Tabletop RPG is fun. An exciting mix of imagination, storytelling and teamwork make up the best of what fantasy has to offer. However, it can be hard for newcomers to fully access or grasp all of the concepts behind these games. Likewise it can be hard for a GM (Game Master) to manage all the information or enforce all the rules that surface while playing. RPGHelper is a software project aimed at creating an application that can ease the difficulty for both players and GMs during an RPG session.

We're five college students and RPG enthusiasts.

For this application the chosen API is kivy. Why kivy? Well, because it's really neat. No really, it is. If you don't know it then I strongly recommened checking out their pong tutorial and their programming guide. If you are more of the video-watching type then check out sentdex on youtube.

These are some of the features we have planned:

• Local game sessions hosted by a GM which players can join.
• In-game stats, inventory and campaign progress updating. These updates can be saved and apllied to the next session, no need to start over.
• Dice rolling for all your dice-rolling needs.
• Character sheets with proper overview of your characters stats, skills, inventory etc. No more pen and paper!(unless that's how you like to roll)
• Rules lookup
• And more to come!

To run the project as it is right now you need the following installed:

• A python interpreter (2.7)
• The kivy library

Then run the file 'main.py' to start the software. If you are unfamiliar with running python scripts then read this article or check out the python documentation

Copyright 2016 Pythonslangen.

The software "RPGHelper" is released under the MIT Licence.