Role offers a video-focused platform designed to foreground the social, face-to-face interactions of tabletop role‑playing games while simplifying game mechanics. The product includes a WYSIWYG editor for creating templates, tweaking character sheets, animations, and other game elements without code. Founders Logan Dwight and Ian Hirschfeld designed the experience to reduce prep complexity and keep players visually and cognitively engaged rather than buried in rules. The platform has seen growth in user-created campaigns and variants for games like Mörk Borg and Lancer, with thousands shared. Role plans to monetize via a marketplace for games and scenarios and premium features such as extra online storage, while remaining free for casual players. The company raised a seed round to invest in ease of use, accessibility, and extensibility based on lessons from early adopters.

Total raised

$3M

Funding rounds

1

Latest round

Seed

Latest activity

Aug 2021