Features

ogres.app is a free and open-source virtual tabletop that you can run in your browser and use to play with your friends. It aims to be a very lightweight alternative to some of the more comprehensive tools available today. Its limited core feature-set is intended to help dungeon masters quickly setup encounters and adventures with only the most important necessities.

• Instantly start preparing your game; no sign-ups or ads
• Start an online collaborative session for your friends
• Prepare and manage multiple scenes at once
• Built-in initiative tracker for streamlined encounters
• Responsive design for phones and tablets
• Easy to use for other game systems
• ... and much more planned!

Contributing

Interested in helping fix bugs or extending features? Look for issues labeled as beginner friendly and comment that you'd like to work on it. The following are instructions to start a local development environment (for developers only).

Important

You'll need to have node, npm, and clojure installed.

#!/bin/sh

# copy the repository
git clone git@github.com:samcf/ogres.git

# install dependencies and start the local web server
# by default opens at http://localhost:8080
npm install
npm start

# run the process that bundles CSS files
npm run style

# optionally, start the application server necessary
# for hosting online sessions
clojure -X:server/dev

Run your own server

You can run your own instance of this application by using Docker. For more information, refer to the wiki docs. The following command will install and run the application.

#!/bin/sh
docker compose up -d