Roll20 And OneBookShelf Join Forces, Bringing Online RPGs Together in a Big Way
Two major online forces in the TTRPG world are joining forces. Roll20 and OneBookShelf aka DriveThruRPG/DM’s Guild team up.
Big news in the online tabletop gaming world today. Roll20 and OneBookShelf announced their plans to bring together digital tabletop roleplaying in a big way. The two giants will soon merge.
Meaning that Roll20’s users and OneBookShelf’s customers will soon play even nicer. OneBookShelf is better known as the platform behind DriveThruRPG and the DM’s Guild. While Roll20 is a massive virtual tabletop platform. At press time they boasted more than 10 million users.
This new deal will likely have big implications for the future. Let’s take a look!
Roll20 and OneBookShelf Join Forces
Per their announcement, the two will make it even bigger:
Today, Roll20 and OneBookShelf announced their plans to join forces, bringing together two of the world’s leading digital tabletop roleplaying (TTRPG) content platforms. […] The deal empowers players to manage content across platforms for nearly any tabletop game, connect more easily with other players, and step into games immediately, all in one place.
This change forges an unprecedented alliance of industry experience in the TTRPG space, fusing more than a century of combined executive leadership with publisher and community relationships to create the best tabletop platform experience. TTRPG publishers and creators can now easily reach audiences in the virtual game space where they most often play, allowing customers to seamlessly find, share, and play their favorite games.
The joint venture brings together a party of 40 technical wizards dedicated to improving product, code, and user experience. In the coming weeks, the new entity will add PDF support to Roll20’s virtual tabletop (VTT), giving GMs and players the ability to upload, read, share, and immediately play using any PDF in the VTT. At a later date, the companies will make OneBookShelf PDF libraries accessible within the Roll20 virtual tabletop experience, and are committing to ensure that OneBookShelf PDFs will not count toward Roll20 storage quotas.
