Tabletop Mirror, the roleplaying platform dedicated to homebrewers and worldbuilders, is about to get bigger. The open beta version of the site already offers tools to develop lore for your games, a playable virtual tabletop, and the ability to tweak and expand your favorite RPG rule systems, from Dungeons and Dragons to Pathfinder 2e and beyond Now, thanks to a Backerkit campaign launched on August 6, even more features are on the way.
Tabletop Mirror comes from the mind of a creative Game Master, who could never find a virtual tabletop capable of housing their homebrews. This first-hand knowledge led to many of Tabletop Mirror’s existing features, which go hand-in-hand with the platform’s playable VTT.
Whether player or GM, you can use Tabletop Mirror’s detailed search system to quickly find rules for your favorite tabletop RPGs. You can plan character builds, and then store and share them with fully modular character sheets. If you’re a GM who wants to keep certain DnD classes and DnD races out of your game, you can establish bans that are unique to your player group.
Tabletop Mirror lets you make tiny wording tweaks or entirely rewrite an existing rules system. As the home of homebrewing, it also helps you craft spells, items, classes, character options, and mechanics that suit your world.
Speaking of worlds, Tabletop Mirror’s design capabilities go beyond mere mechanics. You can use the VTT to create maps, calendar systems, wiki entries, and timelines that tell the story of your campaign setting. All of this can be stored on the platform, with privacy controls to keep players from seeing potential spoilers.
RPGs are a collaborative experience, so Tabletop Mirror makes it easy to share your creations with the gaming community. The VTT’s approachable toolkit makes it easy to format and publish your creations, with no programming experience required. Plus, Tabletop Mirror lets you connect with other users, so rules clarifications and feedback are never far away.
Tabletop Mirror delivers weekly updates that enhance the VTT. In the next six months, Tabletop Mirror will add a marketplace where users can sell their content, plus matchmaking options to schedule sessions.
There are also plans to integrate the VTT with Role Gate, a platform that supports text-based, play-by-post-style roleplaying games. The final part of Tabletop Mirror’s six-month plan involves support for systems like D&D 3.5e, Pathfinder 1e, Shadowrun, Call of Cthulhu, Fate, Powered by the Apocalypse, and Year Zero.
All these features are already on the cards, and they’ll be available to all Tabletop Mirror users. This free VTT does have paid membership options, but it doesn’t hide crucial features behind a paywall – the main benefit of paying is expanded storage space.
Backerkit, however, can help take Tabletop Mirror to the next level. The $2,500 funding goal will guarantee a further three years of support and features. Tabletop Mirror currently releases a new feature, inspired by suggestions from its users, each week. Additional funding will help increase the VTT’s ability to add community-driven features.
The Backerkit campaign offers seven possible pledge tiers. Just $1 gets you access to Backer updates, future projects, and the Backer priority role on Tabletop Mirror’s Discord server.
The $15 tier offers one year’s ‘Traveler’ membership (worth over $25). You’ll also be able to vote on future Tabletop Mirror features, and the platform will celebrate your pledge with a unique profile flair.
At the $50 tier, you’ll gain all features from the previous two tiers. This also comes with a lifetime ‘Traveler’ membership and a permanent profile flair that’s exclusive to you. The highest pledges will get to choose their flair first, followed by the earliest backers.
The $100 pledge comes with all previous rewards, plus a lifetime ‘Adventurer’ tier membership and an exclusive black Labradorite die. At this tier, you get twice the voting power for future features, and, once Tabletop Mirror is fully launched, you can promote your own system on the platform for a year.
Pledging $250 comes with all of the above, plus a lifetime ‘Hero’ tier membership and four additional lifetime ‘Traveler’ memberships to share with your adventuring party. Hero tier also comes with promotions that are exclusive to this level of membership. Plus, you’ll gain a full set of Tabletop Mirror’s signature black Labradorite RPG dice.
For $500, you’ll get all previous rewards, along with three lots of feature voting power. This tier also offers lifetime access to the ‘World Builder’ membership tier, complete with World-Builder-tier promotions. Finally, the $750 pledge level features all other rewards and a lifetime ‘Adventurer’ tier membership for six additional people.
When you pledge at least $50, you’ll also get the opportunity to select bundle add-ons. These include:
- One-year Traveler membership for up to four people ($20)
- One-year Traveler membership for up to six people ($30)
- Lifetime Traveler membership for up to four people ($150)
- Lifetime Adventurer membership for up to four people ($300)
All backers will be able to purchase a $50 lifetime ‘Traveler’ membership that they can gift, as well as the Tabletop Mirror-branded dice. If you pledge at least $50, you’ll also get a discount on these black Labradorite dice – $25 for a D20 ($35 for other backers) or $100 for a seven-dice set ($125 for other backers).
Tabletop Mirror is only asking for a few thousand dollars, but it’s also prepared some stretch goals to tempt even more backers. If the campaign surpasses its $2,500 goal, backers will gain access to a library of sounds and artwork to use in their games. A $5,000 stretch goal will add official Tabletop Mirror support for two extra RPG systems – and you’ll get to vote on which ones make the cut.
If the campaign reaches over $7,500, Tabletop Mirror will permanently double the storage space available for free memberships. This means everyone will be able to create over 500 pages of content for their games. $12,500 will allow Tabletop Mirror to create fully customizable 3D battle maps, with additional assets to bring them to life.
Reaching $17,500 unlocks a card support stretch goal. This toolkit would allow users to create decks of cards for their games. Pathfinder has its Harrow deck, D&D has the Deck of Many Things, and you could have a deck of your very own, too. Heck, this could even be used to generate entire card-based TTRPG systems.
Tabletop Mirror has heaps more stretch goals planned, but only time and support will reveal these. You can find out more about Tabletop Mirror – and how to pledge – on the Backerkit page.