3.5e Virtual Tabletop · d20 SRD

FYNDOVN

Where the Old Ways Were Never Lost

A browser-based, multiplayer Virtual Tabletop built from the ground up for 3.5e — with 3D dice that actually land, an SRD character generator, a backend AI assistant that helps players make sense of the world, and an original dark-magitech setting that ships ready to play.

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In active development · Kickstarter coming soon · Founder status carries to full launch

The Fyndovn VTT in play — a live hex map of the Guildworks, Merchant Quarter, and the Haed with player tokens, beside a 3.5e character sheet panel
3.5
Edition Native
9
Living Districts
12
Founder Dice Skins
∞
Campaigns / GM License
The Mechanics

Built for the Edition
That Never Stopped Playing

Fyndovn isn't a 5e platform with a 3.5e mode bolted on. Every sheet and calculation speaks 3.5e natively — base attack bonus and iterative attacks, per-level skill ranks, the full 3.5 SRD — the crunch the edition is actually built on, not a newer ruleset wearing an old coat.

Signature

AI Archive Assistant — Not an AI GM

The GM always runs the game. Fyndovn's AI is a backend helper for the table: new players can ask plain-language questions about any archive or world-wiki entry, and it re-frames the answer for the class and race they're actually playing. When the GM is overstimulated, it can relay simple explanations to players directly — with full two-way GM↔player messaging so the GM can step back in anytime. It's free for every player — no tier required.

Live Multiplayer Maps

Real-time token movement, DM-controlled fog of war, and synchronized map state for everyone at the table — pushed instantly over WebSockets.

Live

3D Dice With Real Sound

Physics-driven WebGL dice with per-skin emissive glow and authentic sound. Drop-in skins: add a folder, the skin appears in the picker — no code.

Live

SRD Character Generator

Full 3.5e character creation tied to the authorized SRD — accurate classes, skills, saves, and ability scores. Saved server-side, validated on every write.

World Chronometer & Weather

Track in-world time down to the hour and push live weather overlays — rain, snow, fog — across the canvas for the whole table at once.

Archives & World Wiki

A searchable player & world wiki, automatic session logging, combat tracking, loot tables, and private whispers. The AI assistant reads from these archives so answers always match your canon.

Discord-Native Play

Run the whole VTT embedded as a Discord Activity, where your group already hangs out — with voice speaker-flags glowing on the right tokens.

Self-Hosted, Zero Phone-Home

Run it from your own machine and share via Cloudflare Tunnel — no port-forwarding, no license server, no internet dependency except the AI call you choose. One GM license hosts unlimited campaigns; players join free. Your table, your rules, your data.

Forge · Play · Remember
The World of Fyndovn

A Living World,
Not a Generic Backdrop

Fyndovn is a planned magitech city of 150,000 souls, built atop a hill above an inland sea and wired together by rune infrastructure radiating from the first accurate clock ever made. Where other cities ask why, Fyndovn asks how — and beneath that, quietly, should we?

The lore, factions, geography, and calendar are woven directly into the tools. The world doesn't sit in a sourcebook — it drives the session. Environmental messaging, the archive assistant, and the GM's controls all pull from the same living canon. The chronometer is already running.

Central District The Haed Guildworks Merchant Quarter Old Stone The Veil Deep Well The Warden
A Merchant Lord has vanished without explanation.
Ground tremors beneath Old Stone — something stirs in Undertown.
The Haed is preparing something significant. Nobody will say what.
The Fyndovn Chronometer — an arcane astrolabe clock widget
Fyndovn Chronometer
◆ 06:00 ◆
Aethersday, 31 Frostmantle · Year 576 C.A.
Cosmetics & Founder Rewards

Dice You Can Feel.
A Table That's Yours.

Every backer tier unlocks cosmetics that live at the virtual table — hand-designed Founder Dice and city-state UI themes you can broadcast to your whole party.

A full 7-piece set of glowing magitech polyhedral dice with arcane cores

The Founder Dice

Twelve collectible 3D skins, each with its own emissive core and rim glow — from the abyssal deep to the clockwork heart of the city. The top Kickstarter tier turns the Clockwork set into a real, manufactured metal dice set in an engraved wooden vault.

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12 Founder Dice Skins

Clockwork founder diceClockwork
Arcane founder diceArcane
Ember founder diceEmber
Frostfell founder diceFrostfell
Astral founder diceAstral
Celestial founder diceCelestial
Abyssal founder diceAbyssal
Druidic founder diceDruidic
Necro-lace founder diceNecro-Lace
Pink goth founder dicePink Goth
Archive founder diceArchive
Veil founder diceVeil

City-State & Class UI Themes

Grimoire UI theme
Grimoire
Capital UI theme
The Capital
Forge UI theme
Guildworks Forge
Sylvan UI theme
Sylvan
Underdark UI theme
Underdark
Vanguard UI theme
Vanguard
Why 3.5e. Why Now.

The Platform That Was
Always Supposed to Exist

The 3.5e community is one of the most dedicated in tabletop history — and every major VTT has underserved it. Here's the difference, plainly.

Generic, System-Agnostic VTTs

  • Hunt down and configure community modules just to play 3.5e
  • No AI help for making sense of the rules or lore
  • Bring your own world — no bundled lore, maps, or setting
  • Separate map-making software required for original cartography
  • $50 base cost with no free tier; one license = one campaign
  • Run the VTT and Discord side by side in two windows

Fyndovn VTT

  • 3.5e-native — sheets, classes, skills, and mechanics pre-built
  • An AI archivist that makes the world legible — and relays answers when the GM needs a hand
  • Ships with Fyndovn — lore, districts, NPCs, and hooks loaded
  • Drag-and-drop maps straight into the admin panel
  • Players join free; one GM license hosts unlimited campaigns
  • Runs embedded inside Discord, where your group already is
Live Alpha Tests

Watch the Dev Table Stress-Test the Alpha

We don't do closed-door QA. We're handing the VTT over to our own 3.5e table and broadcasting the chaos live. Watch us hunt bugs, test new features, and try not to get TPK'd in the process.

Twitch Integration
Coming Soon

Live Alpha Sessions

Tune in live as our group breaks the VTT. Uncut, unfiltered, and probably full of critical failures.

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YouTube Archive
Coming Soon

VODs & Dev Commentary

Missed the live stream? Catch the full VODs and highlight reels with behind-the-scenes dev commentary.

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A Note From the Founders

How Fyndovn Began

Fyndovn is Josh's world. He'd been building its lore, its districts, and its people long before I came along — and last month, when we got together, he was trying to get a Discord game running so he could finally play in it.

I couldn't buy him anything meaningful. I was broke. But I make things when I can't buy them — it's how I love people. So while he set up his game, I quietly threw together a little 3.5e character-sheet app and asked him to hop on a call and poke at it with me.

He latched on. One call became every call. In two and a half weeks, that small gift grew into this — a full virtual tabletop, and a real partnership. Fyndovn is the first thing we built together. It won't be the last.

— Kella & Josh · StarFyre Software
The Campaign

Become a Founder of Fyndovn

The tabletop is free to play, forever — character generator, SRD reference, dice, and joining sessions cost nothing. Backer tiers, ranked as guilds of the world, unlock premium upgrades that carry permanently into full launch. Every backer becomes a Founder — a permanent Founder tag and at least one Founder benefit, guaranteed. Lifetime unlocks. No subscriptions.

Always Free
The Adventurer. Full VTT access, the 3.5e character generator, SRD reference, base dice, campaign archives, and the AI archive assistant — all free, for every player. Back a tier below to add Founder status and cosmetics.
Initiate

The Initiate

$25
  • Permanent Founder status
  • 1 Founder Dice skin
  • 1 premium UI theme
  • Name in the digital credits
  • Backer-exclusive Discord
Guild Member

Guild Member

$60
  • Everything in The Initiate
  • 3 Founder Dice skins
  • 3 premium UI themes
  • Founder's Broadcast feature
Master Architect

Master Architect

$120
  • Everything above, plus:
  • Lifetime GM license (hosting)
  • All 12 Founder Dice + all themes
  • Animated Crit / Fumble effects
  • Early Beta access
High Magister

The High Magister

$300
  • Everything in Master Architect
  • Physical Clockwork metal dice set
  • Engraved wooden vault
  • Glowing Magister portrait frame
  • 1-on-1 design session with the devs

Stretch Goals

$50K
Core Launch
Windows / Mac / Linux baseline VTT. Includes the sheet builder, basic weather, and spell target indicators.
$100K
Dynamic Environments
Advanced dynamic lighting engine tied to live weather effects & spell AoE.
$250K
The Grand Capital
A fully playable Fyndovn starter adventure, ready on day one.
$500K
Physical / Digital Synergy
Manufactured Clockwork dice for Founders + the Tavern Minigame for all.
$1M
The Deep Well Megadungeon
The Living City Engine activates. A massive, shifting magitech megadungeon with live faction economies and deep-forge 3.5e crafting.
Get In Early

Be First Through the Gate

Join the waitlist and you'll be the first to know when the Kickstarter goes live — plus early-access invites, behind-the-scenes dev drops, and Founder status that carries into the full launch. The community you build here is the one that shapes this world.

Coming Soon

Watch the Alpha: We're broadcasting our dev-table stress tests live on Twitch & YouTube. Sign up to get notified when we go live.

Join the First Wave of Founders on the Waitlist

No spam. Ever. Just real updates when something real ships.

✦ You're on the list. Watch your inbox — the chronometer is running.
Partner With Us

Building the Future of 3.5e — and Looking for the Right Allies

Fyndovn is an indie-built, working product with a clear market gap, a passionate community, and a fully-costed Kickstarter ahead. We're open to angel investors and strategic partners who want in early — capital goes straight to building the team and bringing this to launch.

Built by StarFyre Software — Joshua Kidwell (creator of the Fyndovn world) & Kella Roberts (lead developer).

View the Investor Brief →

Or reach us directly:
starfyresoftware@proton.me

Tech Specs

System Requirements

For Players (Joining a Game)

Playing is as simple as opening a web browser or clicking our Discord integration. You do not need a powerful gaming rig to explore Fyndovn.

  • OS: Any modern desktop OS (Windows, macOS, Linux, ChromeOS)
  • Browser: An updated version of Chrome, Edge, Safari, or Firefox
  • Memory: 4 GB RAM minimum (8 GB recommended)
  • Graphics: Any modern integrated or dedicated GPU. (Note: If you are playing on an older PC, you can easily toggle on our "2D Dice Fallback" mode to disable 3D physics rendering.)
  • Network: 5+ Mbps Download speed

For the Dungeon Master (Hosting a Game)

As the DM, your machine is running the backend server, generating the AI responses, and pushing maps and music to your players.

Standard DM Specs (Ollama / Local AI Backbone)

Fyndovn is designed to run a local AI (via Ollama) on your hardware for maximum privacy and zero subscription costs.

  • OS: Windows 10/11 or 64-bit Linux (macOS with M-Series Max/Ultra chips also supported)
  • Processor: Modern 8-core CPU or better (e.g., Intel Core i7 12th Gen, AMD Ryzen 7)
  • Memory: 32 GB RAM (64 GB highly recommended for heavy multitasking)
  • Graphics: Dedicated GPU with a minimum of 12 GB VRAM (e.g., NVIDIA RTX 3060 12GB or better). 16GB to 24GB VRAM strongly recommended for fast inference.
  • Storage: 25+ GB available space on an NVMe SSD is absolutely required to store and quickly load multi-gigabyte AI model weights into memory.
  • Network: Broadband internet connection with at least 10 Mbps Upload speed.

Alternative DM Specs (Cloud API / Remote AI)

If your hardware does not support running a local LLM, you can configure the VTT to use an external API key (like OpenAI or Anthropic). This significantly lowers hardware requirements.

  • OS: Windows 10/11, macOS 11+, or 64-bit Linux
  • Processor: Quad-core CPU (e.g., Intel Core i5 6th Gen / AMD Ryzen 3)
  • Memory: 8 GB RAM (16 GB recommended)
  • Graphics: Integrated graphics supporting WebGL 2.0
  • Storage: 5+ GB available space on an NVMe SSD.
  • Network: 10+ Mbps Upload speed.
Questions

Before You Ask

Yes — natively. Character sheets, class data, skills, saves, and mechanics are pre-built for 3.5e and tied to the authorized SRD. There's no module hunting and no 5e ruleset wearing a 3.5e costume.

No — the GM runs the game, always. Fyndovn's AI is a backend assistant, not a dungeon master. It helps new players make sense of archive and world-wiki entries, re-framed for the class and race they're playing, and it can relay simple answers to player questions when the GM is overstimulated. Full two-way GM↔player messaging means the GM can take the wheel at any moment. You choose the AI provider and model; the rest of the VTT runs locally.

No — you can play free, forever: full VTT access, the 3.5e character generator, SRD reference, base dice, campaign archives, and the AI archive assistant all cost nothing. Paid backer tiers add optional extras like premium UI themes, Founder Dice, and Founder status. Only a GM needs a license to host, and one lifetime GM license runs unlimited campaigns.

Fyndovn is self-hosted from your own machine and shared with players via Cloudflare Tunnel — no port-forwarding and no license server phoning home. The only outbound connection is the AI provider call you opt into. Your campaign data stays with you.

It's coming. The product is in active development and we're building toward a campaign with a $50K core goal and stretch goals through $1M. Join the waitlist and you'll be notified the moment it goes live — and Founder perks carry into full launch.

No. Fyndovn VTT is an independent product built on the Open Game License (OGL v1.0a) and the authorized System Reference Document. Fyndovn and its world are original works of StarFyre Software.

Hitting $1M allows us to turn Fyndovn from a standard VTT into a "living world" engine. We will build a complex backend state machine to track a live city economy, faction alert levels, and 3.5e-native GUI crafting calculators. Furthermore, we'll engineer a procedural generation algorithm that dynamically builds dungeon tiles for the "Deep Well" megadungeon on the fly—complete with pre-placed lighting, walls, and fully statted 3.5e magitech monsters.