Mark your calendars, April 14th is the day that BouncyRock’s digital tabletop hits Steam’s Early Access catalog! Priced at 24.99$ USD, anyone who wants to experience the wonder of Talespire can get their hands on it in four weeks. With dozens of miniatures, countless building assets, and an adjusting lighting system, players and gamemasters alike will get to immerse themselves in whatever tabletop role-playing game they’re enjoying digitally in these socially-distant times.

However, they aren’t leaving their Kickstarter backers high and dry, as the beta build known as Chimera will be launched on March 31st. This will allow players and the developers of Talespire to work hand in hand to help find and report any major issues before Early Access begins. Not to mention BouncyRock plans to finish exclusive rewards for Kickstarter backers in the not-to-distant feature. 

The Chimera update will have a whole host of changes, including a brand new building menu, which the developers describe as “Sims-like”; spell effects, reworked lighting, and faster board syncing. You can learn all about the new building system in this video where one of the developer’s showcases and explains the system as a whole.

After Early Access is released updates won’t stop coming. BouncyRock plans to stay on schedule with asset bundles, miniature drops, and other features, and of course the occasional bug fixing hotfix. If you’re ever curious about updates or future features for Talespire, Tales Tavern will always have your back. So stay tuned in, we’ll be releasing a guide to Talespire for everyone at the table, players, gamemasters, and even builders!

Totally Online Gaming Group brings a whole new type of competition to your virtual tabletop. Introducing the Talespire collaborative building contest! Contestants will have an hour and a half to create their own Talespire slab. Not only will the winner have bragging rights but will be gifted a 25$(USD) gift card for steam. The contest will take place on Saturday, March 6th at Noon (EST) at https://www.twitch.tv/toggdm and will be hosted by TOGGDM, KleinNF, and Daenal all on twitch. So grab your favorite tiles and props, and get to brainstorming for this one-of-a-kind contest!

How to Join

1) Click here this link will take you to the Totally Online Gaming Group Discord. You will find yourself in “da-rules” channel. Please read the rules pinned at the top of the page and click on the (red dice) icon to react after reading the rules. This will give you the role of TOGGlodyte and allow you access to all the other channels on the Totally Online Gaming Group Discord.

2) Next you can go to the “collab-contest-time” channel. This is where you’ll find all the rules for the contest. 

3) TOGGDM will post a call prior to an upcoming contest for any who wish to sign-up. If you wish to join the contest, please click on the appropriate icon below the sign-up post. You can sign-up for the contest as a participant, or a monitor, or if there are other choices then those will be explained. 

4) TOGGDM will update everyone about any new information for each contest as the date for the contest approaches and will coordinate getting everyone together for contest time. 

Contest Rules

1. 10 minutes to chose what tiles to bind to your hotbar – not including props or doors

2. 40 minutes building only from hotbar 

3. 10 minutes of change out hotbar for props

4. 25 minutes to populate/decorate structure 

5. 5 minutes Freeform (i.e. no restrictions, just finish your build as nicely as you can).

Looking for Inspiration?

If you’re stuck brainstorming on what to build feel free to explore slabs posted by other builders on our website. Perhaps you’ve seen one of the newer slabs “Ruins Across the Stream” and would like to make something along those lines? There’s plenty of time to not only brain storm, but to observe others building techniques and what makes their maps and slabs pop out to a viewers eye. Knowledge is power, and if you want the advantage in this contest, be sure to do your homework and knock the judges out of the water!

The croaking of frogs accompanied by the buzzing of mosquitoes and other various bugs was enough to drive any sane person to madness. One would hope that the swamp would’ve quieted down once the sun had set and the moon had shown itself, yet it didn’t. Your boots were damp, along with your socks, and to add to it all, it was humid and foggy, truly a miserable experience. Your adventuring party had slain all sorts of various beasts by now, traveled through all sorts of lands, even a layer of hell, yet this. This was terrible. You grumble to yourself in the back as your party leader shambles along in the mud. It couldn’t get any worse, could it? Yet it does, when a sudden cracking of logs and branches emits from your right to your absolute horror you see a mound of rock, vines, and logs begin to animate into a hulking monstrosity. You. Hate. The. Swamp.

BouncyRock brings your adventuring party to the swamp in Talespire’s latest update; the “Shamblin Bog”! Within this expansion, the set includes seven brand new miniatures and twenty-three new building assets spanning from tiles to plants and tree logs. Show your players what it’s like to hate everything about the area they’re in with sluggish movements through bogs and surprise attacks from lurking predators.

The Shambling Bog update unboxes seven new amazing miniatures to use within Talespire and at your digital tabletop, those miniatures include A croaker warrior, crocodile, Fenfolk Caster (Firbolg), Ratfolk Warrior, Shambler(Shambling Mound), Snapper Turtle, and a Stirge! With all of these enemy and monster miniatures, BouncyRock yet again brings more pain and suffering for players to conquer at their tabletop games!

Of course, what creatures you use are just as important as the places they fight in, and the Shambling Bog expansion didn’t leave game masters thirsting for swamp assets, they’ve included it all in the same expansion set. Every game master and inspiring Talespire slab builder has access to twenty-three props and tiles. Immerse your players in a swampy bog with various puddles and flora fit for the setting, from tree stumps to blossoming lily pads, the Shambling Bog has it all.

Enjoy your time players and game masters alike

The jagged curves and twists of the cavern wall were illuminated by a variety of blue and green crystals, their light made your shadows dance along the stone floor. The cavern seemed to get bigger and bigger the deeper you delved, originally the ceiling was barely enough to fit your goliath party member into the entrance, yet by now he could stand to his full seven-foot stature with even a few feet above his head for comfort. However, your mage from the back alerted the party to stop as her owl came flying back, perching on her shoulder. Seemingly a telepathic exchange occurred and that’s when the woman would speak once more. Letting you and the others know of the dangers ahead, but also a promise of treasure. And that’s when you heard it, echoing throughout the cavern walls, a roar akin to a bear. Exactly what your group was sent up here to deal with, a yeti.

TaleSpire‘s newest update: Chilling Expedition brings a nice treat for digital tabletop players! Bouncyrock Entertainment introduces three new miniatures, two new sets of glowing crystals (green and blue), one new ominous chest along with the new “Tundra” soundtrack. The three miniatures include Human Explorer, Owl, and the ferocious Yeti! Using these new assets game masters and slab builders will be able to combo these with assets and miniatures from the Biomes of Ice & Dust Expansion to create a truly immersive role-playing experience. Whenever your adventures start to chill as the temperature drops players can experience these two expansions side by side for a truly thrilling digital tabletop experience.

BouncyRock has just released an update to TaleSpire. You can now roll dice from a browser url which will open TaleSpire and take the action requested. There is more planned down the road but this gets a start at allowing external interactions with TaleSpire.

As an example the url like talespire://dice/d20-3+d12-1 causes something like this to show in game.

Will this help or hurt your dice rolling addiction? Let’s find out.

Note: for those just getting the update, you must update TaleSpire AND start it once for the urls to start working.