Looking for A Few Good Beta Testers
The Time Approaches! Update: We have enough testers now, so sit tight! And thanks for all the offers of help! In case you haven’t heard, we’ve been hard at work behind the scenes upgrading the backbone...
View ArticleObsidian Portal Launches Homepage Redesign
Today we’re excited to launch our totally redesigned home page. Our goal with this redesign is to present people with a home page thats much faster, simpler, and easier to understand how Obsidian...
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Vote for Us in the 2012 ENnies!
Honored and Excited! It’s almost gencon time again everyone! With gencon right around the corner that also means so are the ENnie awards, one of our industry’s most coveted crowning achievements. We’re...
View ArticleGencon Panel: How Technology Is Changing RPG’s
Come Join Us! Coming to gencon? Stop by our “How Technology Is Changing RPG’s” panel for some insight, discussion, Q&A, and announcing our first ever Excellence In Innovation Award winner! Here’s...
View ArticleCustom CSS for Your Campaign
Tonight we deployed a new feature for Ascendant campaigns, the ability to add custom CSS rules that are applied campaign-wide. In addition, we did an overhaul of much of the HTML on the site to make...
View ArticleObsidian Portal to Sponsor Winter Fantasy Convention
More Than Just D&D Formerly known as DDXP, this year’s convention in Ft. Wayne Indiana will take on an exciting new shape known as Winter Fantasy. While the name and concept of Winter Fantasy isn’t...
View ArticleBehind the Scenes Bugfixes
We’ve been a little slow with new features and updates lately, so I thought I’d give a quick update on some of the things we’ve been doing. There are always bugs to work on, and I just fixed two that...
View ArticleTech in RPGs: GenCon 2013
This is a placeholder for the eventual details for the Tech in RPG panel, and for the Improving Your Game With a Wiki and More! panel.
View ArticleKickstarter Coming Soon
Things may have seemed a bit slow around here lately, but we’re busy behind the scenes getting things ready for some big changes coming in the summer. We’ve got a lot of ideas and we just need the...
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Kickstarter Teaser: Rough T-Shirt Design
If you read our blog or follow the podcast, then you’re the core of the core of the core of the Obsidian Portal community. We want to give you all a little extra insight into our plans and thoughts for...
View ArticleExcellence In Innovation Finalists
And Then There Were 4 Well folks, you sent us your nominees and the finalists for this year’s Excellence In Innovation Award are in. They are as follows: Plate Mail Games – environmental audio for your...
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Gencon 2013 Events!
Gencon Hoooooo! Gencon is just around the corner so we thought we’d bring you the skinny on what exactly we’re going to be up to while taking part in the best 4 days in gaming! We’ve got our yearly...
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Haste! Of Dice And Men, D&DNext’s Inspiration Mechanic, Gencon, and More!
| Episode 91 | Announcements ENnies voting is over, Gencon hotels are booked, and we’re looking forward to the con. Be sure to stop by our Kickstarter backer party if you’ve got time Friday night,...
View ArticleThe Future of the Items Section
The items section on Obsidian Portal started out with the best intentions. I thought: “Hey, if we can track characters, why not their items as well?” I took a quick stab at it, then switched to some...
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Announcing: Obsidian Portal Vanguards
Call To Arms: Vanguards We know that the changes coming to Obsidian Portal are going to throw some people’s campaigns through loops. We’ve done our best to not bust up too many things, but...
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Reforged! What’s Next?!
Hello Portallers! We know it’s been a while since we’ve had an update blog post so I think it’s about time we come up for some air and talk about the new hotness of Obsidian Portal and things to come....
View ArticleHappy Birthday to Us! 8 Years of Obsidian Portal (Contest)
We’re Gettin’ Old! That’s right, we’ve been around for 8 solid years creating tools to make people’s campaigns better, more fun, and more efficient! In the spirit of our birthday this year we’d like to...
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Stretch Goal Updates
The State of the Reforge Greetings Portallers! It’s time for a big update regarding the Reforged stretch goals and what we’ve been doing behind the curtains for so long. We’ve been hard at work behind...
View ArticleJob Posting – Background Image Designer
Help Beautify Obsidian Portal One of my favorite parts of the Reforge redesign is the ability to choose a nice high-resolution background image for your campaign. You can change the tone of your game...
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New Search Filters!
Sorting Things Out Greetings everyone! We’re here with a quick feature update. We’re glad that everyone is enjoying the new and improved use of tagging within Obsidian Portal and we’ve been wanting to...
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