBookShelf is the most recent transfer underneath Ankit Lal’s management to assist understand a brand new imaginative and prescient for the platform. Since Lal assumed the CEO place, Roll20 has added options extremely demanded from followers together with Darkish Mode, one-way boundaries with Dynamic Lighting, and up to date compendium sharing.
The platform’s performance-improving initiative, Operation Hearth Bolt, has lowered in-game load instances by 57% and boosted launch speeds by as much as 50% for nearly all video games. Over the remainder of 2022, Roll20 customers can look ahead to continued VTT enhancements, quicker cube outcomes, extra Dynamic Lighting updates, improved character creation and character sheets, and extra.