Come Watch Us Build: Why You Should Be in the RoleForge Discord
If you've ever wished you could be in the room while a game you care about is being built — talk to the people making it, see screens before they're polished, push back on the ideas you think are wrong, vote on the ones you love — that room exists now. We opened it last week. It's the RoleForge Discord.
Come join the conversation on the RoleForge Discord!
If you've never used Discord
Discord is a free chat app. You can use it in a browser, on your phone, or on your desktop — whatever's easiest. Sign up takes a minute. There are no ads. It's just people talking, organized into channels by topic.
The RoleForge founders (Eric and Jack) read every channel and reply. Other players are in there too, talking about their RPG campaigns, their wishlists for gameplay, and what they thought about the last RPG they tried. It's RPG fans and the people building one.
When you join, you'll land in the #cantina channel. Say hi if you want. Or just lurk for a while and see what the place feels like.
Why you should be there
Three reasons, in order:
Talk to the founders directly. Eric and Jack are in there every day. If you have a question about how the game handles something, or a feature you wish existed, or an opinion about a design choice — you can ask, and one of them will answer.
Meet the other players. RPG players, GMs curious about how the game works, people who've been trying out ChatGPT as an AI GM. Same people you'd want at your gaming table.
Sneak peeks the rest of the world doesn't see. We post screenshots before they're polished. Hero portraits we're testing. Map renders that aren't quite right yet. AI GM dialogue we're tuning. You see them when we see them.
Why we want you there
When we drop a screenshot of a Hero portrait style we're considering, we want to know if it makes you feel something or leaves you cold. When we share a snippet of how the GM narrates combat, we want to know if it sounds like the GM you'd want at your table or if it sounds like a bad audiobook. When we ask whether the journal should write itself or wait for the player, we want your answer.
The features we end up building are going to be different — better, we think — because of conversations happening in Discord right now. You give us your honest take, we build something you actually want to play.
If Discord isn't your thing
The other place to give us input is our feature roadmap. Two weeks ago we opened it up — flame the features you want, submit the ones we missed, watch them climb. Two weeks in, the board has moved.
- 37 features on the board.
- 676 community votes cast across all of them.
- 7 features that didn't exist on the board until someone on the waitlist added them.
The five features the community has pushed to the top since we opened it:
- Tactical Combat — combat that uses positioning, terrain, and tactics, not just dice.
- The World Remembers — NPCs and places carry the consequences of what you did last session into the next.
- Quest Journal — the journal that fills itself in as you play.
- Level Up — your hero gets stronger from what they actually did, not from XP math.
- Character Sheet — the living sheet that updates automatically as you adventure.
And five new features players asked for: Player-Designed Rule Sets, NPC Mannerisms & Personality Diversity, Custom Voice per Character, Uploadable Adventure Modules, and World Builder. None of those were on our list. All of them are on it now.
If voting feels lower-effort than chatting, start there. The features burning brightest are the ones we build next.
Two ways in — pick whichever feels right
- Join Discord if you want a conversation. The founders are there, other players are there, the work-in-progress is there, and your feedback can change what we build before we build it.
- Vote on the roadmap if you want a one-click way to weigh in. Light up the features you want to play. Submit the ones we haven't thought of.
We're not building this for you. We're building it with you — it's literally how the next few months are going to go. Discord is the chat room where you tell us how you want things designed. The roadmap is the running list of what you want built. Both of them can have your name on them if you want.
See you there!