Start Your Fireball Campaign Now: 10 Adventure Ideas! Jan Roose • May 23, 2022 Hi, guys! This is Jan, the Fireball designer. Today I want to share with you ten ideas for your Fireball adventure! I will also tell you how to create the campaign and invite players! We Designed Fireball to Make Game Mastering Easy There are reasons why people are sometimes afraid of Game Mastering… It’s hard to improvise on the spot – don’t worry about it with Fireball. It’s played asynchronously via chat. You can take all the time you need to think about what will happen to your party next. It ..read more

Tag a @Character in Your Campaign! Jan Roose • May 20, 2022 Hey! It’s Jan, the Fireball co-founder and designer. How are you? Today I’m excited to share a new Fireball update: Tagging! I will also talk more about what’s coming in nearest weeks. Tag a @Character in Your Campaign! It might get tedious to write the names of characters during your adventure repeatedly. The 5th most requested feature is the ability to @tag characters in the campaign chat. We’re releasing it now! Update your Fireball app to get it. How to Tag Characters or a Game Master? Just write @ in the campaign ..read more

New Update: Character Stats, Names, Improved Item Detail & More Jan Roose • Apr 13, 2022 Hi! Jan’s here! In March, we’ve been working on a lot of new features. The team released some of them yesterday! Let’s go over it. New Character Sheet Tab: Stats! Mechanics are crucial for this app. We’ve dedicated a new senior developer to it full-time, and we hope to make significant progress soon! In the meantime, you can now access some of your character’s statistics in their character sheet. We categorized them into three sections: Combat, Spellcasting, and Proficiencies. You can see y ..read more

New: Edit, Delete, and Copy Messages! Custom Roll for GMs! Jan Roose • Feb 23, 2022 A new update is here! You can now edit, delete or copy messages. Game Masters can do a Custom Roll. We also fixed bugs and implemented a few other minor improvements. If you haven’t downloaded Fireball yet, you can do so at fireballrpg.com. Edit, Delete & Copy Messages All you need to do is long-touch a message and select the desired action: Edit, Delete or Copy. This works will all messages – in-campaign, out-of-campaign, and direct messages. Editing or Deleting Messages with Actions If your ..read more

New Beta 2 Feature Coming Soon: Instant Matchmaking! Jan Roose • Aug 27, 2021 The Matchmaking feature was the most requested one. We know how important finding great campaigns is to players, so we improved it even more. Read more about Instant Matchmaking below. New Settings in Character Creation Once you filled out a public description of your character, you can choose if your character is available for instant matchmaking. If they are, they will be listed as available characters to Game Masters. If they’re not, they won’t be listed. Either way, you can still apply to campaigns i ..read more

Fireball Beta is here! Find campaigns and players in-app now! Jan Roose • July 30, 2021 The Fireball Beta update is now available to all Kickstarter backers. It contains five new features, most notably Matchmaking. Update the Fireball app to create publicly-listed campaigns as a Game Master, or join them as a player. Content   How to Update   Tutorial: Get a dream party for your campaign   Tutorial: Find and join a thrilling campaign   Overview: Posting Goals & Activity Rating   Overview: Notes   Overview: Custom Rolls   Early Access Disclaimer ..read more

Fireball After Open Beta (Co-founder letter) Jan Roose • Feb 4, 2022 Jan’s here – Fireball co-founder & designer. We released the Open Beta version (download here) on January 13th. Since then, players have created thousands of new characters and Game Masters launched hundreds of campaigns. Thank you! It’s nice to see that you enjoy the app, and it inspires us to keep going. Beta 2: Community Reaction Fireball Beta 2 was the first version with basic mechanics, equipment, skill checks, and combat. A week after releasing the update, we sent out a short form asking your ..read more

Beta 2 is Out for Fireball Backers! Soon Available to Everyone! Jan Roose • Jan 9, 2022 Hi! Beta 2 is now available to all Kickstarter Backers. You can now manage character equipment, learn new spells, level up, roll skill checks, attack, damage, and more! On Thursday, we will ask you for feedback and your opinion on what to build next, what works, what doesn’t, and how you like the update overall. We will open the Beta to people outside the Kickstarter community based on this feedback. There will be only 20,000 seats in the Open Beta in the beginning! Twelve thousand seats are a ..read more

Check New Character Art Style in Beta 2! Jan Roose • Dec 19, 2021 Hi! Jan’s here. This December is exciting for me mainly because we’re days from testing the Beta 2 and releasing it if there isn’t too much bug fixing. As you know, there is a massive improvement on characters in the next version – skills, equipment, proficiencies, spells & classes up to LVL 3 and more. There is also one other thing – we’ve improved the art style for all existing appearances in the app. We plan to add it to Beta 2 as well. Have a look! Human PreviousNext ..read more

Hi, guys! Jan’s here, Fireball Designer & CEO. I want to talk to you about Beta 2 and show you our newest content. This Year Was About Improving the Early Access We released the first closed Early Access Alpha version for about 100 people last Winter. In 2021, we released Alpha 2 (about 1500 backers) and Beta 1 (about 2500 backers). After every release, we listened closely to our community and analyzed usage data. We made swift decisions on what features to build next. Version Overview   Alpha 1, Dec 23, 2020: 4 playable races, Campaign chat, OOC chat, Ability checks, Savin ..read more