Phyre is a free service for gamers, where friends can come together and play pen-and-paper roleplaying games online.
Chat, roll dice, share character sheets, notes, and campaign information - the only limit is your imagination.
Beta Two
It’s been about a month since I spent any real time with the Phyre codebase, in large part because I’ve been using the time to get my new consultancy business off the ground. That’s done now, and it’s high time we got started.
I’m opening the second Phyre beta tonight at 10:00 Eastern as soon as technical problems are dealt with, with a host of awesome features. Among the goodies are:
- Live, editable chat with in-character and Out-Of-Character posting
- Private note-taking, publishable to notes the whole table can read
- Dice that are really, seriously random
- Character sheets from templates
- Make your own templates
- GM controls
- and lots, lots more!
Seriously, that’s just scratching the surface. Phyre is crazy good and you need to try it. There are bugs, but those are going away quickly and will be gone even faster if you report them. There’s a bug-report button right there. It takes like five seconds.
I would be equally interested in hearing what features we don’t have that you want.
Phyre currently supports the following browsers:
- Chrome
- Firefox
- Safari
- Internet Explorer 9
If you’re using something else, try it and see. If you’re using Internet Explorer 8 or earlier, upgrade. Other than the browser, you won’t need any plugins – though if you’re running with JavaScript off you’ll need to enable it.
But enough about that. You should probably figure out what campaign you’re going to run.
