For tabletop publishers
Need a custom character creator built for your tabletop RPG?
Still making your players wrestle a character-creation spreadsheet? FOIL builds the guided, rules-aware character creator your players actually use — owned by you, wearing your brand, hosted at your URL, and exporting a print-ready sheet.
Tell us about your gameWe built exactly this for Occupied Hex's Duster.
Player-facing tools for tabletop publishers
The polished tooling big games get from the platforms — built for your game, and owned by you.
Character creators
A guided, rules-aware wizard that walks players through building a legal character and hands them a finished, print-ready sheet.
Sheet generators
Fillable, print-ready character sheets that match your published layout — generated straight from the player's choices.
Companion apps
Reference, trackers, and play aids that live on your site and keep your players in your world — not someone else's platform.
A studio that builds your players' tools — not a platform, not a Fiverr gig
Your brand, your URL, your code. No walled garden, no platform cut, no forcing your rules into someone else's model.
Interactive, rules-aware software delivered end-to-end — not a static PDF, and not a generalist freelancer you have to spec and manage.
A studio that has already shipped one and understands how a character actually comes together — product judgment, applied to your system.
How we work
Map your rules
We model your system and its validation first — so every choice cascades correctly, exactly like the published game.
Build the guided creator
A step-by-step creator in your brand, at your URL, that exports a sheet matching your existing layout.
Ship & hand off
It goes live on your site with turnkey documentation, so it's yours to run — no developer on retainer required.
Proof — Occupied Hex / Duster
We've already built one.
For the post-apocalyptic western RPG Duster, we replaced a convoluted character-creation spreadsheet with a guided creator that exports a print-ready sheet — shipped to live playtesting.
Read the full case study →“Watson's tool was clean and user-friendly and got literal oohs and aahs from my customers. He couldn't be easier to work with and I was very impressed with the end result.”
— Andrew, Occupied Hex Games
Questions tabletop publishers ask
Do I own the character creator you build?
Yes. It's built for your game, wears your brand, and lives at your URL — the code is yours. No platform tax, no walled garden, no per-seat licensing.
Can it follow my game's actual rules?
Yes — we model your system's rules and validation so each choice cascades correctly, exactly like the published game. That rules-fidelity is the hard part, and it's what we built for Duster.
Can players export a print-ready character sheet?
Yes. The tool generates a fillable, print-ready sheet that matches your existing character-sheet layout — players finish the wizard and walk away with the real artifact.
Is this a static PDF, or real software?
Real, interactive, rules-aware software — not a one-off graphic-design gig. Players make choices, the tool guides them, and it produces the sheet.
How is this different from Roll20, Demiplane, or D&D Beyond?
Those are platforms — your game lives in their skin, on their roadmap, behind their paywall. We build a tool that's yours: your brand, your URL, your rules, no platform in the middle.
Do you work with crowdfunded or Kickstarter games?
Yes — a funded game is a great fit. A guided creator is a concrete way to deliver value to backers and onboard new players fast.
What does it cost, and how long does it take?
It depends on your system's complexity — tell us about your game and we'll scope it. Duster went from a convoluted spreadsheet to a shipped, player-tested tool in weeks.
Tell us about your game
If your players deserve a real character creator — and you'd rather own it than rent it — let's talk about what it would take for your system.
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